Männer von Mark "Twixt Tyne and Tweed. Nce, in Antiquitäten und Kunst, gavethe Stadt eine definitive Position unter transmetropolitan Zentren ofintellectual Aktivität. Ausgezeichnet sind ihre Namen - Adamson andAtkinson, Bewick und Buddie, Burdon und Brockett, Dobson andDoubleday, Hodgson, Losh und Mitchell, Mackenzie, Richardson, JOHN TROTTER BROCKETT. 391 und Turner, ^^Illiamson, Wilson und Winch. Bewundernswert waren die literarischen und Philosophischen Gesellschaften, die Gesellschaft für Antiquarien, Die Typographische Gesellschaft, Die Institution für die Aktion der Schönen Künste, die Botanische und Gartenbaugesellschaft, die MechanicsIns

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Men of mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed . nce, in antiquities and art, gavethe town a definite position among transmetropolitan centres ofintellectual activity. Excellent are their names—Adamson andAtkinson, Bewick and Buddie, Burdon and Brockett, Dobson andDoubleday, Hodgson, Losh, and Mitchell, Mackenzie, Richardson, JOHN TROTTER BROCKETT. 391 and Turner, ^^illiamson, Wilson, and Winch. Admirable were theirenterprises—the Literary and Philosophical Society, Society ofAntiquaries, Typographical Society, Institution for the Promotionof the Fine Arts, Botanical and Horticultural Society, MechanicsInstitute, and Natural History Society. True men were they intheir time —these pioneers and promoters of culture in Newcastle.They rest from their labours; but their works, for the most part, survive, and bear testimony, generation after generation, to theirwisdom and foresight, to their energy and devotion. Among these leaders of thought in Newcastle, John TrotterBrockett was a prominent figure. Born in 1788, his early surround-. JOHN TROTTER BROCKETT. ings had been in the highest degree favourable to the acquisition ofknowledge and the cultivation of literary taste. The Rev. WilliamTurner—Unitarian divine, scientific lecturer, and director-general ofintellectual progress on both sides of the Tyne—superintended hiseducation ; his father (claiming on the mothers side descent fromthe Nonconformist family of Angus) was deputy-Prothonotary in thelocal Courts of Record, and supervised his studies in mathematicsand jurisprudence. His own diligence, aiding the sound training ofteacher and parent, enabled him, at the proper age, to enter withconfidence upon the profession of the law. Having completed 392 JOHN TROTTER BROCKETT. articles with Messrs. Clayton & Brumell, the leading solicitors inthe town, he became managing clerk to Mr. Armorer Donkin, in duetime was admitted an attorney, married a daughter of John Bell, merchant, and settled down to a lucrative practice in the Mayor

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