Find A Grave - St Peter Churchyard

Bailey, Sir. Donald Coleman [memorial] b. September 15, 1901 d. May 5, 1985
Inventor. Born in Rotherham, Yorkshire, England, he was most noted for his develop of a multi-span bridge known as the Bailey Bridge used in various guises in all theatres of the World War II. Educated at Sheffield University, he received several degrees in Engineering, plus a Doctorate of Engineering. He joined the War Office in 1928, as a civil engineer designer at the Military Engineering Experimental Establishment for providing temporary spans capable of taking heavy loading over water ways...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
St Peter Churchyard, Bournemouth, Dorset, England
Corisande, Countess of Malmesbury b. 1820 d. May 17, 1876
British Aristocracy. Born Corisande Emma Bennet the daughter of Charles Augustus Bennet, 5th Earl of Tankerville and Armandine Sophie Leonie Corisande de Gramont. She married James Howard Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury in April 1830. They had no children. (Bio by: Iola)
St Peter Churchyard, Bournemouth, Dorset, England
Godfrey, Daniel b. June 20, 1868 d. July 20, 1939
Orchestra Conductor. He was the founder of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, one of Great Brtiain's leading provincial orchestras.
St Peter Churchyard, Bournemouth, Dorset, England
Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft b. April 27, 1759 d. September 10, 1797
Social Reformer. Considered by many to be the greatest of the the 18th-century feminists, she was the author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman". She was married to William Godwin, and was the mother of Mary Shelley, who wrote "Frankenstein". Originally buried in Saint Pancras Churchyard, her remains were moved to St. Peter's Churchyard, Bournmouth, England in 1851.
St Peter Churchyard, Bournemouth, Dorset, England
Godwin, William b. March 3, 1756 d. April 7, 1836
Radical politician ('An Enquiry into Political Justice') and writer of one of the best-ever psycho-political novels ('Caleb Williams'). Married to Mary Wollestonecraft, and father of Mary Shelley, author of 'Frankenstein.' Originally buried in Saint Pancras Churchyard, his remains were moved to St. Peter's Churchyard, Bournmouth, England. On the monument it states " Their remains were removed hither from the Church Yard of St. Pancras London a.d. 1851".
St Peter Churchyard, Bournemouth, Dorset, England
Moody, Richard Clement b. February 13, 1813 d. March 31, 1887
Major General in the Royal Engineers (British Army). Former Lieutenant Governor, then Governor, of the Falkland Islands (1841-1849). Commanding Officer of the Columbia Detachment, Royal Engineers (1858-1863) in the Colony of British Columbia (which in 1871 became a province in Canada). Founder of Queensborough (aka Queen borough) early in 1859. The town was renamed by Queen Victoria later that year as the City of New Westminster. He and his detachment did a great deal in opening up British...[Read More] (Bio by: Colin MacGregor Stevens)
St Peter Churchyard, Bournemouth, Dorset, England
Shelley, Mary b. August 30, 1797 d. February 1, 1851
Author. Born in London, the second daughter of feminist and writer Mary Wollstonecraft and political journalist William Godwin. Her mother died shortly after Mary's birth from a hemorrhage sustained either during deliver or by the actions of the midwife. Unusual for girls at the time, Mary received an excellent education. She published her first poem at the age of ten. A political radical and free-thinker like her father, Percy Bysshe Shelley and his first wife Harriet often visited Godwin's...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
St Peter Churchyard, Bournemouth, Dorset, England
Shelley, Percy Bysshe [heart only] b. August 4, 1792 d. July 8, 1822
Poet. One of the great English poets of the romantic period. Author of "Queen Mab," "Adonais," "Ozymandias" and others. Husband of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. His heart was not originally buried with his body. It was retrieved from his funeral pyre by his friend Trelawny and kept by Shelley's wife Mary, pressed flat, in a copy of the poet's "Adonais" and was interred for the first time in her tomb in St. Peters', Bournemouth. (Bio by: David Conway)
St Peter Churchyard, Bournemouth, Dorset, England
Silvestri, Constantin b. May 31, 1913 d. February 23, 1969
Orchestra Conductor. The one time head of the Bucharest Opera, he fled Romania in 1956 and became the chief conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in 1961.
St Peter Churchyard, Bournemouth, Dorset, England
Tregonwell, Lewis Grosvenor Dymoke b. 1760 d. 1833
The founder of Bournemouth, which he made into a fashionable resort after building his country mansion (now part of the Royal Exeter Hotel).
St Peter Churchyard, Bournemouth, Dorset, England

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