lunes, diciembre 16, 2013

visit to malaga´s english cementery

The cementery is opening on Tuesday to Saturday from 9.40 to 14.30 and Sundays at 10.30 to 12.30. The cementery is maintained financially through the conttributions ( and bequets from) members of the public. The cementery have diferens nationalities of the peoble buried englich, french, italian, german and spanish.
There is a anglican church named st. george´s. Edwars J. Norton is a general consul of USA he is buried in the cementery. he writes on Dr Generald Maurice Jewson´s tombstone this lines:
"HER LIES A MAN FOREVER KING,
OF GENTILE, LOVING, NOBLE MIND,
AND THROUGH OUR TEARS WEALL CAN SEE
HOW GOD CON LIVE IN YOU AND ME"
On 11th December 1831, Mr Rober Boyd was executed at the "Playa de San Andres" because he was fighting for liveral ideas.
The cementery was funded by william Mark.In the cementery were biried four military men who died in the 1940, they were a flying officer, wireless, comander. air gumer and comander.
General Brenan "amigo de España" is buried in the cementery, he was born in Malta, april 1894 and he died in Alahurin el Grande in 1987. In the tombstone of General  Brenan´s wife name Gamel Woolsey we can be found this quotation:
"FEAR NO MORE THE HEAT O´ THE SUN".

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