South Head Road in Vaucluse. The cemetery is administered by Waverley Council and is a companion cemetery to the Waverley Cemetery at . The cemetery was established in 1868 to cater for the needs of the population in the growing Vaucluse area. It was run for some time by a private trust, but management was transferred to Waverley Council in 1941. It covers an expanse of and contains the graves of 6,000 people as of 2008. There are a number of well-known people interred at the cemetery including Australia's first Prime Minister, Sir Edmund Barton. Architect John Horbury Hunt's last commission was a memorial to Sir John Robertson, former Premier of New South Wales. The memorial is shaped like a cone with two sections, the bottom of which commemorates Robertson's wife, while the top half commemorates Robertson himself. Also interred in this cemetery are members of the Fairfax, Norton, Packer, and Street families; and NSW Governors Sir Walter Edward Davidson and Sir Roden Cutler. The cemetery also contains the graves of 22 of the forty victims of the 1927 Greycliffe ferry disaster. Notable residents Henry Browne Hayes (1762–1832), Irish-born convict transported to New South Wales, owner of Vaucluse House William Charles Wentworth (1790-1872), pastoralist, explorer, newspaper editor, lawyer, politician and owner of Vaucluse House Edwin Sautelle (1872–1946), town clerk and mayor of Vaucluse Ted Greatorex (1901–1964), rugby union player Janette Howard (born 1944), wife of Prime Minister John Howard Henry George Nicholls (c. 1852–1936), minister Ezra Norton (1897–1967), newspaper baron and businessman Natalie Portman (born 1981), actor Stuart Robinson (born 1959), former Bishop of Canberra-Goulburn Rod Sims (born 1950), chair of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) Steven Solomon (born 1993), Olympic sprinter David Horwitz (born 1994)former Rugby Union player. Flyhalf/Centre for Australian schoolboys, Australian Under 20s, NSW Waratahs and Connacht Rugby. First player of Jewish faith to play Super Rugby. Gallery References Citations Sources The Book of Sydney Suburbs, Compiled by Frances Pollon, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia , page 259. External links Google Maps: Vaucluse Historic Houses Trust Vaucluse House Suburbs of Sydney Waverley Council New South Head Road, Sydney Municipality of Woollahra