Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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and lecturer there. He had languished under an incurable cancer in
his side, which resisted all medicine and application.
1763. Dec. 23. Abr. Gregoiy appointed by the Corporation
lecturer at St. Nicholas. Query wheth'er he is to paj anything out
of the stipend to Thomas Drake. (They goe halves.)
1763. Dec. 30. Mr. Hartley did not invite me to his dinner, as
he usually had done for many years, on a groundless and shameful!
pretense. The Lord forgive him ! I do, but he is inerorahUis acer.
1764. Feb. 18. Richard Wharton, alderman of Durham, and a
justice of peace, died at London. ^^^ Eemarkable for his conduct
(not his impartial conduct) in the election for the city of Dm'ham in
April, 1761, at which time he was mayor and was the returning
officer.
1764. Aprils. Mr. John Dixon, i^^ an eminent attornej^-at-law,
was this day seised in coming from C'ocken, where he had dined, with
an apoplectick fit ; and being carried home to his house at Akleyhead
near Durham, died there the next day. He died a. batchellor, aged
aliout 54. (Left his fortune to his nephew, Francis Johnson, an
infant, third son of Christopher by Tabitha, only sister of ye
deceased.)
1764. May 14. Died at her house in York in the 75th year of
her age, Mrs. Smithson,i96 daughter of Willey Reveley of Xewby
Wisk, esq., relict of Langdale Smithson, esq., and mother of Hugh,
earl of Northumberland.
Mr. Forster was presented to the vicarage of Heighington in 1749. He
was px'obably a son of tlie Rev. William Forster, vicar of St. Oswald's (1725-
1765).
"" Last week died in London Richard Wharton, esq., one of his Majesty's
justices of the peace for the county of Durham and alderman of the city of
Durham. Newcastle Courani, 2.3th February, 1764.
'°^ Monday, died at his house at AyclifiF-heads Mr. John Dixon, etc. yeivcastle
Courant, 14th April, 1764.
1764. April 11. Mr. John Dixon, attorney-at-law, buried. Durham
Cathedral Registers.
He was the son of George Dixon, of Durham (who died on the 1st June,
1738, aged 76) by his second wife, .Sarah, daughter of — Johnson (who died on
the 3rd March, 1765, aged 89). He was baptized at St. Mary-le-Bow on 11th
March, 1714/5. His brother-in-law, Christopher Johnson, died 10th December,
1787, aged 70, and Tabitha, wife of the latter, died on the 14th March, 1798,
aged 85. M.I. in the Cathedral graveyard.
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York, May 15 :—Yesterday morning died at her house in this city, in the
75th year of her age, greatly lamented, especially by the poor, to whom she
was a great benefactress, Mrs. Smithson, daughter of Henry (v/c) Reevely,
esq., relict of Lmgdale Smithson of Stanwick, in the North Riding of this
countj', es(^., and mother of the Earl of Northumberland. Newcastle Gouravt,
17th May, 1764.
Mr. Langdale Smithson, only son of Sir Hugh Smithson, baronet, died in
his father's lifetime, having married Philadelphia, daughter of William Reveley
(died 24th February, 1745,6) of Newton Underwood, in the parish of Mitford,
a,xiA,jure uxoris, of Newby Wisk, by his wife Margery, daughter of — Willey,