Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1782. Jan. Died, Doctor Prinjile, His Majesty's physician. ^^
1782. Jan. Died at l?ath, Sir John Patterson of Eccles, in
Scot hind, bart.i
1782. Jan. Mr. Woodmason, stationer in Leadenhall Street,
Cornliill, London, had, unfortunately, seven children burnt by tire
with the nurse, and suffered his all destroyed—some other houses
the corps dug out among the ruins, and all int-erred together.
1782. Feb. 1. Died, earl of Breadalbane at Holyrood-house,
Edinburgh, aged 86.
1782. Feb. Died, Rev. Mr. Murray, a dissenting minister, at
Newcastle.^
1782. Feb. 8. A General Fast and Humiliation when a seniion
was preached in Alnwick church by the Rev. Mr. Hodgson, * vicar of
Eglingham, from Isaiah Iviii., 3, 4, 5.
1782. Feb. 9. Calverley Bewick, esq., appointed high sheriff for
Northumberland
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1782. Feb. Advertizement for the creditors of Job Bulman of
Sheepwash, esq., to meet at Brodie's in Newcastle.^
" Sir John Pringle, .M.D. , fourth son of Sir John Pringle of Stichell, second
baronet, was born at Stichell, 10 April, 1707, educated at tlie universities of
St. Andrews and Leyden. He became physician general to the forces in the
German wars of George II., and King's phj'sician on the accession of George
III., and on the king's marriage was created a baronet. By his wife, Miss Oliver
of Bath, he had no issue and on his death, IS January, 1782, aged 74, his wealth
descended to his nephew, Sir .Tames Pringle of Sticliell, fourth baronet. Some
account of six discourses which he delivered when President of the Ro3'al
Society is given in the Gentleman''s Maijaztne for 1783, p. 601.
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Sir John Paterson of Eccles, third baronet died .s. p. m. His widow, Anne,
daughter of Hugh, third Earl of Marchmont, died at Newcastle on the 27tb
July, 1790.
-John, third Earl of Breadalbane, K.B., born circn 1696, had by his
first marriage an only surviving daughter, Jemima, wife of Viscount Roj-ston,
and in her own right Marchioness de Grej'.
^ The Rev. James Murray was born rirra 1732 at Fauns, Roxburghshire, and
settled in Alnwick as assistant minister at Bondgate meeting in 1761. Called to
Newcastle in 1764 he became minister of the High-bridge meeting where he
continued to his death, 2S January, 1782. He was author of Sermons to
Mini-iter'< of State. Sermons to Asses. History of the Churches of En ij Iand and
Scotland. History of the American War (with an engraved portrait of the
author), and of other works now almost forgotten. See p. 234, siipra.
*
The Rev. Hugh Hodgson, M.A., of Lincoln College, Oxford, was vicar of
Woodhorn in 1768, and vicar of Eglingham from 1769 to his death in 1814.
^ Mr. Calverley Bewick, of Close-house, eldest son of Sir Robert Bewick of
the same place, the representative of a long line of Newcastle burgesses, died in
October, 1815, when the male line of his family (so far as is known) became
extinct.
" Mr. Job Bulman was second son of John Bulman, of Gateshead, wiio in
1742 succeeded to the real property of his cousin. Dr. George Bulman of Sheepwash,
in Bothal, who had died intestate. In consecjuence of his disordered
atTairs Mr. Job Bulman conveyed his property to trustees for the benefit of his
creditors, who in April, 1782. sold Sheepwash to Mr. J. CJurney, of Norwich.
He died at South Shields, 14 June, 1799, s. p.