BUILDING CONTRACTOR AND MAYOR Situated in the Consecrated/West Section of Jesmond Old Cemetery. Born in Gateshead and moved to Newcastle when young. He became the manager of a chemical works at Walker and was a Newcastle Councillor from 1866, being Mayor in 1871 and 1879. He was also a JP. He was Chairman of the […]

MECHANICAL ENGINEER, CAPTAIN 19th HUSSARS Situated in the Consecrated/West Section of Jesmond Old Cemetery

ARCHITECT Situated in the Consecrated/West Section of Jesmond Old Cemetery John Dobson was born on 9th December, 1787 in the building now known as the Pineapple Inn in High Chirton, North Shields. As a youngster, he displayed a talent for drawing and his father, a Nurseryman and Gardener, and Innkeeper, gave John every opportunity to […]

ARCHITECTS Situated in the Consecrated/West Section of Jesmond Old Cemetery. John Green was born near Corbridge, the son of a village carpenter. Talented and hard working, he became a successful architect-builder and moved first to Corbridge and then to Newcastle, where two of his better known works are the Literary and Philosophical Society (1822) and the […]

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER, INVENTOR Situated in the Unconsecrated/East Section of Jesmond Old Cemetery. John Henry Holmes founded an electrical engineering business in Portland Road, Shieldfield in 1883. It was to make a valuable contribution to the development of electric lighting. In the summer of that year, Holmes installed electric lighting at ‘Wellburn’, his Father’s house at […]

MINING ENGINEER, UNCLE OF J.R.R. TOLKEIN Situated in the Consecrated/West Section of Jesmond Old Cemetery. Born in Birmingham, Warkwickshire, William married Grace Bindley Tolkein in 1887 in Kings Norton, Warwickshire. Mountain was a northern industrialist at the turn of the century, inheriting a wire manufacturing business before spending 24 years with Ernest Scott and Mountain, […]

ARCHITECT AND SURVEYOR Situated in the Unconsecrated/East Section of Jesmond Old Cemetery. As one of a group of architects involved in the transformation of Newcastle into ‘Tyneside Classical’, Thomas Oliver played a significant role and, of his buildings today, Leazes Terrace and Leazes Crescent are the best known examples. For his work in surveying the […]

CHARTERED MECHANICAL ENGINEER AND MEMBER OF BEAMISH MUSEUM TRAMWAY GROUP Situated in the Unconsecrated/East Section of Jesmond Old Cemetery Anthony James (Tony) Wickens was born in 1926 in Romsey, Hampshire and spent his childhood in the south of England, latterly at Downside School in Somerset. Tony’s first venture north was when the school was temporarily […]