Cathcart Cemetery
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Cathcart Cemetery is a cemetery in
Alexander 'Greek' Thomson, are located a short distance to the north.[1]
It is divided into two sections, the older section and the newer Linn extension, divided by Netherlee Road. There are war graves in both sections; a total of 238 Commonwealth service personnel of both World Wars are buried here.[2] There is also a Jewish section.
The cemetery contains the William and Mary Hood mausoleum, which is based upon the Philae Temple of Hathor.[3] The cemetery gatehouse had been derelict for ten years until it was restored as a family home, winning a Glasgow Institute of Architects Design Award in 2011.[4]
Notable burials
- Bashir Ahmad (1940–2009), First Scottish–Asian MSP
- Hannah Frank (1908–2008), Scottish artist and sculptor
- Margaret Jefferson (1860–1908), English actress, mother of Stan Laurel
- Hugh MacColl (1861–1915), Scottish man who founded Sevilla Fútbol Club being their first captain in 1890[5]
- Jessie MacLachlan (1866–1916), Scottish Gaelic soprano
- Mark Sheridan (1864–1918), English music hall comedian and singer
- Eric Woolfson (1945–2009), Scottish songwriter and musician; co-creator of The Alan Parsons Project
- Solomon Wolfson (1865-1941), patriarch of the Wolfson Family[6]
References
- ^ Holmwood House (Mitchell Library, Glasgow Collection, Bulletin Photographs, 1993), The Glasgow Story
- ^ "Cemetery Details". cwgc.org. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
- ^ "Cathcart Cemetery". DiscoverGlasgow. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
- ^ "Cathcart Cemetery Gatehouse". Glasgow Institute of Architects. Archived from the original on 24 January 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- ^ Friends of Cathcart presents Footballers of Cathcart: one of Glasgow's Footballing Graveyards, Football Makes Glasgow via YouTube, 11 January 2022
- ^ "b-cath-i-026 – S-J-C". Retrieved 9 January 2024.
