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.




Rev. Robert Darles Waddilove (Whitby)

Material to come to this. Mentioned in Smales Authors of Whitby.

Rev John Wallis

Earmarked by Tweddell in a further volume of Bards and Authors 1872. Material to come to this.

Thos Ward -(Whitby)

Material to come to this. Mentioned both in Tweddell and Smales. A Whitby writer.

Thos. Watson (Whitby)

Thos. Watson, earmarked also for a further volume of Tweddell's bards and Authors and mentioned in Gideon Smales Authors of Whitby. Material to come to this.

Tom White

Material to come to this.

Richard Winter (Whitby)

Material to come to this. Richard Winter was earmarked for a futher volume of  Tweddell's Bards and Authors in 1872 and also appears in Gideon Smales Authors of Whitby.

The Rev Thos Wood (Whitby)

Material to come to this. The Reverend Thos. Wood from Whitby - mentioned in Gideon Smales Authors of Whitby c 1867.

John Wright - Bard of Cleveland

Material to come to this. John Wright born in Guisborough on February 7th 1807 and moved to Great Ayton in 1855. Links to his books and his story to come to this.


Friday 3 October 2014

Bishop Brian Walton D. D.

Material to come to this. Chapter in George Markham Tweddell's Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham 1872. Born in Seamer, two miles from Stokesley in 1600.


Edith Wilkinson

Material to come to this. Edith Wilkinson appeared Gideon Smales book Whitby Authors 1865.

Thursday 2 October 2014

Frank Wilkinson

Info to come to this. Chapter in George Markham Tweddell's Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham 1872. Frank Wilkinson was born at Hurworth on Tees June 7th. Tweddell's poem on Frank Wilkinson can be seen here. 1826 http://sonnetsonpoets.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/frank-wilkinson.html

Byron Webber

Info to come to this. Byron Webber was grandson to Thomas Webber born 1838 in Stockton on Tees. Chapter in George Markham Tweddell's Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham 1872.


Thomas Webber

Info to come to this. Chapter in George Markham Tweddell's Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham 1872. Born in Tiverton in Devon about 1783, Thomas Webber the "Stockton Poet Laureate"

Dean William Whittingham

George Markham Tweddell included Dean William Wittingham in his 1872 book Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham. It seems that Dean Wittingham was Dean of Durham in 1563 and relates to the 'South Durham' part of the book rather than the Tees Valley or North Yorkshire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Whittingham



Chapter from George Markham Tweddell's Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham 1872. Click arrow to enlarge, read or download.


Dean Wittingahm


Ida Watkins

Info to come to this. Also mentioned in Gideon Smales Whitby Authors 1865.

John Watkins (Whitby)

Material to come to this. here is an article by professor Malcolm Chase of Leeds University on John Watkins - uncle to William Watkins in the post below this.  http://georgemarkhamtweddell.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/john-watkins-1808-1858-poet-chartist-by.html

There is also an article by Alice Barrigan on the Whitby Paper Wars here - http://northyorkshirehistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/literary-wars-in-whitby-1825-to-1833.html which mentions John Watkins.

William Watkins

William Watkins was in Whitby 1755. He was a friend and contemporary of Francis Gibson (on this) whose fellow pupil he was with Lionel Charlton. George Markham Tweddell proposed to cover William Watkins (or at least The Watkinses) in a proposed 2nd or 3rd volume of Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham 1972. Tweddell covered Lionel Charlton in the first and only volume and so would be familiar with William.. The 2nd or 3rd volumes never came out but earlier in 1867 Rev Gideon Smales covered William Watson in Whitby Authors and their Publications. John Watkins, the Chartist writer was William's uncle. (Source

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE LITERARY HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

 By JOHN NICHOLS
His publications were -
Althelgiva - A Legendary Tale 1777
The Sailor - A Poetical Epistle to a Friend 1782
The Apology 1782 - A disguised satire on the people of the Town
Coucy and Adelaide 1784
The Whitby Spy - 30 periodical essays in imitation of the Spectator. 1784
Anomolice - 1797
Original Sonnets and Miscellaneous pieces
The Fall of Carthage
Poetical Remains













The Reverend Dr.George Young) July 15, 1777 – May 8, 1848

Reverend Dr. George Young
Note  - this is still a work in progress)

The Reverend Dr. Young was listed in George Markham Tweddell's Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham 1872 as being earmarked for a 2nd or 3rd volume of the book. Only the first volume was published. There is no further information in Bards and Authors but Dr Young was mentioned and quoted by Tweddell in his Middlesbrough History from Bulmer's History and Directory of North Yorkshire. Further down he quotes the Reverend George Young and so i'm assuming they are one and the same. He quotes both as being Antiquary.

George young -
The Wiki link tells us that George Young (a Presbyterian minister) "was born southwest of Edinburgh in Kirk Newton to John Young and his wife Jean. George was born without a left hand and this led his parents to educate him for the ministry. He was a Scottish divine, scholar and geologist.

At the University of Edinburgh he distinguished himself in mathematics and natural philosophy. He was a favourite student of Professor John Playfair who was, at that time, becoming the great promoter of James Hutton's uniformitarian geology. After receiving high honors upon completion of his degree in 1796, he studied theology under Dr. George Lawson at Selkirk for five years, receiving at the end of this period a licence to preach from the Presbytery of Glasgow. In 1806 he became the pastor of the Cliff Street chapel in Whitby where he served for 42 years. He obtained an M.A. from the University of Edinburgh in 1819. In 1826 he married Margaret Hunter. Though married for 20 years they had no children.

Young could read and write in several languages and developed his own shorthand, which is still undecipherable. He helped established the Whitby Museum as first secretary and founding member of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society. He procured fossil and mineral collections for the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. Young wrote 22 books on many topics. He wrote on the history of Whitby, on the great solar eclipse of 1836, an acclaimed biography of Captain James Cook, the downfall of Napoleon and a catalog of hardy garden plants. He also edited the Whitby Panorama. In 1817 he published a two volume "History of Whitby and Streoneshalh Abbey": there was a list of subscribers who before publication subscribed for more than 840 copies. With the help of his artist friend, John Bird, then a teacher of drawing in Whitby, he published a "Geological Survey of the Yorkshire Coast". Young published a smaller volume of history in 1824 entitled "A picture of Whitby and its environs". The new discoveries in Geology prompted Young to write "Scriptural Geology" in 1838 in which he attempted to reconcile Geology and the teachings of the Bible.

As well as his published works, George Young was instrumental in establishing both the Whitby Botanic Garden (1812) and the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society (1823). He became one of the two secretaries of the Society and remained so until his death in 1848.

Final days

On the 8th of May, 1848 Rev. George Young passed away following a bout of influenza. He was buried in St. Mary's Churchyard, the ceremony being performed by his friend Dr William Scoresby junior, "amidst a grief so deep and general as to show that Whitby had lost a great benefactor". http://www.whitbymuseum.org.uk/personalities/young.htm



(1890) http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Middlesbrough/Middlesbrough90.html

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"In the autumn of 686 - only fifty-eight years after Paulinus had introduced Christianity into Yorkshire, which had given to the poor slaves rest on one day in every seven, which, on being refused by their masters, was to entitle them to their entire freedom - the aged St. Cuthbert, as Bishop of Lindisfarne, dedicated a church, which Dr. Young conjectures to have been at Middlesbrough, for the Princess Ælfleda, "the daughter of an illustrious monarch, the granddaughter of one still more famous, the sister of three kings, and of two queens," then the pious Abbess of Streoneshalh (Whitby), where her mother, Queen Eanfleda, had resided with her since the death of King Oswy, in 670. If Young's conjecture be correct - and he was a careful and skilful antiquary - who can say that Middlesbrough has no ancient history?

The church which Cuthbert consecrated, whether it had before been a pagan temple or was newly erected, would be of timber, or with wattled walls, like the wicker-work of a basket, and roofed with reeds; and the palaces of our kings were then the same; for the art of architecture, which the Romans had introduced, was lost, and our rude Anglo-Saxon ancestors were incompetent to produce permanent buildings, and even too barbarous to preserve those they found on their arrival. Not one of those noble castles and monasteries which for centuries have been in ruins, amongst whose mouldering stones generation after generation have so delighted to meditate, had then been erected. Where Westminster Abbey and Hall and the Houses of Parliament now stand, was then a miserable marsh, overgrown with thorns and briars, quite in the country. On the site of York Minster, was a plain wooden oratory; and on that of Durham Cathedral, sheep and cattle were quietly grazing; and not one of those fine cathedrals which now beautify the land - dearest of all to the true Freemason as "poems in stone" from the active brains and lissom fingers of his ancient operative brethren - had been begun. We know with certainty that, shortly after the Conquest, there was a church here, dedicated to Ælfieda's tutor from early infancy, and predecessor as abbess, the Lady Hilda, which Robert de Brus the Second, Agnes, daughter of Fulk Pagnell, his wife, and their son and heir, Adam de Brus, having founded and richly endowed a Priory of Augustine Canons at Guisborough in 1119, about the same time, presented to the Benedictine Abbey of Whitby, endowing it with evidently the same carucate of land there which we have just seen Robert Mallett holding of the Brus fee, and with two carucates and two oxgangs of land in Newham, on condition that as many monks from the abbey as the income would maintain should reside at Middlesbrough, to pray for the souls of the founders for ever, and those of their ancestors and heirs. This charter was confirmed to the abbey in 1130 - shortly before the abbeys of Rievaulx, Fountains, Byland, or Kirkstall were founded - by Archbishop Thurstan; and Middlesbrough was ordered "to be a cell for their monks, free and clear from every episcopal usuage." Other endowments followed apace, at Acklam, Airsome, Cargo Fleet (then called Caldecotes, or the cold cottages), Coleby, Linthorpe, Marton, Middlesbrough, Ormesby, Thornaby, and Tolesby, from various benefactors, besides which the monks enjoyed the tithes of many other lands in the near neighbourhood of their cell. "This cell," says Dr. Young, "where twelve or more monks probably resided, had its own prior, who is named both in the register and in the rolls; and it had also its own compotus, distinct from that of the abbey."

Thomas Harrison Yeoman

Dr. Thomas Harrison Yeoman M D was born in Whitby on the 26th April 1813 and graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1839. His publications include To America and Back (Unpublished). In 1846 he published a weekly periodical called The Literary Beacon and in 1847 he wrote articles on Consumption for Lloyds weekly Newspaper. In 1848 he published his professional works on Consumption and Headaches, and in 1849 on Asthma and Bronchitis. 1850 he published The People's Medical Journal, a work on Indigestion, a small Medical Dictionary and Diseases of Error. 1857 Debility and Irritability. he wrote his medical works for people.

The Peoples Medical Dictionary http://biblio.co.uk/book/peoples-medical-journal-family-physician-volume/d/239463030 

THE PEOPLE'S MEDICAL JOURNAL AND FAMILY PHYSICIAN VOLUME 1

by Yeoman, Thomas Harrison


This site claims him as from Boston - but it sounds like the Whitby author. http://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/author/thomas-harrison-yeoman/page-1/

The following chapter came from the Rev. Gideon Smales book Whitby Authors and their Publications  1867.