English Cemetery in Malaga

This guide to the English Cemetery in Málaga opens on a beach in 1816, where British consul William Mark found a body buried upright in the sand, facing the sea, because no Catholic ground would take a Protestant corpse. It follows his years petitioning Spanish authorities, the royal decree that finally granted this hillside in 1830, and George Stephens, the drowned ship owner whose name opens the register in 1831. It also traces the seashell-capped graves and later arrivals, including sailors lost when a German warship wrecked offshore in 1900.