Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1787. Aug. Mr. Anthonj' Lambert, attorney, settled in Alnwick
to practise : came from Berwick after loeing there thirteen years.
1787. Aug. 26. Miss Adams and Nanny Brown came home from
Hepple after a stay of three Aveeks. Also Nanny Brown was three
weeks at Long Houghton bathing.
1787. Aug. Joseph Forster, esq., Newcastle, was married to Miss
Warden of Whitburn, county of Durham 20,000/.i2
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1787. Aug. Died, Dr. Laws, bishop of Carlisle, aged 87.13
1787. Aug. 29. Died at Alnwick, Miss Yelloley, daughter of the
late Mr. J. Yelloley, aged 17.
1787. Aug. Thomas Harrison begun to cut his field of barley:
also his daughter Jenny landed at Alemouth from London.
King of Prussia in possession of Holland and the Prince of Orange
appointed ruler of the States. Amsterdam opposed for some time,
but was obliged to surrender to the Prince of Brunswick, with great
loss and several killed.
1787. Sept. 2. Died in London, Ralph Grey, esq., brother to Sir
Henry Grey, bart.i*.
Died there Thomas Delaval, esq., brother to Lord Delaval.is
1787. Sept. 6. Died upon the road from the western circuit, Serj.
Bolton. 16
1787. Sept. 9. Miss Peggy Brown and her sister Bettyi" w^ent to
Long Houghton upon a visit.
1787. Sept. A meeting and riot at Glasgow by the servantsagainst
their employers with respect to their wages. Several killed
and wounded. The military obliged to assist.
1787. Oct. 1. Died at Alnwick, Mrs. Sewell.
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Mr. .Joseph Forster of Newcastle, sheriff 1787, and mayor ISOl, 1808,.
and 1818, grandson of Joseph Forster of Newton-by-the-Sea, and eldest son of
Francis Forster of Newcastle, merchant, married first at Darlington, Elizabeth,
daughter of John Wardell of Whitburn. She died on the 14 November, 1791,
and he married secondly at St. Andrew's, Newcastle, 2 July, 1794, Mary,
daughter of Henry Scott of Newcastle, niece of Lords Eldon and Stowell.
He died 7 April, 1821, aged 59, leaving issue.
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Dr. Edmund Law, Bishop of Carlisle from 1769 until his death, was a
native of Cartmel in Lancashire, and was educated at the grammar scliool at
Kendal, and at St. John's College, Cambridge. He successively held parochial
preferment, the mastership of Peterhouse and prebends at Lichfield, Lincoln
and at Durham.
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Mr. Ralph Grey of Preston, fourtli son of Sir Henry Grey of Howick,
bart., was baptized 8 Jan., 1737/8 ; dying unmarried at his house Hanover
Street, Hanover Square, he was buried in South Audley Street Chapel. Cf.
Neivcasf/e Conrant, 8 Sept., 1787.
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Mr. Thomas Delaval, when riding in Hyde Park on .31 Aug., dropped
from his horse in a fit, was carried home, and immediately expired. Gentkmau's
Magazine, 1787, p. 839. Cf. new History of North umherland, vol. ix. p. 173.
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Serjeant James Clayton Bolton was taken ill, died and was buried at
WolseleyJjridge, Staffordshire. Genthman'fi Magazine, 1787, p. 839.
" The Diarist's daughters.