Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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Walter
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high sheriff for the county of Northumberland.
Mr. William Hunter
of Hexham, his under-sheriff.^
1777. Feb. 1. Mrs. Lowes, wife of Mr. Lowes of Hexham, died.'^
1777. Feb. 11. Sir "Walter Blackett, bart., died at London of an,
ulcer in the liver.
Mrs. Waters, of Newcastle, died.
1777. Feb. 15. Mr. John Proctor of Dunston died.^
1777. Feb. 18. Captain Egerton, son of the bishop of Durham,
eleoted member for Moi'peth without opposition. ^^
1777. Feb. 27. Day of election for ai member for Newcastle^
upon-Tyne in the room of Sir Walter Blacket, bart., deceased.
Candidates, Sir John Trevillian, bart.,!^ Andrew Robinson Bowes, esq.
1777. March 1. Mr. Michael Coulter of Lesbury died. 12
1777. March 4. The [Newcastle] Poll stood thus, 528 each.
8. „ „ 804 „
10. „ „ 864 „
11. „ „ 948 „
12. „ „ 1,020 „
13. Trevelyan 1,152, Bowes 1,054
14. „ 1,163 „ 1,068
^ Mr. William Hunter, son of Isaac Hunter of Dukesfielcl-hall, was baptised
at Slaley, 27 Aug., 1734, and practised as a solicitor in Hexham. By his wife,
Esther, daughter and coheir of Lancelot Allgood of Riding, he had issue six
sons and a daughter.
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Mr. Robert Lowes of Hexham, baptised 24 July, 1717, was third son of
John Lowes of Ridley-hall in Haltwhistle, and died s.p. 18 Oct., 1793. His
wife, whom he married at Edmondbyers, 3 Nov., 1750, was Miss Colling, sister
of John Colling of Long Newton, co. Durham. She died, January, 1777,
and was buried with some pomp in Hexham Priory Church. Cf. Neiocastle
Courant, 25 Jan., 1777.
Calverle}' was son of Sir Walter Calverley of Calverley in Yorkshire,
by Julia, sister of Sir William Blackett of Newcastle, whose natural
daughter he married, and in 1734 he assumed the name of Blackett. A sympathetic
memoir of him may be found in Mr. 'WeMovd'sMenof MarkHwixt Tyne
and Tweed.
" Mr. John Proctor of Dunston-hall, a scion of the ancient family of Proctor
of Shawdon and Rock, married Elizabeth, daixghter and heiress of the Rev.
William Ion, vicar of Warkworth, by whom he had a numerous issue. He was
buried at Embleton.
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Captain John William Egerton was elected M.P. for Moi-peth in the room
of Sir Gilbert Elliott who had accepted the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds.
" Sir John Trevelyan, who succeeded to the representation of Newcastle,
was nephew and a devisee of Sir Walter Blackett. His opponent was the
notorious Irish adventurer, Andrew Robinson, who cajoled the Countess of
Strathmore into accepting him as her husband, and on his marriage assumed
the name of Bowes.
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Mr. Michael Coulter held a small estate at Lesbury by lineal descent from
William Herrison, the last abbot of Alnwick, who after the dissolution of religious
houses seems to have married. He was son of William Coulter of the
same place by his marriage with Sarah, sister of John Proctor of Dunstonhall,
mentioned above, and was baptized at Lesbury, 27 Dec, 1712. By his
wife, Bridget, daughter and coheiress of Michael Pemberton of Bainbridgeholm,
CO. Durham, he had issue, two sons, who survived him.