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The Bangkok Protestant Cemetery is a cemetery catering mainly to the foreign community in Bangkok. To date, the cemetery has over 1800 interments, and it is still accepting burials on a limited basis. The burial register is kept by Christ Church Bangkok (11 Convent Road).

The Bangkok Protestant Cemetery was founded by a royal land grant given by King Mongkut on 29 July 1853, to address the need for burial space for Bangkok's growing Protestant community.

Central path and chapel, looking west to the Chao Phraya River. The cemetery is located on the banks of the Chao Phraya River just south of the Menam Riverside Hotel, and 1.75 km south of the Saphan Taksin BTS station along Charoen Krung Road. It is very close to the Asiatique night market.

Notable Interments

Dan Beach Bradley - medical doctor and missionary
John Taylor Jones - missionary
Eliza Grew Jones - missionary and wife of J. T. Jones
William Henry Adelbert Feilding - general of the Coldstream Guards
Sir John Bush, Admiral - Harbour Master
Henry Alabaster - advisor to the King of Siam
John Fennell Belbin, Captain of the SS Bangkok, who died at his post, 1876-08-28, aged 34
Albert Jucker, Consul of Italy, (1844-08-26 - 1885-12-03)
Hamilton King, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, (born St Johns, Newfoundland 1852-06-04; d. Bangkok 1912-09-12)
Caroline Isabella Knox Leonowens - daughter-in-law of Anna Leonowens of The King and I fame.
Sungkas Thongborisute M.D. FACS (1932-10-09 - 1999-06-29) - founder of the Paolo Memorial Hospital
Brian Charles Dade, Able Seaman, British Royal Navy, Service Number DJ 952629, of HMS London, died 1965-03-06 aged 25
Friedrich Schaefer, M.D., founder of and surgeon at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, who died from an infection acquired when operating 1914-05-15
Hans Herzfeld, banker and chief accountant with the Bombay Burma Trading Corporation, who died on 9 May 1950 aged 57.

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