Monument MPM1727 - Memorial to George Bayne, Kingston Cemetery

Memorial to George Bayne, philanthropist, who died 19th January 1876. The memorial, which consists of a stone column on a plinth, was originally located in Mile End Cemetery [see MPM1584], where George Bayne was buried. [1]

The memorial was moved to Kingston Cemetery at some point after the Mile End site was cleared to become a memorial garden in the late-1950s. It can still be seen in a photograph of Mile End cemetery taken c1958-61 before the colonnade was demolished. [2]

Mile End cemetery no longer exists, the site having been redeveloped as the Continental Ferry Port in 1978 [3]. This may be the only memorial to have survived from the cemetery. [HER Officer]

The column bears the following inscription:

THIS MEMORIAL
IS ERECTED
BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION
IN MEMORY OF
GEORGE BAYNE
BY WHOSE EXERTIONS
FOR MORE THAN A
QUARTER OF A CENTURY
A SOUND RELIGIOUS
AND SECULAR EDUCATION
WAS IMPARTED TO
THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN
OF THE POORER CLASSES
OF THIS BOROUGH.
HE WAS BORN 19TH. JULY, 1819,
DIED 19TH. JANUARY 1876
AND IS INTERRED
IN THIS CEMETERY.
WILLIAM PINK ESQ. MAYOR.

<1> Backhouse, Tim, 2002-17, Memorials and Monuments in Portsmouth (Bibliographic reference). SPM259.

<2> Portsmouth City Council, 1958-1961, Portsea Island General Cemetery (Photograph). SPM371.

<3> Portsmouth City Council, nd, Portsmouth History Centre Catalogue of Cemetery Records (Unpublished document). SPM284.