I'm at the Lisburn Road end of busy Stockmans Lane in Belfast. Just opposite the entrance to Musgrave Park hospital is the tranquail historic Balmoral cemetery.
Balmoral Cemetery is a cemetery in the Malone area of South Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was opened in 1855 by Presbyterian church men 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. The cemetery 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. the cemetery is no longer open for burials and remains locked due to fears of vandalism etc It can be accessed by applying to Belfast City Council.
Notables buried in Balmoral Cemetery
Colonel Hampden Clement Blamire Moody (1821 - 1869), Commander of the Royal Engineers in China and Belfast
Reverend Joseph Mackenzie (1811-1883), Presbyterian Minister and co-founder of the cemetery
Reverend Henry Cooke (1788-1868), Presbyterian Minister and co-founder of the cemetery
Dr Wilberforce Arnold (1838-1891), founder of the Presbyterian Orphan Society
William Batt (1840-1910), architect
Prof. John Creery Ferguson (1802-1865) Physician and Fetologist, Professor of Medicine, Queen's College, Belfast
Henry Cooke statue- Samuel Ferris Lynn (1834-1876) 1876
Bronze Belfast
This statue of Dr. Henry Cooke (1788-1868), leader of Belfast's Evangelical Presbyterians, replaced a work by Patrick McDowell, the so-called "Black Man" statue of the young Marquess of Belfast, which now resides in City Hall
"Cooke was largely instrumental in weaning the Presbyterians of Ulster away from their old alliance with the Liberals and Catholics against the [Anglican] Establishment, and substituting a new alliance with the Unionist Episcopalians against the Catholics. He is depicted in clerical and academic dress; it was inaugurated on 24 April 1876 by a great demonstration of Orangemen from all parts of Ireland"