Balmoral Cemetery, Belfast
Balmoral Cemetery is a cemetery in the Malone area of South Belfast, Northern Ireland, opened in 1855. History
The cemetery was opened in 1855 by Presbyterian churchmen Rev. Henry Cooke and Rev. Joseph Mackenzie, on land owned by Mackenzie, after they had been refused burial by a Church of Ireland rector in another cemetery. It was controlled by a board of trustees which included three Presbyterian ministers. While most of the burials were for Presbyterians, other denominations were buried there. Three Commonwealth soldiers (one each of British, Australian, and Canadian armies) of World War I are buried in the cemetery, their graves maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. In 1953, the cemetery was taken over by Belfast Corporation. It is no longer open for burials, but is open to visitors. Notable burials
 Dr Wilberforce Arnold (1838–1891), founder of the Presbyterian Orphan Society
 William Batt (1840–1910), architect
 Reverend Henry Cooke (1788–1868), Presbyterian minister and co-founder of the cemetery
 Prof. John Creery Ferguson (1802–1865), physician and fetologist, Professor of Medicine, Queen's College, Belfast
 Josias Leslie Porter (1823–1889), Presbyterian minister, missionary and traveller
 Hugh Hanna (1821–1892), evangelical and anti-Catholic preacher
 Reverend Joseph Mackenzie (1811–1883), Presbyterian minister and co-founder of the cemetery
 Colonel Hampden Clement Blamire Moody (1821–1869), Commander of the Royal Engineers in China and Belfast
 Isabella Tod (1836–1896), Scottish suffragist and unionist politician

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External links
 Belfast City Council – Balmoral Cemetery
 

Cemeteries in Belfast
Protestant Reformed cemeteries
Presbyterian cemeteries
Burials at Balmoral Cemetery, Belfast
Belfast City Council
Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in Northern Ireland