Notable Graves in Bromsgrove Cemetery

For locations of these graves, see the Cemetery Walk Leaflet.

	Rev. Dr John Day Collis (1816-1879) Born in Ireland, he was ordained in 1843 and became Headmaster of Bromsgrove School. He served Bromsgrove as a JP and chairman of the Poor Law Guardians. He was a founder of the literary and Scientific Institute in the town and spearheaded the Anti-Truck movement to improve the nailers lives. He pressed for George Gilbert Scott's improvements to the church and for the Hop Pole, now Tudor House, to be rebuilt in New Road, where it is today. Plot F141 S09566/7082
	Elijah Walton (1832-1880) A Birmingham born artist and author, he studied at Birmingham School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, London. Walton spent several years travelling and painting in the Alps, Egypt and the Middle East, and became an early member of the Alpine Club. Walton and his second wife moved to Bromsgrove, where she had family connections, and Elijah was for a time President of Bromsgrove School of Art. He died at his home in Bromsgrove, leaving three young sons. Plot no. J226, S09565/7084
	Sir Thomas Chavasse (1854-1913) A great benefactor of Bromsgrove and a generous supporter of the building of the Cottage Hospital. He was for 30 years senior surgeon at the Birmingham General Hospital and to the Bromsgrove Cottage Hospital. Plot no. E17, S09565/7086 The memorial plaque is to Noel Chavasse RAMC. VC and bar MC, his nephew, who died in 1917.
	Thomas Davies Thomas (1811- ) He was born in Builth Wells, Breconshire in 1811. From 1835 he ran a drapery business in a three-storey Georgian house near the corner of High Street and St John's Street. He was a director of the Gas Company and a Commissioner named in the Bromsgrove Improvement Act of 1846. He later became General Manager of the Stourbridge and Kidderminster Bank, whose Bromsgrove branch is now occupied by HSBC. He died at his house in Denbighshire, leaving £881000. Plot no. Ei 50, S09568/7084