CEMETERY ST GEORGE

CEMETERY ST GEORGE...

Cemetery of St George, is the oldest non-Roman Catholic Christian cemetery established on mainland Spain.

HISTORY:

The English Cemetery in Málaga, where St George's Anglican Church stands, is the result of the inspiration and concern of William Mark, who was British Consul in Málaga from 1824 until 1836. In the eight years he had lived in Málaga before his appointment as consul, he had looked "with great disgust" on the way Protestant had to be burried on the sea shore at death of nigth, because those who professed a defferent creed other than Catholic could not be buried in consecrated ground, namelyin the parish churches, monasteries and cemeteries of Málaga.

AMONG THE NOTABLES BURIED HERE ARE:

• GERALD BRENAN: (7 April1894 - 19 January 1987).

Was a British writer and Hispanist who spent most of his life in Spain.
He is best know for Th Spanish Labyrinth, a historical work on the background to the Spanish Civil War, an for South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village. He was awarded a CBE  in the Diplomatic Service and Overseas List in 1982.

• GAMEL WOOLSEY: (1893 - 1968).

American poet and novelist, married to Gerald Brenan.

• JORGE GUILLÉN: (1893 - 1984)

He was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27, as well as a university teacher, scholar and literary critic.

AARNE HAAPAKOSKI: (1904 -1961) was a Finnish pulp writer.