Friday, 25 September 2015
Francis Mewburn (First Solicitor of the S & D Railway)
Francis Mewburn of Darlington was the first Railway solicitor of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. George Markham Tweddell wrote about his authorship in Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham in 1872
Read it in the pdf file below. Click arrow to enlarge, read or download.
The chapter is also on my archive of Joan Hackworth Weir's Archive of material relating to railway engineer Timothy Hackworth.
http://joanhackworthweircollection.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/francis-mewburn-s-d-solicitor-by-george.html
More related pages - Henry Heavisides (Stockton poet, printers, historian and musician's History of the First Public Railway 1912. http://joanhackworthweircollection.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/history-of-first-public-railway-m.html
Timothy Hackworth and the Locomotive by Robert Young (The book on Railway Pioneer Timothy Hackworth) http://www.nrmfriends.org.uk/shop.html
George Markham Tweddell also mentions Francis Mewburn in his book
History of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and its branches - George Markham Tweddell 1869
You can read the book on line via this page (you'll find a link on the page to the ebook) http://joanhackworthweircollection.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/the-history-of-stockton-and-darlington.html
Roger Ascham 1515 - 1568
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From the Cleveland Hall of Fame.
Roger Ascham was born in Kirby Wisk in 1515 -
George Markham Tweddell wrote in more detail about the life and work of Roger Ascham in his pantheon of Cleveland writers in 1872 - The Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham.
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Later in 1886 William Hall Burnett wrote about Roger Ascham in his book Old Cleveland - Local Worthies and Local Writers.
Rev. Bernard Gilpin - Norton on Tees
The Reverend Bernard Gilpin D.D.
Vicar of Norton on Tees
"In November 1552 he was presented to the vicarage of Norton on Tees, in the diocese of Durham. Persons appointed to livings in Royal patronage at that time were required to preach before the King, that there might be an opportunity of ascertaining their orthodoxy. Accordingly, on the first Sunday after Epiphany 1553 Gilpin went to Greenwich to preach in the Royal presence. His sermon on sacrilege is extant and displays the high ideal he had formed of the clerical office."
Bernard Gilpin - chapter from George Markham Tweddell's Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham 1872. Click arrow to enlarge or download free.
Another source from Rev. John Brewster's Parochial History of Stockton Upon Tees 1829
John Gower (Gower the Moral)
John Gower was poet, a follower of John of Gaunt and friend and mentor to Chaucer and according to George Markham Tweddell, William Hall Burnett and Cunningham, had his birth in Stittenham, Yorkshire and according to Tweddell resided at Sexhow near Stokesley.
"John Gower was born at Stittenham, in the Parish of Sheriff Hutton in the archdeaconry of Cleveland about 1320, six hundred and forty years after the death of Caedmon." says George Markham Tweddell in 1872
William Hall Burnett in 1886 adds "Evidence is not wanting, however, that his family resided in Yorkshire, and though some accounts describe him as being born in Norfolk, Cunningham, in the English Nation, boldly asserts that he was born in Stittenham, in Yorkshire..Tweddell alleges the Gowers were resident at Sexhow, near Stokesley."
Below are some local 19thC texts on John Gower.
Chapter on John Gower from George Markham Tweddell's Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham 1872. Click arrow to enlarge and read on line or download free.
John Gower by William Hall Burnett 1886
Other sources on John Gower http://home.gwu.edu/~jhsy/gower.html
From The Cleveland Hall of Fame.
Walter De Hemingford
Walter de Hemingford was the second writer that George Markham Tweddell wrote about in his 1872
book, The Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham.
Earlier in 1850, at a talk on Local Writers for the Stokesley Mechanics Institute, George Markham Tweddell introduced him thus
" The next author to whom I shall refer is an English Historian of the fourteenth century - Walter De Hemingford, who was Canon of the Austin Priory at Guisbo' . The original manuscript of his history, I believe, is preserved in the Advocates Library in Edingburgh. This history was published at Oxford, by that laborious antiquary, Thomas Hearne."
Walter de Hemingford (sometimes called Hemingburgh) died in Gisbro' in 1347. He was Canon of Gisbro' Priory when it was burnt in 1289. His Chronicle was written in Latin.
The Introduction to the Chronicle
The manuscript can be accessed by joining Questia
Here is a pdf of the chapter in Tweddell's Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham 1872 on Walter De Hemingford.
Click the arrow to expand. Can be read online or downloaded free.
Caedmon
Caedmon - First Christian Poet c648 - 670
Sourced from out of print 19thC works by George Markham Tweddell and William Hall Burnett.
In his address to the Stokesley Mechanics Institute, Saturday 9th November 1850, George Markham Tweddell gave a talk on Local Writers (those from the Cleveland area, including down as far as Whitby) and one of the writers mentioned was Caedmon - here's what he had to say -
"The eastern extremity of this district, Sir, produced one of the most celebrated Anglo Saxon poets in person of a poor herdsman, named Cedmon, who afterwards became one of the monks of Whitby. Near twelve hundred years have swept over the earth since his body mouldered into the dust ; but his writings have survived the dark and troubled centuries, and were printed, only nineteen years ago in London. There is much in the personal history of Cedmon, when stripped of the superstitious legends with which tradition has invested it, to remind us of the Scottish plough boy, Robert Burns. His writings, however, bear much greater resemblance to those of John Milton ; so much so, indeed, that I should unhesitatingly declare him the Milton on the Anglo Saxon period era. One will find specimens of his poems in Sharon Turner's History of the Anglo Saxons, in Dr Young's History of Whitby, and in that popular and excellent work, Chambers's Cyclopeadia of English Literature."Cedmon
Poem by George Markham Tweddell c 1872
The old Brigantes from our bosky brooks
And heather-covered hills far were driven;
The Roman legions had been call’d away
From Britain’s isle, to cross their swords with men
Who, rear’d in savage wilds, had over-run
Fair Italy, and sought to rule the world ;
Had made our shores their own, and fixed their feet
So firmly on the sod, that nought could shake
Their footsteps from our soil; when he arose,
Cedmon, the humble herdsman of the swine
That fed on mast of Cleveland’s oaks and beeches,
Or tended beeves that then were wont to graze
In Cleveland’s pastures. He heard old ocean
Dash his wild waves in fury at his feet
Of Cleveland’s Iron cliffs, and saw them foam
As if with rage,—anon lie sleeping on
Our silver sands, their motion as serene
As maiden’s breasts, which merely heave with breathing;
He saw the morning sun rise in its beauty,
Shine in its glory, and in splendour set;
The moon and stars for him adorn’d the night,
As they had done for Homer; flowers came forth
In all their rustic beauty at his feet;
And birds and bees made music for his ears;
And he became—a poet!
Peter Proletarius (aka George Markham Tweddell )
It wasn't until 1872 that Tweddell wrote the first of a proposed series called The Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham of which only volume 1 appeared. The first chapter is on Caedmon - here -
in pdf form (Click tthe arrow to enlarge and read or download free.
Later in 1886, William Hall Burnett, (Editor of Middlesbrough Daily Exchange and influenced by the earlier work of George Markham Tweddell, included a chapter on Caedmon in his own book Old Cleveland - Local Writers and Local Worthies with his own take on Caedmon - again reproduced here in pdf form..
Another local text on Caedmon from Gideon's Smales book Whitby Authors and their Publications.
1867
Monday, 6 October 2014
Leo Walmsley (Robin Hood's Bay)
Material to come to this.
Leo Walmsley – Born in Shipley, West Yorkshire in 1892. Moved to Robin Hood’s Bay aged two. His “Bramblewick” books written in the 1930’s are based on Robin Hoods Bay. With his family he lived in various parts of the British Isles before finally settling in Fowey, Cornwall, where he died in 1966.
Leo Walmsley – Born in Shipley, West Yorkshire in 1892. Moved to Robin Hood’s Bay aged two. His “Bramblewick” books written in the 1930’s are based on Robin Hoods Bay. With his family he lived in various parts of the British Isles before finally settling in Fowey, Cornwall, where he died in 1966.
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