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Braddan New Cemetery

Posted on October 10, 2014October 10, 2014 by Peter Killey

I went up to Braddan new Cemetery today to listen to local historian Mr Peter Kelly chat to a group of us about the Archibald Knox designed gravestones, and on the way up I couldn’t help capturing this image of the Chapel.

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5 thoughts on “Braddan New Cemetery”

  1. Eleanor says:
    October 10, 2014 at 21:27

    I am intrigued. What is special about the Archibald Knox designed gravestoenes? Do tell us more.

    It’s a lovely light in the photograph. I love the autumn light.

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    1. Peter Killey says:
      October 11, 2014 at 09:01

      Here you go Eleanor, all about Archie Knox

      Archibald Knox (9 April 1864 Cronkbourne, near Tromode, Isle of Man to 22 February 1933 Braddan), was a Manx art nouveau designer of Scottish descent.

      Knox’s father, William Knox, was living in Kilbirnie when he married Ann Carmichael from Lismore Island in 1853. They had moved to the Isle Of Man in 1856 with their firstborn, Robert where William “an exceptionally ingenious cabinet and machine-maker, joined Moore’s Tromode Works, makers of high quality herring nets and sailcloth.” William’s sister Margaret had been the first Knox to move to Man when she married a Manx fisherman, William Callister in 1856. William Knox later started his own firm “William Knox’s Engineering Works” and was joined in his enterprise by four of his sons – Archibald pursuing his own career in art. Besides running a successful steamboat and ferry business, the Knox family were pioneers in industrial electric lighting on Man and introduced the first motor car to the island.

      Archibald, the Knoxs’ 5th child (and 5th son), started his schooling at St. Barnabas Elementary School, and later attended Douglas Grammar School and Douglas School of Art, developing a lifelong interest in Celtic art. His designs for Liberty’s made him a household name, as did his watercolours, graphic designs and fonts. His design talent covered a wide range of objects, ornamental and utilitarian, and included silver and pewter tea sets, jewellery, inkwells, boxes, gravestones and even bank cheques, much for Liberty’s Tudric (pewter) and Cymric (precious metals) ranges. The gravestone of Liberty’s founder, Arthur Lasenby Liberty, was designed by Knox.

      In 1897 he started teaching at Redhill School of Art where his friend A.J.Collister was principal, leaving with him for the Kingston School of Art in 1899. In 1913 he spent a year in the USA, and on his return to Man acted as a censor of internees’ letters during World War I. After the War he again took up teaching art at some of the Manx schools.

      Knox died of heart failure in 1933 and was buried in Braddan Cemetery.

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  2. Eleanor says:
    October 11, 2014 at 21:24

    Thanks for all the additional information. The whole family sound quite remarkable. Is William Knox’s Enginnering Works still on the go? Archibald sounds quite a man with all those accomplishments. HAve you got any pictures of gravestones he designed?

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    1. Peter Killey says:
      October 12, 2014 at 09:21

      Hi Eleanor, yes I have some images of his and his families gravestones and of a number of Archibald Knox designed headstones in Braddan Cemetery, when I have sorted them and gathered my facts about them I will add them to the site.

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  3. Eleanor says:
    October 12, 2014 at 11:23

    Thank you Peter, I’ll look forward to that. Gravesones fascinate me with all their history. Some of it is so sad.

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