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The White Hat Guide to Brighton Cemetery

Below is a short list of some of the more notable people buried at Brighton Cemetery. If you click on the link you can find a brief profile as well as photograph of their grave at Brighton Cemetery:

Grave of the artist Frederick McCubbin

Rolf Boldrewood's grave
in neglected condition

Grave of the poet Adam Lindsay Gordon

THE
POET
GORDON

DIED JUNE 24. 1870
AGED 37 YEARS

QUESTION NOT, BUT LIVE AND LABOUR
TILL YON GOAL BE WON;
HELPING EVERY FEEBLE NEIGHBOUR,
SEEKING HELP FROM NONE.
LIFE IS MAINLY FROTH AND BUBBLE
TWO THINGS STAND LIKE STONE -
KINDNESS IN ANOTHER'S TROUBLE.
COURAGE IN YOUR OWN.

YE WEARIE WAYFARER

On the three remaining sides of the monument are the following inscriptions:

SEA SPRAY
AND
SMOKE DRIFT

ASHTAROTH

BUSH BALLADS
AND
GALLOPING RHYMES

Grave of Justice Higinbotham
most people have walked past his statue in the middle of Melbourne

Grave of Sir John Monash
Regarded by many as one of the greatest Australians

The grave of Squizzy Taylor
One of Melbourne's most notorious gangsters

The tomb of Hugo & Sophie Wertheim

In Loving Memory
of
ELIZABETH
WIFE OF THE
HON^BLE THOMAS BENT
DIED JANUARY 8^TH 1903
IN HER 59^TH YEAR

ALSO HER HUSBAND
THOMAS BENT
DIED SEPTEMBER 17^TH 1909
IN HIS 71^ST YEAR.
A COUNCILLOR FOR BRIGHTON &
MOORABBIN 45 YEARS.
A REPRESENTATIVE FOR BRIGHTON IN
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY 32 YEARS.

PREMIER OF VICTORIA 1904 - 1909
CREATED K.C.M.G. 1908.

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The White Hat Guide to Brighton Cemetery

Grave of the artist Frederick McCubbin

Rolf Boldrewood's gravein neglected condition

Grave of the poet Adam Lindsay Gordon

THEPOETGORDON

DIED JUNE 24. 1870AGED 37 YEARS

QUESTION NOT, BUT LIVE AND LABOURTILL YON GOAL BE WON;HELPING EVERY FEEBLE NEIGHBOUR,SEEKING HELP FROM NONE.LIFE IS MAINLY FROTH AND BUBBLETWO THINGS STAND LIKE STONE -KINDNESS IN ANOTHER'S TROUBLE.COURAGE IN YOUR OWN.

Grave of Justice Higinbothammost people have walked past his statue in the middle of Melbourne

Grave of Sir John MonashRegarded by many as one of the greatest Australians

The grave of Squizzy TaylorOne of Melbourne's most notorious gangsters