History of English Cementery of Malaga

Before the creation of these cementeryin1831 the death of a Protestant in Spain was a problem with no easy solution as the local cementeries were consecrated to the Catholic faith and the bodies of the did who did not profess that religion could be buried there. In Malaga the local authorithes would only  permit the burial of such bodies on the beach and at night by the light of torches. The bodies of non Catholics were them left, buried in a standing position at the mercy of the waves and the weather.

William Mark who had witnessed some of these burials on the beach became British Consul in 1824 and he determined to find a decent burial space for members of the Angelican community. In 1829 the Malaga authorithes finally gave him an uninbited plot of land on the outskirts of the city and the English  Cementery became reality. This graveyard is the oldest Protestant cementery in peninsular Spain. The first number of the Protestant community buried in the English Cementery in Malaga ws George Stephens Captain of the Brigatine in Jnuary 1831. Lter Robert Boyde who was shot along with General Torrijos for his involvemt in the failed liberal uprising in December of that same year was also buried in the inner precient of the new cementery