223mm 111.5mm Samuel was a 15 year old boy 4 The family of Alexander 7 Born in Belfast on 16 February 1 from Templemore Avenue in Herdman, who died aged 34, 1856, Frank Workman east Belfast. He worked as a owned ax spinning mills in attended the Royal Belfast ‘catcher’ on a riveting squad in Sion Mills and Belfast. Academical Institution and the Harland & Wol shipyard. They also had strong joined Harland & Wol as a connections with the Harbour gentleman apprentice at the He died as a result of a Board – the deep water age of 17. He set up his own fractured skull and is reputed Herdman Channel in Belfast small shipyard in 1879. A year to be the rst person killed in Lough is named after them. later George Clarke became an accident during the building his business partner and so of Titanic. The Herdman Monument is began the Workman Clarke Samuel Alexander Egyptian Revivalist in style, Frank Shipbuilding Company. In its and carries intriguing motifs lifetime the yard went on to Scott which appear to be Masonic Workman build 535 ships of varying Herdman in origin. sizes and tonnage. DIED 20 APRIL 1910 DIED 13 MARCH 1875 DIED 14 NOVEMBER 1927 R-474 L-153 K-346 2 Alexander Hogg was born on Edward Harland was founder of This is the family grave of 1 March 1870 in Tullywest, 5 Harland & Wol shipyard and 8 James Thompson Harvey, County Down. Working for MP for north Belfast. Born in a ship owner from Strandtown his uncle on the Shankill Road, Scarborough, he served his in east Belfast. It he was a keen amateur apprenticeship at the Robert commemorates his son, photographer who set up his Stephenson Company in Herbert Harvey, a Junior own professional studio by Newcastle upon Tyne, then Assistant Second Engineer PAGE 3 1901. His workPAGE captured the worked in shipyards in on Titanic. PAGE 2 PAGE industries of Belfast, but his Scotland and England. 1 PAGE interest in people and On the night she sank, he was everyday life shines out of In December 1854 he joined a last seen in boiler room ve Alexander his photographs. Edward shipyard owned by Robert Herbert trying to help fellow engineer Hickson on Queen’s Island, Jonathan Shepherd with the He captured the 1907 Belfast. Four years later he pumps. Hogg Dockers‘ Strike and worked Harland bought out this yard and in Harvey DIED 14 APRIL 1912 DIED 25 AUGUST 1939 for both Workman Clarke DIED 23 DECEMBER 1895 1862, he went into H2-190 shipbuilders and the M-987 partnership with his personal K-392 Corporation Transport assistant, Gustav Wilhelm Department. Wol. Harland & Wol had been formed. Teacher, temperance Thomas ‘The Tobacco King’ The historian George Benn 3 campaigner, business woman 6 Gallaher was born on 27 April 9 was born in Tandragee on 1 and suragette, Margaret Byers 1840. He served as an January 1801. The family was a pioneer of women’s apprentice at Osborne & Allen moved to Belfast and in 1819 education and founder and in Derry City, where he learned while at school, he won a gold principal of Victoria College, to make popular forms of medal for an essay ’ A History Belfast. tobacco. In 1896, he opened a of the Parish of Belfast’. tobacco factory at 138 York She was born into a farming Street. Thomas Gallaher With his brother Edward he family in Rathfriland, County dominated the tobacco made a fortune from iron ores Down on 15 April 1832. After industry, acquiring plantations from Glenravel in Co. Antrim. Margaret teaching at the Ladies omas and factories in Kentucky and George They used the money to Collegiate School in Virginia. He was a progressive endow three hospitals and Cookstown, she opened The employer, being the rst in his other charitable causes, but Byers Establishment for the Boarding Gallaher industry to reduce workers’ Benn he is best remembered for his DIED 21 FEBRUARY 1912 and Education of Young Ladies, DIED 3 MAY 1927 hours from 54 to 47 per week DIED 8 JANUARY 1882 book ‘A History of the Town H2-667 in Belfast in 1859, later named J-462 and to introduce annual paid K-447 of Belfast’ published in 1877. Victoria College. holidays. Since 1869, over 250,000 burials have taken place here. These include William Belfast City Pirrie, Chairman of Harland & Wol shipyard, builders of Titanic; Thomas BELFAST CITY ‘The Tobacco King’ Gallaher , founder Cemetery CEMETERY of Gallaher ’s tobacco company; Frank Workman, founder of the Workman Clarke Maritime shipyard; Dr Thomas Andrews, a medical practitioner and chemist whose pioneering Industrial work led to the development of modern refrigeration; and Alexander Hogg, one of HERITAGE the great photographers of the early TRAIL twentieth century. Jae Memorial 16 JEWISH CEMETERY In the Victorian age, cemeteries were WWI Memorial Wall considered to be amenities, like parks and gardens, and were usually laid out in a similar way. Belfast City Cemetery was no POOR GROUND Cross of Sacrifice Mortuary Chapel Tower exception. It was designed by the surveyor and landscape gardener William Gay of WW2 Commonwealth Graves Bradford. He arranged the cemetery’s road networkINNER in the form of a bell, BACK COVER perhaps reecting the ‘Bel’ in Belfast. This beautifulFLAP design made the cemetery a desirable nal resting-place for well-to-do Belfast folk, as is evidenced by the large ornate monuments. The cemetery also captures the diversity, VAULT STEPS breadth and complexity of the city, with separate sections set aside for Protestant, Maritime UNDERGROUN D Catholic and Jewish burials, as well as a WALL Poor Ground. Industrial Heritage 8 The Maritime and Industrial Heritage Trail signs, will help you to uncover and explore Trai l this fascinating place. Use them to discover the memorials that make Belfast City Cemetery a place worth visiting, time and time again. www.belfastcity.gov.uk/citycemetery 111.5mm 223mm interpretive heritage trail avoiding heritage information trail steps 8 graves Hertitage Trail Graves 1 Samuel Scott Find out more about the history of Belfast City Cemetery at www.belfastcity.gov.uk/citycemetery 2 Alexander Hogg 3 Margaret Byers M1 L1 K1 J1 I1 H1 G1 F1 E1 D1 4 Alexander Herdman 5 Edward Harland 6 Thomas Gallaher G2 7 Frank Workman L1 K1 J1 I1 H1 G1 F1 E1 D1 8 Herbert Harvey G2 9 George Benn 10 William Pirrie M1 11 Gustavus Heyn 12 Robert Thompson 3 G1 C 13 William Lynn H2 C2 C2 B2 B2 A2 B 14 Robert Welch 2 F1 15 Sarah Hale 16 Vere Foster A2 A D2 C2 B2 A2 UNDERGROUND WALL P F2 G D J L A B A J D D J 11 G D WW2 Commonwealth Graves 12 13 P I P 4 6 14 Cross of Sacrifice C 5 8 H E C B E D S M C3 9 10 Q Heritage Trail H 7 POOR K E B K I F GROUND Mortuary Chapel Tower 15 G F R N A 1 I I 16 F B I A H J P2 P2 O2 N2 M2 L2 L2 WWI Memorial Wall P2 O2 N2 M2 L2 K2 O Jaffe Memorial Q2 Jewish Cemetery cemetery Q2 P2 Start office O2 N2 trail distance M2 1.2 Kilometres L2 K2 10 William Pirrie, was born in 13 William Henry Lynn was an 16 Vere Foster was one of the Quebec on 31 May 1847, but outstanding architect. He was most remarkable gures in returned to Ireland as a young born on 27 December 1829 at Victorian Ireland. Born in 1819 child and was raised in Conlig, St. John’s Point, County Down. in Copenhagen, a grandson of County Down. He attended In 1846 he was apprenticed to the Duke of Devonshire, one of the Royal Belfast Academical the famous Belfast architect, the wealthiest aristocrats, he Institution and aged 15 joined Charles Lanyon and in 1854, abandoned a diplomatic career Harland and Wol as a aged only 24, he became a to devote his life to the gentleman apprentice in junior partner in Lanyon Lynn ordinary people of Ireland. 1862. and Lanyon. First campaigning to improve the terrible conditions on William By 1874 he had become a William He worked on many of Belfast’s Vere post-Famine emigrant ships, he partner, then chairman in buildings, the most notable later turned his attention to Pirrie 1894. Under his leadership, Lynn being the Custom House, Foster education as a way of Belfast Castle, the library of DIED 7 JUNE 1924 Harland & Wol became the DIED 12 SEPTEMBER 1915 DIED 21 DECEMBER 1900 overcoming poverty. pre-imminent shipyard of its Queen’s College (Queen’s K-468/9 day. He was also a Lord Mayor D-203 University from 1907), Belfast F-527 He personally subsidised of Belfast and was made a peer Central Library and the Bank millions of Vere Foster copy in 1906. Buildings. books, intended to equip poor children for better paid clerical jobs. 11 The shipping magnate 14 Born on 22 July 1859 in This section of the cemetery is Gustavus Heyn was born on Strabane, and with a father a reminder of just how 27 April 1803 in Danzig, who was a professional vulnerable the poor were in Germany. After serving as an photographer, by 1876 Welch Victorian times. More than ocer in the Prussian army, he was employed by the Belfast 80,000 remains lie in these came to Belfast in 1825 and photographer, E.T. Church. sections of the graveyard. The founded the Heyn shipping Seven years later he set up his graves are aligned east to west company.