Council of the Society has decided to publish a series of volumes, of which this is the first, of potted biographies of men and women who made a significant, but not necessarily a high profile, contribution to the life of the region as defined by the boundaries of pre-1974 County Durham and industrial Tyneside and Teesside in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, or who were residents and achieved fame outside the region.
The Society is grateful to the contributors and invites anyone who wishes to contribute to later volumes to contact G. R. Batho, Honorary Editor.
Contents
| David Sturrock Reid (1906-1998) (Dedication) |
John Kane (1819-1876) (Trade Unionist) |
| William George Armstrong (1810-1900) (industrialist) |
Peter Lee (1864-1935) (Miner and trade unionist) |
| The Backhouse Family (Bankers and Horticulturists) |
James Maw (1807-1885) (Chartist and temperance worker) |
| Florence Eveleen Eleonore Bell (née Ollife) (1851-1930)(Author) |
William Andrews Nesfield (1794-1881) (Soldier, Painter, Landscape Gardener) |
| John Hyslop Bell (c1833-1920) (Newspaper Founder and Coroner) |
Charles Mark Palmer (1822-1907) (Merchant) |
| John Butterfield (1865-1939) (J.P., Hospital Administrator) |
James Pigott Pritchett, FRIBA (1830-1911) (Architect) |
| Augusta Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace (1815-1852) (Mathematician) |
A.E.Prowse (1880-1955)(Ministry representative at Elizabethville and surveyor) |
| John Alan Chalmers (1904-1967) (Physicist and Durham Scout Leader) |
Thomas Ramsey (1812-1873) (Miners' Union Pioneer) |
| Frederick Maddick Dawson OBE (1912-1988)(Local Government) |
Sir Robert Ropner (1838-1924) (Industrialist) |
| Charles Dickens (1812-1870) (Novelist) |
Hannah Harrison Rushford (1887-1965) (Alderman) |
| Charles Duncan (1865-1933) (M.P. and Trade Unionist) |
William Scaife (1853-1913) (Durham coal miner and US miners' leader) |
| William Falla II (1761-1830) (Nurseryman) |
Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832) (Poet and novelist) |
| William George Footitt (1865-1936) (Architectural Draughtsman) |
Sir Charles Walter Starmer (1870-1933) (Businessman and politician) |
| Samuel Galbraith (1853-1936) (Union Official and M.P.) |
William Thomas Stead (1849-1912) (Journalist and Moral Campaigner) |
| William Stephen Gilly (1789-1855) (Canon of Durham and Vicar of Norham) |
Norman Sunderland BA (1909-1982) (Historian) |
| Frank William Goodyear (1873-1950) (Alderman and Mayor of Durham and Builder) |
Sir Henry Taylor (1800-1886) (Senior Civil Servant, Author, Poet and Dramatist) |
| Thomas Michael Greenhow M.D., F.R.C.S. (1792-1881)(Surgeon) |
Christopher Tennant (1780-1839) (Entrepreneur) |
| Cassy M. Harker (1912-1996) (SRN, Hospital Matron) |
John Todd (1840-1899) (Sea Captain) |
| Thomas Heaviside (1828-1886) (Photographic Artist) |
The Revd. Canon Henry Baker Tristram (1822- 1906) (Naturalist, Freemason and Churchman) |
| Henry Heavisides (1791-1870) (Printer, poet and polemicist) |
John Walker (1781-1859) (The Inventor of the Friction Light) |
| Arthur Henderson (1863-1935) (Labour Party Leader) |
Alfred Waterhouse, FRIBA,RA,LLD. (1830-1905) (Architect) |
| William Hogarth (1786-1866) (Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle) |
Arthur Watts (1838-1933) (Clergyman, Educationalist, Geologist) |
| G.G. Hoskins, J.P. FRIBA (1837-1911) (Architect) |
John Wilson (1837-1915) (M.P., Miners' Leader) |
| Ralph Ward Jackson (1806-1880) (founder of modern Hartlepool) |
Joseph Havelock Wilson (1858-1929) (Seaman and Trade Unionist) |
| James Finlay Weir Johnston (1796-1855) (Chemist and Educational Benefactor) |
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