the republican plot of Milltown Cemetery was significant, as it was seen as a final snub by the republican movement. On 7 August 2012, an image purportedly depicting the face of Jesus (cf. Pareidolia) appeared on a tree stump in the cemetery. Notable interments Sir Robert Anderson, 1st Baronet - politician, former Lord Mayor of Belfast. Robert Hugh Hanley Baird - businessman Margaret Byers - educator, activist, social reformer, missionary, and writer Sir George Clark, 1st Baronet - shipbuilder Samuel Cleland Davidson - inventor and founder of Belfast Sirocco Works Denis Donaldson - Former IRA member and Sinn Féin politician; killed as a British spy. Vere Henry Louis Foster - educationist and philanthropist Tom Gallaher - tobacco merchant Edward Harland - shipbuilder James Henderson - Unionist politician, former Lord Mayor of Belfast. John Hopkinson - physicist Daniel Joseph Jaffe - Built Belfast's first synagogue; father of Otto Jaffe, former Lord Mayor of Belfast. Florence Augusta Lewis - mother of C.S. Lewis Robert Wilson Lynd - author. William Henry Lynn - architect Thomas Macknight - Political author and biographer. Francis Maginn - missionary Valentine McMaster - Victoria Cross (VC) recipient (Indian Mutiny). Bernard McQuirt - VC recipient, Indian Mutiny. (Grave in pauper plot unmarked; commemorative headstone at Donaghcloney, County Armagh). Rinty Monaghan - boxer William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie Elisha Scott - football player Robert Thompson - politician Sam Thompson - playwright William Whitla - physician and politician References Further reading External links Belfast City Cemetery Cemeteries in Belfast Cemetery vandalism and desecration Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in Northern Ireland Geography of Belfast Religion in Belfast Burials at Belfast City Cemetery