Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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to his death. He was a very eminent phisitian, but a man who had
not sacrificed to the Graces, whatever he might have offered to
Apollo. Very rich.^^s
1773. Oct. 27. Mr. Robert Hutchinson, 2^3 scholar of Sidney
College, Cambridge, son of Mr. William Hutchinson, attorney-atlaw,
died at his father's house in Durham. He had been fomierly
train-bearer to Bishop Trevor, and was a very sober, ingenious young
man. His illness was a slow feaver and asthma.
1773. Nov. 11. My nephew, Thomas Gyll Buckton, died at
Barton.
1773. Nov. 20. Married at Richmond, John Aud, an upper
agent, and Sarah Gill, an under agent of George Hartley, esq.
1773. Nov. 25. Died at Durham, after a tedious illness, Mrs.
Randal, wife of Mr. Thomas Randal, vicar of Ellingham.
1774. Feb. 7. Part of the temporary bridge of Durham was
broke by the weight of iron {(luery ice) forced against it upon a thaw.
1774. March 25. This morning, about four of the clock, died
at the Deanery in Durham, the Honorable and Reverend Spencer
Cowper, D.D., Dean of Durham. 244 Buried at the Nine Altars,
near his friend, Dr. Bland, April 2.
1774. Sept. 22. The meeting of the Sons of the Clergy, held
for the first time at Durhaai. The former meetings were allways
held at Newcastle. For the future to be held alternately.
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Yesterday se'nnight, died at his house in Westgate Street, in the 77th
year of his age, Adam Askew, esq., M.D. He had practised physic near
50 years in this town with the greatest repiitation and was justly allowed to
be the most eminent physician in the North of England. By his practice he
acquired an immense fortune. On Tuesday his remahis were interred in the
family vavilt at St. John's, the pall being supported by Sir Edward Blackett,
bart., Matthew Ridley, Edward Colling wood, Christopher Fawcett, Gawan
Ainsley, Ralph William Grey, Thomas Charles Bigge, and Matthew Waters,
esquires. Newcastle Courant, '23rd January, 1773.
1773. Jan. 19. Adam Askew, esq., iDuried. St. JoJm's liegister, Newcastle.
The son of Anthony Askew, M.D., of Kendal, he was educated at the
grammar school there under Mr. Moor, and at St. John's College, Cambridge,
to which he was admitted on the 24th May, 1714, aged 17. See also Mr.
Richard Welford's Ifen of Marl:
-" He was apparently a brother of William Hutchinson, F.S.A., author of
the Histories of Northumberland, Cumberland and Durham, so often quoted in
the foot notes printed in these pages. In the History of Durham, vol. i. p. 580,
there is a portrait of Bishop Trevor after Robert Hutchinson.
-" Dr. Spencer Cowper, dean of Durham from 1746 to 1774, was a son of
Lord Chancellor William Cowper (created Earl Cowper in 1718), by his
second wife Mary, daughter of John Clavering, of Chopwell, whose journal
was published in 1865 under the title of Diary of Mary Countess Cowper,
Lady of the Bedchamber to the Princess of Wales: 1714-1720.
Dean Cowper married Dorothy, daughter of Viscount Townsend, and after
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a life spent in a steady, uniform practice of unaffected piety, friendship,
humanity, hospitality and charity, died at the deanery in the 62nd year of his
age on the 25th day of March, 1774.' M.I. Durham Cathedral.