Mount Jerome

04/01/2020

Irish businessman Alex Findlater dies following riding accident in India
Findlater was last of family to lead the wine merchants and retailing business founded in 1823

Fri, May 31, 2019, 18:16
Alex Findlater, who will be buried at Mount Jerome Cemetery, Harold’s Cross, following a funeral in St Brigid’s church, Stillorgan, next Thursday
Alex Findlater, who will be buried at Mount Jerome Cemetery, Harold’s Cross, following a funeral in St Brigid’s church, Stillorgan, next Thursday

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The former chairman of Findlater Wine Merchants, Alex Findlater, has died following a horse-riding accident in India.
Mr Findlater was the last family member to lead a wine merchants and retailing business that had been established in Dublin in 1823.
Mr Findlater (81) had lived most recently in Cong, Co Mayo, where he married his wife, Patricia (Trish), in 2011.
William Alexander Findlater was born the second of five children to Dermot and Dorothea Findlater. The family home, Abilene on Newtownpark Avenue, in Foxrock, Co Dublin, was sold only last month following the death of his mother in 2017. She had briefly been the oldest living person in Ireland.
Mr Findlater followed his father, Dermot, into the family business in May 1956 as an apprentice while studying at Trinity College.
He was made a company director at 21 and, following the death of his father in 1962, became the senior family member in the business. Following a difficult trading period in the 1960s, the Findlater retail business was sold in 1968 to Galen Weston.
The family retained the wine business and continued to trade independently until 2001 which it was sold to C&C, which merged it with its own Grants wine business. The merged business was sold to DCC in 2008 and later to Valeo Foods in 2014.
Mr Findlater will be buried at Mount Jerome Cemetery in Harold’s Cross following a funeral in St Brigid’s church, Stillorgan, next Thursday.

22/11/2018

Cu - Did you know that in Mount Jerome Cemetery in Dublin is one of the most expensive and artistic tombs in Ireland.It is a monument to the devotion of an Irish Wolfhound who has been interred with it's master . Beyond the fact that the monument was erected by the relatives of William Harvie who was from Pembroke Road in Dublin in 1865 Mr. Harvie's passing his Irish Wolfhound came and stood guard at the newly turned grave howling in anguish day after day refusing all comfort and sustenance till to spite all efforts to lure it away this faithful friend joined his master one week later.As a tribute to such loyalty it's owners next of kin buried the dog with it's master. No expense was spared for a monument it is a remarkable realistic life sized stone statue of an Irish Wolfhound howling in loneliness peering through the wrought iron grill of the tombs iron door.You can see over the coffin inside is a very artistic stained glass window which is approximately 4 feet high and 1 and a half feet wide and it is a replica of the sculptured Irish Wolfhound in the self same position of the inconsolable grief .The vault number is 88 so if you are in Dublin and you do pay a visit to Mount Jerome Cemetery do look it up.

12/03/2013

Guard of Honour at Mount Jerome

18/12/2012

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25/09/2012

In the coming weeks we will advise on winter grave planting for blooms in the spring.

14/09/2012

Dun Laoghaire Artist Sarah Purser , stained glass and portraits buried here in Mount Jerome.

10/09/2012

Did you know that famous writer Jane Wilde (mother of Oscar Wilde) is buried in a family plot her in Mt Jerome with her husband?

15/03/2012

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HARRY COEN:THE DUBLIN-born journalist Harry Coen, a smoking, drinking Fleet Street legend who “didn’t do mornings” but was indispensable as a brilliant copy editor when he did arrive, has died in France at the age of 67. He had retired with his partner David Thornton to his beloved Burgundy region n...

15/03/2012

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Irish American heiress’ Huguette Clark’s apartment to sell for $60 million

15/03/2012

100th year anniversary of RMS Titanic built in Ireland coming up next month, here's a letter from one of the survivors..."My Dear Mrs. Babcock:

"We have been through a most terrible experience---the Titanic and above a thousand souls sunk on Monday about 3 o'clock in the morning. Margaret and I are safe, although we have lost everything. One of our party, also, Mr. Kenyon, was lost. He was such a charming man---so honorable and good. I sat talking to him a little before the accident---and a little later he was dead. His wife is crushed by the blow. I can say one thing, nothing could part me from my husband in time of danger. After floating about for four hours we were taken on board the steamer that was bound for Naples---but she is now taking us to New York.

"It is terrible to see the people who have lost their families and friends---one lady has lost $15,000 worth of clothing, and no one has saved anything. Many of the passengers have only their night clothes with coats over them. I shall never forget the sight of that beautiful boat as she went down, the orchestra playing to the last, the lights burning until they were extinguished by the waves. It sounds so unreal, like a scene on the stage. We were hit by an iceberg. We were in the midst of a field of ice; towers of ice; fantastic shapes of ice. It is all photographed on my mind. There was no panic. Every one met death with composure---as, one said, the passengers were a set of thoroughbreds.

"We are moving slowly toward New York. Everyone on this boat is so kind to us. Clothing and all the necessaries are at our convenience. I am attired in my old blue serge, a steamer hat; truth to tell, I am a sorry looking object to land in New York. This is rather a mixed up epistle, but please pardon lack of clearness of expression. If you want me, some time I will come to Philadelphia for a day or two in the future.

"With dear love,
"ALICE J. LEEDER."

Mrs. Babcock, together with several other members of the Quaker City Ladies' Motor Club, has been appointed as a committee to arrange a tea and reception to be held at the Majestic some day next week with Dr. Leeder as the guest of honor.

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15/03/2012

Vide Cor Meum is a beautiful piece of music to play at funeral..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=267LBdz-ywc&feature=fvst

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