B
Baber, Edward John (1861-1935), born London, manager of Hudson Scott and Sons, Carlisle, an outstanding amateur actor; Hud (C)
Babington, William (17xx-1818), DD, clergyman, rector of Kirkandrews-upon-Esk 1787-1790, died 1818
Babthorpe family of Little Urswick, Sir William Babthorpe of Babthorpe (d.1555) (Y) acquired the manor of Little Urswick by his marriage to Jane, daughter of William Redmayne of Twistleton (L), his son Leonard, a barrister, was persecuted as a catholic; Hud (W)
Backhouse, James (d.1578), shopkeeper, active in Kirkby Lonsdale early in the reign of Elizabeth I, left stock at his demise including Spanish silks, French garters, Norwich lace, Oxford gloves and Turkey work purses; John Matuysiak, History of the Tudors in 100 Objects, 2019, 128
Backhouse, James (1695-1762), iron master, (RSLC, xxxv, 1997, 224-225)
Backhouse, Jonathan (1779-1842; ODNB), banker and financier, son of Jonathan Backhouse of Darlington (1747-1826), also a banker, and grandson of James Backhouse of Westmorland, yarn and wool dealer
Backhouse, John Barnes (17xx-18xx), MA, clergyman, native of Caldbeck, rector of Edburton, Sussex, as subscriber to Hutchinson’s History of Cumberland
Backhouse, Joseph (fl.1745), mayor of Carlisle during Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, surrendered city to Charles Stuart on 15 November 1745
Backhouse, Major (fl.18thc), ‘of the Tower of London’, was the last of the family from Morland, his daughter married Isaac Eels in 1749; Hud (W)
Bacon, Anthony (fl.18thc.), brother of Thomas Bacon (qv), bap. St Bees, rose from a master mariner to rank of one of first merchants in London, after turning 30, and elected MP for three successive Parliaments; went to Maryland; identical with the following ?
Bacon, Anthony (1816-1886; ODNB), industrialist, b. St Bees, developed Merthy Tydfil, est Cyfarthfa Forge, in partnership with Dr William Brownrigg of Whitehaven (qv), cast cannon, owned five ships, also slaves
Bacon, Gertrude (1874-1949), aeronaut, writer, lecturer, b. Cambridge, dau of the Rev John Mackenzie Bacon [1846-1894] and his wife Gertrude Myers [1849-1894], who had married at Bootle [C] in 1871, her father’s first balloon flight occurred when she was 14, in 1888, was a balloonist with her father in 1899 to observe a shower of meteors, flew at Shrewsbury in 1904, in Stanley Spencer’s airship, in Rheims in Roger Sommers’ Farman, then on 15 July 1912 with the Lakes Flying Co flew in Waterhen, [as first lady passenger ?? of Oscar Gnosspelius q.v.], 16 July 1912, first woman to fly as a passenger in a hydro-monoplane, took aerial photos which she later used in her lecure presentations, published Balloons, Airships and Flying Machines [1905] and The Record of an Aeronaut [1907], m. Thomas Jacson Foggitt in 1929, he died 1934, she d. 22 Dec 1949; waterbird.org.uk/gertrude-bacon; ancestry.com
Bacon, John, of Bridekirk, father of the Rev Isaac Bacon (1763-1837), fellow of Queens Coll, Oxford and later rector of Bletchington
Bacon, Thomas (1717-1786; ODNB), master mariner, tobacco merchant, customs officer, author, bookseller, auctioneer, newspaper publisher, minister, educationalist, musician, composer, poet and abolitionist, b. Isle of Man (or Whitehaven), went to Dubin and published the Dublin Gazette, also worked in Dublin as an auctioneer, ran a coffee house, was not priested until he was in his 30s [d an p 1744-45] and decided to travel to the plantations, his brother Anthony was in Maryland from 1733 and he followed in the later 1740s, est a school for African Americans, his son John killed and scalped at Fort Cumberland, (2nd wife Elizabeth Broznan, daughter of Col Broznan), compiled laws of Maryland published as A Digest of the Laws of Maryland, a volume of Sermons, and the The Complete System of the Revenue of Ireland, a contemporary of Samuel Richardson; ? same family as the following ?
Baddeley, Mountford John Byrde (1843-1906; ODNB), BA, compiler of guidebooks, retired from teaching in 1884 to Windermere, first at The Hollies, later moved to 2 Lake View Villas, Bowness-on-Windermere, married Millicent Satterthwaite Michaelson-Yeates, dau of Robert Henry Machell Michaelson-Yeates (qv), of Olive Mount, Windermere, no issue,in 1891 at Barrow Island, Chairman, Bowness Local Board to 1894, compiled guide book to English Lake District (1880; 21st ed 1956), esp for needs of walkers, died at home, 19 November 1906, aged 63, and buried in Bowness old cemetery, 23 November; slate clock tower erected in his memory at junction of Lake Road, 1907; two carved oak prayer desks presented to St Martin’s church, Bowness by his widow in memory of him and of her brother, Captain Michaelson-Yeates, in 1908
Baden-Powell, Robert (1857-1941), general, founder of the Boy Scouts; see Powell
Badley, John Haden (1865-1962; ODNB), headmaster, son of JP Badley a surgeon, est Bedales as the first co-ed boarding school, his two sisters lived at Winterseeds, Grasmere, where he stayed frequently (Winterseeds was also the home of William Heaton Cooper (qv))
Bagenal, Timothy Bracegirdle (Tim) (1925-2011), DSc, PhD, MA, fish biologist, silversmith and local historian, born 24 August 1925, son of Nicholas Bagenal, mother Bloomsbury artist Hiles?, marr Mary J Goldsborough, 1 son and 2 daus (Caroline and xxx), Asst Director of FBA, Ferry House, Windermere, Hon Treasurer of FBSI 1972-86, 57 scientific papers, Observer Books, of 5 Bankfield, Kendal (1974), later of Lupton, and finally of Gilcruce, Gillinggate, Kendal, died 2 March 2011 (celebration of life at Hutton Roof Village Hall, 2 April 2011)
Baggerley, Humphrey (fl.1648-1654; ODNB), army officer and supposed biographer, surrendered at Appleby to Parliamentarian force under Col Assheton, then to Isle of Man but returned to fight at the battle of Wigan in 1651, captured and imprisoned in Chester, delivered the 7th earl of Derby’s last letter to his wife written before his execution, implicated in the plot to murder Cromwell but remarkably avoided execution
Baggerly, Humphrey (fl.1648-1654; ODNB) surrendered at Appleby in Civil War
Baggett, John ‘Gentleman Jack’ (1902-1978) footballer, NW Evening Mail 24 July 1978; Rod White, Furness Stories Behind the Stones
Bagley, Arthur (fl.early 20thc), writer, published Holiday Rambles in the English Lake District (1920), also similar volumes for Wales and Scotland
Bagley, Desmond (1923-1983), journalist and thriller writer, born in Kendal, son of John and Hannah Bagley, lived South Africa, m. Joan M. Brown 1960, wrote many works of fiction including The Golden Keel [1963], Running Blind [1970], several became films
Bagot family of Levens Hall, a cadet branch of the Bagot family of Blithfield, Staffs
Bagot, Sir Charles (1781-1843; ODNB), GCB, diplomat, m Lady Mary Wellesley dau of the ‘Iron Duke’, she was the source of the Wellington memorabilia at Levens Hall
Bagot, Sir Josceline Fitzroy, 1st Bt (1854-1913), MP, DL, JP, politician and landowner, of Levens Hall, born 1854, son of Colonel Charles Bagot, and grandson of Sir Charles Bagot (qv), educ Eton, entd Grenadier Guards in 1875, retiring as Captain in 1886, marr (1885) Theodosia (1866-1940), dau of Sir John Leslie, Bt, of Glaslough, 1 son and 3 daus (incl Mary, bapt at Levens, 16 November 1889), Major then Lieut-Colonel of Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry, Westmorland County Councillor, DL and JP, MP for South Westmorland 1892-1906 and from 1910, ADC to two Governors-General of Canada, served in South African War as Press Censor 1899-1901, member of CWAAS from 1884, author of Colonel James Grahme of Levens and George Canning and his friends, nominated for baronetcy in New Year Honours of 1913, but died 1 March before grant could be sealed; his widow Theodosia married the Rev Sydney Swann (qv); (MI) (papers re admin of will in CRO, WD/MM/ boxes 158-159; CW2, xiii, 424)
Bagot, Oliver Robin, formerly Gaskell (1914-2000), TD, DL, JP, MA, FRICS, land agent, landowner and artist, born 10 December 1914, son of H M Gaskell, educ Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, assumed name of Bagot in lieu of Gaskell on succ to Levens Hall 1936, marr (1938) Annette Dorothy, FSA (died 21 March 2003), dau of Comdr F R Stephens, RN, 1 son (Charles Henry (Hal), high sheriff of Cumbria 1980-81, born 16 February 1946) and 3 daus (Priscilla, Lisa and Lucinda), land agent with A Hoggarth & Son, Kirkland, Kendal, trustee and governor, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, high sheriff of Westmorland 1952, president of Kendal Art Society 1951-1960, vice-president 1948, and elected member in March 1946, painted in watercolours, built harpsichords, regular lecturer on art history and painting in 1950s, saved Levens Park from M6 link road 196x, apptd trustee of Levens Institute by deed of 8 May 1942, latterly of Levens Brow, died 29 January 2000
Bagot, Lady Theodosia (nee Leslie) (1865-1940), dau of Sir John Leslie (1822-1916) 1st bart of Glendalough, Ireland, marr Jocelyn Bagot (qv), five children, managed Church Army field hospitals in the Boer War at Bloemfontein and Rondsbosch and later in the First WW at Caen and Adinkerke, Belgium,she had little nursing experience but soon built her skills and enjoyed assisting in operating theatres, often working far into the night, awarded medals and mentioned in despatches, after the war founded Charney’s a Church Army club for ex-servicemen, published Shadows of War (1901), her second husband the Rev Sydney Swann (1862-1942; DCB) attempted to murder her; Roger Smalley, Political Dissent in Westmorland, 1880-1930, 2013
Bailey, George Henry (1805-1883), postmaster, registrar and bailiff, bapt at Brough, 31 March 1805, son of William Bailey, schoolmaster, of Market Brough, and his wife Margaret (nee Cowpland), of Brough family of substantial farmers, bailiff to Lord Thanet for Manor of Brough, Registrar of births, deaths and marriages for Kirkby Stephen district 1849, 1858 and 1873, Brough postmaster, clerk of school board, agent to North Stainmore Mining Co and to Liverpool and London Fire and Life Insurance Co 1858, ensured that station was put in at Musgrave when railway was being built, his dau Mary Ann marr Thomas Walton (qv) in 1865, buried at Brough, 11 April 1883, aged 78
Baily, Revd T E H (19xx-19xx), clergyman, member of Westmorland Local Valuation Panel (1966)
Bain, Sir James (1817-1898), DL, JP, FRGS, colliery and ironworks owner, of Crofthead, Harrington, son of Robert Bain, of Glasgow, controlled Harrington Coal and Ironworks, working undersea coal from 1877, took over a Lonsdale royalty in Moresby in 1881 and worked in conjunction with Harrington colliery until 1891, also had Whitehaven Colliery Company, which took on lease of Whitehaven Colliery from Lowthers (Henry, William, Wellington, Croft, James, Duke, Saltom and Kells pits, with equipment, 72 coke-ovens at Bransty, and 578 cottages) for 31 yrs from 11 November 1888 as Messrs Bain & Co (Sir J Bain, J D Bain, J R Bain and J S Simpson), MP for Whitehaven 1891-1893, Lord Provost of Glasgow 1874-1877, marr, 2 sons (John Dove, JP (b.1848), of Crofthead, and James Robert, qv), died in 1898 (WCC, 159- )
Bain, James Robert (1851-19xx), JP, Colonel, yr son of Sir James above, of Moresby Hall and Bolton, Hall, Gosforth, MP for West Cumberland 1900-1906
Bain, John Dove (1848-19xx), JP, er son of Sir James above, of Crofthead, Harrington, director, Messrs Bain & Co
Bainbridge, Christopher (c.1462/63-1514; ODNB), archbishop, ambassador and cardinal, b. Hilton, cr, archbishop of York 1508-1514, cardinal of St Praxedes 1511, bishop of Durham 1507-1508, dean of St George’s Chapel, Windsor 1505-1507 and of York 1503-1505, master of the rolls 1504- , provost of Queen’s College, Oxford 1496- (WW, i, 67-80); ‘The Bainbridge Snuffers’ [BM], Gothic Ex Cat 2003, no 105
Bainbridge, Henry (17xx-1816), MD, of Sedbergh, marr Mary (b at Kendal?, 1 January 1761, bur at Maryport), er dau of John Wilson Robinson (qv), 1 son (d inf) and 1 dau (Margaret, d. 1817), died 25 December 1816, aged 53, and buried at Kirkby Lonsdale
Bainbridge, Isaac (18xx-19xx), MB, BS, physician and surgeon, medical officer and public vaccinator, Brough district, East Ward Union, and post office medical officer, Sedbro’ House, Brough (1929)
Bainbridge, John (fl. early 20thc), publican and alabaster quarry foreman, lived Aiketgate, near High Hesket, he supervised the alabaster quarry at Cocklakes, became the landlord of the Sportman pub at Aiketgate which was locally known as Wham or The Wham, married Mary Jane, several children, also worked as a cattle farmer and a dealer in scrap metal, occasionally he sold horses, on 28 September 1906 he sold a two year old hackney filly for 9 guineas; Cumbria FHS, Sept 2024
Bainbridge, Margaret Nora (1924-2016), teacher and local historian, born at Barrow-in-Furness, left £22,500 to Friends of Cumbria Archives (FOCAS 99, April 2017)
Bainbrigg of Hawkin and Middleton, family; CW2 xxiv 123
Bainbrigg, Reginald (c.1489-1554; ODNB), MA, college head and clergyman, born at Middleton, Kirkby Lonsdale, son of John Bainbrigg (c.1464-1542) and Margaret (d.1551), and prob uncle or cousin of Reginald Bainbrigg (b.1544; qv), educ Cambridge (BA 1506, MA 1509, and BTh 1526), Fellow and Master of St Catherine’s College 1529-1547, held succession of livings in Essex, prob died in November 1554
Bainbrigg, Reginald (d.1606; ODNB), clergyman, prob member of same family, educ Peterhouse, Cambridge (matric 1573, BA 1576/7), Vicar of Steeple Bumpstead, Essex 1582-1606, where he died
Bainbrigg, Reginald (1544/45-1612/13; ODNB), MA, schoolmaster and antiquary, born at Hilton, near Appleby, prob yr son of Christopher Bainbrigg (c.1505-1569), educ Queen’s College, Oxford (matric 1572, BA 1576, MA 1579), Master of Appleby Grammar School 1580-?1612, licence dated 19 December 1580, still in office on 3 April 1612, major benefactor to school, incl personal library (deposited with Special Collections of Newcastle University Library in 1966), died prob early in 1613, but no burial recorded in Appleby, will proved in September 1613; Edgar Hinchcliffe, The Bainbrigg Library, Appleby, 1996; CW2 xxvi 169; CW3 iii 119
Bainbrigg, Reginald (d.1606; ODNB), also the vicar of Steeple Bumpstead, Essex
Bainbridge [Bainbrigg], Thomas (1574-1646; ODNB), MA, DD, college head, bapt at Kirkby Lonsdale, 18 February 1574, yr son of Edward Bainbrigg (c.1508-1584), clothier, of Hawkin Hall, Middleton, by his 2nd wife, Elizabeth Hodgson (d.1590), educ Christ’s College, Cambridge, Master of Christ’s College, Cambridge 1622-1646 , Vice-Chancellor 1627/28, died in office and buried in church of St Andrew the Great, Cambridge, 9 September 1646
Baines, Edward (1774-1848; ODNB), news proprietor, b. Walton-in-the-Dale, Lancs, educated Hawkshead GS, living with Thomas Rigg his maternal uncle, a slate merchant, father of Sir Edward Baines qv
Baines, Sir Edward (1800-1890; ODNB), DL, JP, journalist, politician and educationist, born in Leeds, 28 May 1800, 2nd son of Edward Baines (1774-1848; ODNB) (qv) [who went to live with maternal uncle, Thomas Rigg, slate merchant, at Hawkshead and attended Grammar School there for two years, with WW, before returning to Preston at age of 8] and Charlotte, dau of Matthew Talbot, of Leeds, and brother of Matthew Talbot Baines (1799-1860; ODNB) and Thomas Baines (1806-1881; ODNB), marr (1829) Martha (d.1881), only dau of Thomas Blackburn, of Liverpool, 3 sons and 4 daus, author (as Edward Baines, junior) of A Companion to the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire; in a descriptive account of a family tour, and an excursion on horseback; comprising a visit to Lancaster Assizes, with a new, copious, and correct Itinerary (made from an actual survey in June 1828), published in 1829, Liberal MP for Leeds 1859-1874, etc, died at his house, St Ann’s Hill, Burley, Yorkshire, 2 March 1890, and buried in Leeds cemetery near Woodhouse Moor
Baines, H T, MA, clergyman of Sawrey House, Claife (1882); William Hodgson Baines (1912)
Baines, Harry, (fl.16thc) mayor of Carlisle, associated with Lady Dacre’s bells q.v.
Baines, Jenny (1948-2015) cycling campaigner, Carlisle
Baird, Thomas (fl.mid 19thc), tea dealer Scotch St, Carlisle, married Elizabeth Brown dau of Joseph Brown of Camberwell, Surrey; CJ 20 June 1835
Baisbrown family, took their name from the fell Baysbrown in Langdale
Baisbrown, Rosie (b.1897), dau of William and Ellen Baisbrown of Grasmere, who by 1911 were living on Bolton, William was an electrician, at an earlier date, perhaps 1909, Rosie was chosen to carry the ‘burden’ of flowers attached to a wooden frame at the rushbearing ceremony at Grasmere, an event painted by Frank Bramley at the behest of Canon Rawnsley (qv)
Baker, Sir Rowland (1908-1983), naval architect, son of Isaac Baker a sailing bargee, trained Chatham docks, RN college Greenwich, had previously designed HMS Seagull the first all welded vessel for the RN in 1938, in WW2 designed a tank landing craft in three days, technical chief executive on Dreadnought programme, Barrow, 1960; Les Shore, Life of Leonard Redshaw (qv)
Baker, W R (18xx-19xx), clergyman and schoolmaster, master at Appleby Grammar School 1908-1935, Hon Secretary of Old Applebians’ Society (to 1952 at least), retired to 3 Whitehall Road, Rugby, Warwickshire
Balderstone, John Christopher (Chris) (1940-2000), professional cricketer and footballer (once playing both on the same day), born at Longwood, Huddersfield, 16 November 1940, played for Shrewsbury Town youth team 1955-1957, joined Huddersfield Town in May 1958 (playing mostly in midfield, 117 appearances, 24 goals), moved to Carlisle United for £6,000 in June 1965 (376 apps, 68 goals, club captain, briefly top of Div I at start of 1974/75 season, then relegated), joined Doncaster Rovers for 1975-76 season (39 apps) and Queen of the South in 1976-1978 (34 apps), first played first-class cricket for Yorkshire on 10 June 1961, lower-order right-hand batsman and slow left-arm spin bowler, but delayed his cricket career until he went to Leicestershire with Ray Illingworth in 1971, first full season in 1973, only player to have played County Cricket match and League Football game on same day (Leics-Derbyshire at Chesterfield and for Doncaster Rovers, 15 September 1975), key player in Leicestershire’s winning team in County Championship (1975, runners up 1982), Sunday League winners (1974, 1977, runners up 1972), and Benson & Hedges Cup winners (1972, 1975, 1985, runners up 1974), played 2 Tests against West Indies in 1976 (39 runs), athletic fielder, testimonial benefit season in 1984, retired in 1986, moving directly into umpiring (first-class umpire in 1988, stood in two one-day internationals in 1994 and 1998), [career stats], died suddenly, suffering from prostate cancer, aged 59, at his home at Aglionby, Carlisle, 6 March 2000 (CN, 10.03.2000)
Baldwin, Hawise de Quincy (nee de Quincy) (c.1250-1285), dau of Sir Robert de Quincy, marr Baldwin Wake son of Hugh Wake, mother of John Wake, 1st baron Wake of Liddell (1268-1300) (qv), died at Liddell ( C ); Complete Peerage
Baldwin, Hugh Charles (fl.late 19thc.), BA St Catherine’s College, Cambridge, Curate of Mardale from 1891
Baldwin, John (c.1731-1788), master of Kendal poor house/ workhouse (1787), wife Elizabeth, mistress of poor house, and dau Mally (CRO, WQ/1787 census), died aged 57 and buried at Kendal, 6 February 1788, with his widow Elizabeth dying aged 55 and buried 21 February 1788
Baldwin, Martha [c.1722-1813], niece of Dr Thomas Shaw qv, noted as a bread-baker in Kendal for nearly 50 years, died in September 1813, aged 91, and buried in Kendal churchyard, 24 September
Baldwin, Mary (1916-2018), dau of the Rev Baldwin, spent some of her childhood in Penrith, married Harold Wilson, prime minister, and later became Lady Wilson of Rievaulx, she published her own poetry
Baldwin, Rev Richard DD FRS (b.1718), clergyman, born Wigan, vicar Edenhall, prebendary Carlisle, marr Margaret Wilson of Bardsea Hall, daughter of Christopher Wilson, his son John died in Milan, tomb Aldingham, his dau Christophora (?) marr Sir Christopher Clayton and his dau Sarah marr Henry Richmond Gale Braddyll, his dau Cecilia married James Losh, recorder of Newcastle
Balfour, Arthur James (1848-1930; ODNB), prime minister, friend of Sir Wilfred Lawson q.v., probably visited Brayton
Balfour, Hon Francis Henry (1905-1994), son of Lord Riverdale (1873-1957) iron manufacturer of Sheffield and his wife Frances Bingham; Furness Stories through the Stones
Balfour, George Boyds DSO (1885-1977), soldier, son of Robert Balfour a coal merchant who latterly lived at Chetwynde, Abbey Rd, Barrow, in 1st WW joined 4th batt Kings Own Regt in 1916, in the Gazette if 1918 he was described as showing ‘conspicuous gallantry’, his brother Major Robert Wilson Balfour died in 1918; Furness Stories Behind the Stone
Ballantyne, Thomas [d.1864] of Little and Ballantyne [est 1812], nurserymen and seedsmen originally of Botcherby, Carlisle, bought in 1840 the 150 acres estate at Knowefield wood from Hutton Bros [est 1790], seedsmen, he prospered and was famous for roses and shrubs, in 1871 the business was sold to Sir James Watt who retained the original name, supplied trees for Osborne house, and the duke of Wellington, the Cartmel and Shepherd solicitors’ building on the viaduct at Carlisle was built as his HQ in 1881 and has his initial W over the entrance and the royal arms high up upon it in token of the firm being royal warrant holders, in this period they advertised 60,000 roses being in flower at one time, forest trees, fruit trees, rhododendrons, alpines, they employed 200 staff seasonally, in 1878 they provided thousands of trees for a major planting scheme on the Isle of Man, their telegraphic address was Littletyne, Carlisle in 1902, in 1933 the land was sold for re-development; Bemrose Directory c.1881; mss National Archive and Museum of Rural Life (Wellington/627); Little qv
Ballentine-Dykes family (sometimes Ballantine), (also Dykes) (qv), from 1664 held land at Ireby until the early 20thc; further details see Hud (C)
Ballentine-Dykes, Mrs, of Dovenby Hall, widow of Col Ballentine-Dykes, built her own railway station on the family estate, Dovenby station was on the Derwent branch of the railway between Papcastle and Dearham; George A Wade, ‘Private Railway Stations’, Railway Magazine, November 1903
Ballentine-Dykes, Nancy (1919-2013), artist, her painting Fisherman’s Quarter, Ibiza is in the NT collection at Greenway
Balliol, Edward (c.1283-1364), eldest son of John Baliol, thus a claimant to the Scots throne, after the battle of Annan in 1332 he was a refugee with the Cliffords and stayed with them at Brougham, Brough and Pendragon castles
Balliol, John (c.1249-1314), when the line of Alexander II failed at the death in 1290 of his granddaughter Margaret aged 7, in 1292 Balliol was chosen as king of Scots, Edward I undermined his authority treating him as a vassal, in response in 1295 Balliol signed a treaty with France known as ‘the Auld Alliance’, in 1296 Edward invaded Scotland, deposed Balliol and sent him to the Tower of London, freed after an interval he was sent to his estates in France and there was no king of Scots until the accession of Robert the Bruce (qv) in 1206
Balme, David Mowbray (1912-1989) DFC DSO MA b. Carlisle, academic classicist, son of Harold Balme (qv) and Hilda Carr, daughter of Thomas William Carr, m Margaret in 1937, 5 children, first ten years in China, ed Marlborough, Clare college, Cambridge and Halle, Germany, developed love of Aristotle, tutor Jesus college, Cambridge, 2nd WW RAF as Lancaster bomber pilot, wing cdr DFC DSO, sr tutor Jesus, in 1948 to Gold Coast (now university of Ghana), returned to Queen Mary’s college, professor 1965, 1982 festschrift, Aristotle on Nature (1985); Guardian obit end Feb 1989, online 207 squadron history
Balme, Frank Maude Taylor Jones- (1834-1911), DL, JP, of Lesketh How, Ambleside, son of Edward Henry Jones (d.1865), of London, marr (1865) Hannah, dau of William Wraith (son of James Wraith, who marr Sarah, yr dau of Abraham Balme (b.1740)), assumed addnl surname and arms of Balme in 1897 on succ to High Close and Cote Wall (see below), Agent for Rydal Hall estate, High Sheriff of Westmorland 1899, marr, son (Frank Edward Thorpe Jones-Balme (1869-1951), JP, MA, on whose death, High Close was sold)
Balme, Edward Balme Wheatley- (1819-1896), DL, JP, MA, born in 1819, son of Thomas Wheatley (d.1849), of Cote Wall, Hopton, Yorks and Mary (d.1855), dau and coheir of Abraham Balme (b.1740), assumed by Royal Licence addnl surname and arms of Balme 1857, High Sheriff of Westmorland 1876, president of Langdale Institute when it agreed to take over the Langdale Library from the Parish Room in March 1891, of High Close, Loughrigg, died unm (?)
Balme, Harold (1878-1953) OBE MD FRCS, surgeon, son of Paul Balme, surveyor, and his wife nee Kirkness, ed Cooper’s GS and Kings London, prizes, St Bart’s, Boer war with Imperial Yeomanry, MRCS 1903, returned to London, became medical missionary in China, dean and president 9f Cheeloo university, published China and Modern Medicine (1921), worked Carlisle, consultant to the United Nations, d Beckenham; obit Times 16 Feb 1953, Lancet 1953, 1, 448, BMJ 1953, 1, 511, Plarrs Lives
Balmer, Fred T (18xx-19xx), surveyor, borough surveyor and sanitary inspector, also caretaker of Town Hall, Appleby, apptd Honorary Freeman of Appleby in 1948 for 45 years’ service as Borough Surveyor of Appleby
Bamber, Joseph Edward (1909-1983), Roman Catholic priest and historian, parish priest of SS Robert and Alice, Dodding Green, Skelsmergh, near Kendal, for 36 years, elevated to canon, author of many articles, essays and booklets on his researches into 16th and 17th century Catholic history, photographed chapels, houses and priests’ holes all over country, lectured on such subjects as ‘The Secret Hiding Places of Harvington Hall’ and ‘The Skull of Wardley Hall’, member of CWAAS from 1948, founder member of Kendal Regional Group in 1952, his extensive library and collection of artefacts left to Ushaw College, Durham (Bamber Bequest), died 24 November 1983, aged 74 (WG, 16.12.83)
Bampfylde, Coplestone Warre (1720-1791), amateur artist, son of John Bampfylde, MP for Hestercombe, educ Winchester and St John’s College, Oxford, learnt to draw at an early age, inherited Hestercombe estate near Taunton, Somerset in 1750, where he also made use of his amateur interest in landscape design, made a number of painting tours of England, but only one tour of Lake District, in August 1780 (two drawings owned by Wordsworth Trust: ‘Cascade at Sr Michael Flemmings’ (Rydal Falls) and ‘View of West Side of Windermere from Ambleside’ (latter acquired in 2011))
Bancroft, Ian Powell (1922-1996; ODNB), later Lord Bancroft, civil servant b. Barrow at Risedale Maternity hospital, son of Alfred Ernest Bancroft (1886-1954) a teacher and his wife Lilian Stokes, ed Barrow GS, Sir William Turner GS at Coatham, Cleveland and Balliol college, Oxford, Rifle Brigade in 2nd WW, m. Jean Swaine, civil service, private secretary at the Treasury, to ‘Rab’ Butler, Reg Maudling and James Callaghan, then Dept Environment, HM Customs, when Margaret Thatcher abolished the civil service department in 1981 his career ended, baron 1982
Bankes, Henry (1757-1834; ODNB), politician and parliamentary diarist, descendant of Sir John Bankes of Keswick (qv), succeed to Kingston Lacy, MP for Corfe Castle from 1780 and Dorset from 1826, he was for fifty years an MP
Bankes, George (1787-1846; ODNB), politician and lawyer, born Kingston Lacy, Wimborne, descendant of Sir John Bankes of Keswick (qv), MP for most of the period 1815-56, published The Story of Corfe Castle (1853)
Bankes, Sir John (1589-1644; ODNB), judge, born in Keswick, son of John Bankes, merchant, and his wife, Jane Malton, educ Queen’s College, Oxford (matric in February 1605, but left without a degree), began legal studies at Gray’s Inn in 1607, called to Bar in 1614, pres practised in north as his professional opinion was frequently sought by Lord William Howard (qv), of Naworth, in 1620s, advising him in his dispute with town (Morpeth?) over exercise of his seigneurial rights there, marr (1618) Mary (d.1661; ODNB) (qv), only dau of Ralph Hawtry, of Ruislip, Middlesex, 4 sons 6 daus, steward of manor of Renwick (on behalf of Queen’s College, Oxford) until 1632, MP for Wootton Basset 1624 and for Morpeth 1626 and 1628, bencher of Gray’s Inn in 1631 and acted as treasurer 1631-1635, knighted in June 1631, apptd attorney-general to Prince of Wales in July 1631, apptd Attorney-General on death of William Noy in August 1634, brought case of Francis Lennard’s claim to Kirkoswald manors to Court of Exchequer on 6 June 1635 (pre-emptive action), but no writ awarded and similarly when case was raised again in 1637, purchased Corfe Castle estate from Lady Elizabeth Hatton in 1635, acted as instrument rather than initiator of royal policy in late 1630s, apptd Chief Justice of Court of Common Pleas on 29 January 1641, succ Edward Littleton, sworn of Privy Council after joining Charles I at York in spring 1642, but acted as a moderating force, awarded hon DCL at Oxford on 20 December 1642, Corfe Castle besieged by parliamentary forces in May 1643, Lady Bankes held out for three years, his London house sequestered and sold by parliament in February 1644, accused of high treason by a resolution of Commons on 22 July 1644, died at Oxford, 28 December 1644, and buried in Christ Church Cathedral (monument); will of 20 September 1642 provided £200 with addnitional £30 p.a. for establishment of workhouse for poor of Keswick (CW3, x, 165); bust by Adolphus Rost upon monument in Fitz Park, Keswick. There are bronze busts (or statues) of Sir John (by Algardi) and of Lady Bankes at Kingston Lacy, she holds a large key
Bankes, John Eldon (1854-1940; ODNB), judge, descendant of Sir John Bankes of Keswick, son of John Scott Bankes (1826-1894) of Soughton Hall, Flintshire and his wife Annie, dau of Sir John Jervas, also a judge, educ Eton and Christ Church Oxon
Bankes, Mary, Lady (d.1661; ODNB), royalist landowner, daughter of Ralph Hawtrey (1570-1638; ODNB) of Ruislip (his family lived at Chequers from 1565), marr Sir John Bankes of Keswick (qv), fourteen children, in 1635 they bought the Corfe Castle estate in Dorset, when Sir John went to Oxford to be with the king during the civil war, she returned to Corfe with five men and her women servants, on this impregnable site they drove off an attempt to seize their four cannon, in a lull she called in 80 more royalist soldiers, bombardment and threats proved ineffective against her resolve, when the roundheads stormed her walls this small force, including the women, repelled them with stones and hot embers, eventually by stratagem and storm she was defeated after a siege of 48 days, later the Parliamentary commander Colonel Bingham presented her with the keys to the castle in respect for her courage, after the death of her husband she went to law and managed to hold onto her estates for her children, nonetheless the castle had been ‘slighted’ with explosives and the leaning round towers today show the damage wrought, she is doubly recognised for her valour and her determination not to be dispossessed by the courts; Florence Molesworth Hawtrey, History of the Hawtrey Family, 1903; the next generation built a new house nearby called Kingston Lacy (NT), Lady Mary’s keys are still on display there
Bankes, William John (1786-1853; ODNB), traveller and antiquary, descendant of Sir John Bankes of Keswick (qv), brother of George Bankes (qv), educ Westminster and Trinity Coll, Cambridge, on death of his brother Henry became heir to his father’s estates and £8000 p.a., friend of Lord Byron, MP for Truro, later Cambridge, Marlborough and Dorset, travelled to Portugal, Spain, Cairo, publ The Life and Adventures of Giovanni Finati (1830), collected antiquities, sailed up the Nile with the consul Henry Salt (1780-1827; ODNB) and the strongman-archaeologist Giovanni Belzoni (1778-1823; ODNB), removed an obelisk which is now at Kingston Lacy, spent a month at Abu Simbel, then Palestine, Syria and Jordan, on his return dubbed ‘the Nubian Discoverer’ by Byron, charged with meeting a guardsman for ‘unnatural purposes’, he was exonerated but effectively driven abroad, he lived in Venice but after his father’s death in 1834 supervised by letter the installation of his treasures at Kingston Lacy, buried Wimborne Minster; after 2002 his extensive Egyptian scholarship was revealed as he had described or drawn buildings which are now lost, plundered or destroyed
Banks, Edwin Hodge (184x-1917), DL, JP, MA, barrister, textile merchant and landowner, yr son of William Banks (qv), of Highmoor House, Wigton, educ Cambridge University (MA), High Sheriff of Cumberland 1889, Captain in Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry, member of Cumberland County Council, chairman of Wigton Local Board/Urban District Council for many years, member of Wigton Board of Guardians, funded restoration of interior of St Mary’s church, Wigton, built Conservative Club (later Kildare Hotel) in 1887, chairman of governors of Nelson School for boys and also of Tomlinson Grammar School for girls (1910), built baths in field behind school in 1902/3 at cost of £2,500 and leased to town, dedicatee of the volume of monumental inscriptions of Wigton parish edited by Revd James Wilson (qv) and published by T McMechan in 1892, presented with his portrait in recognition of his public services in 1902 when Speaker Gully (qv) described him as “a man of few words, but of many deeds”, member of CWAAS from 1885 and frequent attender at meetings before he left Cumberland after Highmoor estates were broken up and sold in 1909 and died in Brighton, 20 August 1917 (CW2, xvii, 262); granite mausoleum with a figure of Justice in Wigton cemetery; David Cross, Public Sculpture xviii
Banks, Henry Pearson (1844-1891), DL, JP, MA, barrister, textile merchant and landowner, er son of William Banks (qv), of Highmoor House, educ Cambridge University, High Sheriff of Cumberland 1886, heightened tower at Highmoor to 136 ft and installed a full Belgian carillon in 1887, with gilded eagle on top on a green copper dome of ogee outline, then an octagonal drum for carillon, with four gablets and four corner turrets at its base, with a great bell called Big Joe below that (weighing 8 tons 16 cwt), which could be heard nearly 12 miles away, and carillon of ten bells cast by Severin Van Aerscholt of Louvain (Pevsner); granite mausoleum with a figure of Justice in Wigton cemetery
Banks, Jacob (18xx-19xx), MA, clergyman, LTh Durham University, Vicar of Eskdale from 1911
Banks, John (18xx-19xx), architect, land surveyor and estate agent, purchased barn, shippons and yard opposite Walnut Tree House in Levens from John Gibson for conversion to Institute or Reading Room (conveyance of 20 November 1902), original trustee of Levens Institute, when of Lawrence House, Levens (1902-03) (CRO, WDSo 88)
Banks, John (1637-1710) quaker and teacher, son of a leaseholding yeoman farmer of Cumberland, little Puritan background, educated at grammar school, a representative of the Friends rank and file in the northwest from 1654, married first to Anne Littledale and secondly to Anna Farmer, led the equivalent of parish worship by reading the liturgy, prayers and homilies sent from London, he took a good while to be wholly convinced but afterwards showed no self-doubt, manifesting openness, simplicity and ‘a sense of wonder as to how he has been led’, travelled in England and Ireland, wrote six titles listed in Wing’s bibliography. Hugh Barbour and Arthur Roberts, Early Quaker Writings, 1973 2nd ed 2002 p.180
Banks, Jonathan (16xx-1721), BA, schoolmaster, Pembroke College, Cambridge, St Bees School 1681-1686 and Appleby Grammar School from 1686
Banks, Capt Robert (b.1734), lived at South Scale on Walney Island, sat to Romney for one of his early small scale portraits (Abbot hall art gallery), as they were exact contemporaries, it seems possible that they knew each other in childhood, there is a tale told that the canvas was left behind when the family left Walney as the portrait was by ‘Romney the joiner’, a reference to his early apprenticeship to his father John Romney (qv)
Banks, Timothy (16xx-17xx), agent to Col James Grahme at Levens Hall, steward of manor of Staveley 1684>90 [Thomas Simpson in 1680] (Levens Hall MSS, manor of Staveley verdicts)
Banks, Thomas Lewis (1842-1920), architect, built Whitehaven market hall, baths and Methodist church; Pevsner and Hyde
Banks, William (1811-1878), DL, JP, linen and woollen draper, born 1811, son of William Banks (d.1860), of Keswick (son of Joseph Banks), settled in Wigton in 1835, founded firm of Banks, Henderson & Banks, linen and woollen drapers, and made a large fortune, exporting factory-made clothing to Australia, succ Hodge family at Highmoor House, Wigton in 1846, enlarging it in 1870 and adding an Osborne tower and enclosing park with two miles of iron fencing, High Sheriff of Cumberland 1871, contested Carlisle as Conservative candidate in 1874, invited to contest Berwick-upon-Tweed in 1878 but failing health forced him to withdraw and went abroad, marr, 2 sons (Henry and Edwin, qv), died at Bolton House, London, 1 May 1878, aged 67, and buried in Wigton cemetery (memorial windows in north aisle of St Mary’s church, Wigton (Ward & Hughes) and at west end of Christ Church, Silloth (Heaton, Butler & Bayne)) (HW, 187-190
Banks, Wilson (1774or5-1851), astronomer, son of John Banks of Dalston (but which one?), author of astronomical papers, died Derby; Boase supplement, i, 258
Banks, Zephaniah (17xx-1837), brewer and alderman, ‘father’ of Kendal Corporation, brewers Zephaniah and John J Banks, of Wildman Street, Kendal (1849), died 9 February 1837, aged 86, and buried at Kendal, 15 February
Banner, Delmar Harmood (1896-1963), artist, b Germany at Freiburg im Breisgau, ed Cheltenham, Oxford and Regent St Polytechnic, lived Langdale, lay reader Langdale church, marr Josefina de Vasconcellos (qv), adopted two boys; Marshall Hall, 3
Banner, Sir John Harmood Bt (1847-1927), accountant, Lord Mayor of Liverpool and for 20 years MP, owned Ingmire Hall, Sedbergh, he was the uncle of Delmar Banner (qv) the artist
Bannerman, Edward (c.1827-1911), MA, clergyman, educ TCD (BA 1853, MA 1865), d 1855 (Derry) and p 1856 (Lim), curate of Listowel 1855-1858, All Saints, Southampton 1858, Alvanley, Cheshire 1858-1859, and Heversham 1859-1866, pc of Natland 1866-1872, vicar of Crosscrake 1871-1910, marr Catherine Mary (buried at Crosscrake, 18 November 1898, aged 59), 1 son (William Edward (qv)) and 1 dau (Catherine Jessie, buried at Crosscrake, 18 April 1900, aged 23), died at Heversham, aged 84, and buried at Crosscrake, 5 December 1911; [brother?, Revd James Macleod Bannerman, Vicar of St Stephen, Congleton, from 1873; Alfred Toosey Bannerman, of The Mortons, Castle Morton, Worcester, buried at Crosscrake, 16 June 1920, aged 41
Bannerman, (Margaret) Edith (c.1869-1936), who kept a notebook with patients’ comments and sketches, from VAD Hospital, Stramongate, Kendal, in 191x-1918 (CRO, WD/MD/H 8157), of Heversham, buried at Crosscrake, 27 August 1936, aged 67]
Bannerman, Revd William Edward (1867-19xx), MA, clergyman, born 22 April 1867 and bapt at Beetham, 30 May, son of Revd Edward Bannerman (qv), educ St John’s College, Cambridge (BA, 3rd cl Theol, 1887, MA 1891), d 1893 and p 1894 (Lich), Curate of Horninglow, Staffs 1893-1897, Vicar of Haddon 1897-1921, served WW1 as TCF 1915-1917, Hon CF 1918, Vicar of Levens 1921-1947, apptd a trustee of Levens Institute by deed of 8 May 1942 (CRO, WDSo 88), retired to Melvin Grove, Kinbough, Co Leitrim, Ireland in 1947, died by 1949/50
Barber, Frederic Clarence (1844-1870), BA, clergyman and schoolmaster, born in London, 24 May 1843, educ Magdalen College, Cambridge, apptd an assistant aaster at Sedbergh School by H G Day in 1868, curate of Howgill for one month before he died at Sedbergh on eve of his marriage, 30 April 1870, aged 26, and buried in Howgill churchyard, 4 May 1870
Barber, Henry (1838-1909), MD, FSA, doctor, antiquary and clergyman, founder of Ulverston Cottage Hospital (opened in 1873), born in Nottingham, arrived in Ulverston in 1860 (advertising as a surgeon), at Fountain Street (1866), author (as Roger Piketah) of Forness Folk, The’r Sayin’s an Dewin’s (1870) and Furness and Cartmel Notes (1894), died in February 1909, aged 71 (CW3, v, 205-207, 213 nn 45, 53)
Barber, John Michael ‘Mick’ MBE (1935-2017), telephone engineer and social worker to the deaf, born in Wakefield to parents who were profoundly deaf, consequently learned sign language at an early age, educ Wakefield GS, National Service in the army, as a telephone engineer had an accident in which he lost an eye, thus unable to continue in this occupation became a social worker to the deaf, in Hartlepool, Beverley and then Carlisle, as signing and subtitling became more usual Mick was the first to sign the news on Border TV, then was chief executive of the Cumbria Deaf Association, playing a leading role in ensuring deaf people took advantage of advances in cochlea implants and later in texting with mobile phones, he retired in 1991 and was awarded an MBE for services to deaf people, married 1) Doreen and had two boys, as she died young Mick brought up the boys by himself, then married 2) Carol on his 60th birthday, in retirement he was active in many things including the Quakers and the Geoffrey Bennett charity (qv), his keen sociability and warm personality endeared him to many people
Barber, Jonas (1688-1764), clockmaker of Winster (BWC-B-C); Brian Loomes, Westmorland Clocks, 1974
Barber, Joseph Vincent (1788-1838), artist, son of Joseph Barber, drawing master of Birmingham, married Anne Easter Walker, said to be the daughter of Robert ‘Wonderful Walker’ (qv) of Seathwaite, this is incorrect. Her father was Zacharia Walker of Birmingham
Barbirolli, Sir John (1899-1970; ODNB), conductor and cellist, b. London the son of Lorenzo Barbirolli (1864-1928) émigré Italian violinist and his French wife, revived the fortunes of the Halle orchestra in 1943, conducted the Halle orchestra at the Coronation Hall, Ulverston on 9th September 1948
Barbour, Hugh (18xx-19xx), JP, landowner, of Tallantire Hall, Bridekirk (modern mansion on site of old manor house, of which tower still remains), lord of manor of Tallantire (1921)
Barclay, Sir Robert Noton (1872-1957), export shipping merchant, banker and MP, Lord Mayor of Manchester, educ Uppingham and Victoria University of Manchester, deputy chairman District Bank, director of the Manchester Ship Canal, lived Alderley Edge, Cheshire, bought land on Derwentwater at Ings and also Wray Castle and 64 acres, all this he gave to the National Trust
Bardgarth, J., of Melmerby, clergyman, grandfather of dean Kitchen of Durham qv; David A. Cross, A Catalogue of the Paintings in Durham Castle, unpubl. 2001, 93, copy in Palace Green Library
Bardgett, Edward (1923-2020), born and brought up at Southwaite Green Mill, educ QEGS in Penrith and University College Durham, in the RAF from 1942, trained in Canada, served in Far East as a pilot of Sutherlands in 230 squadron, hospital administrator Newcastle RVI, marr Brenda Pilkington, oversaw the building of Hillingdon Hospital and later the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, retired to Bristol, travelled into his 90s
Bardsea family of Bardsea (Domesday has Berretseige), see JF Curwen, Some Notes in the Bardsea Family of Bardsea Hall, 1906
Bardsea, Nicholas (16thc) of Bardsea Hall, in 1558 murdered William Sandys of Conishead, receiver general of the Lordship of Furness after the Dissolution, fled to Scotland, returned and was pardoned by the queen
Bardsea, Nicholas (17thc), of Bardsea Hall d.1642 in Civil War
Bardsey de, of Bardsea; CW2 vi 175
Bardsley, Revd Canon Charles Wareing (18xx-19xx), clergyman and author, one of founders of study of nomenclature, Vicar of Ulverston with Osmotherly 1878-19xx, Hon Canon of Carlisle 1886, Curate of St Anne, Manchester 1875-1878 and of Kersal Moor 1870-1873, d 1870, p 1871 (Manch), educ Worcester College, Oxford (BA 1868, MA 1870), and author of English Surnames, their sources and significations (3rd edn 1875), John Lexley’s Troubles (1876), Memorials of St Anne’s, Manchester (1876), Romance of the London Directory (2nd edn 1879), Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature (1880), and Joint Editor (with Revd L R Ayre, qv) of The Registers of Ulverston Parish Church (1881-86) and Chronicles of the Town and Parish of Ulverston (1884), brother of Bishop Bardsley (qv)
Bardsley, Cuthbert Killick Norman (1907-1991; ODNB), bishop of Coventry, born Ulverston rectory, son of Canon Norman Joseph Udall Bardsley, and his wife Mabel dau of William Killick merchant of Liverpool, his father descended from a line of 28 clergymen including two bishops, educ Eton and New Coll Oxford, curate with Tubby Clayton of Toc H, rector of Woolwich, bishop of Croydon 1947-56, enthroned at Coventry in the ruins of the old cathedral which had been bombed in WW2, strove to grow enthusiasm for a new cathedral, this was realised to a design by Sir Basil Spence (1907-1976; ODNB) and built by John Laing (qv), consecrated in 1962 with the first performance of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, this building made a great impact with its pale stone, stained glass by John Piper et al, tapestry by Graham Sutherland, the cross of nails taken from the ruins and Jacob Epstein’s St Michael on the façade; more recently, there was the addition of Reconciliation by Josefina de Vasconcellos (qv); Bardsley was then involved with the founding of Warwick university and the Arthur Rank Centre, he was buried behind the high altar of the new cathedral
Bardsley, John Wareing (1835-1904; ODNB), DD, MA, bishop of Carlisle, born at Keighley, 29 March 1835, eldest son of Revd James Bardsley (1805-1886), 6 brothers all ordained, domestic chaplain to bishop Ryle of Liverpool 1880-1887, archdeacon of Warrington 1880-1886 and of Liverpool 1886-1887, bishop of Sodor and Man 1887-1892, 59th bishop of Carlisle 1892-1904, died 14 September 1904 (memorial window in north aisle of St John’s church, Windermere)
Barham, Charles Henry (1808-1878), JP, MA, clergyman, last MP for Appleby 1832, rector of Kirkby Thore from 1848, continued his uncle Thanet’s work of ‘repairing the old castle at Brougham’, restoring at considerable expense many decayed parts in 1848, died in August 1878 (BC, 71)
Barham, John Foster (1800-1838), MP for Kendal 1833-1837
Barham, Joseph Foster (1759-1832), born in the Trecwn estate, Pembrokeshire, inherited several estates on Jamaica including one called Mesopotamia and owned slaves, married Caroline (b.1771), daughter of Sackville Tufton, the earl of Thanet and hereditary high sheriff of Westmorland, Barham was MP for Stockbridge for 50 years, this was one of the most egregiously rotten boroughs and was abolished in 1832 in the Great Reform bill, spent much of his time in Jamaica managing his estates, but also lived in Appleby Castle via the Tuftons, he was a pro-slavery lobbyist, it may not be insignificant that he died the same year as the rotten boroughs were abolished
Barker, Arthur John Willoughby (1910-2012), clergyman, born in West Ham, London, 14 October 1910, son of an East London bank manager, left school to join Barclays Bank in September 1927, marr (1939) Peggy Baker, served WW2 in pay corps and posted to Clifton, near York, transferred to Canada in 1942, where airmen were being trained, at Monkton, Medicine Hat and Ottawa, becoming a lay reader, returned home to be ordained, LCD 1946, d 1948 (Dover for Cant) and p 1949 (Cant), Curate, St Mary’s, Addiscombe, Croydon 1948-1953, Vicar of St James, Westgate-on-Sea 1953-1958, moved to Scargill House, a Christian retreat near Kettlewell, in 1958 as Warden till 1961, but remained on its council for many years, Vicar of Dent and Vicar of Cowgill 1961-1974, then of Dent with Cowgill 1974-1976, Perm to Offic from 1976, retired in 1976, remaining in Dent at West Banks until 2000, died aged 101, July 2012 (WG, 02.08.2012)
Barker, Daye (1748-1835), gunpowder manufacturer and industrialist, owned cotton mills at Backbarrow, senior partner in gunpowder company at Lowwood formed in 1798 as Daye Barker & Co (Lancs QS licence to manufacture gunpowder granted on 2 October 1798), had pretensions to gentility, had his sons educated in Kendal by Sampson (qv) in 1805 and his daughters also in Kendal school run by a Miss Richards in 1808, died in 1835 and succ by his son Daye Barker II, who expanded the Lowwood works with his brother John, developing manufacture of a finer grained sporting powder in 1850s and obtaining government contracts for military supplies, limited company formed in 1863, but hit by series of accidents and never prospered, sold in 1882 to W H Wakefield & Co (A Palmer, Chorley Coll diss 1970; R Vickers, PhD Lancaster, 2003)
Barker, Sir Herbert Atkinson (1869-1950; ODNB), manipulative surgeon, born Southport, the son of Thomas Wildman Barker of Southport and Lupton Tower, Preston Patrick, educated at Queen Elizabeth School, Kirkby Lonsdale, apprenticed to a bone setter, became expert on knee joints and avoided surgery, being medically unqualified he was often held in opprobrium, his caricature appears in Vanity Fair as ‘Bones’; Hud (W); ‘Reminiscences of a Great Bone Setter’, Whitstable Times, 7 November,1925
Barker, John Day (fl. late 19thc), son of John Barker JP of Broughton Lodge, Cartmel, was a captain in the 7th Hussars and 16th Lancers, he lived at Broughton Lodge and also Cadogan Square, London; Hud (W)
Barker, John (d.c.1990), swill maker, served his time in the 1930s, lived and worked in Broughton in Furness, trained Owen Jones (a former helicopter engineer) in 1988 to continue the craft of cleaving oak and making traditional Lakeland swill baskets; www.oakswills.co.uk, Bill Rollinson, Making Swill Baskets, 1999
Barker, Mabel Mary (1886-1961), Litt D, BSc, teacher and climber, born in Silloth in 1886, teacher with radical ideas about education, taught at school in Hertfordshire, later assisted Sir Patrick Geddes (1854-1932), the social evolutionist and city planner at Montpellier University in France and awarded doctorate for ‘The Use of Environmental Geography for Education’, visited Lakes with her students, the ‘Walden Gypsies’, from Saffron Walden for outdoor holidays in the 1910s and 1920s, hiring tents from Millican Dalton (qv), who introduced her to rock climbing and became her friend, one of earliest members of FRCC, first woman to climb the Central Buttress on Scafell in 1925, the Girdle Traverse on Gable, and the Cullin Ridge traverse on Skye, wrote appreciation of Dalton and his theory of life (Journal of Fell and Rock Climbing Club of the Lake District, 1947), came to settle in Caldbeck in 1926, established a school at Friar Row, Caldbeck, with her junior partner, Gertrude Walmsley, founded Caldbeck Drama Group in 1928, president of Caldbeck WI 1934-36 and 1937, member of CWAAS from 1924, excavated stone cist at Lynewath Farm at foot of Carrock Fell in 1933, Friar Row school closed in 1939 on outbreak of WW2, later chemistry teacher at Peterborough High School until retiring in 1945, in demand as a lecturer, worked on history of Caldbeck and the mills of Caldbeck, but her drafts were accidentally destroyed, died 31 August 1961 and her ashes laid at the foot of Carrock crag; portrait drawing in climbing gear by G E Gascoigne, 1938 (Caldbeck Characters: Tales of Ten Local People 1777-1974, (Caldbeck and District Local History Society, 1995, 37-45); Jan Levi, And Nobody Woke up Dead c.1980s; KFF, 27-30; CW2, lxii (1962), 359; Cumbria, December 2016, 67-68; papers in possession of her nephew Arnold Barker in Caldbeck); obit. CW2 lxii 359; display Keswick Museum; articles in the Fell and Rock Club publications. Fiona Cox, One on her Own, Cumbria Life, Aug 2003 p.110-11 (this article illustrates the GE Gascoigne portrait)
Barker, Mary (1774-1853), writer, artist and musician, dau of Thomas Barker, an ironmaster of Staffordshire and his wife Mary Homfray, pub A Welsh Story (1798), met Robert Southey (qv) in Portugal in 1800 and often visited the family, became godmother to Margaret their first child, lived from 1812-17 at Greta Lodge next to Greta Hall, taught music to the Southey and Coleridge children
Barker, Tom (1887-1970), trade unionist; b. Crosthwaite [W]; Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
Barker, William (1838-1917), MA, DD, clergyman, 3rd son of Joseph Charles Barker, of Ellicombe, Somerset, chaplain to Queen Victoria 1876-1880, canon of St Paul’s 1885-1888, dean of Carlisle 1908-1917
Barker, William Arthur Alastair (Bill) (1964-2009), police officer, born 21 November 1964, educ St Bees School (1975-1983), marr Hazel, 2 sons (Daniel and Simon) and 2 daus (Emma-Louise and Melissa), lost his life in Workington flood of 20 November 2009 when Northside bridge collapsed, on eve of his 45th birthday (Bill Barker Memorial Trophy awarded for charity football tournament in aid of Great North Air Ambulance); plaque on new bridge
Barlow, John Barrow (1854-1947), schoolmaster, born at Colton, 4 August 1854, son of William Barlow and Ann (nee Barrow), marr (26 November 1878, at Preston Patrick) Sarah Parker (born 11 August 1850 and died 10 April 1914), 3 sons (John William (1880-1950), Henry Parker (1882-1961) and Alfred Dudley (1884-1958), all pupil teachers), commenced duties as monitor at Preston Patrick School on 1 November 1869, examined at Endmoor as candidate for pupil teacher on 3 March 1870 and examined at Milnthorpe on 7 March 1873, prepared for scholarship exam in December 1874, attended St John’s College, York 1875-1877/8, apptd Master of Crosthwaite School on 31 October 1878, until apptd Master of Westmorland Society School in Norwood Road, Herne Hill, London, with wife as Mistress of Household, in November 1902, but retired in 1911 after wife’s severe stroke (school closed in 1920), died 6 January 1947, aged 92 (photographs and papers in CRO, WDX 1655)
Barlow, Thomas (1608/9-1691; ODNB), Thomas Barlow was born at Long-Gill, Orton in 1608/9, he attended Appleby Grammar School before matriculating at Queen’s College, Oxford as a servitor in 1625, provost of the college, he was consecrated bishop of Lincoln on 27 June, 1675, he was not universally beloved, partly because of his attitude to the (1687-88) Declaration of Indulgence, which was opposed by many Anglicans because it granted tolerance to various Christian denominations, when James II ordered the bishops to ensure that the Declaration of Indulgence was read from every pulpit, Barlow’s response was to equivocate – knowing that such equivocation left room for clergy NOT to read it. A letter to one of his clergy dated 29 May 1688 remarks that, ‘whether you should, or should not read them, is a question of that difficulty, in the circumstance we now are, that you can’t expect that I should so hastily answer it’. He would not seek to persuade or dissuade the writer. ‘Only this I shall advise, that, after serious consideration, you find that you cannot read it, but reluctante vel dubitante conscientia, in that case, to read it will be your sin, and you to blame for doing it.’ (Spurr), behaviour such as this persuaded Thomas Machell that Barlow was a no more than a casuist, Machell describes him thus: ‘In this parish was born \ of mean parents / T.B. Provost of Queens College in Oxford. He had his first Education at Appleby School whence he came to Oxon and there improved himselfe so much that he got the repute of one of the most learned men of that Aige his excellence consisting in Controvert Divinity. He was translated from the Provostship to the Bishoprick of Lincoln, recounting from his Consecration on the 27 of June 1675. He had many good qualityes, but Courted Fame so much that he would doe anything allmost to cheat the world into a good opinion of him, being not in the least coveteouse of money but shamefully gready of common reputation and popular applause; one that could rub of[f] any shame with a few fawneing words and fair pretences full of promises, but very barren & empty in performance a man whose deed consists all together in words & Liberality in promises; for when he hath said, he hath don, & you gett no more}. He was in crafty witt subtill enough; in speach pleaseing, in entertainments liberal, & beloved of all but those that knew him; to his friends treacherous, to his foes Irreconcileable. Thus, he was before Consecration. God make him better for the Time to come.’ Platt (ed.), Thomas Machell’s Collections towards a History and Topography of Westmorland, online edition; ODNB J. Spurr, ‘Barlow, Thomas (1608/9–1691), bishop of Lincoln’
Barlow-Massicks, Thomas Sr (1832-1908), industrialist, and his son Thomas Jr (1862-1899), see Massicks
Barnaby, ‘Drunken’ see Harrington
Barnard, Thomas (18xx-19xx), schoolmaster, applied for mastership of Crosby Ravensworth Grammar School (Mr Rogers having submitted his resignation in February 1880, but induced to continue for another year on condition of receiving salary of £120), a young man trained as a pupil teacher at National School, Beverley and later a student at Battersea Training College, highly recommended by Principal and others, and apptd at meeting of governors on 21 January 1881, starting on 1 March, but indicated in December 1882 his intention to resign at end of February 1883 (minute book in CRO, WPR 7/11/1/2/1)
Barneby (or Barnaby), Thomas (occ.1423-1433), Prior of Carlisle Cathedral, earliest occurrence as prior in appeal case to Court of York in December 1423 when also Bishop’s Vicar-General (Borthwick, CP.F.51), prob also ref in September 1423 (BL Addnl Charter 15770) (CW2, xcv, 284); CW2 xcv 199
Barnes, Fred [1911-1993], BA, FSA, FLA, librarian and antiquary, Borough Librarian of Barrow-in-Furness, expert in flint sites in Furness, wrote papers for CWAAS in the 1950s, member of CWAAS from 1960, appointed as librarian at Barrow in 1933 and head librarian in 1940, established the local collection including some archival material, lived Hector House, Newbarns, Barrow, retired in 1978 to 2 Collingwood Terrace, Tynemouth; published a history of the town as Barrow and District [2nd ed.1968]
Barnes, George, mathematician, born at Wigton
Barnes, Henry (1818-1896), stud master and cattle breeder, born Low Braithwaite, son of Robert and Sarah Barnes, educ Bolton Gate School, in 1840 aged 22, with good testimonials, went to New S Wales, by 1854 a partner in Bundock, Barnes and Co, they aimed to improve the quality of Australian cattle, which they did, his ‘judge of cattle was superb’; Australian DNB
Barnes, Henry (1842-1921), OBE, MD, FRSEd, MRCS, JP, physician, president of the BMA, nephew of Thomas Barnes (qv), of Bunker’s Hill, consulting physician to Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle 1873-1903, hon consulting physician to Border Counties Home for Incurables on Wigton Road, Carlisle (opened in 1885) and to Cumberland & Westmorland Convalescent Institution at Silloth (erected in 1829), vice-president of British Medical Association, author of The Medical Worthies of Cumberland (1905) int. al., subscriber to Test Karl (CWAAS, 1893), of 6 Portland Square, Carlisle (CW2, xxi, 284-285); President of the British Medical Association 1896; See presidential speech, BMJ, 1st August 1896, 250 re history of Carlisle medicine
Barnes, Herbert (1867-1945), gamekeeper and miner, born Braithwaite, son of the bailiff (and poacher) Dixon Barnes and Susannah Parker, pantry boy Holme Eden vicarage, carter of lead ore Brandlehow, 1893 became gamekeeper to Harrison Dixon a relative of Prospect House Portinscale, and bailiff to Lord Leconfield, a post he held for 60 years, also water bailiff for the Keswick Angling Association, raconteur, ran his own farm, married Francis Wilson of Gilcrux, later did some lucrative mining for wolfrum at Currock mine; CFHS June 2024 p.22-6
Barnes, James Martindale [1814-1890], botanist, b. Selside, Westmorland, son of Anthony Barnes, a farmer, later of Burneside Hall, taught by Rev Thomas Airey and then at Kendal, clerk in Liverpool, then London, m. Elizabeth Read in 1845, returned to Levens with independent means, cultivated his own land at Greengate, discovered new species now Gemmabryum barnesii, made extensive collections of mosses, recognised as prominent expert, 1st wife died, m. Mary Ann Crosby 1863, published Ferns of the English Lake District [1878], illustrated by WJ Linton q.v., buried at Heversham, 13 May 1890, aged 76, his son JMB Jr [b.1869] qv established Ernseat school; Ian D. Hodkinson, Three Legged Society, 2012
Barnes, James Martindale (1869-1960), headmaster and school founder, established Earnseat as a prep school, at Armside in 1918, his son Joseph Arthur Barnes (1909-1990), an oarsman and a graduate of Queens College, Cambridge succeeded him, the school closed in 1979
Barnes, James Martindale (b.1869-after 1941), of Beathwaite Green, son of James Martindale Barnes [b.1814] (qv), schoolmaster, founder of Earnseat House Preparatory School, Arnside in 1900, assisted by his brother John Anthony and sister, Annie, headmaster until 1941
Barnes, John (17xx-18xx), MA, clergyman, ed Queen’s College, Oxford, headmaster of St Bees School 1791-1811
Barnes, John [c.1930-c.2010] MBE, owner of the Abbey Horn company from 1955 to 1990 having bought it from Mr Leresche qv, making items in horn for the international market m. Jeanette, one son Christian, chairman of the original Friends of Abbot Hall; abbeyhorn.co.uk
Barnes, John Anthony Godsmark (c.1900-after 1968), schoolmaster and ornithologist, son of James Martindale Barnes (qv), whom he succ as headmaster of Earnseat School, Arnside in 1941, until his retirement in December 1968 [school closed as a boarding school in 1979], educ Cambridge University, returned about 1935 to be an asst master on school staff, completely revised Birds of the British Isles for Warnes (due in May 1969), proposed a new book on ‘Bird Life in the Lake District’ (in collaboration with J B Bottomley, leading bird photographers in Britain) in May 1969, having spent most of his life in Westmorland watching birds whenever time allowed, also published volume of poetry in 1938(?), marr (1937) Dorothy (nee Twist) (1911-2013), dau of Alexander Twist, drapery merchant Naples, who ran domestic side of school, and was involved in Arnside WI, Methodist church and RNLI branch, 2 sons (Peter Geoffrey David, aged 23, marr at Windermere RC church, 25 July 1970) and 1 dau (Helen Caldwell), died in 19xx; his Italian-born widow, Mrs Dorothy Barnes, was of Holly Wood, Ashmeadow Road, Arnside (1994), later of Holly Bank when she celebrated her 100th birthday in October 2011
Barnes, Joseph, artist, Carlisle; member Lake Artists, Renouf, 36-7
Barnes, Joseph Anthony (c.1864-19xx), lecturer, of Greengate, Levens, (42), gave notice of his marriage to Sarah Jane Greenall (39), of 3 Thorny Hills, Kendal, in FMH, Kendal, 25 August 1906
Barnes, Richard (1532-1597; ODNB), bishop of Carlisle and Durham, born Bold near Warrington, son of John Barnes and Agnes Sanderson, educ Brasenose Coll, Oxford, marr Friedesmunda Gifford, sister of Roger Gifford (d.1597; ODNB) Queen’s physician, prebend York 1561, two rectories, suffragan bishop Nottingham 1567, translated Carlisle 1567, dealt with the aftermath of the rebellion which he described as ‘the cleansing of the Augean stables’, translated to Durham in 1577
Barnes, Robert [b. 31.3.1782], threadmaker, Cockermouth, educated Kendal by Jonah Dalton, brother of John (qv), bankrupted, published verse, town crier Cockermouth; H.Winter Great Cockermouth Scholars
Barnes, Thomas (1785-1841; ODNB), journalist, born London, son of a solicitor, educ Christ’s Hospital and Pembroke, editor of The Times 1817-1841, described by Chancellor Lord Lyttketon as the ‘most powerful man in the country’, the Wigton Advertiser of 28 July 1900 indicates that his much eroded tombstone is at Wigton (why?); locate biographies by Walter Lewis (1935) and Derek Hudson (new edn 2013)
Barnes, Thomas (1793-1872), JP, MD, physician, native of Aikton, studied medicine on continent and was present at Waterloo, MD (Edin), became well known Carlisle physician, living at Bunker’s Hill, Physician to Carlisle Dispensary, founded Carlisle Fever Hospital in 1820 and Cumberland Infirmary in 1842, of which he was first Physician, also an author, wrote account of the Helm Wind (LRNW, 160), marr, dau (Mary, wife of Sir John Dunne, qv)
Barnes, Thomas A Frank (1925-c.2019), educ Giggleswick School, in 2nd WW was an officer in the 16th Punjab Regt, here met John Thomson (qv), having served his articles he joined Burton’s surveyors in Preston, soon Mr Burton died and in his 20s he found himself running the firm, he built it up until there were several partners including Lord Shuttleworth, a keen salmon fisherman, became chairman of the Fisheries Advisory Committee, later chairman of NW Water before privatisation, regularly visited John and Alison Thompson at Bassenthwaite, his eldest daughter Angela married Richard Cross, son of Malcolm Cross (qv), they lived in Manchester and then Cockermouth so Tom regularly visited them and fished on the Derwent, occasionally looking out for poachers after dark with river bailiffs, in 1978 he was quoted in the Liverpool Echo describing the huge profits made by poachers (14th July 1978)
Barnett, Thomas (17xx-1792), MA, clergyman, Fellow of Queen’s College, Oxford, inducted as vicar of Brough by Jo.Wilson, clerk, 18 August 1768, held chapter courts at Appleby as Surrogate (‘Dr Burn unable to attend’), 9 June 1784 and 1 June 1785, died aged 72 and buried at Brough, 25 February 1792 (CRO, WPR 23)
Baron, Michael (1928-2025), solicitor and activist, lived Whitehaven and Cockermouth, est National Autistic Society, published poetry, involved in the founding of the literary festival Words on the Water
Baron, T V (d.1990), Roman Catholic priest, parish priest of Arnside and Milnthorpe 1961-1967, died in December 1990
Barr, Amelia Edith (nee Huddleston) (1831-1919; ODNB), novelist, born at Chapel House, Ulverston, 29 March 1831, dau of Revd William Huddleston (qv), moved to Shipley, started schooling at Penrith, then at Ripon, and to Castletown, Isle of Man, went to teach at boarding school at Downham Market, Norfolk, aged 16, after family became somewhat impoverished in 1847, then moved to Glasgow, met and marr (11 July 1850) Robert Barr (d.1866), woollen mill owner, business failed and emigrated to America, arriving at New York city in September 1853, opened school for girls in Chicago, moved briefly to Memphis, Tennessee, then to Texas, first at Austin then to Galveston in 1866, large family but many of children died young, lost husband, two sons and new born baby to yellow fever in 1866, moved back to New York in 1868 with 3 daus, first teaching, but tried writing religious articles, short stories and essays, first novel (Jan Vedder’s Wife) in 1885, followed by over 60 more, mostly historical romances (as Amelia Barr), esp Remember the Alamo (1888), which is considered to have inspired film The Alamo in 1960s, autobiography All the Days of my Life (1913), success led to comfortable life with country house, Cherry Croft, at Cornwall-on-Hudson, final illness of heat stroke in July 1918 before she died at Richmond Hill, Long Island, New York, 10 March 1919, and buried in Sleepy Hollow cemetery, near Tarrytown, New York, USA, 13 March (CRO, WDSo 221/65); D. Perriam, Cumberland News, 24 April 2009
Barr, George, director Vickers, Barrow, time in Japan in shipbuilding, experienced an earthquake; Cumbria FH Soc Sept. 2020, 11ff
Barr, Capt James [d.1912], master of vessels for the PSNC shipping co., married Carlisle to Filomena Kindley q.v., shipwrecked and drowned in 1912, dramatic description in Cumbria FH Soc Sept. 2020
Barrack, William (18xx-1xxx), nurseryman, seedsman and florist, Castle Gardens, and 29 Finkle Street, Kendal, bought business from David Hartley, of 16 Market Place, who had taken over from the Meldrums (his son George was a commercial traveller, of 3 Parr Street, Kendal, 1885)
Barraclough, Neville Gilbert [b.1882 Ashby de la Zouche], director West Cumbrian iron works, lived Tallentire Hall
Barrand, Revd Charles Norris (19xx-19xx), MA, clergyman, instituted and inducted to St Peter’s church, Martindale, 9 November 1963 (CRO, WPR 92/1/3/12)
Barratt, Denis Mervyn ‘Bob’, (1938-2004), record producer, founder of Grasmere Records in 1984
Barratt, Emily [1881-1947], daughter of James and Mary Barratt of Holywath, m. Major Charles Hext [1880-1919] who d. At Ras el Tin in Egypt, she continued to live at Holywath, Coniston, her name had been given to the Emily Barratt, the last trading schooner built in Millom [launched c.1914], the old vessel survived until the 1990s and was sold by George Pattinson ? of St Bees to the Furness Maritime Trust c.1989, following neglect and anxieties about security and accidents to the public, this precious old vessel was sawn up and lost forever following a rapid unilateral decision by Barrow council c.1995, the figurehead and a drawing of this in situ survive at the Dock Museum, brass plates to the Hexts in Coniston church; another vessel built in Ulverston was called the Maggie Barratt, perhaps of this family too; J Snell, Ulversotn Canal, 78 and 82
Barratt, John (c.1794/5-1866), proprietor of mines, born at Gwennap, Cornwall, son of resident manager of Wheal Friendship copper mine, near Tavistock, educ, worked at Marytavy as young man, agent to Duke of Devonshire at Grassington Moor lead mines, managing copper mines at Coniston, went to Hodbarrow, Millom in 1855 to explore limestones in vicinity of Towsey Hole, close to Hodbarrow Point, with help of other members of family, purchased steam winding or pumping engine from Whitehaven, first ore raised in 1856, helped by newly opened railways to Whitehaven and to Barrow, and also small coasting vessels, mine owned by a partnership of Barratt family and commercial and financial interests, principal shareholder in Hodbarrow iron mining company (owning 52 of the 100 shares), marr Ann, 3 sons (infra), of Holy Wath, Coniston, died during visit to Torquay, 14 April 1866, aged 72, and buried at Marytavy (will dated 9 February 1866, proved 6 July), leaving 3 sons: Joseph, JP, died at Holy Wath, 1869, aged 42 (will dated 2 August 1869, proved 9 November); John, died there, 11 October 1866, aged 32 (will dated 4 October 1866, proved 2 April 1867); and James (bapt at Coniston, 26 March 1837) died there, 1866, aged 28 (will dated 21 July 1866, proved 27 November) (Mining Journal, April 1866; A Harris, Cumberland Iron, 1970, 19-31; CRO, WD/AG/64/8; CW2, lxviii, 152-165; BPP, XXIV, 1864); [Coniston church organ built by Messrs Harrison, of Durham, given by Mrs Barratt, of Holywath in 1908 in memory of her mother, Mrs Petherick. Clock in church tower presented on restoration in 1891 by Emily Petherick, of Porthplan House, St Austell, Cornwall in memory of her cousin Catherine Bousfield, of Holywath, who died 24 August 1884]
Barratt, John (1817-1888) and Stanley (1804-1875), itinerant photographers; CWAAS 2017, 177
Barratt, William (18xx-1881), JP, mining proprietor, nephew of John Barratt (qv), of Holly How, Coniston (will 1875, 1881), widow Sarah (will 1886) (CRO, WD/AG/112), memorial stained glass east window of four evangelists and Good Shepherd in Coniston church to William and Sarah presented by their children in 1891
Barratt, William Isaac (18xx-1924), JP, of Kepplewray, Broughton-in-Furness, chairman of Millom UDC (member for Newtown South ward), JP for Bootle PS division, letters to R H Greenwood in 1922 (CRO, WD/AG/ box 40/ 1915-25 folder)
W D Barratt appointed Joint Manager (with C G Vaughan, qv) of Hodbarrow Mining Company Ltd in April 1924
Barret, George (c.1732-1784), RA, landscape artist, born in Dublin, son of a clothier, studied at Dublin Society Drawing School under Robert West, then becoming a teacher of drawing himself, came to notice of Edmund Burke, who introduced him to Lord Powerscourt, who became his patron, with dramatic scenery of the Dargle and Powerscourt estate in Wicklow, with its impressive waterfall, becoming a lifelong inspiration, moved to London in 1763, exhibited his first Lake District painting, a View of Ullswater, in 1770, watercolour sketch of Ullswater (sun rising over a misty landscape, c.1765-1770, “Done by old Barret”) acquired by Wordsworth Trust in 2011, known as a fashionable artist, successful but financially improvident, leaving his family destitute when he died in London in May 1784, but proved great inspiration to later Romantic watercolour artists; son, George Barret the younger (1767-1842), artist (SGNT, 141-142)
Barrett, John Sr. (c.1730-1784), artist; visited the Lakes and the Lowthers bought his work;
Barrett, Kathleen (1912-1979), headmistress Alfred Barrow School, Barrow; Our Barrovians, ed Alice Leach, 22-31
Barrett, Robert Bell (18xx-19xx), JP, land agent, Agent for Appleby Castle and Skipton Castle Estates 1882- (WL), 1885
Barrow, Sir Alfred OBE DL (1851-1928), lawyer, born in Ulverston, married Agnes Jane, mayor of Barrow five times for the duration of the war 1913-1919, his son Alfred James Barrow MC died in the war as a PoW and is buried at Neiderzvehren, Sir Alfred erected a memorial in Barrow cemetery, a large Celtic cross, a school was named after him; Furness Stories Behind the Stones
Barrow, Revd Anthony (17xx-18xx), clergyman, Curate of Kentmere, dau Elizabeth (buried at Kendal, 3 November 1809, aged 20)
Barrow, Dennis (1942-2018), huntsman, born in Little Langdale, er son of Herbert Barrow and his wife Lucy, and brother of Colin, educ Little Langdale School and Ambleside, worked in slate quarries at Hodge Close and Broughton Moor, appointed whipper-in to Coniston Foxhounds (with Anthony Chapman (qv) as huntsman) in 1960, leaving in 1969 to do shepherding work for Matson Ground Farms, Windermere, being based at Braesteads, Patterdale, for two years, appointed huntsman of Ullswater Foxhounds in 1971, succeeding Joe Weir (qv), and dedicated to job until 1996, when he moved to Longsleddale to do building and property maintenance jobs with his friend Peter Martin, but had heart attack in 1998 and moved back to Glenridding in 2002, keen hound trail breeder and trainer, winning the Hound Trailing Association’s senior championship for two successive seasons and other titles, marr (1967) Carol, 1 son (Neil) and 1 dau (Denise, Mrs Bland), died at his home in Glenridding, 26 February 2018, aged 77, with funeral at St Patrick’s Church, Patterdale, and cremated at Beetham Hall, 12 March (CWH, 10.03.2018)
Barrow, Sir George 2nd Bt, son of the first baronet and Anna Maria Truter (qqv), with his father a founder of the Royal Geographical Society, he married Rosamund Croker, a great beauty who sat to Lawrence (Buffalo Art Museum)
Barrow, George (fl.1830/40s), schoolmaster, Master of National School, Beast Banks, Kendal (1840) [Henry Austin in 1829 and Richard Roberts by 1849], marr (183x) Eliza Jane, son (George Frederick, buried at Kendal, 9 June 1840, aged 4)
Barrow, Capt. James, cousin of Sir John; Rob David CWAAS 2008, 198
Barrow, Johanna Maria (1801-1886), artist, daughter of Sir John Barrow Bt of Ulverston and Anna Maria Truter (1777-1857) (qqv), married Lt Col Batty (qv)
Barrow, Sir John (1764-1848), 1st Bt, FRS, promoter of exploration and author, second secretary, Admiralty 1804-1806 and 1807-1845, longest serving second secretary, co-founder 1830 Royal Geographical Society and president 1835-1837, Sir John Barrow Cottage his birthplace is open in Ulverston; monument erected on Hoad hill 1850 by subscription, the queen contributed, (Andrew Trimen, architect); biography Barrow’s Boys; Rob David, Building ‘that best monument’, CW3 viii 189ff
Barrow, John (1808-1898), FRS, archivist, born 28 June 1808, elected FRS on 12 December 1884, author of Mountain Ascents in Westmoreland and Cumberland (London, 1886), one of the last people to document Thirlmere valley before it was flooded, died 9 December 1898
Barrow, John and William, farmers, Coniston, their Day Book survives; CW3 xiv 231
Barrow, William (d.1429; ODNB), bishop of Carlisle
Barrow, William (1754-1832; ODNB), BA, DCL, FSA, clergyman and writer on theology, bapt at St Andrew’s church, Dent, 16 December 1754, son of John Barrow, of Sedbergh, educ Sedbergh School and Queen’s College, Oxford (entd 1774 as Hastings Exhibitioner, BA 1778), won Chancellor’s Prize for essay on academic education, DCL and Bampton Lecturer 1799, FSA, kept an academy in Soho Square for a time, to which Boswell sent his second son, prebendary of Southwell 1815, Archdeacon of Nottingham 1830, author of treatise on education, and sermons, died 19 April 1836 (MI in nave of Southwell Minster) (SSR, 153)
Barrow, William, lived Abbot Hall, Kents Bank, may have built Kirkhead Tower
Barrow-in-Furness, Bishops of, with the boom in population of this new industrial town, Henry Ware the first suffragan bishop of Barrow was appointed in 1886, it seems likely that the national and regional influence of the 7th duke of Devonshire (d.1889) and the 5th duke of Buccleuch (d.1914) were party to the creation of this post as both were involved in the development of the industry of Furness, two more suffragan bishops followed (West-Watson and Pelham) (qqv), sharing the administration with the then diocesan bishops until 1944, the appointment of the first suffragan bishop of Penrith was made in 1939, the challenges of the war may have contributed to this decision, so the bishop of Carlisle had two suffragans from 1939 to 1944, both suffragans retired at this latter date, a new bishop of Barrow was not appointed but a new bishop of Penrith was, a position which has been maintained since then, the official story is that the time and resources involved in travelling from Carlisle to Barrow or Barrow to Carlisle rendered the work more difficult, nonetheless the decision inflicted a great loss upon Barrow after 58 years of having a bishop close to this large centre of population, it would be good to know more about this deprivation which many worshippers in Furness felt to be insulting, were bishops Williams and Bloomer (qqv) involved here ? Was it a Lambeth decision, or did Herbert Turner (qv), the then new suffragan bishop of Penrith, refuse to accept the Barrow post ?
Barter, C C (19xx-19xx), local councillor, last chairman of Lakes Urban District Council to 1974
Bartholomew, Jack (19xx-xxxx), soldier, major, of Arkleby Hall, Plumbland, marr Elizabeth (died 8 February 2019, aged 91, and buried at St Cuthbert’s, Plumbland, 22 February), 3 sons and 1 dau
Bartioli, Francisco, Gaskell, West Cumb Leaders, 1910
Bartle, Fred [1884-1944], gamekeeper and founder of Caldbeck Sports, Caldbeck Characters, Caldbeck Hist Soc, 1995
Barton, Bernard (1784-1849; ODNB), bank clerk and poet, born in Carlisle, 31 January 1784, son of Quaker parents, John Barton (1755-1789) (qv), manufacturer, and his wife Mary (nee Done) (1752-1784), who died a few days after his birth, and his 2nd wife Elizabeth Horne (1760-1833), of Tottenham. moved to London, father in malting business at Hertford till his death, then settled at Tottenham, brother of educational writer Maria Hack (1777-1844; ODNB) and half-brother of economist John Barton (1789-1852; ODNB), educ Quaker school at Ipswich, marr at Woodbridge (6 August 1807) Lucy Jesup (1781-1808), 1 dau (Lucy, later wife of his friend Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883; ODNB)), joined her brother Benjamin in coal and corn merchant business, but moved after his wife’s death to be tutor to William Waterhouse, Liverpool merchant, for a year, returned to Woodbridge as clerk in Messrs Alexander’s Bank until his death, friend at Woodbridge of Edward Fitzgerald, Allan Cunningham and Thomas Churchyard qqv but devoted his time to literary work, published first volume of poetry Metrical Effusions in 1812 and began correspondence with Southey, first met Charles Lamb in 1822 and became friends, further volumes of poems until final Household Verses in 1845, received a pension of £100 a year from Peel, died at Thorsfare, Woodbridge, 19 February 1849
Barton, Rev James MA (1746-1814), fellow and tutor of Brasenose College, Oxon, rector of Aldingham 1801-14, chairman of Lancaster Quarter Sessions, he married first a Miss Shuttleworth and then Eleanor, daughter of John Parr of Liverpool, his son by his first wife was the Rev Robinson Shuttleworth Barton of Hammerside Hill, Ulverston, vicar of Goosenargh from 1815-1822, then of Alconbury, Hunts and rector of Heysham from 1838; Hud (W)
Barton, James Greaves (c.1788-1852), solicitor, of Ulverston, son of Revd Roger Barton, Rector of Hoole, near Preston, marr 3rd Ann (died 25 June 1856, aged 49), died 9 September 1852, aged 64 (MI Holy Trinity churchyard, Ulverston)
Barton, John (1755-1789), quaker and abolitionist, lived Carlisle, father of the poet Bernard Barton and the economist John Barton qqv
Barton, John (1789-1852; ODNB), quaker and economist, son of John Barton, half brother of the poet Bernard Barton qv
Barton, John (17xx-18xx), hosier, purchased “new built” burgage house on west side of Highgate [now 144], Kendal, from Lieut William Haygarth, RN, of Preston Patrick, in 1796 (CRO, WD/GKG/1/T18), bequeathing it to his wife, then to his nieces Jane and Anne Barton, daus of his brother, Revd William Barton (qv), by will of 1828 (proved 27 August 1833), (also legacies to brother Richard Barton and sister Magdalen Elleray, and niece Alice Butcher) (T23)
Barton, Thomas de (b.1845), herbalist, son of John and Margaret Barton, John was a saddler, had a spiritual experience near Chapel Island, Bardsea, ran a herbal stall in Ulverston market hall, jealous local physicians attacked him and tried to hang him but he was saved by the Rev Bardsley (qv) the local vicar who happened to be passing; History of Ulverston, 2025
Barton, William (17xx-18xx), clergyman, Rector of Windermere, devisee in trust under will of Isaac Knipe, clerk, of Ambleside (deed of 18 February 1803, CRO, WD/HW/acc8764), marr Ann, 4 daus Mary (bapt 15 April 1785, bur 15 April 1804), Jane (bapt 11 August 1786), Ann (bapt 21 November 1787, bur 6 May 1847) and Alice (bapt 20 April 1789, marr Butcher), who as widow agreed under Jane’s will, 5 February 1855, to convey Highgate property to Miss Dorothy Greenhow, of Kendal (WD/GKG/1/T24, T27)
Bartrum, Marian MBE (b.1857), commandant Eggerslack war hospital, dau of Rev Edward Bartrum vicar of Newhall, Derbys, lived Lynwood, Grange over Sands, here tyrained the detachment of nurses, led the weekly making of bandages in local homes, sent 3000 to Serbia and France
Barwick, John (1612-1664; ODNB), DD, BD, MA, dean of St Paul’s, born at Witherslack, 20 April 1612, 3rd of five sons of George Barwick, of Witherslack, and wife Jane (or Jennett) Barrow, of Cartmel (marr 1 August 1606), educ Sedbergh School, fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, leading intelligence agent for Royalist cause, one of principals who helped secure money and plate from Cambridge University for king at outbreak of war in 1642, betrayed and sent to Tower for two years and four months in 1650, but released without trial in August 1652, attended Dr John Hewitt on scaffold in 1658 (receiving his ring which he wore until his own death), later sent over £1,728 to king between April and June 1659, played central role (with John Otway, qv) in paving way for Restoration, refused a bishopric but accepted deanery as Dean of Durham 1660-1661, then as Dean of St Paul’s 1661, unmarried, died of pleurisy in London, 22 October 1664, aged 52; will of 21 October made many bequests, inc £40 to Sedbergh School, Witherslack, etc, to his ‘special friends’ Barnabus Oley, James Cookson and John Kirkby (copy in LRO, DDPd/41/1) (WW, ii, 1-22; CW2, lxv, 240-283); Hyde and Pevsner 696
Barwick, Peter (1619-1705; ODNB), FCP, MD, MA, physician, born at Witherslack, 4th son of George Barwick and yr brother of John Barwick (qv), marr Ann Sayon, widow, 1 surv dau (Mary, wife of Sir Ralph Dutton, Bt, of Sherborne, Dorset), physician to Charles II, author of The Life of John Barwick, died in Westminster, 4 September 1705, aged 85, and later buried with his wife at St Faith’s, London (WW, ii, 179-184);
Barwis family, CW2 li 117 and 135; CW2 xxxvii 106
Barwis, Col Thomas (1621-1648), fought in the side of Parliament in the siege of Carlisle; Hud (C)
Barwis, Richard, son of Anthony Barwis and his wife Grace Fleming of Rydal, MP for Carlisle 1628-48, a Parliamentarian, known as ‘Great Richard’ was very strong, could lift a vast stone, lived Ilekirk Hall; Hudleston (C)
Barwis, Richard, distiller of Workington, marr in 1732) Margaret Salkeld of Threapland (1684-1737); Hud (C)
Barwise family of Lowsay; CW2 xlvi 157
Barwise, Rev John, his journals; CW1 or CW2 xlv 67
Barwise, John (fl.1654/57), JP, from branch of Islekirk family?, as a Justice of the Peace approved and pronounced marriages in Wigton church in 1654-1657 (Wigton PRs, I, 79-80)
Barwise, Richard (fl.17thc), of Islekirk, mayor and MP Carlisle, during the Civil War imprisoned by Scots parliamentarians
Bassenthwaite, Adam de (14thc), lived at Bassenthwaite, he had two daughters, one married into the Lawsons via the Irtons and the other married the Martindales
Bassenthwaite, Alexander de (fl.c.1190-1327), High Sheriff 1307 and 1309 and governor of Cockermouth Castle 1317; Hud (C)
Bassett-Lowke, Wenman Joseph (1877-1953), model maker, son of a Northampton boilermaker, made railway engines and ships as construction kits, he leased with his partner Robert Proctor-Mitchell the Ravenglass railway line in 1915 (previously used to transport granite) to enable the testing of their locomotives, changed the gauge from three feet to fifteen inches, several of their restored engines: Sans Pareil (1912), Synolda (1912) and Colossus (1913) are still owned by the present company, known generally as ‘La’al Ratty’, he was also a friend of Rennie MacIntosh who built his house in Northampton; Hyde and Pevsner 343
Bateman, James (c.1749-1824), ironmonger and manufacturer of steam engines, son of John Bateman of Tolson Hall, Burneside, business at Deansgate, Manchester from 1773, foundry at Salford and a second one at Dukinfield, Cheshire, his business partner was William Sherratt by 1788, became one of the largest mfrs of stationary steam engines used for powering the Lancashire cotton mills, m Margaret (d.1819), erected Islington House, Salford, owned Tolson Hall but retired to Knypersley Hall, Staffordshire, erected obelisk at Plumsteads, Kendal to commemorate William Pitt (Waterloo acc to Mannex, 1849), many sources say to celebrate the capture of Napoleon and his imprisonment on Elba, d. Salford and buried St Stephen’s church; for the complex story of ‘the Elba monument’ see file Kendal reference library; Grace’s Guide
Bateman, James (1893-1959), RA, artist, born Kendal, President of Kendal Art Society to 1950 (then hon life member), of 101 East Sheen Avenue, Twickenham, then of 25A Glebe Place, Chelsea, London; exhibitions in Kendal in 1960 and 1993 (file in CRO, WDSO 363); work at Tate, Laing and Cheltenham, correspondence at RA RAA/SEC/4/8; Melvyn Bragg, Land of the Lakes, 187; Marshall Hall, 4; Frances Spalding, 20thc Painters and Sculptors, 1990
Bateman, John, engineer (d.1816 in 67th year), of Corkickle, member of Newcastle Lit and Phil; Hudleston (C)
Bateman, John (17xx-18xx), colliery manager, in charge of Howgill colliery division when he succ James Spedding (qv) as Lonsdale’s manager at Whitehaven on his retirement in 1781, spent ten years improving efficiency of collieries until dismissed following an accident on 31 January 1791, but returning to his post in 1802 until his enforced departure with his nephew, John B Longmire, in 1811 when succ by John Peile (qv) (WCC, 70-72, 83-100, 108-111)
Bateman, Miles (fl.1550s), chapman of Kendal; CW2 lix 72
Bateman, Robert (c.1678/9-1743), merchant, born in Hugill, c.1678/9 [no bapt reg], made fortune in London and Leghorn, probably began to build Leghorn Hall c.1741 (now Reston Hall, datestone 1743), Ings, died at Leghorn, Italy, in 1743, aged 64/5, and buried in English cemetery there, leaving legacies in will made on 21 November, with codicil on 15 December (The Will of Robert Bateman, 1965), for rebuilding of St Anne’s church, Ings, £1,000 for purchase of land and building of cottages for needy in Hugill township in 1743, three bells hung in Hugill church inscribed ‘Robert Bateman Merchant in Leghorn’ dated 1743, and coat of arms with inscription over church door (poem by Wordsworth inscribed on his memorial in chancel; portrait in oils at Reston Hall, with copy presented to Ings church by W H Challiner, qv) (CW2, lxx, 60); Pevsner and Hyde, 419-20
Bateman, Robert (18xx-1934), librarian, (CN, 14.04.2017)
Bateman, Wynne (fl.mid 18thc.) DD, clergyman and schoolmaster, later head of Sedbergh school, refused to pay Romney (qv) for his portrait until the artist sent a solicitor’s letter; David A Cross, A Striking Likeness, 2000, 30
Bates, Sir (Charles) Loftus (1863-1951), KCMG, CB, DSO, DL, JP, army officer and racecourse owner, born 2 August 1863, son of Thomas Bates, of Aydon, Northumberland, educ Eton, 2nd Lieut, Northumberland Militia (Royal Artillery) 1881, Lieut, 1st King’s Dragoon Guards 1884, resigning as Captain 1896, volunteered to serve in South African War as Captain with 5th Bn Imperial Yeomanry 1900 and Major, Northumberland Hussars 1901-1902 (severely wounded, despatches, DSO 1900), Hon Lieut-Col 1903, Hon Col 1905 and Colonel of Regiment 1913, served WWI in France as deputy Director of Remounts with BEF 1914-1915 (CMG 1916) and in Egypt as Director of Remounts in Sinai-Palestine campaign 1916-1919 (Order of White Eagle of Serbia 1917, CB 1918, KCMG 1919, despatches four times), Hon Brigadier-General 1919, active Conservative in period between wars contesting Hexham in March 1907 by-election and January 1910 general election, Deputy Chairman of Northumberland Quarter Sessions, DL (1911) and JP, chairman of Bedlington Coal Company Ltd 1923-1947, Director of Wallsend and Hepburn Coal Company Ltd 1940-1947 and of Hartley Main Collieries 1947, chairman of Racecourse Owners Association, manager of Carlisle Racecourse to 1946, marr at St Mary’s, Hexham (27 April 1892) Katharine (d.1937), dau of Edward Leadbitter, of The Spital, Hexham, 1 son (Edward Giles), died 9 March 1951 (WWW, V, 75) (prob related to the Northumbirna landowner and antiquary Cadwallader John Bates (1853-1902; ODNB)
Batey, Derek (1928-2013), TV presenter, born at Brampton, near Carlisle, trained in ventriloquism, 1st BBC programme 1958, then Border TV, made 450 editions of the popular series ‘Mr and Mrs’, later presented by Julian Clary, m. Edith, one dau Diane, d. Lytham
Batey, Herbert Taylor (1922-2012), MA, clergyman, born in Carlisle, 2 August 1922, yr son of Stan and Elsie Batey and yr brother of Keith (qv), educ Carlisle Grammar School and Queen’s College, Oxford (matric 1941, scholarship, read physics, completing degree in four terms), then assigned to Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, working on calculating flight paths of rockets and bombs, engaged to Celia Dunstan on 3 December 1941, changed his atheist views to being confirmed in CoE in February 1942 and became increasingly concerned at morality of Bomber Command campaign, decided to offer himself for ordination in 1944, marr (28 July 1945) Celia, dau of Victor Dunstan (qv), 1 son (Jonathan) and 1 dau (Ruth), returned to Oxford to read theology (BA 1946, 2nd cl Theol 1947, MA 1948) and trained at Lincoln Theological College, d 1948 and p 25 September 1949 (Carl), curate of Dalton-in-Furness 1948-1950 and Egremont 1950-1952, vicar of Cleator Moor 1952-1959 (left at end of April), elected member of Cumberland County Council, invited to apply for post of chaplain to St Bees School in 1959, also as master teaching divinity and mathematics, also Lic to Pr, Dio Carlisle 1959-1964, chaplain to Culham College, Abingdon 1964-1968, also lecturer 1964-1968 and principal lecturer 1968-1975, Lic to Pr, Dio Oxford 1964-1968, priest-in-charge of St Paul’s, Culham 1968-1975, select preacher, Oxford University 1975, vice-principal of Combined College of Ripon and York St John 1975-1987, steering college through difficult times, hon canon of Ripon Cathedral 1985-1992, retiring in August 1987, of 29 College, Ripon, but then asked by dean of Ripon to take on St Michael’s, Littlethorpe, which he did until 2007, walking couple of miles from Ripon to Littlethorpe whenever possible, then became ill after his last service in 2007, moved with Celia (who had contracted polio in 1956) to Clova House Care Home, becoming frailer, where he died, 9 July 2012 (OSB, No.183, January 2013. 33-35)
Batey, John Keith (1919-2010), code-breaker, born at Longmoor, Cumberland, 4 July 1919, son of Stan Batey (severely wounded on Somme), fish and game merchant, Carlisle, and Elsie, a part-time primary school teacher, family business closed in 1930s, educ Carlisle Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge (state scholarship to read mathematics), marr (November 1942) Mavis Lever, also a code-breaker at Bletchley Park, 1 son and 2 daus, died in Oxfordshire, 28 August 2010, aged 91 (DT, 02.09.10)
Batey, William Abbott (1920-xxxx), clergyman, born 1920, Cranmer Hall, Durham 1962, d 1963 and p 1964, curate of Appleby and Murton cum Hilton 1963-1966, rector of Moresby 1966-1977, priest-in-charge of Arnside 1977-1985 and vicar 1985-1990, retired in 1990, perm to offic, dio Carlisle from 1990, of 33 Greengate, Levens
Batten, Henry Howard (1847-1912), JP, civil servant, born at Penzance, Cornwall in 1847, educ Tonbridge School, Kent, called to Bar, but spent most of his career in Civil Service, becoming clerk to London City Parochial Foundation, retired to Westmorland in c.1908, settling at Acorn Bank, Temple Sowerby, apptd magistrate, member of Eden Fishery Board, and president of local agricultural society, member of CWAAS from 1908, reading paper on history of Acorn Bank on occasion of society’s visit (CW2, ix, 161-165), taken ill shortly after excursion to Holme Cultram in June 1912, and died 23 July 1912 (CW2, xiii, 421)
Battersby, Thomas Dundas Harford- (1822-1883), MA, clergyman and co-founder of the Keswick Convention, born at Mortimer House, Clifton, Bristol, 3 October 1822, yr son of Abraham Gray Harford Battersby and his wife Elizabeth (nee Dundas), curate of Holy Trinity, Grange in Borrowdale 1861-1862, vicar of St John’s, Keswick for 32 years, inspired by American preacher, Robert Pearsall Smith, to set up (with Robert Wilson (qv), of Broughton Grange) an evangelical convention, first being held in a tent at St John’s Vicarage, Keswick in 1875, marr (19 September 1854) Mary (died in London, 21 July 1885, aged 62), dau of George Forbes (see Forbes of Monymusk, Bt) and his wife Mary Hay, 5 sons (John, b. 1857; Dundas, b. 1858; George, b. 1860; Alfred, b. 1863; and Charles Forbes, b.1864, d.1925) and 1 dau (Mary Elizabeth, b. 1862), died at St John’s parsonage, 23 July 1883, aged 60 (memorials in external west end of church); (Revd Dundas Harford, MA, 2nd son, born 23 October 1858, marr (1893) Enid (born 15 September 1861, died 4 October 1938), dau of W G Howell, 2 sons and 2 daus, died 7 February 1953; his son, Sir James Dundas Harford, KBE, CMG, colonial administrator, born 7 January 1899, died 26 November 1993, whose 2nd wife died 9 December 2006, aged 99, with funeral at Westcott, near Dorking, 5 January 2007, also memorialised on stone near that of Harford-Battersby); (Revd John Harford Battersby, eldest son, born June 1857, marr (1887) Edith, 1 son and 1 dau, chairman of Keswick Convention 1918-1920, died xxxx)
Batty, Benjamin (fl.early 19thc), first police officer in Carlisle, appointed in 1827 after the 1826 election riots, he had experienced the Peterloo Massacre in 1819
Batty, Dr (1763-1849; ODNB), physician, born Kirkby Lonsdale, obstetric physician in London to the Lying in Hospital in Brownlow St, edited the Medical and Physical Journal, later practiced in Hastings, an amateur artist, he was the father of Lt Col Batty (qv), his grandson was Robert Braithwaite Martineau (1826-1869), his pencil portrait was taken by Dance
Batty, Elizabeth Frances (1791-1875; ODNB), artist, sister of Col Batty (qv); see Martineau
Batty, Paul, (1954-2023), judge, born Co Durham, son of Vincent Batty chief of police, observing his father’s work led him to the law, educated for two years at Austin Friars, Carlisle, read law at Newcastle, called to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn 1975, recorder at Carlisle, senior judge at Carlisle and then York crown courts, freeman of the city of Carlisle, nominated several public spirited people for High Sheriff awards, he long railed against the scourge of drugs in society, and in court was described as ‘simply sparkling’, married Angela, spent much of his free time fishing off the Northumberland coast; obit News and Star 6 Feb 2023, Yorkshire Post 17 Feb 2023
Batty, Lt Col, Robert MD FRS (1789-1848; ODNB), physician, army officer and amateur artist, born Hastings, son of Dr Batty of that town (qv), qualified as a physician, joined the Grenadier Guards and saw action in the Pyrenees and was wounded at Waterloo, stationed at some point in Gibraltar where he made several landscape drawings, married Joanna Maria the daughter of Sir John Barrow Bt of Ulverston and London and his wife Anna M Truter, an artist (qqv), exhibited at the RA from 1813-1848), published An Historic Sketch of the Campaigns of 1815 Illustrated by Plans of Quatre Bras ……….. and Waterloo, 2nd edn 1820 and Select Views of some of the Principal Views of Europe (1832)
Baty, Elizabeth (Lizzie), the ‘Brampton Witch’, Parsons, Brampton, 1996, 72; C.News 10.12.2010; (qv) Mary Baynes
Baty, Richard (bap 1696-1758; ODNB), clergyman and oculist, born Arthuret, educ Glasgow, curate Kirkandrews on Esk 1725-32, presented as rector, built a rectory and provided a ferry across the Esk to join the two halves of the parish, published The Young Clergyman’s Companion in Visiting the Sick (c.1757)
Bauck, William, philanthropist Kendal; CW3 xiv 139
Baxter, George (‘Twinkletoes’), portly Carlisle United supporter who dressed in a blue suit and a top hat and brought Olga the team’s fox mascot onto the pitch before each match in the 1970s, when Carlisle was top of the league, his day job was in refuse disposal, Olga had been chosen as a reference to the huntsman John Peel qv; Guardian 29 January 2010
Bayliff, Dover (1743-1793), inventor, of Stramongate, Kendal, b. Parkamoor, son of William Bayliff and Margaret Benson, m. Hannah (1756-1823) the dau of Isaac Rigg and Alice Ecroyd, 3 s and 2d, inventor of improved design of machine for wire carding in 1775, following William Pennington (qv), in 1776 he paid apprentice duty for Phineas Mark
Baynes of Cockermouth, family; CW2 xxxv 30
Baynes family of Sellett Hall; CW2 xxviii 63
Baynes, James (1766-1837; ODNB), watercolourist and drawing master, born Lancaster, son of a local tradesman and grandson of a RC priest of Kirby Lonsdale, sent to London to be a pupil of Romney by Dr Campbell of Lancaster, a physician, attended the RA schools, married young, worked for the Polygraphic Society which employed a new form of reproducing paintings, ran a drawing school with successful pupils including the Latvian, Henry Sass (1788-1944) and Ruskin’s teacher James Duffield Harding (1798-1863), exhibited at the RA and other major venues from 1796-1837, he and his wife were Sandemanians, returned to Cumberland in 1815, exhibited several Lakeland images, buried St John’s Wood; work at BM and V&A
Baynes, Mary (1721-1811), the ‘Tebay Witch’, unmarried, bad tempered when teased by children, her reputation grew and she was said to have magic powers, any unpleasant event came to be attributed to her, a ploughman she had cursed was blinded by the handle of his plough, she forecast horseless fiery carriages coming at great speed up Lune Valley, many years before the railway arrived at Tebay; (qv) Elizabeth Baty
Baynes, Richard (16xx-1744), county clerk, born at ?, 16xx, apptd Clerk of the Peace for Westmorland at date unknown, but dismissed for misdemeanours in execution of office by Quarter Sessions, Easter 1702, brought case against justices, whose petition for a writ of error was allowed, 28 November 1704, reinstated as order for his dismissal was quashed in Queen’s Bench, Trinity 1706, despite petition of Thomas Carleton (qv), who had been apptd Clerk in his place (allowed 12 April 1706), retired 1729, died 1744 (TNA, CSPDom, Anne, iii, 858; iv, 668)
Baynes, Richard (d.1771), Cockermouth, left £100 for the poor in 1771, the interest used to provide bread; YPR 26/10/; Report of Commissioners re Charities 1827, vol. 5, 51
Baynes, Robert (fl.mid 18thc), solicitor, agent and steward, steward of manor of Egremont (1756-1768), lived Cockermouth, originally from Kendal (CW2, xvii, 50); his descendant was Susanna Yerburgh (d.1860), dau of John Higgin, of Wenning Cottage and Greenfield, Lancaster, sister and coheir of William Housman Higgin, QC, DL, JP, of Springfield Hall, Lancaster, and first wife (marr 1846) of Richard Yerburgh (1817-1886), vicar of Sleaford, Lincs, and owner of 376 acres in Cumberland (see Alvingham, Baron) (CW2, lxxxiv, 123)
Beale, Dorothea (1831-1906; ODNB), headmistress, suffragist and pioneer in education, dau of Dr Miles Beale, surgeon, and Dorothy Complin [of Huguenot extraction], influenced by her cousin Frances Cornwallis [1786-1858] a feminist writer, met Frances Mary Buss [1827-1894; ODNB] at Queen’s College, Harley St., apptd Headteacher of Clergy Daughters’ School, Casterton on 15 December 1856, found it “in an unhealthy state” (for detailed criticisms, see HCS, 55-59), offered to resign and accepted at Christmas 1857, questioned by committee of management in January 1858, apptd Principal of Cheltenham Ladies College in June 1858, the main mover behind the founding of St Hild’s College, Oxford in 1892-3, followed Miss Frances Mary Buss by then head of London collegiate school as president of the headmistresses association, they inspired the satirical lines: ‘Miss Buss and Miss Beale, Cupid’s darts do not feel’……., Beale was acknowledged by Edinburgh University who gave her the second ever hon LLD in 1902
Beale, John Yates (1830-1865), farmer, soldier, hero and martyr, son of John Yates (1779-1851) of Walnut Grove, Charleston and grandson of John Orfeur Yates (1733-1818) and his wife Mary Aglionby (1750-1816) both of Cumberland, graduate of law at West Virginia, following the events at Harper’s Ferry in 1859, as a Confederate, joined the Stonewall Brigade where he rose to captain, fought in Civil War in the USA, wounded in 1861, involved in raids on the Lower Potomac, captured by the Union army but later exchanged, in 1864 he boarded the Philo Parsons a steamer on Lake Erie attempting to free Confederate prisoners on Johnson’s Island, the attempt failed and he was captured, after a national furore in which President Lincoln turned a blind eye and following a drumhead court martial under General Dix, he was illegally executed in February 1865 on Governor’s Island New York as ‘a spy’ (he was not a spy), his final words included ‘I die in the defence and service of my country’, he is believed to have been ‘executed contrary to the laws of civilised warfare’; Civil War Monitor 1 June 2015; the memorial to him at Ainstable (C) must have been erected by his family in Cumberland and there are other Aglionby monuments in the church; Hyde and Pevsner
Beales, Hugh Lancelot (1889-1988; ODNB), economist and social historian, born Sedbergh, son of William Beales, Wesleyan minister and his wife Zaida Elizabeth Scantlebury, father a Liberal candidate in 1905 election, educ Kingswood School Bath and Manchester university, refused commission in 1stWW, lecturer in economic history at Sheffield, supporter of the WEA, then to the LSE, passed over as professor perhaps following friction with RH Tawney, enjoyed multi-disciplinary activity in an age of increasing specialisation, in retirement held a ‘come all ye’ seminar at his home, published The Early English Socialists (1933) and The Industrial Revolution (1967), married Gladys Prydderich 1915, at the age of 99 expressed his frustration that he would not make it to 100; see biographical article AN Hutton, ‘A Repository, a Switchboard, a Dynamo’, LSE online 20
Beamish, Elizabeth Sarah (Sally) (1964-2018), gardener, b. Freedom Fields hospital, Plymouth, dau of William Beamish (1920-1996) RN of co. Cork and civil servant at Mount Wise, Plymouth and his wife (m.1964) Andree Joy Patricia (1932-2016) who was a keen gardener and had worked as a groom on the Scottish borders, ed Coombe Dean School, Plymouth College of FE and Askham Bryan College, Yorkshire, became keen on trees in part because she was told that working in that field was not an option for girls, this doubled her determination, vacation work at Nancy university at their high altitude alpine botanic garden in the Vosges, experience with a tree surgeon, a landscape contractor, Nottingham city council, RHS Wisley (in the wild garden and at Seven Acres), SW Nursery Stock Group, managed three Manpower Services teams in West Cumbria with the Groundwork Trust and CCC, appointed in 1988 at Brantwood to restore the steep fifteen acre woodland garden and improve 240 acres of woodland neglected for eighty years, lived in a former forestry cottage along Coniston lake shore to the south of Brantwood, engaged in major research projects to restore Ruskin’s garden designs, organising a team reading mss and discovering elements of the garden, keen on sailing, windsurfing, photography, bell ringing, member of the Woodland Trust, the Men of the Trees, RHS, Professional Gardeners Guild, Lakes Horticultural Society, also enjoyed competition driving, her pony Sam was trained to pull out logs from the woodland, in 2000 was central to the recreated funeral service for Ruskin’s centenary at Coniston church by driving Ruskin’s coach (containing a symbolic lantern) with Sam to the lake en route to Brantwood, awarded a Loyal Service Award by the Professional Gardeners Guild, died prematurely in St Mary’s Hospice, Ulverston 21 June 2018; obit West Gazette
Beatham, Robert Matthew VC (1894-1918), born Glassonby, went to Australia in his teens with his family, in 1915 volunteered for the 8th batt AIF, fought at Gallipoli, the Battle of Pozieres and then at Passchendaele, wounded twice, sent to the UK to recover, went AWOL, then from 9 August 1918 at Amiens knocked out a series of machine gun posts and on the 11th died in taking out another, thus saving many casualties, buried Harbonnieres; there is a plaque to him on a house in Penrith erected by the Western Front Association. This states he saw action at Rosieres.
Beaton, Capt Alexander Ross, commander of the Forest Holme of Maryport, died of malaria March 1906, buried Baucon (check), France; Annie Robinson (qv)
Beattie, David Wilson (1938-1991; ODNB), venture capitalist, born Carlisle, son of Ronald JE Beattie and Mary Knott, his father Ronald Beattie (1909-1973) was a stone mason and monumental sculptor, his grandfather was David Beattie (1881-1964) granite merchant and sculptor, their firm was established in 1876 probably by his great grandfather Joseph Beattie of Langholm, Dumfries (1855-1902), David Jr was educ at Carlisle GS and Manchester university, worked for Cadbury’s, Johnson and Johnson, McVitie’s, and was financial planning manager for Cadbury-Schweppes, MD National Enterprise Board, then est Grosvenor Development Capital, successful in raising £6.9 million to reduce government involvement, then Grosvenor Technical Fund was floated on the stock exchange, he was much involved in the Baptist church
Beattie, Kevin (1953-2018), footballer, b. Carlisle, son of Thomas Beattie, played for Ipswich
Beaty, John, mariner, drowned overboard from the barque Prompt at Liverpool, on his passage to Bombay, memorial Maryport; Annie Robinson (qv)
Beaty, William (1872-after 1911), b. Dean, cobbler and writer; author of Scraps from a Village Cobbler, 1911
Beauchamp, Thomas de, or Bello Campo (occ.1351), acted as Sheriff of Westmorland in 1351
Beaufront, Joan, countess of Westmorland (c.1379-1440; ODNB), daughter of John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford, her daughter Elizabeth marr John of Greystoke
Beaufort, John, duke of Somerset (1404-1444; ODNB), magnate and soldier, created earl of Kendal and Duke of Somerset, 28 August 1443, father of Margaret Beaufort (qv), died 27 May 1444 (GEC, XII, part I, 46-48; IPM, 22 Hen VI, n.19)
Beaufort, Margaret (Lady Margaret Beaufort; ODNB), Countess of Richmond and Derby (1443-1509), the King’s Mother, Kendal barony being at heart of her revenues
Beaufoy, Captain Mark (1794-1854), of the Coldstream Guards, son of Lt Col Mark Beaufoy FRS (1764-1827; ODNB) (astronomer re Jupiter’s satellites and the fourth man to climb Mont Blanc), his grandfather Mark founded a vinegar manufactory, educated Corpus Christi Coll Cambridge, commissioned into the Guards, served at Waterloo where his c/o was Adolphus, duke of Cambridge (1774-1850) , retired as adjutant in 1825, worked briefly for a mining company in Mexico, travelled in the USA, Canada and Europe, published A Tour Through the United States and Canada (1827) and other works, settled at Cragg Brow, Bowness (W), tablet at St Martin’s church; Hud (W); Army Muster Books; Ancestry.com; several Gainsborough portraits of his earlier family
Beaumont, Sir George (1753-1827; ODNB), patron, artist and collector, visited Wordsworth, painted Piel Castle in a Storm (Leicester AG) which echoes the poet’s lines: ‘I was thy neighbour once thou rugged pile’, founder of National Gallery (SGNT, 142)
Beaumont, William (Guillaume) (16xx-1727), garden designer, employed by Colonel James Grahme at Bagshot, then laid out Levens Hall gardens from 1689 to 1692 when the family returned to Bagshot, based there until the house at Levens was ready, (details in A. Bagot, Journal of Garden History, III, 4, 66-78, Autumn 1975 - copy in CRO, WDY 578)
Beck, George Morland (18xx-19xx), JP, son of George Morland Beck (1865-1924), (who purchased the Beckside Hall block of Ingmire Hall estate at sale on 4 August 1922 for £8,000, also Low Stangerthwaite for £2,300, and other smaller lots, incl manorial rights (sporting) of Holme Fell for £115, and Morland Hall from H E Atkinson (qv) at auction in 1923), maintained stud of Clydesdale horses and non-pedigree Shorthorn cattle at The Lane Estate, Newbiggin-on-Lune, Ravenstonedale, of which he was tenant (estate later sold by auction, 27 September 1937) and of Fremington, Brougham, first President of the Rough Fell Sheep Breeders Association 1927 and awarded first cup to competitors at shows, died aged 58
Beck, Thomas (18xx-19xx), farmer, of Fairbank, Staveley, world traveller and Westmorland County Councillor 1891-1905 (LVTT, 14)
Beck, Thomas Alcock (1795-1846; ODNB), antiquary, born at Newcastle upon Tyne, 1795, son of James Beck (d.1812), of The Grove, Hawkshead, and grandson of James Beck (d.1798), of Burton-in-Kendal, and of Sawrey House, attended Hawkshead GS, marr (25 April 1838 in own house by special licence) Elizabeth (1799-1880), dau of William Fell, of Ulverston, no issue, disabled, had £2,000 per annum (Wordsworth Letters, iii, pt.2, 550), built Esthwaite Lodge, Hawkshead (attrib to Websters, 1819-1821), where he wrote Annales Furnesienses (1844), letters re its publication 1840-1845 in Armitt Library (AL MS 385 I /C/1-), died 24 April 1846 and buried at Hawkshead, 30 April; succ by kinsman, William Towers (qv); Thomas Beck Towers, of Hawkshead, marr by licence (18 June 1816, at Kendal Holy Trinity) Margaret Willison, of Kendal
Beck, William Alcock (c.1835-1911), BA, JP, of Tower Bank, Sawrey, formerly of Esthwaite Lodge, chairman of Hawkshead Petty Sessional Division, JP Lancashire (qual April 1859), buried at Hawkshead, 26 October 1911, aged 76; Thomas Alcock Beck, of Tower Bank, Sawrey, buried at Hawkshead, 20 April 1921, aged 84; auction sale of effects (incl portrait) at Tower Bank, Near Sawrey, belonging to Trust of late Thomas Alcock Beck, 7-8 April 1932 (CRO, WDB 32/34); Cartington Castle, near Rothbury, sold to Lord Armstrong in 1873; Ellen Alice Alcock-Beck, of Tower Bank, Hawkshead, buried at Hawkshead, 23 December 1931, aged 94; Agnes Ellen Alcock-Beck, also of Tower Bank, buried at Hawkshead, 23 May 1938, aged 79
Becko, Vladimir (fl. mid 20thc), ran a delicatessen in Castle St, Carlisle
Becker, Ferdinand (fl.1780-1825), artist (SGNT, 143)
Beckett, Sir John (1775-1847), 2nd Bt, FRS, banker and politician, born 1775, son of 1st Bt, succ father in 1776, educ Cambridge (fifth wrangler 1795), marr (1817) Lady Anne Lowther (1788-1871) (died at Stratford Place, London, aged 83, and buried at Lowther, 14 November 1871), 4th dau of 1st Earl of Lonsdale (qv), no issue, MP for Lowther pocket boroughs of Cockermouth 1818-1821 and Haslemere 1826-1832, then elected for Leeds (LF, 389; CWMP, 335)
Bective, earl of, see Taylour; see J.D. Battle, Underley Hall, c.1965
Bedford, earl of, see Coucy
Bedford, duke of, see John (John of Lancaster)
Beeby family, Allonby, ran fish yards for salted herring
Beeby, Martha, wife of Thomas Richardson, b. Allonby (m.1799) (q.v.)
Beeby, Rev William, (d.1814), born Cockermouth, senior fellow Queens Coll Oxford, died at Clifton near Bristol
Beecham, John (1815-1894), chairmaker and cave archaeologist, of 17 Shaw’s Brow, House of Correction Hill, Windermere Road, Kendal (1858, 1873, 1885), investigated Helsfell Fissure and sieved material for animal bones (Hannah O’Regan paper)
Beet, Peter Leslie (1937-2005), physician, b. Kendal, GP Kendal and preserver of steam locomotives
Beetham of Beetham, also see Betham and Bethom
Beetham, formerly Betham, Edward, actor, born Long House, Little Strickland, son of the Rev William Betham, eloped with Isabella Robinson, a silhouette artist (qv Betham), changed his name to Beetham to spare his parents’ embarrassment, invented a means of preventing fire in a proscenium curtain, with his wife set up a puppet show in 1775 and 1780; Hud (W)
Beetham, Isabella (nee Robinson) (c.1750-1825), silhouette artist, daughter of John Robinson of Sedgefield, Durham and granddaughter of John Robinson of Lancaster, they were RCs and Jacobites, she was a pupil of John Smart, eloped with Edward Beetham (qv) in the early 1770s, had a shop in Fleet St and entertained William Godwin, John Murray and Dr Priestley, Charles Lamb said she was warm, generous and a little bohemian; she has work at the V and A, the Met NY and Brooklyn Museum; Hud (W)
Beeton, Isabella Mary (1836-1865; ODNB), cookery writer, daughter of Benjamin Mayson (1801-1840) (qv), of a Cumberland family
Beever, John ‘Arundo’, brother of Susan Beever (qv), dammed the beck near The Thwaite, Coniston and created a pond well stocked with several species of fish, he experimented with feeding the fish on different foods to see how they put on weight, he also set up a water powered press which he used to print his sister’s verse, this also drove a wood-turning lathe, he wrote: Practical Fly Fishing Founded on Nature and Tested by Experience (1893), later editions have a memoir of Beever by WG Collingwood; L Harwood, Fish and Fishers, 149; htpps:ruskinmuseum.com
Beever, Susan (born Susannah), 1805-1891), botanical artist and friend of Ruskin, born Manchester, moved to The Thwaite, Coniston in 1827, supporter of the Ragged Schools, erected several horse troughs in the Coniston area, communicated with Ruskin by letter though he could have rowed across the lake from Brantwood, they are buried side by side at Coniston churchyard; Jane Garnett, Women Artists in Ruskin’s Circle (ODNB)
Bega (St Bega) (supp fl. late 7th cent; ODNB), legendary Irish saint, who landed on west coast of Cumberland, Abbess of Hartlepool, feast day on 7 November, local church dedication at Bassenthwaite, associated holy well at St Bees (St Bega’s), and modern RC dedication of St Bega’s Chapel at Cleator Moor and St Begh’s Priory, Whitehaven (1706, 1868, cons 1907); subject of Credo: An Epic Tale of Dark Age Britain by Melvyn Bragg (1996) (CW2, lxxx, 23-35); sculpture by Colin Telfer (qv) at St Bees beside railway station
Begley, Father Patrick (d.1987), RC priest, incumbent of the RC church in Upperby St Margaret Mary for 40 years, the first catholic to preach in Carlisle cathedral since the 16thc, in 1937-8 invited five nuns of the Sacred Heart of Mary to set up St Gabriel’s school, later this school was an element of the new Newman’s School, remembered in 2022 by a 90 year old parishioner as ‘a tartar’; photographs of the S Margaret Mary church in Carlisle archives
Belfield, Rasselas (1790-1822), freed slave, native of Abyssinia, died 16 January 1822, aged 32, and buried in St Martin’s churchyard, Bowness-on-Windermere, under east window 19 January (MI)
Bell, Adam, 14thc archer in Inglewood Forest, a Cumbrian Robin Hood; Francis James Child, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, no 116, 1904
Bell, Adrian Hanbury (1901-1980; ODNB), rural writer, journalist and farmer, born Lancashire the son of Robert Bell of the Observer, and his wife Frances Hanbury, an artist, educated Uppingham, wrote 25 books and was the first compiler of the Times crossword, corresponded with Lascelles Abercrombie, Ernest Altounian (qqv) and Edmund Blunden, his son Martin Bell was a BBC correspondent and MP; there is an Adrian Bell Society; Anne Gander, Voice of the Countryside, (his biography) (2001)
Bell, Ann, chapbook printer Penrith
Bell, Aubrey Fitz Gerald (1881-1950; ODNB), Spanish and Portuguese scholar, born Muncaster, published Portuguese Portraits (1917), Contemporary Spanish Literature (1926), Oxford Book of Portuguese Verse (1952)
Bell, Barrow, land surveyor, of Hale, Beetham, marr Elizabeth, (son James b.1869)
Bell, ‘Biddy Skiddy’, wife of Ensign Bell (qv), she carried her wounded husband from the field and saved his life
Bell, Edgar (19xx-19xx), BA, clergyman, educ Leeds University, vicar of Ainstable and also Armathwaite from 1934
Bell, Edward Allen (1884-1959), MA, schoolmaster, born 8 May 1884, son of canon J Allen Bell, of Norwich Cathedral, educ Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, assistant master, Giggleswick School 1910-1918, Lieut, the Norfolk Regt 1918, major and chief instructor, Army General College, Cologne, BEF 1919, assistant master, Eton College 1921-1926, headmaster of St Bees School 1926-1935, Oxford Group from 1935, governor of College of the Good Road 1949-1950, member of CWAAS 1929, author of History of Giggleswick School 1499-1912 (1912), Poems (1926) and Poems (1949), of 2 St Barnabas Houses, Newland, Malvern, Worcs, died 9 July 1959, aged 75
Bell, Ensign (fl. early 19thc), of the 34th (Cumberland) Foot, his memoir published by George Bell as Ensign Bell in the Peninsula War: The Cumberland Gentlemen in the Napoleonic War, 2006
Bell, Rev. George (c.1799-1872) born at Irthington, clergyman, (literatus, i.e. no degree), curate, Castle Sowerby, 1826-28, curate, Aspatria, 1828, rector, Kirklinton, 1836-72, found guilty of illegally appropriating pews in Kirklinton church in 1847, in 1852 (with his neighbour, John Hope, rector of Stapleton) Bell petitioned Parliament for an increased stipend, his stipend was then less than £100 p.a.; CAC(C) DRC1/9, pp.78, 180; Hampshire Advertiser, 27 March 1847; Carlisle Journal 18 June 1852; Crockford’s, 1868; CAC(C), PROB/1872/W74
Bell, George (fl.1835), poet of Penrith; J. Walker, History of Penrith, [1858] appendix
Bell, George John, Gaskell, West Cumb Leaders, 1910
Bell, George (fl.1930-1950), huntsman, Blencathra Foxhounds, succ Jim Dalton c.1930 to c.1950, succ by John Richardson?
Bell, Herbert (1856-1946), photographer, son of Thomas Bell, chemist, of Clappersgate, Chairman of Armitt Trust, Ambleside, photographic studio in Market Place (1897), photo albums of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland 1907, of Strawberry Bank, above Waterhead (1897), marr, dau Gertrude, Armitt Trustee 1946, collection at The Armitt; (AL; CRO, WD/CAT/A1824; WD/K/329); Stephen F. Kelly, Victorian Lakeland Photographers, 1991; obit. by E.F.R. on Armitt website
Bell, Isaac Lowthian (1816-1904) MP, baronet, metallurgical chemist and iron master, family originated near Carlisle, moved to north east to establish an industrial base on the Tyne and at Washington, marr Margaret Pattinson dau of his business partner Hugh Lee Pattinson FRS. A collector of contemporary art including The Romans Leaving Britain by Millais and commissioned Philip Webb to build Washington Hall and Rounton Grange for him, elected Liberal MPO for Hatlepool in 1875 and given a baronetcy in 1885
Bell, Isaac (d.1836), chief mate, son of Abraham Bell of Whitehaven, on board the Hercules from New South Wales for London, at Rio de Janeiro on 1st April 1836 was in distress in heavy seas, the master, surgeon, two mates, six seamen, boats, poop and mizzen mast, were all washed overboard
Bell, Jacob (1810-1859; ODNB), pharmacist, Haymarket and later Oxford St London, with his father John a co-founder of the Pharmacists Society at a meeting in the Crown and Anchor, Strand, on 15 April 1841, friend of Landseer and Frith, presented Derby Day by Frith to the National Gallery
Bell, James (later Spencer-Bell) (1818-1872), architect and Liberal MP, a Quaker, the son of John Bell (1774-1849) chemist of the Haymarket and his wife Elisabeth Smith, daughter of Frederick Smith, married in 1858 Mary Ann Spencer at Cockermouth Meeting House, she was the daughter of Jeremiah Spencer (1789-1865; DCB) of South Lodge, Cockermouth, at this date her father described himself as ‘yeoman’, in1866 James Bell and his wife changed their name by royal warrant to Spencer-Bell, also commissioned the architect Waterhouse to design Fawe Park on Derwentwater as their residence, his brother was MP for St Albans; History of Parliament
Bell, James Spencer-, of Fawe Park, Keswick (part designed by Alfred Waterhouse), marr (186x) Mary Anne, dau of Jeremiah Spencer, of South Lodge, Cockermouth, assumed surname and arms of Spencer in 1866, 1 son (James Frederick Spencer Spencer-Bell (1863-1886), of Magdalen College, Oxford and student of Lincoln’s Inn, drowned in Derwentwater) and 1 dau (Adelaide Eliza (1859-1922), marr. Samuel Middleton Fox (qv))
Bell, James Oliphant (d.1831), surgeon, of Whitehaven, studied medicine at University of Edinburgh, then began practising in Cockermouth in 1797, marr, 2 sons (Richard (qv) and Henry)
Bell, John (c.1569-1634), first curate of Ambleside and school master, prob purchased Bible (copy of first edition of KJB, printed by Robert Barker in 1611), which remained in use by curates of Ambleside from 1612 until early in 18th century and to which he added 17 marginalia in his own neat hand between 1612 and 1629 when he had served 44 years and was about 60 years of age, built causeway between Rydal and Ambleside to enable pupils from Rydal to attend school, witnessed Rydal deed in 1617 (The Ambleside Curates’ Bible, CW2, vii, 143-148)
Bell, John (1746-1798; ODNB), army officer and inventor, born Carlisle, son of William Bell a hatter, enlisted Royal Artillery, later devised a means of exploding wrecked vessels, also a means of confirming the soundness of gun barrels, died of apoplexy while fitting out fireships
Bell, John (1764-1836; ODNB), MA, KC, FRS, barrister, one of HM Counsel, born in house in Finkle Street, Kendal, 23 October 1764, only son of Matthew Bell (1733-1766), grocer, and of Agnes, dau of William Yeats, of Beetham, and grandson of John Bell (1687-1740), of Kirkland, Kendal, brought up by aunt, educ Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Kirkby Lonsdale, Beetham school and Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1786, MA and elected fellow 1789), called to bar 1792, acquired great reputation as a chancery barrister, known as ‘Jocky Bell’ and in legal circles as ‘The great Bell of Lincoln’s Inn’, KC 1816, bencher of Gray’s Inn 1813 and treasurer 1818-1819 and 1834-1835, marr Jane (died 4 October 1855), dau of Henry Grove, 1 son (Matthew, (1817-1903), MA, DL, JP, of Bourne Park, Kent, BLG), died at his house in Bedford Square, London, 6 February 1836, aged 71 and buried at Milton, near Canterbury, published on Chancery, one of his pupils was Lord Langdale (qv)
Bell, John (1774-1849), pharmacist, London, marr Eliza Smith dau of Frederick Smith a Haymarket pharmacist, with his son Jacob (qv) co-founder of the Pharmacists Society in 1841, his son James married a Miss Spencer and became James Spencer-Bell (qv) and lived at Fawe Park, Keswick
Bell, John (1801-1888), MA, barrister and local government official, born in 1801 in Brampton, , son of James Bell (Captain in Westmorland Militia), gazetted ensign in Westmorland Militia and served in France 1814, lieut 1820, drew army pension of £100 p.a. for 70 years, educ Caius College, Cambridge (MA), called to bar, Lincoln’s Inn 1835, marr (1847 at Gretna Green, though this was later claimed to be a sham, though real), clerk of peace for Westmorland 1839-1888, commissioner of bankrupts for Westmorland, deputy judge of Appleby County Court, mayor of Appleby on seven occasions between 1863 and 1876, died in Appleby 1888; son, John Bell, junr, was deputy clerk of peace for Westmorland and died in 1893; Boase supplement i, 347
Bell, John Jackson (b.1835), of Carlisle, paid for one of the four reliefs on the plinth of the statue of Queen Victoria by Thomas Brock, the others funded by the Hudson Scotts (qqv) and George Dove
Bell, John George (b.1887), lived Skelton; Gaskell W and C Leaders c.1910
Bell, Joseph [1861-1912], engineer, born at Farlam, near Carlisle, chief engineer of Titanic whose heroism after the collision with the iceberg saved lives; (CN, 13 and 20.04.2012)
Bell, J Barton (18xx-1911), Congregational minister, pastor of Congregational chapel, Soutergate, Ulverston 1877-1911 (memorial font in chapel), wrote his Memoirs (copy Ulverston library)
Bell, Ophelia Gordon (1915-1975; DCB), sculptor, wife of William Heaton Cooper, examples of her work are displayed at the Heaton Cooper Studio, Grasmere, her statue of St Bede is at Carlisle, David A. Cross, Public Sculpture, 2017, 155, 195; www.heatoncooper.co.uk
Bell, Peter, co-founder of Langdale Mountain Rescue and inventor of the portable device to support those with hypothermia
Bell, Richard (c.1410-1495; ODNB), bishop of Carlisle
Bell, Richard (1805-1887), see Senhouse
Bell, Robert (17xx-17xx), Methodist leader and exciseman, of Longtown, leader of Bracken Hill Society in Arthuret parish, instrumental in establishing Methodism in Carlisle in 1767, described by Wesley as “a very useful man”, unmarried in list of members in Cumbria in 1763 (John Huggon in CWHS Journal 73)
Bell, Thomas Perfect (18xx-1xxx), clergyman, trained at St Bees 1866, d 1868 and p 1870 (Ches), curate of St Michael, Macclesfield 1868-1870, Rainow, Cheshire 1870-1872, and Witton, Lancs 1872-1876, vicar of Wasdale Head from 1887 (1894), gone by 1903, decd by 1914
Bell, Will and ‘Mont’ Barrow built Ruskin’s rowing boast Jumping Jenny
Bellamy, David (1933-2019; ODNB), academic, TV presenter, author, enthusiastic environmental campaigner, son of Thomas Bellamy, educ Sutton Co GS and London University MA PhD, ecturer at Durham from 1960 and later professor, presented 100s of TV programmes, remembered in Cumbria for jumping up and down in the water on the edge of Crummock Water in the 1980s as he enthused about the pristine oligotrophic environment of the lake (low in plant nutrients but high in oxygen) and that it should be preserved
Bellas, Lancelot (c.1737-1816), clergyman, son of Richard Bellas of Brampton, Westmorland, gent, 1759, educ Queen’s Coll., Oxford, 1749 aged 20, B.A. 1763, M.A. and fellow, 1766, Westmorland J.P. curate, Syston (Leicester), 1766, perpetual curate, Marsden (Yorks), 1780-1815, vicar, Brough, 1792-1817, Memorial Inscription at Brough: ‘In Memory of the Reverend Lancelot Bellas A.M. Vicar of this Parish who died the 21st November 1816 aged 79 years. He was a magistrate for this County And formerly a fellow of Queen's College Oxford’
Bellas, Stephen (c.1757-1816), schoolmaster, ‘exercised the arduous and useful profession of a schoolmaster’ in parishes of Longmarton, Bolton and Kirkby Thore for 40 years, marr Barbara (died 29 January 1817, aged 62), died 11 March 1816, aged 59 (stone erected at Long Marton ‘by his loving and sorrowing students’, WCN, ii, 157)
Bellas, Thomas (1790-1880), clergyman, Queen’s College, Oxford, B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816, curate, Brough, 1815, vicar, St Mary’s, Bongate, Appleby, 1823-80’, vicar, Warcop, 1843, having agreed to vacate on the coming-of-age of the patron’s son, then a minor: resigned, 1851, Memorial Inscription in Appleby St Michael: ‘Thomas Bellas, MA, born January 26th 1790, died March 15th 1880, 57 years. Vicar of this parish’. CAC(C), DRC1/9, pp.326-7, DRC1/10, p.24; OAD
Bellasis family (formerly also Bellas), traditionally descended from Bellasis in Co Durham, lived at long Marton from George Bellas (d.1704); Hudleston (W); ancient variations of Bellasis: Bellasye, Bellesses, Bellasies and Bellases having been in use until about 1730 (College of Arms)
Bellasis, Edward (1783-1843), army officer, born in India in 1783, 3rd son of General John Bellasis (qv) and yr brother of George Hutchins (qv) and Daniel, Major-General in East India Co service, died in August 1843 (WW, ii, 251)
Bellasis, Edward (1800-1873; ODNB), JP, serjeant-at-law and Roman Catholic convert, only son of Revd George Bellasis (qv) by his second wife (who later married Revd Joseph Maude), born at Basilden, 14 October 1800, barrister at law, Inner Temple 1824, (Sir Alan Chambre a family friend), serjeant-at-law 1844, became Roman Catholic 1850, legal and financial adviser to RC community, JP for Middlesex and Westminster, one of founders of Oratory School, Birmingham 1859, Steward to Duke of Norfolk’s manors in Norfolk and Suffolk 1863-, retired from bar 1866, Lancaster Herald, commissioner of earl marshal to report on working of College of Arms 1869, moved to France 1872, died at Hyeres, 24 January 1873
Bellasis, Edward (1852-1922; ODNB), FSA, genealogist, herald and barrister, son of Edward Bellasis (qv), educ Oratory school, Birmingham, under J H Newman, Lincoln’s Inn 1873 (but never practised), Bluemantle pursuivant of arms 1873-1882, Lancaster Herald from 1882, Registrar of College of Arms from 1894 (previously deputy registrar), member of CWAAS from 1875, and author of Westmorland Church Notes (I, 1888; II, 1889) (begun on first visit to Westmorland in 1874), ill from depression from 1899, died in London, 17 March 1922
Bellasis, George (1730-1803), DD, clergyman, born at Longmarton, 28 November 1730 and bapt there, 4 December, eldest son of Joseph Bellas (1691-1766) (who laid memorial stone in east wall of chancel in Longmarton church to his father George (d.1736, aged 80) and his mother Elisabeth (d. 1743, aged 85) and died 2 July 1766, aged 76), of Longmarton, and his wife, Margaret Hill (died 21 June 1787, aged 87), brother of Hugh (bapt 18 January 1740) and John (qv), also had 5 sisters (Elizabeth (born 30 October and bapt 27 November 1728, died aged 89), wife of Revd William Kilner (qv); Emma (born 26 December 1732 [but Anne is bapt 7 January 1732/3], died aged 61), wife of Revd Nathaniel Springett, of Brasenose College, Oxford; Hannah (born 11 June and bapt 13 July 1735, died aged 81), wife of Thomas Crosby, of Kirkby Thore; and Margaret (born 4 June and bapt 29 June 1738, died aged 79), wife of John Hill, of Crackenthorpe), educ Queen’s College, Oxford, changed his name from Bellas to Bellasis (pedigree registered at College of Arms on 1 June 1792, ancient variations of Bellasis, Bellasye, Bellesses, Bellasies and Bellases having been in use until about 1730), rector of Yattendon and vicar of Basilden and Ashampstead, Berks, marr 1st, marr 2nd (she later marr Revd Joseph Maude), 1 son (Edward, qv), died at Basilden, 24 January 1803 (WCN, ii, 157-58; scrapbook in CRO, WDX 1641)
Bellasis, George Hutchins (1778/9-1822), artist, eldest son of General John Bellasis (qv), visited St Helena and produced series of drawings of the island, which he published on his return to England, with dedication to his friend, Duke of Wellington, marr, son (John Brownrigg, qv), of Holly Hill, Bowness, died 4 January 1822, aged 43, and buried in St Martin’s churchyard, 10 January (LM, III, 39-40)
Bellasis, John (1744-1808), army officer, born at Longmarton, 16 July 1744 and bapt there, 15 August, 3rd son of Joseph and Margaret Bellas, and yr brother of Revd George (qv), educ Appleby Grammar School, entered East India Company service, marr (3 November 1776, at Bombay) Anna Martha (died 14 May 1797), dau of Revd John Hutchins, of Wareham, Kent, 3 sons (George Hutchins (qv), Daniel (Lieut-Col, HEIC Army, died 23 February 1836) and Edward (qv)) and 3 daus, letters from Bombay to his brother Hugh in Longmarton from 1781 to 1808, changed his name from Bellas to Bellasis (by registration of pedigree at College of Arms in 1792), Major-General and Colonel of Artillery, Commander of HEIC Forces at Bombay where he died suddenly, 11 February 1808 (Bombay Courier, 13 February 1808; WW, ii, 251; WCN, ii, 158; letters in scrapbook in CRO, WDX 1641)
Bellasis, John Brownrigg (1806-1890), army officer, born in 1806, son of George Hutchins Bellasis (qv), of Holly Hill, Bowness, marr Louisa, 1 son (Herbert Inglefield, bapt 5 July 1853) and 2 daus (Amy Helen, bapt 25 July 1854, and Blanche Maude, bapt 10 February 1856, all at St Martin’s, Bowness-on-Windermere), of Oakbank, Bowness (1853) and of Biskey How (1854-56), Major-General, formerly Lieut-Colonel in Bombay Army, died in March 1890 (memorial window to him and his wife by Ward & Hughes in south aisle of St Martin’s church given by his son Herbert; also to Charlotte Agnes Bellasis, who died in December 1894)
Bellasis, Joseph Maude (1811-1888), born at Bowness, 19 February 1811, educ Sedbergh School (entd August 1823, aged 12, and left December 1828), lived for many years at Bowness before removing to Southport, where he died, 7 November 1888 (SSR, 177)
Bellasis, William (1777-1800), officer of ship “Scaleby Castle”, born at Longmarton, 29 October 1777, son of Hugh Bellasis and nephew of Dr George and General John Bellasis (qv), letters to his father and other family members from 1797 to 1800 (scrapbook in CRO, WDX 1641), died at sea on voyage to East Indies, 7 April 1800 (WCN, ii, 158)
Bellers, William (fl.1733-1773; ODNB), landscape painter and engraver, produced six large prints of several lakes (SGNT, 143-144), each print dedicated to eminent local figures; Bicknell, 21-2
Bellhouse, Richard Lafone (1916-2012), BSc, FSA, archaeologist and land-drainage officer, born in Darlington, 21 September 1916, educ at University of London (BSc in agriculture), specialised in land drainage for Ministry of Agriculture, lived for much of his working life in Cumberland at Cottage, Meads, Thursby, knew the local farming community of the Solway area and had thorough working knowledge of soils, also informed by his scientific training, his body of work on the Cumberland coast being an evolving project, with theories presented, tested and confirmed or rejected, steady stream of papers culminating in his monograph, Roman Sites on the Cumberland Coast: A New Schedule of Coastal Sites (CWAAS, Research Series, Vol.III, 1989), member of CWAAS from 1953, elected member of Council 1954-1964 and 1983-1987, serving on the Fieldwork and Excavation committee 1954-1964 and committee for Prehistoric Studies 1962-1964, moved to Lincoln in 1964, then retired to Worcestershire and settled at Kempsey in 1973, but still continued to organise excavations on coast and publish in Transactions, unsuccessful candidate for presidency in 1987, vice-president 1987-2002, Fellow of CWAAS from 2002, deposited his archaeological papers in Senhouse Roman Museum at Maryport and discovered photographic archive of Joseph Robinson (qv), winner of Silver Trowel award in annual British Archaeological Awards in 1980, elected FSA in 1982, marr (1942) Betty (founding member and conductor of Kempsey Handbell Ringers from 1975, died 2010), 3 daus (inc Susan Ashby), a keen musician, playing piano, violin and French horn, also made two pipe organs and furniture, died 3 September 2012, aged 95, and buried at Greenfields Woodland Burial Ground, Staunton, near Tewkesbury, 17 September, four days before his 96th birthday (Romans on the Solway: Essays in Honour of Richard Bellhouse, edited by R J A Wilson and I D Caruana, Trustees of the Senhouse Roman Museum, Maryport, and CWAAS Extra Series, Vol.XXXI, 2004; Worcester News, 19.09.2012)
Bellinger, Edmund, born Westmorland, went to North Carolina in 1674, became a landgrave and as receiver of public monies, marr Elizabeth Cartwright of Westmorland
Bellingham, Alan (d.1577), landowner, cadet branch of the Bellingham family of Burneside, grant from Henry VIII of fourth part of Barony of Kendal (Lumley Fee), apptd Treasurer of Berwick at £20 pa, by writ of privy seal, 2 August 1557, made extensive purchases of land, incl Levens from Matthew Redman in 1562, also Helsington, Fawcett Forest and Gaythorn, and other lordships in Lancashire, marr 1st, marr 2nd Dorothy Sandford, 7 sons (5 surviving him all under age: Thomas (d.unm.1580), James (qv), Robert (of Middle Temple, 1595)) and 8 daus (7 surviving him), died 7 May 1577, aged 61, will dated 15 June 1568 (brass in Kendal parish church)
Bellingham, Alan (159x-1673), landowner, yr son of Sir James Bellingham (qv), of Levens, marr Susan, dau of Marmaduke Constable, of Wassand in Holderness, co York, 3 sons (James (qv), Henry (left manor of Whitwell in co York) and Thomas (left property at Houghton, co Durham, d.unm)) and 1 dau (Frances, wife of Sir Reginald Graham, Bt, of Norton Conyers), succ to Levens on death of his nephew, Sir James (qv) in 1650, Knight of the Royal Oak 1660 (with estates valued at £1500 pa), said by N&B (incorrectly) to be MP for Westmorland in 1661, died 29 January 1672/3, aged 77, and buried at Heversham, 1 February (FiO, i, 465)
Bellingham, Alan (1656-1690), bapt at Heversham, 12 February 1655/6, eldest son of James Bellingham (qv) by his 2nd wife, educ Queen’s College, Oxford (entd as Upper Commoner on 27 May 1674 and matric 4 June, aged 18), succ father at Levens in 1680, MP for Westmorland in three parliaments 1678-1687 (either after expulsion of Sir Thomas Strickland in 1676 or on death of Sir Philip Musgrave in 1677), went into exile with James II, “an ingenious but unhappy young man” (Machell), consumed his estate and sold Levens and rest of his lands in Westmorland to Col James Grahme (qv)
Bellingham, Sir Henry, 1st Bt (d.1650), Royalist, eldest son of Sir James Bellingham (qv), created baronet in 1620, marr Katharine, succ father at Levens in 1642, MP for Westmorland, fined as delinquent by Parliament, went to Commissioners in Kendal at beginning of June 1650 in order to compound, but later fell sick and died shortly after making his will, dated 15 October 1650, proved 24 May 1651 (see Diary of Thomas Bellingham (1908), intro vii-ix); Bellingham, Sir Henry, of Helsington – marr Dorothy, dau of Sir Francis Boynton, of Barneston, Yorks, she died 23 January 1626/27, aged 39 (‘a monument… of alabaster with painting and gilding in the Italian style with verse inscription and a recumbent figure of a lady with an infant’ in Heversham church, WCN, i, 242 and CNSG, 73)
Bellingham, Sir James (d.1642), 2nd son of Alan Bellingham (d.1577) (qv), of Levens, marr, 2 sons, knighted in 1603, but declined baronetcy, which was conferred on his eldest son Henry (qv), largely rebuilt Levens Hall (inc fitting up rooms with wainscotting), died in 1642
Bellingham, Sir James, 2nd Bt (1623-1650), MP for Westmorland, died s.p., surviving his father by a few days, in October 1650
Bellingham, James (16xx-1680), landowner, son of Alan Bellingham (qv), marr 1st Barbara, dau of Sir Christopher Dalston, of Acornbank, 1 dau (Elizabeth, wife of Timothy Mauleverer, of Arncliffe, co York), marr 2nd Elizabeth, dau of Sir Francis Leke, of Newark on Trent, 4 sons (Alan (qv), Henry (ancestor of Castle Bellingham line in Ireland) and William) and 5 daus (Mary (wife of Alexander Johnson, of Preston), Agnes (wife of William Patten, of Preston), Bridget (wife of Timothy Fetherstonhaugh (qv), of Kirkoswald), Elizabeth (wife of John Senhouse, of Seascale), and Dorothy (d.unm)), succ father at Levens in 1673, died in 1680
Belton, Andrew (1882-1970), ‘Kaid Belton’, army officer and local benefactor, born at Cleator Moor, 17 April 1882, enlisted while under age after two of his brothers were killed in Boer War, served in South Africa, but resigned his commission on returning to England, helped train troops of Abdelhafid in defeating his brother Abdlaziz as Sultan of Morocco in First Morocco Crisis of 1908 and became known as Kaid Belton, the Kingmaker, instrumental in establishment of the Legion of Frontiersmen, a patriotic organisation formed in 1905 to foster vigilance and increase defensive capacity of British Empire, enrolled at Chicago School of Aviation in 1911, an early exponent of use of aircraft for military purposes, major financial benefactor of St Mary’s Parish, Cleator Moor from 1920s to 1950s, helping to relieve poverty of area after iron ore mines and factories closed, with unemployed miners working in church grounds and creating the replica Lourdes Grotto, favoured a dictatorship in Britain and called for Government to provide employment in August 1933, seeing how the unemployed had abandoned hope for themselves and their children, calling for cheap iron ore imported from Spain to be stopped, became first Englishman since the Reformation to be made a Papal Knight of the Sepulchre, died in South Africa in 1970, aged 88 (WN, 23.02.2017)
Benn, Anthony JP (1743-99), built Hensingham church in 1791, married Margaret (1744-99) dau of Lowther Spedding; Hud (C)
Benn, Daniel (d.1777), builder Whitehaven; CW2 xcvi 161
Benn, John (17xx-18xx), land agent, to Lord Lonsdale, of Monkwreay, Whitehaven (1829)
Benn, John (1821-1895), pioneer of gas for lighting, born Corney near Bootle, son of William Benn, yeoman of Middleton Place, business training in Liverpool, 1849 to Australia, worked in grocery, returned to the UK, joined Grice, Sumner and Co, dealers in teas and sugars, became senior partner, returned to Australia, chair of several boards, keen of street lighting, a founder of Melbourne Gas and Coke Co, not keen on involvement in politics, bread shorthorns; Australian DNB
Benn, Joseph (1748-1814), master mariner, Whitehaven; Rob David, In Search of Arctic Wonders
Benn, Tony (Anthony Wedgwood Benn) (renounced title of Lord Stansgate), visited Cumbria, spoke at St Cuthbert’s, Carlisle c.2004, to a packed audience; refs Les Shore, Redshaw biography,
Benn, William (1600-1681; ODNB), clergyman, born Egremont, son of John Benn and Ann Goodwyn, educ St Bees and Queens Coll Oxford, curate Wokingham, chaplain to Helena marchioness of Northampton, rector All Saints Dorchester 1629, puritan preacher, built chapel at the gaol Dorchester, deprived of his living at the Restoration, preached beyond the five miles act, sermons published posthumously; he toiled for 50 years ‘in the vineyard of Christ’
Benn Walsh, Sir John (1759-1825), see Walsh
Bennett, David (1823-1902), soldier and musician, b. Carlisle, son of Thomas Bennett and Elizabeth Ryan, to Newfoundland in youth, joined Royal Newfoundland Co. as a drummer in 1838, trained in music and retired as a corporal, he had been observed by bishop John T. Mullock (1807-1869) prelate of St John’s Newfoundland, who in 1868 appointed him head of music at the new St Bartholomew College where he worked until the 1880s and became an important figure in the community, dubbed ‘professor’ Bennett, performed for Prince Henrik of the Netherlands in 1845 and the Prince of Wales in 1860, played at the laying of the foundation stone of the RC cathedral in 1855, ran several musical groups as bandmaster and conductor, involved Total Abstinence and Benefit Society, bandmaster to no 2 [queens] company of St John’s Volunteers
Bennett, Dorothy Muriel Chester (c.1891-1977), portraitist, lived Ulverston
Bennett, E O (c.1900-after 1957), clergyman, educ St Bees School (Foundation 1914-1918), spent many years in Sudan as senior chaplain to the forces, vicar of Calderbridge, then of Dean, near Cockermouth (preached at St Bees School Chapel on Old Boys’ Day, 13 July 1957)
Bennett, Geoffrey Samuel (1902-19xx), clergyman and bank manager, manager of National Westminster Bank at Cleator Moor and at Maryport before ordination, d 1961 (Penrith for Carl) and p 1962 (Carl), curate of Penrith 1961-1962, vicar of Rockcliffe with Cargo 1962-1966, curate-in-charge of St Mary with St Paul, Carlisle 1966-1972, retired in 1972 with Lic to Offic, Dio Carlisle from 1972, friend of L S Lowry (who featured Maryport in a number of his works), conducted funeral service for Lowry at Manchester Southern cemetery in 1976, of 21 Chatsworth Square, Carlisle (1972), later of 414 London Road, Carlisle (1987), decd by 1998; LS Lowry gave him several paintings which he bequeathed to the dean and chapter
Bennett, Lancelot Ruskin (1897-1937), hairdresser, son of a hairdresser of Millom, worked in Dalton, buried Dalton cemetery; Furness Stories Behind the Stones
Bennett, Lewis ‘Deerfoot’ (1830-1896), Native American athlete, of the Seneca tribe living at the Cattarangus reservation, Buffalo, came to the UK via George Martin, an athletics promoter, he won his first race at Hackney Wick in 9th September 1861, then having participated in running competitions all over the UK he ran at Dragley Beck, Ulverston on 31st July 1862 and won there too, much lauded all over the UK from 1861-1863, running at 76 cities and towns in four months in 1862, returned to the USA with his winnings; Ulverston history 2025
Bennett, Mary (d.2025), art historian, Keeper of British Art at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, organised three pioneering exhibitions in the 1960s on Ford Madox Brown, John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt, which hugely added to the late 20thc enthusiasm for the Pre-Raphaelites, she also contributed to Wilmerding’s catalogue of Robert Salmon (qv), a friend and former colleague of Alex Kidson (the George Romney and David Wilkie scholar), lived latterly at Burneside, Kendal
Bennison, George, clergyman, vicar of Beetham, resigned in 1665
Benson family, yeoman farmers from 13thc, some at Stangend and others at Grasmere, gradually bought freehold property, bought more after the dissolution, substancial wool merchants and clothiers, armigerous from 1546, married into Holme, Braithwaite and Rathbone families, used water power to run woollen mills near Loughrigg, later founders of Kleinwort Benson, see Robert Benson I – IV below; Jehanne Wake, Kleinwort Benson: The History of Two Families in Banking, 1997
Benson, Anthony Christopher (1862-1925), poet, academic and master of Magdalene Coll Cambridge, son of Edward W Benson, archbishop of Canterbury, often visited his cousin Elizabeth Sidgwick (1847-1940), married to Stephen Marshall a flax mill owner living at Skelwith Fold, from here in 1905 he visited the literary successors at Fox How (garden beautiful), Rydal Mount (‘fearful smell of dry rot’) and Brantwood (Arthur Severn ‘whimsical’ and Joan manifesting ‘goodness and serenity’ in July 1905 and October 1911, even at that date he complained of being ‘harried by trippers’); his diaries ed Duffy and Hyam
Benson, Barbara (‘Ma Benno’), headmistress, primary school, Barrow; Peter Lucas in Cumbrian Miscellany, Bill Rollinson obit. volume, ed. Leach, 89-114
Benson, Bernard (16xx-1694), Quaker, son of Francis Benson, of Fould in Loughrigg, marr (1667) Elizabeth (d.1671), dau of William Braithwaite, of High Wray, issue (2nd dau Agnes marr George Braithwaite, of High Wray), imprisoned for non-payment of tithes in Appleby gaol where he died in 1694 (SF, 576)
Benson, Christopher (1788-1868; ODNB), theologian, born Cockermouth, son of Thomas Benson, a solicitor, and his wife Isabella Thompson, dau of Richard Thompson of Bridekirk, educ Eton and Trinity Coll Cambridge, BA 1809, MA 1815, fellow Magdalene Coll 1820, priested 1813, curate St John Newcastle, 1822-4, rector of St Giles in the Fields 1824-1826, canon of Worcester 1825-1868, a very able preacher and lecturer, the first Hulsean lecturer, one of the first to describe Keble and Pusey as ‘Tractarians’, published sermons and A Chronology of Our Saviour’s Life (1819), he was also Master of the Temple Church from 1825-45, marr Bertha Mitford (a relative of the famous Mitford sisters)
Benson, Christopher (1xxx-18xx), clergyman, Vicar of Brampton 1841-1874, proposal for re-pewing church aroused opposition at vestry meeting in 1867/8, just before abolition of church rates in 1868, by which time he was too old and infirm to find new way of raising money, William Miller (qv) being appointed as curate in charge by bishop in 1871 and stirring up opposition by his insensitive reforming attitude, which caused disturbances of church services (esp by vicar’s son Christopher Benson, junior qv), retired in 1874
Benson, Christopher jr (18xx-1896), JP, bank manager, son of above, organist of Brampton church in time of his father’s incumbency and forced to resign for his opposition to curate William Miller’s reforms, though later a churchwarden and justice of the peace
Benson, Claude Ernest (18xx-19xx), climber and author, friend of George and Ashley Abraham (qv), member of the Climbers’ Club, author of Crag and Hound in Lakeland (1902)
Benson, Lt General Richard (d.1843), son of Thomas Benson (d.1858), solicitor of Cockermouth and Isabella Thompson of Bridekirk, (not to be confused with Lt Gen George Benson (1750-1814)), died at Barrackpore, India
Benson, George, son of George Sr and his wife Abigail Braithwaite qv, Kendal grocer, m. Deborah Wakefield, sister of John Wakefield qv, brewer, manufacturer and gunpowder maker qv
Benson, Revd George (1699-1762), dissenting minister, born at Great Salkeld in 1699, died in 1762
Benson, Geoff (fl. mid 20thc), of Wigton Motor Club, drove up Skiddaw in his Austin 7 in 1960
Benson, Gervase (d.1679; ODNB), JP, lawyer and Quaker leader, notary public and, later, Commissary of archdeaconry of Richmond (dealing with probate matters), elected to Kendal Corporation in December 1640, Alderman in 1641 (sworn 20 April), Mayor of Kendal 1644-45 (sworn 30 September), when described as ‘Proctr ad legem civil’ and as ‘an honest & godly man’, and Justice of Peace for borough, supported parliamentary interest in Kendal, leading to swings in his fortune, briefly imprisoned in Skipton Castle by Royalists in 1644, commanded Kendal’s small garrison in 1645, restored to registrarship of wills for deaneries in diocese of Chester through favour of Lord Wharton in 1646 (Many letters in ECW, ii, 896), member of Committee for Sequestrations for Westmorland (September 1648), rose to prominence as regional administrator and became known in London, wrote (with fellow alderman, John Archer, (qv) to House of Commons in 1650 pointing out that large section of Kendal corporation had not subscribed to Oath of Engagement (‘to be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it is now established’), with result that royalist members were removed from office, became convinced Quaker on 6 June 1652 (when George Fox visited Separatist group at Sedbergh) and active proselytiser and organiser, started ‘meetings in fresh places’ such as Dent, tried (with Anthony Pearson) to befriend George Fox on his imprisonment after tumult in Carlisle in 1652/3 by writing letter to Carlisle magistrates (CW1, viii, 152-153) [not in ODNB], went to London in Quaker cause in 1653, gave legal advice in various disputes involving Quakers, sat on bench at trial of James Naylor at Appleby sessions on 11 January 1653 and tried to intervene on his behalf, excluded in his turn from Kendal corporation for his Quaker activities in September 1653, had prolonged dispute over neglect of his aldermanic duties and voted to be expelled (CRO, WSMB/K/ HMC bdle A/12), but continued to offer some protection and remained leading spokesman for Quaker movement in legal matters, esp active in arguments against tithes, lobbying Parliament against gathering of tithes in December 1653 and writing pamphlet Cry of the Oppressed (1656), and also against taking of oaths, which affected probate matters, publishing A true testimony concerning oaths & swearing &c (1669) and A second testimony concerning oaths and swearing (1675), off the bench by May 1659 (PRO, SP18/203/33), marr 1st (1634) Dorothy [Dawson?] (buried at Haygarth, 28 February 1656), 3 sons (yst, Emmanuel, born in prison at York in December 1653) and later marr Mary Fawcett at Dent, 21 December 1682, with son and dau bapt there in 1683-85) and 5 daus, marr 2nd (1660) Mabell, widow of John Camm, of Camsgill, variously of Haygarth, Cautley [now Cross Keys Inn], and Borrett in Sedbergh, before moving back to Kendal c.1678, where he died and buried in Quaker Sepulchre burial ground, 5 May 1679; made his will as a yeoman (PRO, PC2/57, p.33; pr 1679) (CBP; David Boulton; BoR, 18, 24; KK, 312-313; ECW, ii, 880~933)
Benson, Rev John MA Cantab (1773-1831), of St Helen’s Cockermouth, master of the Cockermouth Harriers; Hud (C)
Benson, Joseph (1749-1821), Wesleyan Methodist minister, born at Huddlesceugh Hall, near Renwick (Jane Platt, NH, XLIX:2, 343) or at Melmerby (ODNB), 25 January 1749, son of John Benson (d.1769), landowner, and his wife Isabella Robinson (d.1779), father intended him to enter church and placed him in care of local Presbyterian minister, who gave him a classical education, became a teacher at Gamblesby at age of sixteen, underwent an evangelical conversion in 1765 after conversation with his cousin, Joshua Watson, journeyed to Newcastle in hope of meeting John Wesley in December 1765, missed him and went on to London, missed him again and finally met at Bristol, president of Methodist Conference in 1798 and 1810, also served as secretary of conference in 1805 and 1809, editor of Methodist Magazine from 1803 until his death and introduced natural philosophy, died in London, 16 February 1821 and buried in City Road Chapel burial ground (C&W Advertiser, 1 July 1884, p.6) (see Huddlesceugh Hall poem by Thomas Watson (qv) in The Patriarch’s Aeolian Harp)
Benson, Robert I (1749-1802), quaker and merchant born Hawkshead, lived Kendal and Liverpool, m. Sally Rathbone [1751-1827], dau of William Rathbone III, joined William Rathbone IV to establish Rathbone and Benson in 1786, of 20 Cornhill, Liverpool, anti-slavery, in 1790s the war with France involved the protection of their ships and their business grew, shipbuilding, railway financiers, James Cropper (qv) was a junior partner but set up on his own in 1799, the Bensons eventually joined the Kleinworts of Holstein to establish Kleinwort and Benson; Jehanne Wake, Kleinwort Benson: The History of Two Families in Banking, 1997
Benson, Revd Robert (c.1769-1799), schoolmaster, Master of Heversham Grammar School, buried at Heversham, 9 February 1799, aged 30
Benson, Robert (Rathbone) II (1785-1846), merchant banker, m. Mary Dochray [d.1824] of the Lancaster Dockray family West Indies merchants, RRB was good at exploiting new markets, shipped sugar to Archangel in northern Russia; Jehanne Wake, Kleinwort Benson: The History of Two Families in Banking, 1997
Benson, Robert III (1814-1875), merchant banker, m. Eleanor Moorson [1824-1883]; Jehanne Wake, Kleinwort Benson: The History of Two Families in Banking, 1997
Benson, Robert (Robin) IV (1850-1929), merchant banker and art collector, ed Oxford, member of the Oxford team which won the FA cup in 1874, m. Evelyn (1856-1943) dau of Robert Stanyon Holford of Westonbirt, Glos, five children, notably Lt Col Sir Reginald Lindsey Benson DSO MVO MC (1889-1968) also a merchant banker, his art collection included work by Duccio, Titian, Giorgione, Gainsborough and Burne-Jones; Jehanne Wake, Kleinwort Benson: The History of Two Families in Banking, 1997
Benson, Robert (b.1881) RA, artist, son of Constantine William Benson (1852-1905) and grandson of Robert Benson III (1814-1875) (qv)
Benson, Thomas (d.1777), steward of the estates of the duke of Portland, owned Wreay Hall and the manor of Hartrigg, marr Jane dau of John Fletcher of Clea Hall; Hud (C)
Benson, Thomas, partner with Robert Baynes as deputy steward of Egremont manor court, then steward from 1768, bailiff of Borough and Lordship of Egremont for long period, son of John Benson, owner of the King’s Arms, Egremont, marr sister of Robert Baynes (qv), resided at Cockermouth (CW2, xvii, 50); Benson, Robert, son of above………………..
Bentinck, George Augustus Frederick Cavendish- (1821-1891), PC, JP, MA, MP, politician, barrister and cricketer, born at Westminster, 9 July 1821, only son of Major-General Lord Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck, CB (4th and yst son of 3rd Duke of Portland, KG), and Mary (d.1862), dau of 1st Earl of Lonsdale (qv), known as ‘Little Ben’ to distinguish him from his cousin, Sir George Bentinck, known as ‘Big Ben’, educ Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, played for school 1st XI v. MCC in 1837 and 1839, made first class debut for MCC v. Oxford University on 1 June 1840 (scoring 11), then for Cambridge University v. MCC on 1 July 1841, played eight other first class games for MCC, scoring 53 runs in total, making a total of 11 games and 66 runs (av 5.50), commissioned into Grenadier Guards in 1840 but retired in following year, called to bar, Lincoln’s Inn in 1846 and became an equity draftsman and conveyancer, in politics he stood unsuccessfully for borough of Taunton in April 1859 but was elected for the seat at a by-election in August 1859 until 1865, when he was returned unopposed for Whitehaven, which he held until his death in 1891, Parliamentary Secretary to Board of Trade 1874-1875 in second Disraeli government, Privy Councillor 1875, Judge Advocate-General 1875-1880, Trustee of British Museum from 1875 until his death, JP for cos Cumberland and Dorset, purchased Branksea Castle on Branksea (later Brownsea) Island in 1873, introduced Jersey cows and developed agriculture on the island, marr (14 August 1850) Prudence Penelope (d. 22 June 1896), dau of Colonel Charles Powell Leslie, of Glaslough, Monaghan, 2 sons and 2 daus, died at Branksea Castle, 9 April 1891, aged 69
Bentinck, Lord Henry Cavendish (1863-1931), TD, DL, JP, CC, landowner and politician, born 28 May 1863, 2nd son of Lieut-General Arthur Cavendish Bentinck (1817-1877) by his 2nd wife, Augusta Mary Elizabeth (later cr Baroness Bolsover 1880 and died 1893), yr dau of Hon and Very Revd H M Browne, dean of Lismore (see Kilmaine, Baron), and brother of Lady Ottoline Morrell, granted precedence as younger son of a duke on 23 February 1880, MP for North West Norfolk 1886-1892 and for South Nottingham 1895-1906, served in South African War 1899-1900, Lord Lieutenant of Westmorland 1926-1931, DL (apptd in February 1894), hon col 2nd Vol Battn, Border Regt, Lieut-Col, Derbyshire Imperial Yeomanry, unveiled War Memorial Cross in Kirkby Lonsdale churchyard on 6 June 1921, president of Conservative Club, Bank House, Highgate, Kendal (1905), marr (27 January 1892) Lady Olivia Taylour (qv), dau of Earl of Bective, no issue, also of 53 Grosvenor Street, London, died at Underley Hall, Kirkby Lonsdale, 6 October 1931, aged 68 (CW2, xxxii, 194)
Bentinck, Lady Henry Cavendish, Olivia Caroline Amelia (nee Taylour) (1869-1939), born 22 January 1869, er dau and only surviving child of Thomas Earl of Bective (qv) (son of 3rd Marquess of Headfort), marr (27 January 1892) Lord Henry Cavendish Bentinck (qv), Lady of Grace of Order of St John of Jerusalem, died at Underley Hall, Kirkby Lonsdale, 29 November 1939, aged 70 (CW2, xl, 230-231)
Bentinck, William, 2nd duke of Portland (1709-1762) (see Cavendish-Bentinck) after the 1745, he gave the townspeople of Penrith a brass chandelier (now in St Andrew’s church) to thank them for their efforts at defending the town against Bonnie Prince Charlie (qv)
Berkowitz, Maggie (nee Angus) (1928-2019), ceramic artist, born Skerton, Lancaster, dau of James Angus, educ Lancaster GGS, Lancaster College of Art, apprenticed to George Cook of Ambleside, went to New York, married Marvin Berkowitz, four children, divorced, returned to Cumbria, specialised in hand made tiles, exhibition via Mary Burkett (qv) at Abbot Hall, public work includes Appleby Swimming Pool and Kendal Town Mural; Tile UK, 1998; Guardian obit 28 Jan 2019
Bernard (d.1214; ODNB), bishop of Carlisle
Bernard, Charles (fl.1870s and 1880s), performer and theatre manager, as a performer was joint owner of the Bernard and Vestris Minstrels, as a manager after successful runs at theatres in Glasgow, Newcastle he failed to ran Her Majesty’s Theatre, Carlisle with profit in 1880s, electric lighting installed 1882 (a year after the first theatre in the UK The Savoy, London), Her Majesty’s was destroyed by fire in 1904, rebuilt and remained under other management until demolished 1980); www.arthurlloyd.com; www.theglasgowstory.com
Bernard, Joseph Alexis (1807-1880), newspaper editor, native of London, secretary to Whitwell, MP for Kendal, when promoting Kendal and Settle Railway [abandoned], joined Midland Railway Company, later office manager for Messrs Fell & Co, of Greenodd, first secretary of Ulverston Water Works, Editor of Ulverston Advertiser (succ J Stanyan Bigg, qv), founding editor and manager of the Ulverston Mirror and Furness Reflector in 1860 till forced out by investors registered as proprietors in place of editor, 14 February 1863, thereafter moved to Dalton and acted as cashier to Joseph Rawlinson, ironmaster, then returned to Ulverston, where he died and buried in cemetery, followed shortly by wife (CW3, vii, 193-213; FFW, 83-87)
Berresford, Horsley-, see Horsley
Berry, Francis Keith (18xx-19xx), MA, clergyman, educ St Catherine’s college, Oxford (BA 1905, MA 1909), trained at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford 1906, d 1907 (Colch for St Alb) and p 1908 (St Alb), curate of Burnham-on-Crouch 1907-1910, St Michael, Harrogate 1910-1911, Wickwar, Glos 1911-1912, lic to pr, dio Carlisle 1913-1914, curate of Newbarns with Hawcoat, Barrow-in-Furness 1914-1920, vicar of Seathwaite 1920-1928, vicar of Eskdale 1928-1935, vicar of Haile from 1935, decd by 1947
Berry, Geoffrey V (1914-1988), OBE, FCA, conservationist and accountant, born in Salisbury, 13 May 1914, educ Bishop Wordsworth’s School, Salisbury, held accountancy posts with local authorities in Salisbury, Bognor Regis, and Whitley Bay, Clerk and CFO, Rishton UDC, Lancs 1939-1946 and Stevenage UDC, Herts 1946-1950, moved to Westmorland in 1950 as Senior Acc Asst, North West Electricity Board 1950-1965, Secretary of Friends of the Lake District 1965-1977, Consultant Secretary from 1977, dedicated to protection of Lake District, campaigned for conservation and amenity groups, also involved with promotion of National Trust, Council for National Parks, Youth Hostels Association and County Naturalists’ Trust, author of books on landscape conservation and walking, inc Across Northern Hills (1975), The Lake District: A Century of Conservation (with Geoffrey Beard) (1980), A Tale of Two Lakes: The Fight to Save Ennerdale Water and Wastwater (FLD, 1982), The Story of Haweswater: Mardale Revisited (1984), keen photographer (collection in Kendal Library), contributed photographs to many Lake District publications (inc Harry Griffin’s books and J D Marshall’s Old Lakeland), diaries (in CRO WDX 671), marr Molly, 1 dau, of 27 Greenside, Kendal, died 29 January 1988, aged 75
Berry, James (1852-1913), hangman, born Heckmondwike, assistant at 500 executions, personally hanging 131 felons between 1884 and 1891, refined the ‘long drop’ method, executed Anthony Benjamin Rudge, James Baker and John Martin on 8 Feb 1886 in Carlisle who had burgled Netherby Hall (stealing jewels belonging to Lady Graham) and killed a policeman, PC Joseph Byrnes on 29 Oct 1885; Stewart P Evans, Chronicles of James Berry, 2004; James Berry, My Experiences as an Executioner (ed. H Snowden Ward, 2020
Berry, John (‘Buff’) (1866-1930), rugby international, born on Fellside, Kendal, 25 September 1866, played both rugby league and rugby union as fly half from the age of 28, marr, 2 sons and 3 daus, of 3 Elm Street, Tyldesley, capped for England playing against Wales, Ireland and Scotland, died at Manchester Royal Infirmary, 11 May 1930, aged 63
Berry, John (late 19thc-after 1939), police officer, Chief Constable of Barrow-in-Furness Borough Police, also Inspector of Weights and Measures, Marine Stores, Explosive Acts, Diseases of Animals Acts, Food and Drugs Acts, Employment of Children and Prevention of Cruelty to Children Acts, Shop Hours Regulations Acts, and Common Lodging Houses, and also Official Sampler, offices at Cornwallis Street, resigning at meeting of Watch Committee on 16 September 1939, after 32 years’ service
Berry, John (c.1864-1944), MA, clergyman, educ Magdalene College, Cambridge (scholar, BA 1886, MA 1890), d 1887 Ripon and p 1889 Wakf, curate of Lockwood 1887-1890, Brighouse 1890-1891 and Lightcliffe 1891-1892, vicar of Silsden, Yorkshire 1892-1915, rector of Kirkby Thore 1915-1937 (instituted 3 June 1915), submitted paper on history of church for visit of CWAAS to Kirkby Thore on 17 September 1926, marr Emmeline (buried at Kirkby Thore, 7 May 1936, aged 77), retired to 83 Otley Road, Harrogate, where he died, aged 81, buried at Kirkby Thore, 4 February 1944
Berry, Michael R W (1930-2004), OBE, FCA, businessman, born 8 May 1930, nephew of Norman H Buckley (qv), educ Mill Hill School, qualified chartered accountant, Blackpool 1954, Captain, Royal Army Pay Corps 1955, joined Sulzer Bros (London) Ltd, Swiss engineering company 1959 and became Finance Director, Chairman and Managing Director (to 1998), English Lakes Hotels Ltd from 1974 (joined uncle, Norman Buckley, in management of his hotels in 1972), developed the Low Wood Hotel and active in the campaign to allow water-skiing on Windermere, involved with Cumbria Tourist Board, Cumbria Training and Enterprise Council, Cumbria Rural Development Agency, President, Ambleside Sports Association, etc, author (with Reid Youen [died 25 August 1999 and buried in Crook churchyard]) of A Sunlit, Intimate Gift…Low Wood on Windermere: Three Hundred Years of Lakeland History 1702-2002 (2002), marr, 2 sons (Simon and Ben), of Cartmel Fell, died 14 June 2004; CW3 xiv 250
Berry, Walter II, carrier, (Walter Berry d.1840; buried at Milnthorpe, 21 October 1840, aged 75), tenant of Birkett’s Farm at Bridge End, Milnthorpe in 1826, taking over various shipping concerns from Foxcrofts, kept stable of 30 horses for carrying, hiring to local inns and drawing wood to Wilsons of Dallam Tower, with his son, Walter III Berry (d.1856; buried at Milnthorpe, 13 July 1856, aged 58), he developed carrying trade between vessels at Glasson Dock and all parts of south Westmorland, but this trade diminished and virtually died out after opening of Lancaster-Kendal Canal in 1819, leaving trade between Liverpool and Sandside, with coasting vessels bringing flour and salt and returning with ropes, twine, hempen cloth and agricultural produce, then engaged with moving girders and ironwork for building Furness Railway viaduct from 1857, but this then prevented any vessels coming up bay, then carried on trade at Blackstone Point for a time, but way across Arnside marshes too treacherous for carts; Walter IV Berry (1837-1906) born in July 1837 on day of Milnthorpe church’s consecration and died at Birkett’s Farm (in house erected in 1877), aged 69, buried at Milnthorpe, 29 September 1906 (day books 1838-1863 in CRO, WDB 1; HwM, 77)
Berry, William sr (17xx-1833), JP, comb maker, mayor of Kendal 1795-96 and 1812-13, senior alderman and magistrate of Kendal (resigned April 1832), member of Committee for Kendal Workhouse from 1800, headed subscription list (as mayor with 5 guineas) at meeting for relief of sufferers by Bonaparte’s expedition to Russia held in Kendal on 13 January 1813, Wm Berry & George & Co, ivory comb and tablet makers, Finkle Street, Kendal (1829), set up first steam-engine (of two and a half horse power) in Kendal for cutting ivory combs in August 1801 (in what is now Berry’s Yard off Finkle Street, in building later occupied as snuff manufactory by Messrs Bushers), under mechanical management of Thomas Eastham (of Chorley, who subsequently became a partner in business and died 28 January 1822, aged 48), marr, 2 sons (William, jr (qv) and George, who died at Ashmeadow in August 1831, aged 39), died at Ashmeadow House, Beetham, aged 65, and buried at Kendal, 21 March 1833 (LC,3, 56, 84, 87, 117)
Berry, William jr (c.1791-1834), town clerk, son of William Berry, sr (qv), Town Clerk of Kendal Borough - by 1818, but resigned 1832, succ by Thomas Harrison (qv), of Burton-in-Kendal, but died at the Commercial Inn, Kendal, aged 43, and buried at Kendal, 4 April 1834 (KK, 70)
Bertioli, Francesco A[ntonio] (Frank) (1832-1912), artist, born at Marylebone, London in 1832 [no bapt recorded], son of Alexander and his wife, Finetta Caroline (nee Goff), (who were married at St James, Westminster, 1 May 1824), had brother and sisters, educ Blackheath Proprietary School, listed as an artist working in London between 1871 and 1889, painting genre and figure subjects, exhibiting at RA, Royal Institute of Art, Royal Hibernian Academy, and Royal Society of British Artists, listed in Morning Post in October 1877 as a professor of art at Alexandra Palace School of Art for Ladies and acting as Hon Director in 1882, living at Downshire Hill, St John’s, Hampstead in 1881-82, final London exhibit in 1889, living at Thornleigh, Wetheral by 1894, presumably having retired from teaching, exhibited at Tullie House, Carlisle in March 1896 (A Study of a Violin Player and A Stitch in Time), moved to Great Corby by 1897, sketch of Mary Pigg of Great Corby (1899) is only known local work [2013], listed as oil and water portrait artist at Great Corby in 1901, expressed concern for poor eyesight of children in 1908, suggesting ‘books should be in coloured type to harmonise with a tertiary coloured paper in just proportions as to intensity of hue and extent of space between the ink written lines, bearing in mind that this space should represent the third and most distant portions of visibility’, therby preventing ‘artificial’ short-sight, said to be a Conservative, Tariff Reformer and Imperialist, marr (18xx) (Jane) Catherine (nee Morgan) (born in Jersey in 1844, died at Great Corby, 8 February 1908, aged 63), no issue, died in July 1912, aged 80; no burial located and no will (WCL; CN, 01.02.2013)
Berwick, Geoffrey (19xx-19xx), clergyman, vicar of St Bees 1958-1960
Bessemer, Sir Henry (1813-1898), steel maker and inventor of the iron ‘converter’, of Huguenot extraction, registered 129 patents between 1838-1883, his new steel making production technique achieved a crucial reduction in carbon content, he set up a Bessemer converter for Barrow Haematite and Steel Co in May 1865, visited Workington prior to the installation there of another of his ‘converters’, he was much involved in the establishingof Sheffield as a major steel centre; the original Barrow ‘converter’ was, via W. Killingbeck (qv), given to the Science Museum; his son Anthony Bessemer was also an industrial inventor
Bessey, Gordon (1910-2001), CBE, education officer, b. Great Yarmouth, son of Edward Emerson Bessey [1875-1957], headmaster of the elementary school and his wife Mabel Scott [1887-1879], his grandfather was Edward J. Bessey, shipwright (his sister Enid [b.1912] was educated at Royal Holloway college, a schoolmistress in Poole, Dorset), m. 1937 Cynthia Bird dau of William and Mary Bird of Oxford, published on curriculum development in Kenya, appointed chief education officer Cumberland, est Bassenthwaite sailing club for education staff, CBE 1968, retired aged 65 in 1975, coincidentally upon the creation of Cumbria, large retirement party given in Carlisle attended by his successor, chairman of Voluntary Action Cumbria (1977), died in Alton, Hants; ancestry.com
Best, John (b.c.1527-1670), bishop of Carlisle, probably of Halifax, may have been a monk; CW3 i 69
Best, William Thomas (1826-1897; ODNB), organist, born at Carlisle, 13 August 1826, son of William Best, solicitor, of Castle Street, Carlisle (1829), showed talent for music as a child and studied with Abraham Young, assistant organist at Carlisle Cathedral, but father wanted him to be an engineer, sent to study in Liverpool in 1840, organist at Pembroke Road chapel, Liverpool 1840, had civil list pension of £100 p.a. from 1880, author of The Art of Organ Playing (1869), The Church Organist (1869), Modern School for the Organ (1872) Organ Music by Italian Composers (1886) and numerous transcriptions for the organ, his editions of works of Bach, Handel and Mendelssohn were well received as was his work on the Anglican ordinary, considered one of great English organists of 19th century, at great ease with improvisation, good pedal technique, well known to public for his inaugurations and dedications of many organs in public buildings (Royal Albert Hall, Sheffield, etc) and in great demand, died in Liverpool, 10 May 1897 (Frank Musgrove, NH, 1999; T Heywood, The Best Centenary 1897-1997, 2001
Beswick, John (fl.mid 19thc), uncle of Thomas Baker Ashworth (qv), lived Cockermouth and the Isle of Man, his daughter Alice married Thomas Cook Windross (qv)
Betham, Mary Matilda (1776-1852), artist, daughter of the Rev Robert Betham of Stonham Aspal, met the artist John Opie who taught her cousin Jane Betham Read (1773-1857)
Betham, Rev William (1749-1839), cleric and antiquary, born Little Strickland, son of William Betham (b.1698), educated Bampton GS and ordained in 1773, chaplain to the earl of Ancaster, headmaster of Stonham Aspel grammar school, Suffolk from 1784-1833, then rector of Stoke Lacy, married Mary Damant, his son was Sir William Betham, Ulster King of Arms (qv), another son was Edward Betham, he published The Baronetage of England in five volumes (c.1795) dedicated to George III
Betham, Sir William (1779-1853), antiquary, born Stradbroke, Suffolk, the son of the Rev William Betham (qv), Irish herald, then Ulster King of Arms (1820-1853), knighted 1812, a member of the American Antiquarian Society, died Dublin
Bethel, Samuel Leslie (b.1908), Shakespeare scholar, born Workington, publ Shakespeare and the Popular Dramatic Tradition (1944) (with an introduction by TS Eliot), also Literary Criticism and the English Tradition (1958), copies not in the BL but in Australia
Bethell, John Henry (1859-1945), 1st baron Bethell, b. Grange over Sands, son of George Bethell of South Woodford and his wife Frances Tipper, ed Heversham GS and Kings London, director Barclays and the Royal Exchange Insurance Group, twice mayor of East Ham, Liberal MP Romford and later East Ham baronet 1911, baron 1922, m Florence Wyles 1895, 3sons 3 daus; (Levens Newsletter 5, CRO, WDSo 327); 4th baron a grandson of 1st baron Russian interpreter, worked TLS and BBC, libelled by Private Eye; 5th baron MEP 1979-1994, currently 2021 junior Health Minister
Bethell, Sir Thomas (1867-1957), barrister and MP, b. Grange over Sands, son of George Bethell of south Woodford and his wife Frances Tipper, ed Heversham GS and Kings College London, MP Maldon, Essex 1906-1910, knighted 1914, m. Edith Lillie Tabor (d.1957)
Bethom (Beetham), Sir Edward Bethom Beetham, KCMG CVO (1905-1979), colonial administrator, his family were of Thrimby and Little Strickland, educated Charterhouse and Lincoln College, Oxford, commissioner Swaziland 1946-1950 and then Bechuanaland to 1953, then to the West Indies, governor of Trinidad and Tobago; Hud (W)
Bethom, Sir Ralph (late 13thc), of Whicham, granted the lands of John de Haile in Haile by the king before 1266, in 1278 Sir Richard de Bethom granted estovers in Whicham to the rector; Hud (C)
Bethom (Betham), William (1749-1839; ODNB), headmaster and antiquary, of Thrimby and Little Strickland, headmaster in Stonham Aspel, Suffolk, published The Baronetage of England (1801-5)
Bethom (Betham) Sir William (1779-1853; ODNB), antiquary, son of William Bethom (1749-1839; ODNB), also of Thrimby and Little Strickland, deputy keeper of records at Dublin Castle 1805, knighted 1812, Ulster King of Arms 1820, member of Royal Irish Academy 1826, published inter alia The Gael and Cymbri (1834); Hud (W)
Betjeman, Sir John [1906-1945; ODNB], poet, performed at Rosehill theatre, spoke warmly of St John’s Waberthwaite and observed that the popularity of the Lakes is not Wordsworth himself but ‘as Wordsworth knew, it’s because everything here is on the right scale’ (Betjeman’s England)
Bettison, Francis H (1881-19xx), clergyman, curate of Crosthwaite
Bevan, Richard Justin William (1922-2018), PhD, DTh, BA, clergyman, born 21 April 1922 in St Harmon, near Rhayader, 2nd son of Revd Richard Bevan and his wife Margaret, educ St Edmund’s School, Canterbury (Foundationer, Junior School 1931 and Baker House to July 1939), St Augustine’s College, Canterbury 1939, and St Chad’s College, Durham (LTh 1942, BA 1945, DTh 1972, PhD 1980), d 1945 and p 1946 dio Lichfield, curate, Stoke-on-Trent 1945-1949, chaplain, Abelour Orphanage 1949-1951, lic to offic, dio Moray 1949-1951 and dio Blackburn 1951-1952, curate, Church Kirk 1952-1956 and Whalley 1956-1961, chaplain of Durham University 1961-1974, fondly dubbed ‘Rev Bev’, rector of St Mary le Bow with St Mary the Less 1961-1964, priest-in-Charge 1964-1967 and rector 1967-1974, vicar of St Oswald, Durham 1964-1974, rector of Grasmere 1974-1982, canon resident, librarian and treasurer of Carlisle Cathedral 1982-1989, with creative input into building and enhancement of underground Treasury, vice-dean 1986-1989, chaplain to Queen 1986-1993, examining chaplain to bishop of Carlisle, retired 1989, perm to offic, dio Carlisle 1989-2010, man of immense energy, enthusiasm and erudition with engaging personality and charm, catalogued bishop of Carlisle’s library at Rose Castle in retirement, edited life of Bishop John Cosin of Durham, author of Does God Exist? and Steps to Christian Understanding, also author of many poems, marr (1948) Sheila at Emmanuel Church, Fazakerley in Liverpool, 4 sons (one died inf) and 1 dau, of 15 Solway Park, Carlisle, then retired to Burgh-by-Sands for 24 years, and died at Dulverton House Clergy Retirement Home, Scarborough, 13 March 2018, aged 95, with Thanksgiving Service at Carlisle Cathedral, 8 July followed by interment of ashes in Burgh-by-Sands churchyard (CN, 11.05.2018)
Bewes, Henry (Harry) (18xx-19xx), parish clerk, last parish clerk of Wigton for 35 years from 29 July 1859 to 20 July 1894 (HW, 278-279)
Bewley family of Hesket, from temp Henry VII (originally spelled Beaulieu), Richard and his son Matthew appeared at the muster at Caldbeck temp. Henry VIII; Hud (C), Sir Edmund Thomas Bewley, The Bewleys of Cumberland, 1902
Bewley, Joshua (1819-1900; ODNB), son of Samuel a Dublin silk merchant and descended from Mungo Bewley of Woodhall (C) who left for Ireland c.1700
Bewley, Judith, daughter of William Bewley of Hesket Hall, married William Lawson of Isel, dressed in a tall puritan hat her portrait, formerly at Brayton, is illustrated in Sir Edmund Thomas Bewley, The Bewleys of Cumberland, 1902, p.87
Bewsher family, brewers of Tirril and Penrith; CFHS June 2020 p19ff
Bibby, Joseph J (19xx-1978), Cumbria County Councillor, member for Dalton South, of 45 Newton Road, Dalton-in-Furness, died 21 March 1978
Bibby, Thomas, tailor, lived at Bouth, established Ulverston playhouse in a barn at the White Hart Hotel, Bouth, tickets in the pit cost 1/6 and the gallery 1/-
[Bickersteth family, locate pedigree, some confusion between Henrys and Edwards]
Bickersteth, Edward jr (1786-1850; ODNB), clergyman and evangelical leader, born at Kirkby Lonsdale, 19 March 1786, yst of five sons of Henry Bickersteth (qv), grandson of Edward, bishop of Exeter, his son Henry a surgeon qv, co-founder of the Parker Society, bishop of South Tokyo
Bickersteth, Rt Rev Edward Henry (1825-1906), bishop, poet and editor of hymnals, son of Rev Edward Bickersteth and nephew of Henry Bickersteth Lord Langdale (qv), bishop of Exeter, portrait Arthur Stockdale Cope
Bickersteth, Henry (d.1821), surgeon, of 4 Beck Head, Kirkby Lonsdale (formerly Pack Horse Inn), son of Edward sr qv, purchased practice of a doctor Newby in 1755, purchased Deansbiggin from trustees of will of John Batty, on 21 February 1801, marr Elizabeth, dau of John Batty, of Kirkby Lonsdale, 5 sons (James Batty (born 10 April 1779), John (born 19 June 1781), Henry (qv) and Edward (qv)) and 2 daus, made will on 2 October 1820, died 18 May 1821 (CW2, xxix, 247)
Bickersteth, Henry, 1st Baron Langdale (1783-1851; ODNB), PC, KC, MA, Master of the Rolls and law reformer, born at Kirkby Lonsdale, 18 June 1783, 3rd son of Dr Henry Bickersteth (qv), educ Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Kirkby Lonsdale, and Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge (scholar, BA 1808, MA 1811), pupil of John Bell (qv), KC in May 1827, apptd privy councillor on 16 January 1836 and Master of the Rolls on 19 January, created Baron Langdale, of Langdale on 23 January 1836, a reluctant peer, but became ‘father of record reform’ which led to setting up of Public Record Office in Chancery Lane
Bickersteth, Jane Elizabeth (nee Lady Jane Harley, later Lady Langdale) (1796-1872), daughter of the 5th earl of Oxford, married Henry Bickersteth (1783-1851) (qv), later Master of the Rolls, they had one daughter Jane Frances (qv)
Bickersteth, Jane Frances (1836-1870), daughter of Henry Bickersteth, Lord Langdale (qv), who married Count Alexander Teleki de Szek (1821-1892) who had fought with Garibaldi, he wrote Under Garibaldi (1883), his relative Pal Teleki was Prime Minister of Hungary, Jane Teleki edited The Works of Geronimo Volta-Casacca and translated Byron’s Childe Harold into Hungarian (details BL catalogue)
Bickersteth, John Burgon MC and bar (1888-1974; ODNB), academic administrator, son of Rev Samuel Bickersteth, his mother dau of Sir Monier Monier-Williams and one of Lewis Carroll’s little girls, and brother of Kenneth Bickersteth (qv), educ Sorbonne, Lt. 1st WW, warden of Hart House, university of Alberta, published the History of the 6th Cavalry Brigade and The Land of Open Doors (1914), Member of the Order of Canada for services to education in West Canada
Bickersteth, Kenneth Julian Faithfull MC (1885-1962; ODNB), clergyman and headmaster, b. Ripon, son of Canon Samuel Bickersteth, his mother dau of Sir Monier Monier Williams and one of Lewis Carroll’s little girls, educ Rugby and Christchurch Coll Oxford, curacies, in 1912 to Australia as chaplain at Melbourne GS, chaplain 1st WW, head St Peter’s Adelaide, involved university of Adelaide, back in the UK became headmaster of Felsted; his nephew John M Bickersteth (1922-2018) was bishop of Bath and Wells
Bickersteth, Robert (1816-1884; ODNB), bishop, son of the Rev John Bickersteth, nephew of Lord Langdale (qv), cousin of Edward bishop of Exeter, educ Queens Coll, curate Reading, rector St John Clapham, and Giles in the Fields, canon of Salisbury, bishop of Ripon 1857, three publications
Bicknell, Peter (1907-1995), architect, lecturer, topographical historian and rock climber, b. Durham, son of Raymond Percy Bicknell (1875-1927), the manager of a brewery and his wife Phillis Ellen Lovibond, taught architecture at Cambridge for fifty years, keen climber who was invited to join an Everest expedition in the 1930s, president of the Climbers Club, author of several books including Beauty, Horror and Immensity (with the Fitzwilliam museum; 1981), The Discovery of the Lake District: A Context for Wordsworth (with Robert Woof; 1982), Gilpin to Ruskin: Drawing Masters and their Manuals 1800-1860 (with Jane Munro; 1988) and the remarkable bibliography, The Picturesque Scenery of the Lake District (1990), lived in Cambridge at Essex House (1939) and Newton Rd (1995), presented his large collection of topographical books to Kings College, died at Avignon; obit Independent 6 June 1995
Biddall, George (d.1909), travelling showman, toured in the north of England and in Scotland, married Selina Smith a tightrope performer in 1870, dau of the ‘Sans Pareil’ circus family, 5 sons daughters, performed at Workington, Whitehaven, Maryport, Cockermouth and Penrith, gave their name to the Fair Field, known for his Ghostodrama, his son Joey was a clown, involved in the early silent movie shows, performed free for the residents of the workhouse, died Cockermouth, crowds gathered to watch his cortege, funeral at Christ Church, large monument in Cockermouth cemetery; Times and Star, 2 August 2013; Frances Brown, Fairground Strollers and Fair Folk, 2001
Bidwell, Paul OBE FSA (1949-2022), archaeologist, leading excavator and Roman pottery specialist, educated Exeter university, moved north in 1980 to excavate at Vindolanda and then at Arbeia, here he was involved in presenting the site to the local community, honoured with a festschrift Roman Frontier Archaeology in Britain at the 30th anniversary of the Arbeia Society (2022); CWAAS newsletter 2023, obit The Times 11 January 2023
Bigg, Rose Anne Hart (nee Pridham), (b.c.1825), newspaper proprietor and feminist, m. John Stanyan Bigg in 1852, whose early death in 1865 led to her work in Barrow; CW3 ii 277; see Jefferson
Bigg, John [1861-1931], cricketer; b. Barrow
Bigg, John Stanyan (1828-1865; ODNB), poet and journalist, born at Ulverston, 14/15 July 1828 and bapt at St Mary’s church, 2 November, son of John Gorrell Bigg (died 4 November 1868, aged 73), draper, of King Street, Ulverston, later gent, of Sunderland Terrace (1849), and his wife Ann (died 11 March 1855, aged 53), had a sister Eliza Ann (bapt 27 January 1830 and died 31 May 1849, aged 19), educ Town Bank Grammar School and boarding school in Warwickshire (1841-1846), published first poem The Sea King after his return to Ulverston, kept a private school in Ulverston for a time, apptd editor of Ulverston Advertiser by Soulby in 1847, published poem Night of the Soul (1854) before moving to Ireland in 1856 and apptd editor of the Downshire Protestant, published novel Alfred Staunton (1858) with use of dialect, marr (at Downpatrick, co Down) [?or at Carlisle in 1852] Rose Anne Hart Pridham (qv sub Jefferson), 3 sons, returned to resume editorship of Ulverston Advertiser in 1860 in opposition to new Ulverston Mirror, also becoming proprietor in 1863, published last volume of poems Shifting Scenes, and other poems (1862), died of a stroke at 7 Hoad Terrace, Ulverston, 19 May 1865, aged 35, and buried in Holy Trinity churchyard, Ulverston, 21 May (CW3, ii, 277-300; v, 199-203; NLM (1894), i, 12; Ulverston MIs); obit Gent Mag after May 1865, Ulverston Advertiser 25 May 1865
Bigland family of Bigland Hall, seated there from 15thc, failed in the male line on death of George Braddyll Bigland (qv) in 1915 (Hudleston Armorial W)
Bigland, Charles Augustus Bigland, of Ravensworth, Burgess Hill, buried at Cartmel, 26 February 1904, aged 32
Bigland, Henry (d.1689) left £400 in his will to Cartmel Grammar School, the school was established by 1598
Bigland, George (d.1902), of Bigland Hall, buried at Cartmel, 11 February 1902, aged 71
Bigland, George Braddyll (1891-1915), army officer, 2nd Lieut, 4 King’s Own RL Regiment, last of male line of Bigland family, killed in action at Festubert in 1915, succ by his posthumous dau, Audrey Braddyll (bapt at Haverthwaite, 17 October 1915), who died unmarried (for his life see the end of this entry), and succ by her kinsman, John Bigland Tulk-Hart, solicitor, son of Thomas John Augustus Tulk-Hart, doctor, of Chapel Royal, Brighton (son of Eugene John Tulk-Hart, MD), and his wife Blanche Madeline (born 1873), dau of Thomas Bigland (qv), (who marr at Staveley-in-Cartmel on 29 April 1901), assumed name of Bigland, marr (193x) Miza Pauline xxx, 1 son (R J B, infra) and 1 dau (Sarah-Anne Guinevere (born 15 May 1936 and bapt at Haverthwaite, 28 June), marr (April 1960) William Victor Gubbins, of Eden Lacy, Great Salkeld), and was killed in action in 1944, and succ by his son, Richard John Braddyll Bigland (born 18 December 1938 and bapt at Haverthwaite, 1 July 1939), marr (19xx) Kate, artist, issue, sold Bigland Hall in 1992 and killed in light aircraft accident, 20 January 1994; Anthony John Bigland, of Cockenskell, Blawith, died 20 Decmber 2000, aged 58, and buried at Haverthwaite, 28 December; for George Braddyll Bigland see Editha B.H. Bigland, The Soldier Squire, Ulverston,1923; GBB’s monument Cartmel Priory
Bigland, (Joseph ?), apothecary of Wigton, advertised in the 1730s and 40s in the Newcastle Courant that he was the sole agent for ‘Grana Angelica’, a potion devised by Dr Patrick Anderson of Edinburgh, physician to Charles I which was held to have ‘rare and singular vertues’, he may be identical with the Joseph Bigland who received one shilling as a fine from Joseph Hayton, shoemaker, who had ‘uttered (words) in prejudice to the trade of me the said Joseph Bigland’ in 1706; CFHS June 2023 pp.22-6
Bigland, Percy (1856-1926) portraitist Birkenhead, son of Edward Bigland (1822-1882)
Bigland Ralph (1711-1784), Garter King of Arms (Hudleston)
Bigland, Sir Ralph (born Owen) (1757-1834), son of Joseph Owen of Salford and Elizabeth-Maria Bigland, changed his name to Bigland and adopted the family arms by royal license in 1774, in this year he became Rouge Dragon poursuivant at the College of Arms, in 1780 Richmond herald, in 1803 Norroy herald, Clarenceux in 1822 and Garter king of arms from 1831 to his death in 1838, he was the last herald to hold all three senior posts in succession; Bigland family notes by him are at Gloucester CRO
Bigland, Thomas Braddyll (d.1904), of 5 Shenley Road, Camberwell, buried at Cartmel, 13 May 1904, aged 72
Bigod, Francis JP MP (1507-1537; ODNB), prisoner Carlisle, born Yorkshire son of Sir John Bigod and Joan Strangways, father killed 1514 by the Scots when he was only 7, as an orphan lived in the household of Cardinal Wolsey, involved in the Pilgrimage of Grace and captured 10 Feb 1537, a committed Protestant, a commissioner for assessing monastic wealth who contributed to the Valor Ecclesiastes, he was out of step with the times as he sought monastic reform rather than dissolution, initially opposed to the Pilgrimage of Grace he eventually joined them, consequently he was hanged at Tyburn for treason, marr Katherine Conyers (d.1566)
Bilk, Acker (1929-2014), clarinet player and vocalist, had a goatee beard and wore a bowler hat, famous for his ‘Stranger on the Shore’ (1962), played at the Rink, Barrow in the 1970s; Ray Hewson, The Rink Files
Billinge, Rev Robert Burland [1847-1915], vicar of Urswick, m. Beatrice Blakeney Dixon [b.1853], grandfather of Ophelia Gordon Bell q.v., diarist, travelled to India, Burland Family database online
Bindloss, Alice Maud, m. Lt Col Hugh West Boddington of the Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry, their daughter Zaida Bindloss Boddington [1908-2001] m. T.T. Macan qv
Bindloss, Christopher (d.1581/89), chapman, Alderman of Kendal, one of 12 capital burgesses named in Kendal Charter of Incorporation in 1575, Alderman in 1579 (BoR, 22, 49), family originally of Helsington, marr Annes (buried at Kendal, 31 July 1591, as “wife of Mr Xpofer Byndelosse of Hyegait”), 4 sons (George (buried April 1559), Edward (buried 17 September 1561), Christopher (bapt 1570), of Heversham and Robert (d.1596, of Borwick) and 1 dau (Elizabeth, bapt 1574, buried 18 February 1576/77, at Kendal), died c.1581/89
Bindloss, Elizabeth (nee Kitching), marr Thomson Bindloss, erected reading room at Milnthorpe in memory of her brother in 1881
Bindloss, Sir Francis (1603-1629), bapt 9 April 1603, only son of Sir Robert Bindloss (qv), marr 1st Dorothy, dau of Thomas Charnoke, of Charnoke [Charnock], 1 dau (Mary, Mrs Dene, of Mansfield), marr 2nd Cecilia, dau of Thomas West, Lord Delaware [De La Warr] (and later wife of Sir John Byron), 4 sons (Dillsward (buried at Warton, April 1627), Robert (qv), Delaware (d. unm before 1664) and Francis (b.1630), of Brock Hall, Lancs, who marr (3 February 1648, at St Mary’s, Lancaster) Elizabeth West, dau of Henry Lord Delaware, and d.s.p.) and 1 dau (Dorothy, wife of Sir William or Charles Whe(e)ler, Bt, lieut-colonel of Guards to Charles II), died v.p. in 1629
Bindloss, James (1764-18xx), MA, clergyman, bapt at Heversham, 10 June 1764, 4th and yst son of Robert Bindloss (1722-1796), of Rowell and formerly of Heversham, and his wife, Jane Parke (d.1777), and uncle of Thompson Bindloss (qv), educ [?Heversham Grammar School] and Queen’s College, Oxford (matric 17 June 1784, BA 1790, MA 1793), marr (28 September 1795) Frances (born 15 August 1754, died 10 March 1814), dau of Revd Thomas Mosley, vicar of Wigginton, nr York, no issue
Bindloss, Robert (d.1595/6), clothier, prob son of Christopher Bindloss (qv), of Kendal, admitted Foreigner Freeman of Kendal borough in c.1575, later of Borwick Hall, acquired moiety of manor (inc Hall) in 1567 from Thomas and Marmaduke Redmayne and other moiety in 1590, marr Agnes Harrison, 5 sons and 3 daus (inc Agnes, wife of William Fleming, of Rydal, and Dorothy, wife of Sir Thomas Braithwaite (qv), of Burneside), owned land (10 messuages, etc and nearly 1,200 acres) in [and manor of] Mansergh, which they sold to William Burrow in 1576 (RK, ii, 386), made settlement of Borwick and much other property in 1587, with Borwick to devolve on his 2nd son Christopher and wife Millicent (dau of Roger Dalton), and failing their male issue, on his eldest son, Robert (qv), died in 1595 (CW2, xxv, 275-286)
Bindloss, Sir Robert (c.1558-1630), eldest son of Robert Bindloss (qv), aged 37 at his father’s death in 1595, succ to Borwick Hall on death of his yr brother Christopher in 1600 (who left only a daughter), MP for Lancaster 1613, marr 1st Alice, dau and coheir of Lancelot Dockwray, of Dockwray Hall, Kendal, 2 daus (Anne, wife of Henry Denton, and Alice, wife of Henry Bank, of Bank Newton, Yorks), marr 2nd (by 1603) Mary (buried at Warton, 25 December 1625), dau of Edmund Eltoft, of Thornhill in Craven, 1 son Francis (qv) and 3 daus (Dorothy, wife of Charles Middleton, of Belsay, Northumberland, Mary, wife of Robert Holt, of Castleton, Lancashire, and Jane, wife of Sir William Carnaby, of Bothall, Northumberland), died 1630 and succ by his grandson, Robert (qv)
Bindloss, Sir Robert (1624-1688), 1st Bt, of Borwick, bapt 8 May 1624, son of Sir Francis Bindloss, of Borwick Hall, by his 2nd wife Cecilia, succ his grandfather in 1630, cr baronet, 16 June 1641, marr Rebecca (buried 17 June 1708), dau and co-heir of Sir Hugh Perry, alderman of London, 1 dau (Cecilia (buried at Warton, 23 January 1728), who marr (August 1697) of William Standish, of Standish), granted market charter for Burton-in-Kendal, died aged 64 and buried at Warton, 15 November 1688, when baronetcy became extinct
Bindloss, Thompson (1797-1850), ironmonger and mayor of Kendal, bapt 16 July 1797, 4th and yst son of Philip Bindloss (1766-1802), of Rowell (died 29 January 1802, aged 35), by his wife, Jane (died 8 August 1831, aged 69), dau of Thomas Watson, of Park House, had sister Jane (died 17 March 1831, aged 31), had firm of Bindloss & Cooper, iron and steel merchants and nail manufacturers, wholesale and furnishing ironmongers, Kirkland, elected to reformed Kendal Corporation in 1835, Mayor of Kendal 1838-39 and 1844-45, chairman of committee for securing Return of Mr Warburton to Borough of Kendal in 1843, marr Elizabeth (died after fall on 21/23 October 1881, aged 78, and buried at Heversham, 27 October), dau of Edward Kitching, surgeon, and sister of Dr John Kitching (qv) (she had Institute and Reading Rooms in Milnthorpe built as memorial to her brother in 1880-81, but died after accident in Flowerden, the new house built on site of older one in which she had been born), no issue, of Castle Green, Sedbergh Road, Kendal (built for him by George Webster in 1848), where he died, x April 1850, aged 52, and buried at Heversham, 9 April; extract from will, dated 24 January 1856, bequeathing £700 to G E Wilson (qv) and John Kitching (qv, infra) on trust to purchase organ for Heversham church for £300 and invest £400 to employ an organist and also to repair his family tombstone in Heversham churchyard (MI) (CRO, WPR 8/12/3/3/1; WoK, 71)
Bindloss, William (1825-1895), DL, JP, municipal leader, philanthropist and ironmonger, born 2 May 1825, yr son of Robert Bindloss (1792-1840) and his wife Elizabeth Mitchell (marr 1818, at St Margaret’s, Westminster), and nephew of Thompson Bindloss (qv), apprenticed as boy to his uncle Thompson in his ironmonger’s business Bindloss & Cooper, formerly Bindloss & Nicholson, in Kirkland, working his way up being traveller for the firm to become a partner with his elder brother Robert (1823-1868), as Messrs Robert and William Bindloss (after Cooper left), but who was found dead in bed in Kirkland, 18 December 1868, aged 45, then retired from business on his marriage, marr (11 October 1869) Agnes Sarah (d.1894, aged 75), dau of Dr John Kitching (qv), thereby inheriting land and property in south Westmorland, also got portion of £100,000 estate of Miss Hannah Braithwaite after contesting her will, transformed from ironmonger to municipal benefactor, first elected to Kendal Corporation in 1877, apptd Alderman in 1880, Mayor of Kendal six times 1880-81, 1881-82, 1886-87, 1892-93, 1893-94, and 1894-95, carriage procession from Kendal Town Hall to Milnthorpe to open new Cottage Hospital (built as memorial to Dr Kitching) on 20 October 1881, inaugurated ‘Mayor’s complementary balls’ in 1882, benefactor of Town Hall extension in 1890s, contributing £7,000 towards alterations and £3,000 for purchase of carillon for clocktower, wife Agnes laid foundation stone, but died on 11 December 1894 before completion of work, also gave £30,000 towards cost of purchasing Kendal Union Gas and Water Company (Bindloss Room in Town Hall), also elected to Westmorland County Council on its formation in 1889 for one of Kendal divisions and elected an Alderman on death of W Wakefield in 1893, and re-elected for six years just three weeks before his death, DL for Westmorland, JP for both county and borough of Kendal, of Castle Green, Kendal, where he died, 2 April 1895, aged 69, and buried at Heversham, 5 April; portraits of Bindloss and wife by C Fischer in Kendal Town Hall (KCN, 06 and 13.04.1895; CM, 270-271; pedigree and papers in CRO, WD/MM/boxes 131-134); the family is acknowledged with the inclusion of a large B on the facade of the town hall
Binning, Samuel Jackson (d.1894), mayor of Carlisle, born Northumberland, worked on the Newcastle to Carlisle railway, married the daughter of James Thompson of Kirkhouse, colliery agent to the earl of Carlisle, later coal agent himself, 1859 member of Carlisle Rifle Volunteers, between Chatsworth Square and the Strand was Binnings Field named after him, in 1880 the East Cumberland Show Field and cycle track, the track was lit by electric light from 1879 and the admission was 1/6d, used by the Border City Cycle Club; Dens Perriam, C News, 18 April 2008
Binning, William Walter JP CC; E Gaskell, W and C Leaders
Bintley, Job [fl.1839-1886], land surveyor, Bampton tithe survey 1839 (CRO, WPR 15), of The Oaks, Brighouse, Yorkshire and at Colchester, but also owner of burgage dwelling house at 106 Kirkland, Kendal (1886)
Bintley, Joseph (c.1838-1921), architect, engineer and county surveyor, worked as pupil for five years in office of J S Crowther, architect, of 22 Princess Street, Manchester, and one year with Paley of Lancaster from c.1854, then in business on his own account, built number of houses in Kendal (inc Underfell for J J Wilson, Ellor Bank near railway for W Thomson, 20 Greenside for T Greenwood, etc), Ross Cottage, Barrows Green (for William Slee, 1864), Fallbarrow, Windermere (for John Rawson) [but new Pevsner attrib to Crowther, c.1869], vicarage at Over Kellet (for Revd George Quirk), at Barrow and Dalton (for Joseph Rawlinson), and extension to Tallentire Hall, Bridekirk in 1863 (for William Browne), had burgage offices in Old Town Hall Buildings (1864), then of 7 Lowther Street, Kendal, applied for situation of Westmorland County Bridge Master, Kendal (application of 13 August 1866, with testimonials, in CRO, WD/Cu/198), having at that time carried out or had work in hand to a cost of over £60,000, County Surveyor and Architect, worked with Cornelius Nicholson (qv) on construction of Kentmere reservoirs, plans incl Kendal Gaol 1875 (CRO, WDX 1614), other county work inc police stations at Kirkby Stephen 1887-, Tebay 1905, and Windermere 1913-14, author of report on inspection of roads in South Westmorland District Council area 1895, designed new villa ‘Applegarth’ for John Rigg in 1891 (plan in CRO, WSUD/W1/51A & B), other work inc plan of Railway Hotel, Kendal (1903) (CRO, WDX 1538), marr Anne Lena, 1 son (George Rawson, born 19 March 1870 and bapt 25 June, at Staveley) and 4 daus (Lena, born 23 June 1866 and bapt 24 November; Annie Elizabeth, born 10 August 1867 and bapt 19 October; Mary Elizabeth Maud, born 1 March 1869 and bapt 7 March; and Alice Lena, bapt 6 April 1872, all at Staveley), of Kirkland, Kendal until 1864/5, then of Common Head, Staveley (1866, 1921), died aged 83 and buried at Ings, 16 April 1921 [Mary Elizabeth Bintley, of 8 Longcroft Road, Ben Rhydding, Ilkley, buried at Ings, 5 November 1914, aged 78]
Binyon, Alfred (1800-1856), member of the family of bankers in Kendal, financed Richard Arkwright, his dau Frances m. Rev Reginald Remington (1827-1909) (qv), Merlewood, Grange-over-Sands built by him 1853, died 1856, buried at Lindale, 26 August 1856, aged 56; Manchester City News May 1907; his daughter Alice m Thomas Machell Remington (1836-1900) (qv)
Binyon (nee Powell), Cecily Margaret (1876-1962), writer, dau of a clergyman called Powell, marr Laurence Binyon (qv), mother of Helen and Margaret Binyon and Nicolete Gray (qqv), wrote The Mind of the Artist (1909) and The Dramatic Works of John Ford (repr 2012)
Binyon, Helen (1904-1979), artist, writer and puppeteer, born Chelsea, dau of Lawrence Binyon (qv), and his wife Cecily Margaret Powell, sister of Margaret Binyon and Nicolete Gray (qqv), educ St Paul’s, and RCA, taught by Paul Nash, contemporary of Bawden and Ravilious, then in Paris and returned to the Central School of Arts and Crafts, exhibition Redfern Gallery, taught Eastbourne Coll of Art, est travelling puppet theatre called Jiminy Puppet, 2nd WW drew hydrographic charts and created photographic exhibitions for the Ministry of Information, wrote the first memoir of Ravilious (pub. 1983), collaborated with her twin Margaret (qv)
Binyon, Margaret (1904-1987), children’s writer, dau of Lawrence Binyon (qv) and his wife Cecily Margaret Powell (who also was a writer), sister of Nicolete Gray (qv), collaborated with her twin Helen, wrote Christmas Eve (1942), The Picnic (1944), A Day at the Sea, The Birthday Party and Sophro the Wise, a play
Binyon, Nicolete, dau of Lawrence Binyon (qv), see Gray
Binyon, Robert Laurence (1869-1943; ODNB), poet, the house Merlewood, Grange-over-Sands built by his grandfather Alfred Binyon q.v. in 1853; John Becket and Andrew Gardiner, Merlewood Grange over Sands 1850-1950
Birch, Samuel John ‘Lamorna’ R.A. [1869-1955], artist, exhibited Lake Artists, Renouf, 57-8
Bird family of Crosby Garrett, three squarsons in turn (rectors and lords of the manor from 1746; from 1717-1831), the manor was devised to the Rev William Bird by Thomas Gale of Whitehaven in 1746, Bird’s grandson, also rector, sold the manor in 1822
Bird, Derrick (1957-2010), multiple murderer and taxi driver, born at Whitehaven, 27 November 1957, died at Boot, 2 June 2010, aged 52, and cremated 18 June
Bird, James (b.1637), attorney and steward to Lord Tufton, acquired the remaining two thirds of the manor of Brougham, built Brougham Hall which was known as ‘Bird’s Nest’, he outlived his heirs and sold the estate to John Brougham; CW2 viii 281, 315; attorney; Hud (C)
Bird, John (1939-2026), journalist, born in the Scots borders, brought up at Milton, Brampton, began at the Cumberland News, then at Border Television, then worked on ‘Look North’ for the BBC, publicised the Great North Run at its inception in 1961, interviewed water speed holder Donald Campbell (qv), welcomed President Jimmy Carter to Newcastle in 1977, retired to Rye, Sussex
Bird, Thomas (1755-1832), clergyman, born Crosby Garrett, son of James Bird the rector, brother of William (qv), educ St Bees, Cumberland, Kirkby Stephen, Kendal, Westmorland, St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, B.A. 1780, curate, Harrold, Bedfordshire, 1782, perpetual curate, Mallerstang, 1822-32, died 20 Jan. 1832; CAD; St John's Coll. Adm., IV; Gentleman’s Mag., 1832, I. 91
Bird, William (1746-1822), clergyman, born Crosby Garrett, son of James Bird the rector and brother of Thomas Bird (1755-1831) (qqv), educ Trinity Coll. Cambridge, B.A. 1767, M.A. 1785, curate, Stainmore, 1781-84, perpetual curate, Mallerstang, 1814-22, rector, Crosby Garrett, 1769-1822, Westmorland J.P. CCED; AWL, p.32, Memorial Inscription, Crosby Garrett: died 24 Oct 1746 aged 72
Birkbeck, Frank (1776-1849), brewer and philanthropist, of Mellbecks, Kirkby Stephen, son of John Birkbeck and Elozabeth Petty, a local bridge is popularly called ‘Frank’s Bridge’ after him as it was near hs brewery, offered a stolen horse by George Ibbotson he turned it down as it was lame, Ibbotson was transported for life in 1817, signed a 21 year mining lease in 1829 with others (ZLB/1/12 N Yorks RO); directory 1829; Birkbeck pedigree online
Birkett family of Penrith (fl 20thc), ran a bakery JR Birkett and Sons, latterly owned Hutton hall which gave its name to their bakery, established a chain of bakery shops, bakery extended in 1938 (SUDP/3/PLANS/364), bought up by Greggs
Birkett, Anne (aka Dame Birkett), ran a dame’s school in Penrith at Robert Bartman’s house in the SW corner of St Andrew’s churchyard, the house has a large porch and the initials RB, she taught William and Dorothy Wordsworth (qqv) there as small children, it was here that the future poet met his wife Mary Hutchison, Dame Birkett was keen on local traditions and festivals at Easter, May Day and Shrove Tuesday
Birkett, Rev Arthur Ismay Birkett MA Cantab (1863-1916), grandson of John Birkett of Broomhill (qv), was a missionary in Lusadia, North India for the Church Mission Society, here he was accidently drowned when crossing a flooded river, his wife was Dr Jane Louisa Jarrett Haskew MD Brussels (1864-1960), who remained in India and published in Lusadia a book of hymns in 1922; Hud (C); some of his photographs and papers are in Birmingham University Cadbury Library XCMSACC c1290-2017; her obit in the BMJ Mar 19 1960
Birkett, Dame, ran a school in Penrith in the 16thc
Birkett, James (c.1794-1835), schoolmaster of Cartmel Fell, of Rakefoot, buried at Witherslack, 11 October 1835, aged 41
Birkett, John (17xx-18xx), clergyman and schoolmaster, of Finsthwaite, nominated to curacy of Finsthwaite Chapel and to school in 1781 (bond in £200 to Jane Penny and others, 26 June 1781, in CRO, WT/Ch/acc.11085)
Birkett, John (1804-1884), of Broomhill, brewer, grandson of John Birkett of Portinscale, father of the Rev Thomas Birkett (1835-1891) of Yealand Conyers, and grandfather of the Rev Arthur Ismay Birkett MA Cantab (1863-1916) (qv), his brother John Stanwell Birkett (1866-1916) MA Cantab, was a lawyer of Withers, Benson, Birkett and Davies of Arundel St London; Hud (C)
Birkett, John Stanwell, educ Clare College Cambridge from 1885, qualified solicitor 1891, father John Birkitt, a brewer, lived Broomhill, Cumberland; Gaskell W and C Leaders c.1910
Birkett, Johnny (d.2005), Herdwick sheep expert, lived High Yew Tree farm, one of Beatrix Potter’s properties; Westmorland Gazette 30 Sept 2005
Birkett, Joseph, sexton at Crosthwaite (Keswick), Rawnsley wrote about him
Birkett, Reinee (b.1902), writer, b. Portinscale, A Lakeland Childhood: Memoirs of Reinee Birkett, ‘Oor Lizzie’ Keswick, c.2018; also Keswick Suffrage Exhibition, 2018; also including Mary Addison, Mary Jane Wise and Josephine Brown
Birkett, Thomas (1854-1913), draper, born Haverthwaite, father of Lord Birkett (qv), the son of Matthew Birkett (1817-1894) and Agnes Carradus (1822-1887), educ Brow Edge School, Backbarrow, early work on railway tunnels locally, apprenticed to Thomas Mashiter, draper, married Agnes Tyson (1854-1887), soon opened his own shop and later the County Stores, his second wife was Agnes Dodding, he was a Methodist preacher and local councillor, involved with the establishment of the new Victoria GS
Birkett, William (16xx-17xx), author of A Compendious Treatise of Measuring and Gaugeing (1711)
Birkett, William Norman, 1st Baron Birkett of Ullswater (1883-1962; ODNB), barrister and judge, born 6 September 1883 at 4 Ainsworth Street, Ulverston [plaque on facade], 4th of five children of Thomas Birkett (b.1854 at Wood Cottage, Haverthwaite, d. at Nithsdale, Ulverston, 1 October 1913), draper, and Agnes (b.1854, d. 16 April 1887), dau of Moses Tyson, butcher, marr at Ulverston, 15 October 1877), ed Barrow Higher Grade School and Emmanuel College Cambridge, Tom Mitford, the brother of Nancy Mitford, was in chambers with him in the Inner Temple, m. Ruth Nillson, 1 son and 1 dau, cr Baron Birkett, of Ulverston 1958, opened Longlands Boys’ School, Kendal on 25 October 1960, made notable speech in House of Lords to prevent Ullswater becoming a reservoir for Manchester on 8 February 1962, two days before he had heart attack and despite an emergency operation in the London Clinic died 10 February 1962, cremated, no memorial service, but commemorated by a fell above the lake near Kailpot Crag being named after him in 1962 (cairn with commemorative tablet built by boys and instructors from Ullswater Outward Bound School led by warden Sqdn Ldr Lester Davies) and in Memorial (carved in local slate by Pip Hall) for the Ullswater Preservation Society unveiled near the Ullswater Steamers pier at Pooley Bridge on 29 August 2017 (CWH, 26.08.2017) (biography H. Montgomery Hyde (1965); Dennis Bardens, Lord Birkett’s Famous Cases)
Birkhead, Agnes, master mercer, signed up an apprentice; CW3 xv 173
Birkhede, Thomas (fl. 16thc), lived at Hugill, dedicated the chapel at Ings to St Anne in 1511, the site is said to be the present St Anne’ farm at the top of Grassgarth Lane; the present church of 1743 on a new site is also dedicated to St Anne
Birks, William (1843-19xx), FRAS, Unitarian minister, born at Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire, 29 April 1843, student at Unitarian Home Missionary Board College 1864-1867, Minister at Hastings 1867-1870 and Gloucester 1870-1874, started ministry at Kendal Market Place Chapel, 2 December 1874, resigned 28 June 1877, subsequently minister at Wolverhampton, Portsmouth, Banbury, Sunderland and Aberdeen, retired in 1893, keen astronomer, elected FRAS 1887 (ONK, 431-32)
Birley, Eric Barff (1906-1995; ODNB), MBE, MA, FBA, FSA, archaeologist and historian, born at his parents’ home, The Poplars, Worsley Road, Swinton, Manchester, or at Eccles (RJC), 12 January 1906, yst of four sons and 2 daus of Joseph Harold Birley (1870-1940), businessman and Alderman of Manchester, and member of CWAAS from 1930, of Didsbury, Manchester, and his wife, Edith Gladys Fernandes Lewis, and brother of Robert (qv), educ Clifton College and Brasenose College, Oxford (Greats, BA 1928, MA 19xx), joining CWAAS while still an undergraduate in 1926 (his father also a member from 1930, when of Moorland, Didsbury, until his death in January 1940, and his brother from 1931), purchased Chesterholm (on Vindolanda site near Bardon Mill in 1929), apptd to teaching post at Armstrong College, Newcastle upon Tyne in 1928 and transferred to lectureship at Durham University in 1931, and professor (delivered inaugural lecture on Archaeology in the North of England at Durham on 6 May 1958, which surveyed growth of active interest in the subject from 16th century), published articles on ‘The hinterland of Hadrian’s Wall’ (D&N Transactions, xi, 45-63) and ‘John Horsley and John Hodgson’ (AA, 4th ser, xxxvi, 1-46) in 1958, marr (5 April 1934) Margaret Isabel (Peggy), dau of Revd James Goodlet, minister of Forest Hall Presbyterian church, Newcastle, 2 sons (Robin and Anthony), and lived at Chesterholm until moving to Durham in 1950, president, CWAAS 1957-1960, editor of Transactions 1948-1957, died at Carvoran House, Greenhead, 20 October 1995, aged 89, and his ashes buried in garden at Chesterholm (CW2, xl, 231; xcvi, 243-244); CWAAS 150th volume, 303ff
Birley, Henry (1771-1830), linen thread mfr, of Whitehaven, est mill at Cleator
Birley, Robert Neville (1902-197x), MA, accountant, son of Joseph Harold Birley, of Swinton, Manchester (qv sub his brother Eric), prob ed Clifton, schoolmaster at The Craig School, Windermere, aged 26, when he marr (8 April 1928, at Tiviot Dale Chapel, Stockport) Margaret Joan Beardsell (aged 23), of Ivy House, Parsonage Road, Heaton Moor, Stockport, served WW2 with RAF (F/O 1940, Sqdn Ldr by 1943), member of CWAAS from 1931, Hon Auditor from 1947 (jointly with G C Ingall from 1953), member of committee for parish register section from 1948, transcribed parish registers of Holy Trinity, Kendal, 1591-1631 (Parts III and IV, 1952 and 1960) without index (later compiled by Robert Dickinson and published in 1973), agreed to stand for election to South Westmorland Rural District Council for Hutton Roof and Lupton ward in 1949 (‘I am a comparative stranger to Westmorland, and very ignorant about Hutton Roof and Lupton’, letter of 27 July 1949 to clerk in CRO, WPC 49/corresp), of 6 Moseley Road, Cheadle Hulme, Stockport (1931), The White House, Brampton Road, Bramhall Lane, Stockport (1933), 26 King Street, Manchester (1935), 34 Castle Street, Liverpool (1937), Stonecroft, Parkfield Road, Didsbury, Manchester (1940), Brookland, Holme (1946), 29 Lowther Street, Kendal (1951), and High Ground, Heversham (1955), died by 1974
Birnie, Edward D’Arcy (1892-1918), DSO, MC, military officer, son of Robert Birnie, a Scot, head gamekeeper at Winscales, and his wife Isabella, of Sycamore Terrace, High Harrington, Workington, joined 5th Territorial Battalion, Border Regt 1909, serving as sergeant in France from 26 October 1914, commissioned November 1915, awarded MC as temp 2nd Lieut (LG, 8 December 1916) and DSO as acting Captain (LG, 23 July, 1918), died 22 March 1918 of wounds incurred on 21 March while serving with 8th Bn, Border Regt, aged 26 (Harrington War Memorial [erected 1925, but re-sited and re-dedicated by Bishop Graham Dow of Carlisle on 12 June 2001]); memorial gateway lamp erected at Rampside Church (now lost) by Miss M Pollitt to whom he was engaged) [possibly Margaret Henrietta Pollitt, born at Barrow in 1894, and staying with her grandparents at Ulverston in 1901 census]
Birrell, Adam (1829-1901), soldier, born Ulverston, son of Robert Birrell and Nancy Foster who lived at Swarthmoor Hall, went to America in 1857 aged 27 and enlisted in the 9th Indiana Volunteers as ‘Adam Bell’ (was Birrell difficult for Americans to pronounce?), saw action at Greenbriar River, Shiloh, the siege of Corinth, Perryville, the battle of Stones River, Chicamauga, Kenesaw, Jonesboro, Franklin and Nashville, captured and imprisoned as a PoW, given a disability pension after the war but was able to work as a stonemason from 1872-92, returned to Ulverston, lived Ross Side House; Ulverston History 2025
Bishop, Pamela (later Broadbent) (1925-c.2020), games teacher and keen cyclist, brought up in Norfolk, she attended Avery Hill teacher training college in London, here she met Sybil Hayes (later Cross; qv) and Gladys (later Harrop), the college was evacuated to Harrogate during the war, the trio cycled in 1944 from Barrow, through the Lakes, went skinny dipping in Thirlmere, and cycled up to the Highlands of Scotland, en route through Glasgow a policeman was concerned for their safety and locked them all in a cell overnight, Pam married Geoff Broadbent, a keen fell walker, also a teacher in Norwich, who brought parties of boys up to the fells, as a family they regularly returned to Cumbria to camp, later with a caravan and often sailed on Windermere from Fell Foot with Sybil and her husband Malcolm (qv)
Bjornsson, Ida (fl.mid 20thc.), limnologist, 1st woman from Iceland to be awarded a PhD, met Jack Talling qv en route to a meeting at Stanford university, married him, 1 son and 1 dau, worked in the Sudan and the Lake District
Black, James Frederick, BA, clergyman and schoolmaster, apptd master of Free Grammar School, Kendal, 9 December 1845
Black, James Tait; Gaskell W and C Leaders c.1910
Black, Ian Forbes (c.1930-2017), clergyman, born in Wallasey, Cheshire, ordained deacon 1958 and priest 1959 from St Aidan’s College, Birkenhead, marr (1960) Jean, dau of churchwarden of St Michael’s Church, Bramhall, 2 sons (Forbes and Angus) and 1 dau (Elizabeth), moved to Cumbria, chaplain at HM Prison Haverigg from 1972, later vicar of St Giles, Great Orton and St Andrew, Aikton, musician and horologist in his spare time, a private man but with a keen sense of humour, died at home in Port Carlisle, 17 February 2017, aged 87, cremated at Carlisle followed by a service of thanksgiving at St Michael’s, Bowness-on-Solway, 27 February (CN, 10.03.2017)
Black, William Rushton, baron Black (1893-1985), engineer, son of James Black (b.1861), a steamship agent and Florence Rushton (1863-1947), dau of a roll turner in Barrow iron works, his grandfather John Black was a building contractor ed Barrow technical college, apprenticed in Vickers 1908, works manager Crayford 1924, then general manager Wayman Motor Bodies 1928, Park Royal Vehicles, Leeds coachbuilders making Routemaster and Bridgemaster buses, m. Patricia Dallas, 1 dau 1 son killed RAF 1944, knighted 1958, chairman Leyland Motors 1963-6, baron 1968 (oldbarrovians.org/alumni)
Blackburn, Thomas Eliel Fenwick (1916-1977), poet, , A Clip of Steel (1966), b. Hensingham, ed Selwyn College, Cambridge but expelled and later BA Dunelm
Blackett-Ord, Andrew (1921-2012) CVO, barrister and judge, b. Haltwhistle, ed Eton and New College, Oxford, POW 2nd WW, m. Rosemary Bovill, in 1951 they inherited his wife’s family estate at Helbeck and later his family home at Whitfield Hall near Hexham, barrister in conveyancing, VC of the County Palatine of Lancaster, a judge, d.Brough
Blackett-Ord, James, ed Leeds university, contributed to the university anthology, English master Marylebone GS, m. Rosalie de Mesio, an artist, divorced and married twice more; his memoir A Clip of Steel describes his childhood under a repressive clergyman father
Blackett-Ord, Rosemary [d.c.2015], writer; Susan Breeks of Helbeck [2014] won a Lakeland book of the year prize
Blackledge, James Peter JP of Fox Ghyll and later Cote How, Rydal, was of the Malayan civil service, attache at HBM’s legation to the Holy See and sheriff designate of Westmorland at the time of his death in Rome; Hud (W)
Blacklock, James (1782-1823), bookseller and publisher, of Cumwhitton, business in Carlisle, m. Mary Ann Pearson, their son William James Blacklock (qv)
Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791; ODNB), poet, son of John Blacklock [d.1740], bricklayer and his wife Ann Rae, daughter of Richard Rae, cattle drover
Blacklock, William James (1816-1858; ODNB), artist, son of James Blacklock qv, b. London but his family had Cumberland roots, apprenticed to Charles Thurnham in Carlisle, produced fine landcapes in oils, including Old Mill near Haweswater (1854), Naworth Castle (1849; NG Dublin), Devoke Water (1853; Abbot Hall) and Catbells and Causey Pike (1854; Tullie House), lithographs, suffered from mental illness, died in the Creighton asylum, Dumfries; Marshall Hall, 5-6
Blackman, James Henry (18xx-1xxx), clergyman, d 1868 and p 1869 (Carl), curate of Preston Patrick 1868-1871 and vicar 1871-1880, curate of Dawlish, dio Exeter 1888, of Elm Grove, Dawlish (1890), decd by 1914
(Blacksmith), this epitaph exists in both C and W (version at Settle and also Blackburn cathedral graveyard on the stone of a blacksmith called Hill: 'My sledge and hammer lie reclined, My bellows too have lost their wind’ (and 6 more lines) From William Andrews Epitaphs (1883 rpr 1899)
‘Black Sal’, wadd thief, she was adept at misappropriating wadd (graphite) from the Keswick mine, she annoyed the owner to the extent that she is said to have been hunted to death with dogs; Lakeland Walking Tales
Bladen, John (1764-1820), MP, Colonel, and director of East India Co, died at Ambleside [but not buried there] (WCN, ii, 65); John Taylor (1722-1784) (qv)
Blades, Dr William Dawson FRCS (d.1869), born Sedbergh, qualified Glasgow, practiced in Kirkby Stephen and Blackburn, the mentor of Dr Thomas Gibson (d.1887) (qv), the uncle of Dr Thomas Dawson of Shap, died Blackburn; Plarrs Lives of the Fellows
Blair, Claude (18xx-191x), MC, Lieut, Royal Engineers, educ St Bees School (head boy), played football, rugby and cricket for county, killed by a shell just a few days after being awarded MC
Blake, Brian [fl.1950s], MA, editor of CWAAS Transactions 1957-1959, author of The Solway Firth (1955) and many articles, of Silver Beck, Silverhowe, Grasmere, wife Joyce
Blakeney, John, captain who fought with Marlborough, settled at Distington
Blamire family, also see Bleamire and Bleaymire
Blamire, G (d.1864/5), barrister at law, of 1 Adam Street, Adelphi, London, and Carlisle (sale of estate and effects by auction in Athenaeum, Carlisle, on 7-10 March 1865)
Blamire, George Marshall (c.1899-19xx), trade unionist and local councillor, Kendal Borough Councillor (Labour) for Highgate Ward from c.1934, re-elected in 1938, but moved to a house in Oxenholme area 100 yards outside the borough boundary, thereby becoming disqualified from office and resigning before elections in November [1945], local secretary of Boot and Shoe Operatives’ Union until he retired in 1965 (praised ‘for his very material contribution towards the success of the Company [K Shoes] and the prosperity of our workers, who have had almost continual full employment year after year’, Ronald Somervell’s retirement speech as chairman in 1965), deputised for Councillor Joseph Kirkman, chairman of Westmorland Labour Party, in proposing toast of return of Labour Government in July 1945 at celebratory dinner at Kendal Hotel for 50th anniversary of Kendal and District Trades Council [established in 1895 as Kendal and Labour Council, changing to Trades Council in 1935/36], which he chaired in 1949-1951
Blamire, Richmond (1742-1797), stationer and publisher, brother of the poet Susannah Blamire (1747-1794) (qv), they were the children of William Blamire (d.1758), a farmer of Cardew Hall, near Thursby, their nephew William married Jane Christian sister of John Christian Curwen (qv), he published eight books by William Gilpin (qv) Observations Relating chiefly to Picturesque Beauty… to the mountains and lakes of C and W (1772), The Life of Hugh Latimer and The Life of Bernard Gilpin (1780), The Life of Thomas Cranmer (1784), (qv), An Essay on Prints (1792), Observations Relating chiefly to Picturesque Beauty… the Highlands of Scotland (1792), Observations Relating chiefly to Picturesque Beauty… the River Wye (1792), Remarks on Forest Scenery (1794), Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty (1794) and others by Gilpin’s curate Richard Warner (qv), all in London, Blamire operated from the corner of Northumberland St and the Strand and then later at 5, The Strand, one of his trade cards is in the Heal Collection (BM)
Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794; ODNB), poet, b. Cardew Hall, Dalston, daughter of William Blamire [1703-1758], yeoman, (memorial tablet in Carlisle Cathedral 1994; memorial plaque at Raughton Head dedicated in March 2006); her brother was Richmond Blamire, whose dau marr Robert Baynes Armstrong, QC (d.1869) (SSR, 161); Henry Lonsdale, The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire, 1842 (this work includes a memoir by Patrick Maxwell), Christopher Maycock, A Passionate Poet: Sarah Blamire, a Biography, 2003
Blamire, William (1790-1862), farmer and politician, born at The Oaks, Dalston, son of naval surgeon William Blamire and his wife Jane Christian, sister of John Christian Curwen (qv), his aunt was the poet Susannah Blamire (qv), educ Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford, High Sheriff of C in 1828, MP for C from 1831-1836, in that year he was appointed the first Tithe Commissioner, he married Dorothy Taubman, his cousin, who was the widow of Col Mark Wilks (1759-1831; ODNB), governor of St Helena during Napoleon’s exile, (the Taubman and Wilks families were both of the Isle of Man), after Blamire’s death an agricultural prize was founded in his memory (q.v. JC Curwen’s innovations at Schoose Farm )
Blanchard, Bernard W (19xx-2012), Methodist minister, died 12 September 2012 (WG, 20.09.2012)
Bland, Adam (fl.1563), furrier, son of Roger Bland of Orton, sergeant pelletier (furrier) to Elizabeth I from 1563, she granted him arms, in Ireland his accounts for 1571 survive in the national archive (re Sir Henry Sydney)
Bland, Fanny, archaeologist, wrote papers for the CWAAS
Bland, John (d.1555), martyr, born Sedbergh, in the time of Queen Mary burned at the stake 12 July 1555 as a heretic, one of the ‘Canterbury Martyrs’, who ‘resigned themselves with Christian fortitude’; Fox’s Book of Martyrs
Bland, John Salkeld (1840-1867), nephew of Thomas Bland (qv), author of ms book, The Vale of Lyvennet (edited by F H M Parker, Kendal, 1910), sketchbook of castles, churches and landscapes in Westmorland and Cumberland (sold at Sotheby’s on 12 April 1963 for £32), of Wyebourne, Reagill, died of consumption, 4 January 1867; mss Jackson collection, Carlisle library
Bland, Miles FRS FSA FRAstS (1786-1867;ODNB), mathematician, born Sedbergh, son of Thomas and Esther Bland, educ Sedbergh and St John’s Cambridge, later public examiner in maths, ordained 1810 and a prebend of Wells 1826, published Algebraical Problems (1812)
Bland, Patricius de (early 14thc), required to raise 10 men at arms and 100 archers (Annals of Sedbergh)
Bland, Thomas (1799-1865; DCB), artist and sculptor, creator of Italian ‘Image Garden’ at Reagill, erected small stone obelisk on site of house of ancestors of Joseph Addison on Meaburn Hill, also erected obelisk at Black Dub, near source of river Lyvennet at head of Crosby Ghyll, in 1840 with inscription commemorating occasion of Charles II and his army resting on way down from Scotland on 8 August 1651 (renewed in 1861), Sketchbook of ink drawings and watercolours of churches and houses made in period 1830-1840 (in Jackson Collection, Carlisle Library D45; copy in CRO, WDY 254), died unmarried, 18 September 1865, bur Crosby Ravensworth, (LRNW, 320-321); pedigree Kendal CRO back to 1576 ref WDY 573; Marshall Hall, 6; David A. Cross, Public Sculpture, 2017, 183-4 and 196
Blaykling, Ann (fl.1652-1708; ODNB), Quaker preacher, probably born near Sedbergh, dau of Thomas Blaykling, George Fox stayed at Draw-Well Farm her father’s house in 1652 and they were both convinced, she travelled in England and became known as one of the ‘First Publishers of Truth’, imprisoned at Cambridge, met Oliver Cromwell, preacher in Cornwall, arrested Suffolk, stood up to the Baptist John Bunyan
Blaylock, Ella, (later Blaylock Atherton) (1860-1933), born Ulverston, dau of William Blaylock and Margaret Schollick, went to Canada, here she became the first woman doctor to qualify in Quebec and the 8th in Canada
Blaylock, John (1740-1803), clockmaker, also watchmaker and jeweller, born at Hunter’s Holme, Arthuret, son of Jenetta Coltherd and Edward Blaylock (the family sometimes spelled their name Blacklock), trained under Archibald Lawrie for a premium of £10, lived 53 Scotch St, and later Caldewgate in Carlisle, probably working with Lawrie, in 1767 marr Hannah Liddell, in 1768 he moved to Longtown where they also ran a grocer’s shop, he died in 1803, his sons John and William carried on the clockmaking business but moved back to Carlisle in 1817, John Junior provided all the clocks for the Lancaster to Carlisle railway, one apprentice was James Carruthers (1788-1849), all three Blaylocks are buried at Arthuret; one of his clocks was at Isel Hall in 1960, another 8 day long case clock (1770) had a high quality Gillow case and a finely painted clock face (antique sale c.2000); Blaylock clockmakers of Lancashire and Cumbria; Grace’s Guide
Bleasdale, James Ratcliffe (1857-1922), printer and editor of West Cumberland Times, born Lancaster, son of John Bleasdale, grocer and butcher of Penny St, and Sarah Ratcliffe, in 1871 he was an errand boy (for his father?), marr Elizabeth Hodgson (d.1898) in Cockermouth where he was a printer and compositor, four daughters Annie, Mildred, Hilda and Bertha, in 1891 he was a printer’s overseer, marr Frances Annie Thornthwaite in 1904, daughters Mona, Amy, Winfred and sons James, Walter and Frederick, latterly lived 2 Lorton Rd, Cockermouth, probate to Frances 1922, buried Cockermouth C1 grave 18; ancestry has a lively photograph
Bleaymire, Edward, steward of Musgrave Manors of Great and Little Musgrave 1876 (CRO, WDX 1572);
Bleaymire, Thomas Dobson, steward of Manor of Barton, 1818 (CRO, WDX 884/4/7), and Manors of Great and Little Musgrave 1828, 1836 (WDX 1572);
Bleaymire, William, steward, deputy to above for Manors of Great and Little Musgrave in 1843 and Steward in 1851, 1857 (CRO, WDX 1572)
Bleazard, Ernest (20thc), Tullie House curator, very skilled in setting up cases of birds, published Birds of Lakeland (1973)
Blencowe family, J. Blencowe, The Blencowe Families, 2001
Blencowe family (also see Blincoe); blencowefamilies.com
Blencowe, Adam, granted land at Blencowe, Newbiggin and Penruddock by the lord of Greystocke in 1342; blencowefamilies.com
Blencowe, Adam de, standard bearer at Crecy in 1346 and at Poitiers 1356; Fr. West, Antiquities xxix
Blencowe, Anthony [c.1535-1618], prob b. Blencowe, son of Anthony, related to baron Dudley through his mother, admitted to Oriel College, Oxford as a student, BA MA, praelector of dialectics 1567, senior proctor 1572, provost of Oriel, prebendary of Wells, chancellor of Chichester cathedral, bequeathed £1300 for the building of the front quadrangle at Oriel where his arms are carved over the college entrance, portrait in college; 67 of his books recorded in the Oriel donors’ book and 16 given to the Bodleian; CW2 lx 56; bond in 1000 marks between him, Geo Blencowe and Anthony Highmore CRO D HGB/1/41
Blencowe, Sir John de (1642-1726), judge and politician, descended from the Bencowes of Greystoke, educ Oriel Coll Oxford, called to the bar Inner Temple, MP Brackley 1690, marr Anne dau of Dr John Walter (Wallis?), prof of geometry Oxford, baron of the Exchequer 1696
Blencowe, William (1683-1712), cryptographer, third son of Sir John Blencowe (qcv), appointed cryptographer to Queen Anne
Blencowe, William (1714-1769), m. Elizabeth Latus of Millom in 1736, she had inherited the manor of Lowick, lived Lowick Hall, buried at Ulverston, 13 June 1769, their son Ferdinando (1742-1803) also lived at the hall
Blenkinsop, Thomas (b.c.1590), lived Brough under Stainmore, described by Rev Thomas Machell as ‘an ingenious gentleman for any kind of mechanics’, his dau Anne married Christopher Crackanthorpe; Thomas Machell’s Collections, ed Jane Platt,(2025) introduction p.26
Blennerhasset family, lords of Allonby in the 17thc., Thomas Blennerhasset summoned with sixty riders to the battle of Solway Moss in 1543, John Blennerhasset mayor of Carlisle 1553-4
Blennerhasset, William, married the heiress Margaret de Flimby, thus increasing their land holding in Cumberland
Blennerhassett, Thomas (fl.1547-1611), MP Carlisle (1584-1611); of Flimby Hall and Ballycarty Castle, Ireland
Blezard, Ernest (1902-1970), natural historian, curator Tullie House, ed. The Birds of Lakeland, 1943
Blezard, Thomas (fl.19thc.), of Ings, dialect poet and song writer, ‘Tamar o’Trootbeck’ and ‘Kentmer’ Teap Fair’, Original Westmorland Songs (1868) (CRO, WDSo 101/1), LDDialect Soc WDSO 101
Bliss, Joseph (18xx-19xx), politician, MP (Liberal) for Cockermouth division of Cumberland 1916-1918, winning by-election until constituency abolished in 1918
Blomfield, Charles James (1786-1857), MA, DD, bishop of Chester 1824-1828 and then of London, former Cambridge pupil of John Hudson, vicar of Kendal, who enlisted his support in proposal for alteration in vicarage glebe in 1825, also made visitation to Kendal (AK, 374; CW3, viii, 101)
Blomfield, Dorothy F (1858-1932), poet and hymn writer, granddaughter of bishop Charles Blomfield (qv), her sister Katherine married Dr Hugh Redmayne of Brathay hall (qv), she wrote the hymn ‘O Perfect Love’ for their wedding at Ambleside, another lyric was set by Mary Wakefield (qv), her nephew David Blomfield (1908-1976) married Enid Hayes [1914-2000], the niece of Samuel Victor Hayes (qv) see Gurney
Blomfield, Sir Reginald Theodore (1856-1942; ODNB) architect, son of the Rev George Blomfield (1822-1900) and grandson of bishop Charles Blomfield (qv), designed inter alia the font in Carlisle cathedral and the Menin Gate war memorial, married Anne F.M. Burra and was by marriage the uncle of the artist Edward Burra q.v.
Bloomer, Right Revd Thomas (1894-1984), DD, Bishop of Carlisle, born 14 July 1894, son of Thomas Bloomer and his wife Mary, educ Royal School, Dungannon and Trinity College Dublin (DD 1946), ordained to curacy of Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland 1918, curate of Castleton, Lancs 1922 and Cheltenham, Glos 1923, vicar of St Mark’s, Bath 1928-1935, vicar of Barking 1935-1946, rural dean of Barking and canon of Chelmsford Cathedral 1943-1946, chaplain to the King 1944-1947, proctor in convocation of Canterbury 1945, bishop of Carlisle 1946-1966 (entered Lords 1953), freeman of city of Carlisle 1966, known to have had a sense of humour, marr 1st (1935) Margaret Grace (died 1969), dau of Revd David Hutchinson, 1 son (David, Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Carlisle in October 1974 and May 1979) and 2 daus, marr 2nd (1973) Marjorie, widow of I M Orr, author of A Fact and a Faith (1943) and A Fact and an Experience (1944), of 33 Greengate, Levens, died 5 January 1984
Blucher von Wahlstadt, Madeleine (1830-1870), dau of Rt Hon Sir Robert Dallas, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, she marr Count Gustavus von Wahlstadt (who was descended from the Prussian Field Marshall Gerbhard Leberech von Blucher Furst von Wahlstadt (1742-1819)) who belatedly intervened at Waterloo with crushing effect, she was a friend of Queen Victoria, she gave £1000 towards the re-building of the nave of the church at Egton-cum-Newland near Penny Bridge by EG Paley (qv), she also installed memorial glass to her sister Edith who had married John Penny Machell (qv) she lived at Capenwray Hall, Lancashire and died 19 March 1870, her funeral at St John, Gressingham, Lancaster; NWEM 13 June 2016
Bluck, Judith [1936-2011], sculptor, her work in Cumbria includes Jimmy Dyer and The Otters in The Lanes at Carlisle and The Capstan Boy at Whitehaven harbour, David A. Cross, Public Sculpture, 2017, 152-3, 189 and 196
Boaden, James (1762-1839; ODNB), editor, dramatist and biographer, born in Whitehaven, son of William Boaden (1735-1790), a Russia merchant hailing from Cornwall, and his wife, Elizabeth Blanker, editor of the Oracle, his plays include Osmyn and Daraxa (1793) Cambro-Britons (1796), involved in the discussion about the Shakespeare Forgeries in the 1790s, biographer of the actors John Philip Kemble (1825), Sarah Siddons (1727) and Dora Jordan (1831), and the dramatist Mrs Inchbald (1833), he sat to Opie
Boaden, John (1792/3-1839; ODNB), portrait painter, son of James Boaden (qv), works include several portraits of actors such as John Philip Kemble as Hotspur (lithograph after Boaden, NPG), Thomas Potter Cooke in Dibdin’s Lady of the Lake 1818 (Theatre Royal, Bath), John Braithwaite, engineer (1797-1870) (Science Museum), also illustrated his father’s book (with the portrait painter Abraham Wivell (1786-1849)) on the portraits of Shakespeare (1824 and 1827)
Boaden, William (fl. mid to late 18thc), Russia merchant of Whitehaven, father of James Boaden (qv)
Boag, George (18xx-19xx), clergyman, educ University of Edinburgh, d 1878 and p 1880 (Carl), curate of Bridekirk 1878-1881, St James, Carlisle 1881-1882, curate-in-charge of Holme Eden 1882-1884, and Distington 1884-1886, vicar of Winster 1886-1899 (last reg entry is June 1899), but then no trace
Boazman, Henry (1840-1904), landowner, yst son of John Boazman (1801-1840) and his wife (marr 1825) Mary Hill (1803-1871), of Temple Sowerby, Lord of Manor of Temple Sowerby, of Acorn Bank, Temple Sowerby, marr (1874) Hannah Imeson (1852-1920), died and buried in Temple Sowerby churchyard, 26 November 1904; John Dalston Boazman (1830-1853), his eldest brother, died in 1853; William Boazman (1833-1856), his elder brother, educ Queens College, Oxford, died in December 1856 and buried at Temple Sowerby, 5 January 1857, aged 23
Boazman, Kenneth Imeson (18xx-19xx), mine manager, of Millrigg, Culgaith, near Temple Sowerby (owned by family since 1661), manager of family gypsum mine at Acorn Bank, marr (1924) Isabel Hope (ashes buried at Temple Sowerby, 18 November 1961, aged 67), dau of James Morton Nicholson (qv), of Aston Lea, Kirkby Thore; his cousins, Barbara Avril Dalston Boazman (Lady of Manor) and Marigold Gillian Bridget Imeson Boazman living at Millrigg in 1970s (GiC, 161-)
Boddington, Lt Col Hugh West, of the Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry, m. Alice Maud Bindloss, their daughter Zaida Bindloss Boddington (1908-2001) m. T.T. Macan qv
Boddy, Frederick John Richard (19xx-2012), businessman, High Sheriff of Cumbria 1994-95, former president of Burton, Milnthorpe and Carnforth Agricultural Society, (dau, Arabella Millicent, of Curwen Woods, Burton-in-Kendal, buried at Burton-in-Kendal, 7 August 1997, aged 23), died, funeral at St James’s church, Burton, 12 April 2012
Boggis, William Rolfe Truston (18xx-1894), clergyman, son of the Rev Isaac Rolfe Boggis of Langham Hall, Colchester,(who died young at Calais in 1825 on the cusp of beginning a new life in France, his widow Elizabeth Mary (nee Stubbs) returned to England (d.1852 at Badsey, Worcs)), educ Peterhouse and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, B.A., 1838, curate, Ireby, 1839, curate, St Michael’s, Lewes (Sussex), 1851-52, living at Elleray, Teddington at the death of his brother in 1852, curate, Lilley (Herts), 1860, devout Tractarian, his views were reported to the bishop of Chichester, marr Mary Sophia; CAD; CAC(C), DRC1/9, p. 246; Douglas family genealogy pages
Bolton (Boulton), Abraham (1720-1764; DCB),apothecary, born in Ulverston, son of an earlier Abraham Boulton, apprenticed to George Smith, an apothecary in Skipton, married Ann Philipson (marr bond 25 June 1739 co signed Henry Crank plaisterer of Little Urswick), practiced in King St, Ulverston, father of Col John Bolton (qv)
Bolton, John de (d.1405), 27th Abbot of Furness
Bolton, Col. John [Boulton] (1756-1837), soldier and West India merchant, born in Ulverston and bapt there, 13 April 1756, son of Abraham Boulton, of King Street, Ulverston, apothecary, based at Duke Street, Liverpool, purchased Storrs Hall from David Pike-Watts (qv) in 1806 (who had purchased it from Sir John Legard, (qv)) and remodelled it out of profits of slave trade in 1808-1811 to design of Joseph Gandy, who also did designs for new buildings in grounds, inc a temple-like summerhouse on knoll to north of house, a garden seat in form of an aedicule, and a ‘Druidical Temple’ on Berkshire Island (now Ramp Holme) on Windermere, none of which were actually built [cf. Druidical Temple built by Joseph Pocklington (qv) on Pocklington Island (now Derwent Isle) on Derwentwater in 1779], (his land agent was Robert Pickthall, of Middle Farm cottage, 1829), entertained Wordsworth at Storrs, established school at Bowness [fine medallion plaque], patron of Windermere Regatta of 1825, hosted Northern Circuit dinner at Storrs Hall in August 1822 at which Henry Brougham met Canning, customer of Barnard Gregg, grocer in Bowness, in 1818-1820 (CRO, WDB 151); (J M Gandy sketchbook with drawings of Roslin, Melrose, Lancaster and Storrs acquired by Sir John Soane’s Museum by purchase at Sotheby’s on 15 July 1999, see article by Ian Goodall and Margaret Richardson in Architectural History, 44 (2001), 45-56) (Storrs Hall sold by descendant in 1889 and converted into an hotel in 1890), for tomb Hyde and Pevsner
Bolton, John (1791-1873), land surveyor and geologist, born at Urswick in 1791, poor parents, ‘educated himself’, (? ed Urswick Grammar School) first interested in rocks when a well was sunk by Malachi Cranke (qv) in field called the ‘Hills’ behind the school on Urswick Green in 1795/6, moved to Ulverston at age of 9, worked in weaving shop, visited every limestone quarry in Furness, then studied Silurian rocks of district and collected fossils, also invented first loom for weaving figured damask table-cloths, published geological papers and pamphlets (incl Particulars of a First Exploration of the extensive and newly discovered Cavern at Stainton, Low Furness, 1871) and Geological Fragments, collected principally from Rambles among the Rocks of Furness and Cartmel (1869), had notable collection of fossils, had small donation from Queen’s Bounty Fund (obtained for him by Prof Sedgwick), of Sedgwick Cottage, near Ulverston, died at Camden House, 10 January 1873 (GF; FFW, 35-39); Alan Smith, The Rock Men, 2001
Bolton, John, dialect writer, wrote The Ulverston Perpetual Tide Table, a familiar conversation between a Low Furness farmer and a townsman; Joseph Wright, English Dialect (section on Lancashire), p.19
Bolton, John (1838-1924), solicitor, ensign in Westmorland Rifle Volunteers 1860, admitted solicitor 1863, Clerk to Justices, Windermere division 1869-1878 and Kendal division 1878-1888, also to Kendal Borough Justices 1878-1888, Town Clerk, Kendal 1874-1908, Clerk of the Peace for Westmorland 1888-1889 and of Westmorland County Council 1889-1916, also clerk to Westmorland Education Authority, clerk to Kendal Borough Education Authority, Kendal Reservoir Commissioners and to Sleddall Almshouses, Under Sheriff, Bolton & Bolton office at 14 Kent Street, President of Westmorland Law Society 1891-1914, of Hollingarth, Kendal (1905), died 22 August 1924 (WG obit in CRO, WDY 511)
Bolton, John (1856-1915), Cockermouth GS, dialect publications; H. Winter, Great Cockermouth Scholars
Bolton, John Edward (18xx-19xx), solicitor, son of John Bolton (qv), Bolton & Bolton, Kendal, Under Sheriff for Westmorland, Town Clerk of Kendal 1908-1932, also of Hollingarth, Kendal (1905), of 8 Belmont, Kendal (1925)
Bolton, Robert (1697-1763), dean Carlisle
Bolton, Treeby, member Keswick Mountain Rescue team with the Abraham Brothers, ‘Rusty’ Westmorland and Sandy Bedrock, the team was formed after the rescue of Wilfred Noyce (qv) on Great Gable in 1946; C life June 2025
Bonar Law, friend of Sir Wilfred Lawson, probably visited Brayton
Bond, Alfred (18xx-19xx), schoolmaster, of 43 Hill Road, Barrow, when he and Edith Mary had son John Lawson bapt at Coniston on 22 December 1912 (born 24 October 1912)
Bond, Eliza Indiana Smith (1823-1905) daughter of Capt John Smith-Bond (1779-1835) who built Rosehill, Carlisle just before his death, she married Dr Henry Lonsdale (1816-1876) (qv); Pevsner and Hyde, 608
Bond, Ernest Radcliffe (1919-2003; ODNB), police officer, b. Barrow, son of William Edward Bond who worked in the shipyard and Annie Elizabeth Radcliffe, his first training was as an apprentice to a French polisher, joined the Scots Guards 1935, fought in 2ndWW MNiddle East, and 8th Army in North adfrica, m. Mabel Phoebe Isabel Lammie, Metropolitan Police, fraud squad, flying squad and first cdr of bomb squad
Bond, Henry, began career at Lincoln, first Kendal Public Librarian 1892; J G Olle, A Librarian of No Importance, 1970
Bone, Eleanor ‘Ray’, aka Artemis (1911-2001), matriarch of British witchcraft, born London, an influential figure in neo-pagan region of Wicca, came to Cumbria in 1939, claimed to have been initiated into an hereditary coven in Cumbria, returned to establish a coven in Streatham in 1945, in 1972 returned to Cumbria and settled in Alston, buried on unconsecrated ground at Garrigill
Bone, Tom C (18xx-19xx), solicitor, town clerk of Whitehaven (1938), of 13 Victoria Road, Whitehaven
Bonomi, Ignatius Richard Frederick Nemesius (1787-1870; ODNB), architect, born at 76 Great Titchfield Street, London, 31 October 1787, and bapt at Sardinian chapel, 27 December, 4th but eldest surviving son of Joseph Bonomi (1739-1808), architect, of Rome and London, and Rosa Florini (1755-1812), a cousin of Angelica Kauffmann, and brother of Joseph (1796-1878), sculptor and Egyptologist, educ not known, started architectural training in father’s office about 1803, moved to Durham about 1809 (father’s patrons at Lambton Castle), completed new Durham assize courts in 1811, built up his own extensive practice in Durham with wide clientele among local aristocracy and clergy (both Anglican and Catholic), apptd surveyor of bridges for co Durham in 1813, designed first railway bridge in England (at Skerne, near Darlington in 1824 for Stockton & Darlington Railway Company), surveyor to dean and chapter of Durham 1827-1840, competent designer in both neo-classical and Gothic styles of churches (‘rather plain and uninspired’), public buildings, small country houses and suburban villas, almost entirely in Northumberland, Durham and North Riding of Yorkshire, with just two churches in Cumberland (St Cuthbert’s Roman Catholic, Wigton (1837) and Nenthead (1845)), architect to London Lead Company and designed houses for company’s agents at Longmarton, Stanhope and Middleton in Teesdale, had two main assistants (J L Pearson (1817-1897), pupil and assistant from 1831 to 1842, and J A Cory (qv), partner from 1842), marr (27 December 1837) Charlotte (1799-1860), dau of Israel Fielding, of Startforth, near Barnard Castle, after which he left RC church to join C of E, retired in 1850, leaving Durham to live in London in 1856, spent year after his wife’s death with sister Justina in Genoa in 1861-62, then lived with brother Joseph and family at 36 Blandford Square, London, till he designed own house The Camels in Princes’s Road, Wimbledon Park, in 1865-66, where he died s.p., 2 January 1870, aged 82, and buried with wife in Paddington cemetery (BDBA, 122)
Bonville, Cecily (1460-1529), 7th baroness Harrington suo jure, daughter of William Bonville (qv) who had married a Harrington heiress of Gleaston Castle, she held considerable lands and as the greatest heiress at that date married Thomas Grey, the 1st marquess of Dorset in 1474, they did not live at Gleaston and by 1540 the castle was in ruins, their grandson Henry Grey became the 1st duke of Dorset and was executed in 1554 following his attempt to place his daughter Lady Jane Grey in the throne, Cecily’s second husband was Henry Stafford, 1st the earl of Wiltshire
Bonville, William (1442-1460), 6th baron Harrington of Aldingham, having married a Harrington heiress, the father of Cecily Bonville (qv), a Yorkist, he was slain at the battle of Wakefield during the Wars of the Roses
Bookless, Amos Hayton (1877-1960), draper, chauffeur and garage proprietor, b. Birkenhead and bap 11 November 1877, son of William and Mary Bookless (nee Hayton), both parents dead by 1881, his mother was a farmer’s daughter from Edderside and his father an ‘offcomer’, as an orphan was raised by relatives, in 1901 living at Crosscannonby with his sister Mary and Thomas Armstrong, a joiner, drove Squire Richmond of Clifton Hall and Belmont, Bankmill, keen sportsman: tennis, cricket, golf, fishing and followed the hunt, sang humorous songs at musical concerts locally, lived in 1911 with John Kendal (b.1871) a draper and auctioneer at Netherhall, given a dinner at The Ship, Allonby, prior to departing for the 1st WW to join the Royal Army Service Corps, in 1939 a garage proprietor in Allonby and living at the Red House, died in Cumberland Infrmary on 22 September 1960 of 21 Church St, Stanwix, probate £1019; Solway Plain website; Annie Elizabeth Bookless [his aunt?] in 1881 lived as a widow with five Bookless children
Booth, Albert Edward (1928-2010), PC, politician, born 28 May 1928, son of Albert Henry Booth and Janet Mathieson, educ St Thomas’s School, Winchester, South Shields Marine School, and Rutherford College of Technology, engineering draughtsman until 1966, local councillor 1962-1965, Labour MP for Barrow-in-Furness 1966-1983, minister of state, department of Employment 1974-1976 and secretary of state for Employment 1976-1979 under James Callaghan, shadow minister of Transport to 1983, lost seat to Cecil Franks in 1983, contested Warrington South in 1987, marr (1957) Joan, dau of Josiah Amis and May Shell, 3 sons, died 6 February 2010
Booth, William (1829-1912; ODNB), founder Salvation Army, Born Sneinton, Notts, son of Samuel and Mary Booth, apprenticed to a pawn broker, Methodist preacher, est Salvation Army in 1878, now a major distributor of human aid worldwide, visited Millom vicarage and the Rev Ivor Farrar (DCB) c.1904; Parry-Wingfield family photograph of Booth in a huge motor car
Boothman, John (17xx-1832), Methodist local preacher and hat manufacturer, alerted to Primitive Methodism by his sister (or sister-in-law) in Kendal who had been converted by PM missionaries from Hull in 1822 and she walked 44 miles to Carlisle from Kendal, to tell him, he then sent his son-in-law, James Johnson, a Wesleyan, to Kendal to find out more about PMs (Ranters) and was himself converted and both subsequently left Wesleyans to establish PM cause in Carlisle in summer of 1822, their first preaching place being in his own hat factory in Backhouse Walk for next four years, supported by preaching of William Clowes (qv), who was at Brampton on 1 November 1822, then at Carlisle (found society of some 55 members) and Penrith, later PMs had chapel at Willow Holme (1829, 1847); Memoir of Boothman, Primitive Methodist Magazine, 1909, 267
Boothroyd, Richard Michael (19xx-2010), BSc, farmer and college head, son of farmer from Vale of York, grew up in village of Little Ouseburn, educ Leeds and Cambridge Universities, farmed at home in Yorkshire, but keen on career in agricultural education, teaching at Agricultural Colleges in Nottinghamshire, Northumberland and Cumberland, becoming vice-principal of Cumbria College of Agriculture and Forestry at Newton Rigg, Penrith in 1966, and Principal 1978-1990, educational innovator at Newton Rigg, introducing many new courses (inc hill and upland farming and land use and recreation), agricultural proficiency tests, and college open days, Secretary of Cumbria Grassland Society 1967-1978, involved in wider rural community of county as chairman of Bishop’s Council for Agriculture and Rural Life, etc, awarded Blamire Medal for services to Cumbrian agriculture in 1991, retired in 1990 and lived in Cliburn, mentor and area co-ordinator for Prince’s Trust in Cumbria for 15 years, chairman of local NADFAS group, local organist, interest in music and art, died in February 2010, cremated, with service of thanksgiving at St Andrew’s church, Penrith, 8 March (CWH, 26 February 2010; WG 27 February 2010; Yorkshire Post 5 May 2010)
Bordley, Revd William (16xx-17xx), clerk, of Walker Ground, Hawkshead, and also of Thorns, Underbarrow, will dated 3 July 1730 (WDX 1556/6)
Borlaze, Edward Thomas (c.1883-1933), mine manager, born at Bettwys-y-Coed, North Wales, son of Captain William Henry Borlaze of Bosone near St Just, Cornwall, father managed the Llanworth Mines, mother was Rebecca Corin, moved to Glenridding when he was 7, educated St Bees and apprenticed to several mining companies in iron, lead and coal in northern England, then attended Camborne School of Mines, became a demonstrator at Birmingham university school of mining under Prof Redmayne, awarded BSc in 1907, to Spain with Rio Tinto, manager of Huelva Copper and Sulphur mines, 1st WW in Royal Artillery, returned to Greenside lead mine in Glenridding, then to Bilbao at Lucana Mining Co and finally a consultant, before returning to Greenside, died Carlisle 1939, marr Euphemia (1896-1983)
Borowski, (John Henry) Felix (1872-1956), composer, born in Burton-in-Kendal, his father Bruno BF Burowski (b.1842) was born near Warsaw and ran a school in Burton, his mother Clara Eliza Nutter, daughter of Henry Nutter a farmer at Cantsfield (L) taught music, educated in London and the Cologne Conservatory, taught piano in Aberdeen, his compositions were praised by Grieg, to the USA and became director of the Chicago Music College, wrote inter alia three large scale organ sonatas, he married in Chicago Edith Frances Grant (1874-1916); P. L. Scowcroft, musicwebinternational Cumbrian Music
Borradaile, Richardson (1762-1835), East India merchant, son of John Borradaile of Wigton, hatter, Richardson and his brothers moved to London and est a furrier’s and hat manufacturing business and chair Hudson Bay Company, MP Newcastle under Lyme, lived Bedford Hill House; Hist of Parliament
Borrett, John (1658-1739), lawyer, bapt at Kirkby Lonsdale, 23 September 1658, yst son of Edward Borrett, mercer, amassed a fortune as lawyer of Inner Temple in London, an assistant to the bar, 2 July 1704, an associate of bench, 12 November 1704, master of bench, 3 February 1706, Prothonotary of Court of Common Pleas, purchased Deansbiggin in 1680 and Thurland Castle and manor of Thurland with all of Girlington property in Lunesdale, by release of 30 March 1698, also purchased manor of Shoreham, Kent, as well as properties in other counties, which he left to his eldest son Thomas (will dated 29 December 1738, PCC proved 21 February 1740); Thomas Borrett, of Serjeants Inn, later of Shoreham. Kent, marr Susanna Scawen, 2 daus (Susanna and Martha), will proved 11 March 1751, Susanna inheriting Thurland Castle and manor, marr (1760) William Evelyn, of St Clere, Kent, MP for Hythe (grandson of John Evelyn, the diarist), but later sold Thurland Castle and lands to Robert Welsh, of Leck, 10 December 1771 (HPT, 35)
Borrodale, Gawen, last abbot of Holme Cultrum, 1st rector of church
Borrodaile, Gawen, abbot of Holme Cultrum, later rector after the Dissolution, the details of the customary tithes of Holm payable in bushels and skeps; britishhistory.ac.uk
Borrodaile, Richardson, MP (1762-1835), born in Wigton, MP for Newcastle-under-Lyne, son of John Borradaile a tanner, and his wife Mary Richardson, married Elizabeth cotton of the Priory, Leatherhead, established a hat factory in London, later in marine insurance, owned the ships Cumberland, Streatham and Inglis, elected for Newcastle (a hat making town) in 1826 and sat until 1831, voted against slavery, died Balham 1835
Borrowdale, Adam de, murdered John Cooper of Whowes at Dalton in 13thc; JC Cooper, Duddon Valley
Boruwlaski, Joseph (Jozef) [1739-1837; ODNB], diminutive itinerant violinist, known as ‘the little count’, born in Poland to an impoverished gentry family, his siblings were full size, travelled all over Europe as far as Russia, Marie Antoinette’s mother Emperor Maria Teresa gave him a ring from her daughter’s finger, visited Whitehaven and Carlisle, spent many years in Durham, was much loved and supported by the dean and chapter, the ‘Count’s House’ by Prebends Bridge at Durham was not his home, died aged 98, buried inside Durham cathedral near the door from the west end of the south aisle leading to the Galilee chapel, his oil portrait, top hat and tail coat are in Durham town hall, portrait drawings by Joseph Bouet, see David A. Cross, Joseph Bouet’s Durham; J. Boruwlaski, Memoirs of Count Boruwlaski containing a Sketch of his Travels and an Account of his Reception at the different Courts of Europe, 1788
Borwick, Isaac, boatbuilder, Bowness, in partnership as Shepherd and Borwick, this partnership amicably dissolved on 10 February 1900, set up new business with his sons John, George and Arthur; www.waterbird.org.uk/borwick-and-sons also see Shepherd
Borwick, John, George and Arthur, sons of Isaac Borwick (qv) boatbuilders, Bowness on Windermere,
Borwick, Sir Robert Hudson, 1st baron Borwick, (1845-1936), JP, KGStJ, founder of Borwick’s baking powders, of Eden Lacy, Great Salkeld, 1st baronet, chair of George Borwick and Sons, manufacturers of baking powders and custard powders, born Cartmel, teacher west Bromwich, m. Jane Hudson, dau of congregationalist minister, brother in law Robert Spear Hudson had introduced a successful commercial soap powder in 1837, he gifted the formula for baking powder to Borwick, from 1844 Borwick and Priestley druggists and drysalters sold washing and bleaching powder and baking powder, selling £12-£14,000 p.a., Borwick’s sons joined him in George Borwick and Sons, by 1896 selling 600,000 packets of baking powder per week, JP London, barony created in 1922 for Sir Robert 1st bt for providing hospital treatment for colonial officers throughout the war, m. Caroline dau of the Rev Richard David Johnston of Kurnool, India, 2 sons and 2 daus, his sons sold out to H.J.Green of Brighton in 1955 and from 1964 the firm has been part of Pillsbury of Minneapolis
Boste, John (St John Boste) (c.1543-1594; ODNB), MA, Roman Catholic priest, martyr, and schoolmaster, born at Dufton, ca. 1543, yr son of Nicholas Boste, of Wellyng, Dufton, and Janet Hutton, of Hutton Hall, Penrith, educ (prob) Appleby Grammar School and Queen’s College, Oxford (matric 1564/5, taberdar 29 January 1568(?9), BA 9 July 1568, MA 18 June 1572, admitted Fellow on 31 October 1572, lecturer in logic in 1572/3, Master of Appleby Grammar School 1573-1578, re-elected Fellow and magister puerorum on 7 July 1578, but expelled from fellowship by Provost of Queen’s on 5 October 1580, having entered English College at Rheims on 4 August, received minor orders in winter of 1580, deaconed (21 February 1581), priested at Chalons-sur-Marne (4 March 1581) and sent back to England (11 April 1581), landing at Hartlepool and spent next twelve years in energetic propagation of his faith in northern counties and Border country until betrayed by former pupil, Henry Ewbank, then vicar of Washington, or (ODNB) by Francis Ecclesfield, a renegade Catholic, in house of William Claxton at Waterhouses, west of Durham, 10 September 1593, arrested and sent to Windsor on 2 October 1593 for examination by Richard Topcliffe on behalf of privy council, tortured and imprisoned in Tower of London until returned to Durham for trial (with John Ingram and George Swallowell), sentenced to death and executed at Dryburn, 24 July 1594, with the others two days later at Gateshead and Darlington (beatified in 1929); Boste canonised by Pope Paul VI, 25 October 1970, the only true-born Cumbrian saint (AGS, 27-29)
Boswell, James (1740-1795; ODNB), laird of Auchinleck, lawyer, diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson, born in Edinburgh, 29 October 1740, eldest son of Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck, his brothers taught by Rev James McQuhae qv, met Dr Johnson in 1763, he was 23 Johnson 54, in 1773 travelled together to Scotland, published A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides [1786] as a trial run for the biography, inherited the Auchinleck estate in 1782, entered Lord (‘wicked Jimmy’) Lonsdale’s circle in 1786 when invited to act as his legal adviser during second ‘mushroom’ election at Carlisle, invited to stay at Lowther Hall then at Whitehaven Castle in December 1787, having applied to him for recordership of Carlisle, offered post on 20 December 1787, and elected on 11 January 1788, but had difficult relationship with Lonsdale, who abused him on many occasions (Lonsdale’s tyrannical behaviour is recounted in his journal, Lowther saying at one point he would ‘put a bullet in his belly’), all at time of his wife’s terminal illness in May-June 1788, esp in case of Lonsdale v. Carlisle Corporation in court of King’s Bench, in which he was one of two counsel, tried in December, and won by Lonsdale, but resigned recordership as from 12 July 1790, ending his political association with him (LF, 299-302), his biography of ‘Dr’ Johnson [1791] became hugely influential on later biographers, died at his house in Great Portland Street, London, 19 May 1795 and buried in family vault at Auchinleck church, 8 June; his great granddaughter Julia marr George Mounsey (qv), of Carlisle
Boswell, James the Younger (1778-1822), son of James Boswell (1740-1795) biographer of Dr Johnson, educ Soho Sq, Winchester and Brasenose Coll, Oxford, called to the bar at the Inner Temple 1805, commissioner for bankrupts, a friend of Edmond Malone (1741-1812) the Shakespeare scholar, later Malone’s biographer, member of the Roxburgh Cub, edited Malone’s 1821 edn of Shakespeare, visiting the Lakes after Waterloo he climbed Skiddaw on 21st August and attended the celebratory bonfire with Southey, Wordsworth, Lord Sunderlin (Malone’s brother) (qqv) and others; letter from Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford dated 22 August 1815 letter 2648 in edited volumes; cited Norman Nicholson’s anthology
Botchardus, mason, from Flanders, involved with building the castle in stone, hence Botchergate, and Botcherby, Carlisle were named after him
Botchergate, Joan of, during the reign of Edward II she complained of damage to her property in Carlisle
Bott, George [fl.1970s-2010], schoolmaster and historian of Keswick, editor of George Orwell: Seected Writings (1989), author of Keswick: The Story of a Lake District Town (1994) and editor of A Cumbrian Anthology (2009); his uncatalogued archive (Keswick History Society)
Bottomley, E Michael (192x-2015), architect and artist, of Lickbarrow, Windermere, designed several buildings in Kendal and district (see Hyde and Pevsner) and the huge Corona at Kendal parish church, advised Mary Burkett when she inherited Isel Hall, at Lickbarrow he and his sister employed a farmer to care for a herd of rare breed cows, enthusiastic watercolourist of great skill being interested in vernacular architecture and frequently capturing neglected agricultural interiors in muted autumnal tones, secretary of Kendal Art Society, longtime committee member of the Romney Society, published a book on his own artwork c.2005, died early January 2015, service of thanksgiving at Carver Church, Windermere, xx January 2015;
Bottomley, Gordon (1874-1948; ODNB), FRSL, poet and playwright, born at Eboracum Street, Keighley, 20 February 1874, only son of Alfred Bottomley, accountant and estate agent (son of John Bottomley, wool stapler), of Keighley, and Ann Maria (died 10 March 1938, aged 90, at Applegarth, Silverdale), dau of Fletcher Gordon, of Keighley (parents were married at New Jerusalem Church, King Street, Keighley, 26 February 1873), educ Keighley Grammar School, started work as junior bank clerk, first volume of poetry The Mickle Drede published in Kendal (1896), marr (24 November 1905) Emily (d.1947), dau of Matthew Burton, chemist, no issue, three god-daughters (Elizabeth Cooper (dau of Lascelles Abercrombie), Theodora Fairfax Crowder and Christine Mirabel Moir), also a friend and correspondent of Percy Withers qv, adjudicator of elocution classes at Morecambe Musical Festival in May 1935, moved from Well Knowe House, Cartmel to The Sheiling, Silverdale [built by daughters of Mrs Gaskell] in March 1914 [auction sale, 21 September 1949], assisted Sir William Rothenstein qv in selecting works for Tullie House, died 25 August 1948, aged 74, at Martinscote, Oare Wilcot, near Marlborough, Wiltshire, cremated and ashes interred with wife’s (November 1947) in churchyard of Dundurn, St Fillans, Strathearn, Perthshire; first will dated 20 July 1940, new will 5 March 1948, codicil 16 June 1948 and probate 15 September 1949 [detailed bequests of books and paintings]; portrait drawings by Sir William Rothenstein and Charles Shannon (latter chosen by NPG) and painting by Keith Henderson (Poet and Painter: Letters between Gordon Bottomley and Paul Nash 1910-1946 (1955, 1990); letters in CRO, WD/K/242; probate papers WD/RG/box 100)
Bouch, Charles Murray Lowther (1890-1959), MA, FSA, clergyman and antiquary, son of Charles Bouch (1855-1917) and Florence Cottam (1858-1915), educ Christ Church, Oxford (BA 1921, MA 1925), Cuddesdon College 1919, d 1922, p 1923 (Carl), rector of Clifton, m. Isabel Jaquetta (1915-2003) dau of the Rev John Lowther Bouch (qv)(his cousin?), Prelates and People of the Lake District, 1948, also his volume The Queen’s Book, given to the present queen in 1956, canon of Carlisle, president, CWAAS 1954-1957, editor of Transactions 1951-1957; obit. CW2 lix 175; CWAAS 150th volume, 303ff
Bouch, John Lowther (1872-1942), MA, clergyman and genealogist, great grandson of John Bouch, of Monument Yard, London and Grainger Houses, Wigton, educ Marlborough and Trinity College, Oxford (BA 1902, MA 1906), Cuddesdon College 1902, d 1903, p 1904 (Lond), Asst Missionary, Merchant Taylors School, Shacklewell 1903-1907, St Mary’s, Bryanston Square 1907-1910, Rector of Ackworth, Pontefract, Yorks 1910-1941, member of CWAAS from 1914 to 1935, extensive knowledge of pedigrees of ancient baronial and local families, left many ms volumes of pedigrees and genealogical notes, which were quarried by his cousin, C M Lowther Bouch (qv) in his articles for Transactions, but always reluctant himself to put anything into print, died 20 July 1942 (CW2, xliii, 214)
Bouch, Revd Thomas (1662-1716), m.Vigesima Jackson (b.1657), one dau, high sheriff of Cumberland 1672, rector of Whittington 1681-1716
Bouch, Sir Thomas (1822-1880; ODNB), MICE, civil engineer, born at Thursby in 1822, 3rd son of William Bouch a merchant captain and Elizabeth Sanderson, worked on Lancaster and Carlisle railway, resident engineer on Stockton & Darlington railway, Wear Valley line, manager and engineer of Edinburgh and Northern railway 1849, instituted steam ferries over Forth and Tay (roll on roll off ferries here or elsewhere), constructed Tay Bridge in 1870-77, knighted in 1879, died of shock resulting from destruction of Tay bridge by hurricane; plaque on his house at Thursby
Bouch, William (1814-1886), civil engineer, born at Thursby in 1814, elder brother of Sir Thomas, apprenticed at Messrs Stephenson, worked in Russia having taken machinery to the Black Sea Navigation Co., chief engineer on Russian naval vessel, joined Stockton and Darlington railway in 1840, famous for his design of steam locomotives, particularly the Saltburn class, fostered the use of standard gauge tracks, Shilden engine works 1858, worked with Hawksley on Weardale and then Consett waterworks; 100 boxes of mss Keswick Museum
Boucher, Jonathan (1738-1804; ODNB), FRSE FSA, schoolmaster, clergyman, American preacher and linguist, b. Blencogo, son of James Boucher schoolmaster and ale house proprietor and his wife Ann Barnes, taught Wigton and Workington; minister Clifton, usher St Bees, tutor in Virginia, USA, minister South Carolina, published Glossary of Provincial and Archaic Words, which assisted Noah Webster with his dictionaries, friend of George Washington and taught his stepson Jackie Custis, subscriber and contributor to Hutchinson’s History of Cumberland, supplying accounts of Bromfield, Caldbeck, and Sebergham as well as biographical material signed ‘Biographia Cumbria’, returned to England and was vicar of Epsom until his death, died in 1804 (Laurie Kemp, Tales from Carlisle; CW2 xxvii 116; (CRH, xix-xxi))
Bough, Sam [1822-1878] R.S.A., artist, b. Carlisle, son of James Bough, shoemaker and his wife Lucy Walker, a cook, worked in Carlisle and in Edinburgh, where he spent most of his life after 1849, his large memorial at Dean cemetery, Edinburgh has a fine bronze medallion; Fishing Boats Running into Port: Dysart Harbour (1854; NG Scotland), Highland Cattle in Open Lakeland Landscape (Palais Doratheum, Vienna), Crocket Match at Edenside (Tullie House); (Marshall Hall, 7-8; Sidney Gilpin, Sam Bough: Some Account of his Life and Works, 1905 [Sidney Gilpin a pseudonym qv]; Gil and Pat Hitchen, Sam Bough RSA: The Rivers in Bohemia, 1998)
Boulter, Revd John Sidney (1890-1969), MBE, TD, MA, clergyman and schoolmaster, born 16 August 1890, son of Revd Sidney Boulter (1851-1932), Vicar of Fordington 1888-1906 and Rector of Poulshot, near Devizes, Wiltshire 1906-1932, and his wife Mary, dau of Charles Alcock, DLitt, educ St John’s Leatherhead, Aldenham School and Keble College, Oxford, Asst Master, St Bees School 1913-1934, Second Master 1934-1938 and Headmaster 1938-1945, MBE 1938, marr (1939) Mary Joyce Thorn, 1 son, deacon and priest 1954, Vicar of Rusland and Satterthwaite 1955-1962, Vicar of Sawrey from 1962, died 28 February 1969
Boulton, Marjorie (1924-2017) PhD, educationalist and Esperanto poet, b. Teddington daughter of Harry and Evelyn, ed Barton-on-Humber GS and Somerville college Oxford, taught by CS Lewis and JRR Tolkein, Principal of Charlotte Mason College, Ambleside from 1962 for 24 years, succeeding Miss Hardcastle, keen supporter of Esperanto believing that one world language would encourage peace, published biography of Ludovic Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto, her Esperanto poetry appeared in Kontralte [1955], also wrote plays and essays, ran summer schools at Barlaston, in 2008 nominated for a Nobel prize; obit Guardian 19 Sept 2017
Boulton, Thomas Sibley (18xx-19xx), MA, clergyman, curate of Kirkby Stephen 1904-1908, vicar of Ravenstonedale from 1908
Boumphrey, Robert Staveley (1916-1987), MBE FSA, MA, finance officer and armorialist, educ Liverpool College and Pembroke College, Oxford (MA), reading law before studying languages in Germany and France for Civil Service examination, joined Colonial Audit Service in 1939 and served in Nigeria, London, Falkland Islands, Federation of Malaya and Singapore, retiring in 1959, bursar of Godolphin School, Salisbury 1959-1960, finance officer of Durham University 1960-1963 when he encountered and became friendly with Roy Hudleston, finance officer of Lancaster University 1963-1976, later deputy secretary and establishment officer, hon secretary, CWAAS 1973-1974, member of Council 1976-1979, author of A Kirkby Lonsdale Armorial (CW2, lxxi, 97-138), An Ordinary of Westmorland and Lonsdale Arms (1980), joint author (with C R Hudleston and J Hughes) of An Armorial for Westmorland and Lonsdale (1975) and Cumberland Families and Heraldry (1978), marr Naomi Emelita, dau of William Maclean Housden (1884-1941), of Antofagasta, Chile, retired from Town End Cottage, Kirkby Lonsdale to Winchester, where he died in 1987; see Dictionary of Falklands Biography
Bourke, Richard Southwell, 6th Earl of Mayo (1822-1872; ODNB), KP, GMSI, PC, MA, LLD, Viceroy of India, born 21 February 1822, eldest son of 5th Earl of Mayo, marr (31 October 1848) Blanche Julia, CI, VA, (died 31 January 1918, aged 91), 2nd dau of 1st Baron Leconfield qv, 4 sons and 2 daus, MP for Cockermouth 1857-1868, Coleraine 1852-1857 and co Kildare 1847-1852, Chief Secretary in Ireland 1852, 1858-59 and 1866-68, Viceroy of India 1868-1872, assassinated at Port Blair in Andaman Islands, 8 February 1872, and buried at Johnstown, near Naas, co Kildare, statue in Sicilian marble, 9 feet high mounted on pedestal, by Messrs W & T Wills, of London, erected by public subscription in Main Street in Cockermouth and unveiled by Lord Napier of Magdala on 19 August 1875, his widow Blanche was appointed extra lady of the bedchamber to Queen Victoria 1872-74; David A. Cross, Public Sculpture, 2017, 159-60
Bourne, Mrs, poet, ‘The Death of Mr Wood’ [Wood, a natural philosopher, was involved with orreries and air pumps], perhaps = to Mrs James Bourne qv
Bourne, Rev. James (1773-1854), clergyman and artist, work in Armitt collection and Dove Cottage (SGNT, 144); his wife (qv above) wrote verse including Mr Barber’s Grounds, Northern Reminiscences, 26
Bourne, Peter [fl.1844-1867], colliery manager, principal colliery agent to Lord Lonsdale at Whitehaven 1847 -1867, formerly senior assistant to John Peile (qv) 1844-1847 (seven working pits: Saltom, Wellington, Croft and Wilson pits at Howgill and William, North and Wreah pits at Whingill), resigned in 1867 to regret of working class with whom he was popular (WN, 15.09.1866; WCC, 158)
Bourne, Samuel (1714-1796; ODNB), Presbyterian minister, born Crook, Kendal, son of Samuel Bourne (1689-1754; ODNB) also a Presbyterian minister, educ Strand GS Lancaster, Glasgow university, minister at Rivington 1742, then in Norwich 1754, here Sir James Edward Smith (1759-1828), founder of the Linnaen Society in 1788 was raised under his ministry, in 1775 he retired to Thorpe, Norfolk
Bouskill, Edith (1879-1961), hospital matron, dau William Prickett Bouskill a builder of Kendal and wife Hagar (House of Correction Hill, Kendal), family to New Zealand, Edith became a registered nurse at Wauganui Hospital in 1912, she was only 5 foot 1.5 inches tall and weighed 7 stone 2, returned to Bowness working at Langrigg Nursing Home, promoted to matron, then matron at the huge Grange-over-Sands Eggerslack war hospital during the 1st WW, returned again to New Zealand and worked again as a matron, died Auckland
Boustead, see Bowstead
Boustead, James (fl. mid 19thc), blacksmith, married in 1837 at Gretna, Mary Lenox, they were both of Cumwhinton
Boutflower, Right Revd Cecil Henry (1863-1942), DD, MA, bishop, born at Brathay in 1863, son of Ven S P Boutflower (qv) and grandson of Giles Redmayne (qv), educ Uppingham (1875-1882) and Christ Church, Oxford (Scholar, 2nd class Mods, 2nd class Lit Hum, and Theol Final Schools, Newdigate Prize Poem 1884, MA 1889), MA Durham 1895, ordained York 1887, Curate of St Mary, South Shields 1887-1890, Domestic Chaplain to Bishop Westcott of Durham 1890-1901, Vicar of St George’s, Barrow-in-Furness and Archdeacon of Furness and Examining Chplain to Bishop of Carlisle 1901-1905, first Bishop of Dorking 1905-1909, Bishop of South Tokyo 1909-1921, Bishop of Southampton 1921-1933, Residentiary Canon of Windsor 1925-1933, marr (1933) Joyce, dau of Revd Halsall Segar, presented (with mother? M M Boutflower) credence table to Brathay Church in 1900, dedicated the War Memorial in Brathay churchyard in August 1921, staunch advocate of missionary service, retired to Paddock Brow, Boars Hill, Oxford, died 19 March 1942
Boutflower, Revd Douglas Samuel (18xx-19xx), clergyman, brother of C H Boutflower (qv), Rural Dean of Easington
Boutflower, Ven Samuel Peach (18xx-19xx), clergyman, marr (18xx) Margaret, dau of Giles Redmayne (qv), of Brathay Hall, Incumbent of Brathay 1840-1842 and 1856-1868, lived at little house on Rothay Bridge in 1840, then at Old Brathay on his return in 1856, where he took pupils with help of a tutor, C D Russell (whose son Revd C F Russell became headmaster of Merchant Taylor’s School at Crosby) [no vicarage built until 1869], presented larger harmonium to Brathay Church (superseded by first organ given by Barratt of Wykefield in 1868), Archdeacon of Carlisle after 1868
Bower, George (1890-1953), mechanic and rock climber, came to Barrow-in-Furness in 1918 and worked for Vickers for nearly 20 years (latterly on submarine mines) before joining research and development at Rolls Royce, Derby in 1937, vice-president of Fell and Rock-Climbing Club, introduced shoulder belaying method, which saved numerous climbers’ lives, marr, 1 son (John); plaque unveiled at Dock Museum, Barrow by John Hutton, MP, on 4 December 1998
Bowerbank, Christopher W (1940-2002), architect and raconteur, born Wiltshire, son of Cdr Geoffrey Bowerbank, nephew of Sir Frederick Bowerbank (qqv), educ Sherborne, Architectural Association School of Architecture, for a while he was the escort and chauffeur of Marianne Faithfull, socially he operated well amongst ‘the haut, beau and demi-monde’, his Jaguar was an inspiration to his friend Bruce Robinson for his film Withnail and I (1987), shot partly in Cumbria near Bampton and Shap, latterly he lived on Orkney, his work was mostly in restoration of buildings in London where he was keen to retain original 18th and 19thc style and detail, at his death he was engaged to Emma Soames, Winston Churchill’s granddaughter
Bowerbank, Maj Gen Sir Frederick Thompson OBE (1880-1960), physician, born Penrith, son of the ironmonger Joseph Bowerbank (1849-1925) (born at Matterdale died Penrith) and Mary Farrer, educ Penrith High School, studied medicine at Edinburgh, worked at the Royal Free Hospital, marr Maud Pick, went to New Zealand in 1907, physician Wellington Hospital, 1st WW in Europe, studied intestinal disease at the Dardanelles, mentioned in despatches four times, returned New Zealand and specialised in electrocardiography, 2nd WW medic in RAF, was director general of NZ medical services, knighted 1946 and awarded the Dutch order of Orange-Nassau, published his autobiography A Doctor’s Story (1958), he was the uncle of Cdr Geoffrey Bowerbank and great uncle of Christopher Bowerbank (qqv)
Bowerbank, Cdr Geoffrey RN, son of Albert Bowerbank and Nellie Wainwright, nephew of Maj Gen Sir Frederick T Bowerbank (qv), born in Whitley Bay, father of Christopher Bowerbank
Bowerbank, Joseph (1849-1925), ironmonger, born at Matterdale, married Mary Farrer, father of Albert and his brother Frederick (qqv), employed eleven men and six boys in 1911, died Penrith; ancestry
Bowerbank, Thomas (d.1818), son of Edward of Lamonby, merchant in London, their earlier family being of Skelton; Hud (C)
Bowers, Revd Robert George Elton (18xx-19xx), clergyman, Vicar (Perpetual Curate) of Helsington and Underbarrow (instituted in February 1929)
Bowet, Gilbert (fl.late 14thc), clergyman, perhaps the brother of Henry Bowet (qv), chaplain at Greystoke Castle and then first master of the new Greystoke College there (Hud C), presented to this role by Ralph, Lord Greystoke on 22 December 1382,
Bowet, Henry (b.c.1340s-1423), archbishop, born into a Cumberland gentry family with property in Warcop and Soulby in 1283 (Hud C), educ Cambridge and Bologna, made two advantageous marriages (not yet a priest?), and rose to prominence being at one time an MP, connections in the Penrith area where his father is buried, by 1370s an official to the bishop of Ely, then the bishop of Norwich, Henry Despencer, by 1380, involved in the Flemish crusade of 1383, to the papal court of Urban VI (1378-1389) as royal proctor, took letters there from Richard II, ambassador between Rome and Westminster, archdeacon Lincoln, service under John of Gaunt, 1396 constable of Bordeaux, sent to negotiate the marriage between Henry Bolingbroke and Isabella of Aragon, declared a traitor on the death of Gaunt in 1399, on accession of Henry IV became a counsellor, given several prebends, bishop of Bath and Wells (consecrated at St Paul’s 1401), much work for Henry IV in private counsel, sent in 1406 to escort Philippa, Henry’s daughter, to marry Erik of Pomerania (co-ruler until 1412 with his aunt Margaret I) at Lund cathedral in the united Scandinavia (the Kalmar Union), on his return in 1407 translated to the archdiocese of York, a good administrator of church and state, rebuilt the great hall at Cawood Castle (Y), had a reputation for ‘sumptuous housekeeping’, in 1417 the Scots invaded and, with the duke of Exeter, an aged Bowet was carried to the camp at Berwick on Tweed where his words to the troops are said to have been encouraging, he was buried on the south side of the choir in York Minster in a crocketed gothic tomb, carved in his lifetime
Bowie, Archibald, Gaskell, West Cumb Leaders, 1910
Bowie, David (1947-2016; ODNB), singer, performed the lead role of Cloud in a 1968 production Pierrot in Turquoise at Rosehill theatre, his theatrical debut; Cumbria magazine 27 January 2016
Bowker, Bob (fl.20thc), amateur drama producer who worked in Vickers, Barrow, produced many productions for the Elizabethans and later for Furness Youth Theatre, often to be seen at Sixth Form College productions and when the RSC used to visit Barrow
Bowles, Caroline (1786-1854; ODNB), writer, daughter of Capt Charles Bowles (1737-1801) of the East India Co., second wife of Robert Southey q.v., published sonnets, Ellen Fitzherbert (1820) and Solitary Hours (1826P
Bowley, Mary, poet and translator, Echoes of Old Cumberland, one third translated from Danish; via Robin Acland and Sydney Chapman
Bowman, Anthony N (18xx-1933), solicitor and registrar, head of Mounsey, Bowman and Morton, solicitors, Carlisle, diocesan registrar and clerk of dean and chapter of Carlisle from 1895, keen antiquary, member of CWAAS from 1898, died while on holiday at Weymouth, 12 july 1933, aged 74 (CW2, xxxiv (1934), 226-227)
Bowman, Edmund, steward of Manor of Barton, member of Barony of Barton, temp Edward Hasell, 1786, 1808 (CRO, WDX 884/4/7)
Bowman, Sir James (1898-1978; ODNB), miner and trade unionist, born Great Corby, son of Robert James Bowman (1862-1948), blacksmith, and his wife Mary Ellen Murray (b.1867) of Canonbie, dau of William Murray, miner, worked as a miner in Ashington colliery (N), active in Northumberland trades union, general secretary 1935, later vice president, involved in reform of German unions after the war, served on the Royal Commission of the Press, marr Jane Brooks (1899-1989) dau of Henry Brooks of Ashington, also a miner, she worked in a grocery business prior to marriage, retired to Woodlands, Killingworth (N), succeeded by his son Sir George Bowman (1923-1990)
Bowman, Joseph Dawson (Joe) (1850-1940), huntsman, born at Matterdale in May 1850, son of xxx Dawson and his wife Mary Martin of Patterdale (directly descended from seven generations of foxhunters), huntsman with the Patterdale or Ullswater Hounds from 1879 until 1912 (testimonial meet on 26 December 1911), then after 4 years’ ill-health again from 1916 to 1924, Ullswater pack being product of an amalgamation in 1873 of a pack based at Bald How in Matterdale with the Patterdale pack, ‘There’s nowt like a change of blood to git bone’ (acc to Joe), had a game terrier called Fury, as a breeder he is acknowledged as the originator of the Patterdale terrier, his hunting deeds extolled in verse and song, known as ‘auld Hunty’, died at Grassthwaite How, Glenridding, aged 88, and buried at Patterdale, 8 March 1940; his son, Joseph, of the same, also buried there, 8 January 1940, aged 61 (CP, 57-59); photograph in Richard Clapham, Foxes, Foxholes and Foxhunting (1923); Joseph Lucas, Hunt and Working Terriers (1931), Ullswater Foxhounds, two vols, 1863-1913 and 1914-1965
Bowman, Samuel [18thc.], mariner, Harrington, R.C.; CW2 lix 126
Bowman, Rev Thomas JP MA (1761-1829), headmaster, born at Askham, descended from foresters of Martindale, was headmaster of Hawkshead Grammar School; Hud (W)
Bowman, Revd Thomas W (18xx-19xx), independent minister, late Principal of Collegiate School, Melrose, when publicly inducted as Pastor of Independent (Congregational) Chapel at Kirkby Stephen “on this day”, 2 September 1875, and Jessie Bowman was admitted to fellowship of church, but six members also resigned, went on to preside over “a gracious Revival of the Church” after visit of Revd James Mountain, of London, who “was the instrument used by God for the promotion of much spiritual refreshing and quickening”, and 35 were admitted to membership in November 1877, with some further names admitted to April [1879], after which he no longer appears in minute book (CRO, WDFC/C3/1)
Bowman, William (Billy) (1936-2022), musician and businessman, son of Billy Bowman who ran a band (est 1914) with an eclectic line-up of instruments, aged 14 stood in as drummer with his father, from 1954-56 in the Royal Navy, rejoined the band in 1960 until 1976, active in music in Cockermouth, played saxophone in the Music Masters locally and also drums with the Mechanics Band, a member of Rotary, for twenty years drove a mobile fruit and vegetable shop to access remote villages, ran a music shop in Lowther Went in Cockermouth for forty years, had a great sense of humour and was described as ‘The Music Man of Cockermouth’, lived Great Broughton with his wife Margaret, one son one daughter, funeral at Great Broughton, Christ church, 29 November 2022; Times and Star 24 November 2022
Bownass, Samuel (1677-1753), Quaker preacher and writer, born Shap, son of Anthony Bowman (d.1677) shoemaker, apprenticed to a blacksmith, c.1697 inspired by Anne Wilson (qv), travelled in England and America, retuned to UK and est business as a merchant but continued to travel and preach, returned to America, publ. An Account of the Captivity (by Indians) of Elizabeth Hanson, returned to England and died Bridport, The Life Travels and Christian Experience of Samuel Bownass (1756)
Bownass, William (1813/14-18xx), postmaster and hotelier, born at Middleton and bapt there, 6 March 1814, eldest son of Thomas and Mary Bownas, yeoman, of Middleton, marr Jane Titterington, of Bentham, aged 37, keeping the Royal Hotel, Bowness-on-Windermere by 1851, aged 37, with brother Robert, aged 20 (bapt at Middleton, 9 May 1830, yst son of Thomas and Mary Bownas) as book-keeper and sister-in-law, Mary Titterington, aged 24, as barmaid [they were married and keeping the Glenridding Hotel, Patterdale, by 1861], 2 sons (in 1851)
Bowness, Edward (Ted) (1928-2018), teacher and landscape photographer, born at Chapel Stile, Great Langdale, in 1928, educ Langdale School, Kelsick Grammar School, Ambleside, and Manchester University (geography), teacher trining, first job in Birkenhead, joined staff of new school at Ashton in Preston, joined Longlands School, Kendal in 1971, running the St Geoge’s annexe, table tennis coach (one team being English Schools Champions), moved to Kirkbie Kendal School on secondary school reorganisation in 1980, taking early retirement in 1984 to concentrate on his photography, had written and photographed a Lake District guide book in 1970s (sold over 100,000 copies), took landscape shots for AA and OS, one being included in an historical exhibition at Tate Britain in 2007, also contributed articles to Westmorland Gazette on historical topics about life in Lake District, marr (1963) Chris, of Old Hutton, died in hospital just before his 90th birthday (KOHG recordings; WG, 22.02.2018)
Bowness, George (1761-1833), army officer, born at Little Scales, near Bolton, Appleby, and bapt at Bolton, 12 January 1762, 2nd son of George Bowness (prob son of James Bowness, of Bolton Field, and his wife Grace, bapt 15 January 1729; had small farm long possessed by family) and his wife Bridget, had two brothers John (bapt 26 September 1754) and James (bapt 19 March 1767) and three sisters Anne (bapt 1 September 1757), Grace (bapt 28 February 1760) and Bridget (bapt 21 January 1765, buried 7 April 1769), educ Bolton and Appleby Grammar Schools, entd HEIC service, marr in India, at an early age, Harriet Robinson, dau of a London merchant, 6 sons and 5 daus, attained rank of Lieut-Colonel on 21 September 1804, Colonel 4 June 1813, and Major-General 12 August 1819, serving 33 years in India before returning to England in 1817, died at Sutton Benger, near Chippenham, Wiltshire, 6 July 1833, aged 72; his yst and only surv son, Major Bowness, late HM 80th Regiment, succ to Bolton property (United Service Journal, October 1833; WW, ii, 251-252)
Bowness, Rev George (fl. late 18thc- died after 1821), master at Witton-le-Wear grammar school who later lived at Orton, here he translated the charter given to the village by Oliver Cromwell, he also wrote the epitaph for the eccentric Joseph Robinson (‘Jossie of the Whips’) (qv), his son (also George) may have succeeded him at Witton grammar school and then been the vicar of Chester le Street, his granddaughter Catherine may have married the Rev Thomas Ebenezer Lord (1824-1897) who restored the Saxon church at Escomb
Bowness, John, coroner for north Westmorland (QS 1785….1794, 1802)
Bowness, Moses (1833-1894), photographer, agriculturist and poet, born at Coniston and bapt there, 28 July 1833, eldest son of John Bowness (d. 19 March 1883, aged 75), copper miner, of Hawes Bank, and Jane (nee Mossop) (d. 1885, aged 81), living as farm worker with Dugdale family at Tock Howe farm, Hawkshead in 1841, married (spring 1858 in Kendal) Isabella (died 27 August 1889), widow of Abraham Slater, builder in Ambleside (she was about 16 yrs older with children), 1 dau, one of first to set up as a professional photographer in Ambleside district in 1856, Photographer to HRH Prince of Wales and party on informal visit to Windermere and Grasmere in May 1857, employed his stepsons in his studio across Lake Road from Vale View (hotel run by his step dau, Agnes Slater) [now Churchill Hotel], did landscape but esp portrait work (incl W E Forster, H Martineau, C Mason and John Close), took on apprentices (incl Herbert Bell, Warmsley, and Gould) by 1881, active in promoting tourist trade and saving Stock Ghyll Park waterfalls, main promoter of Ambleside District Gas & Water Company and a director till his death, also promoter of abortive Ambleside Railway Bill and gave evidence at inquiry in 1887, rented 500 acre farm at Wray Castle, former secretary of Hawkshead Agricultural Society, member of Shorthorn Society, of Vale View, Ambleside (by 1871), and later of Belmount, Hawkshead, which he rented after his 2nd marriage (in December 1890 in Kendal) to Helena Hudlestone (with whom he already had several children; she later remarried and died in Wales), died two days after carriage accident on hill leading to ferry at Sawrey, 23 April 1894, aged 61, coroner’s inquest at Belmount on 25 April (verdict of accidental death), and buried at Coniston, 26 April (CW3, ix, 225-231; WG; Poems from the Ambleside Herald, by Mrs Susan Premru); CW3 ix 225
Bowness, William (1809-1867), portrait painter and dialect poet, son of Richard Bowness, hosier, of Highgate, Kendal, with his warehouse down yard adjoining Oddfellows Hall (then the Unicorn Inn) on south side, various portraits in Kendal town hall collection (inc John Hudson and Joseph Braithwaite (qv), also his son William Braithwaite), his local character portraits such as Cumberland Beggar and Westmorland Lassie echo his interests in dialect writing in his own Rustic Studies in Westmorland Dialect (1868), dinner given in his honour at Commercial Hotel on 28 June 1843 (with mayor, Richard Wilson, in chair and John Wakefield vice-chair) when many compliments paid to his talent (AK, 304.15); M. Hall, 8; LD Dialect Soc WDSO 101
Bowring, Henry Christopher White (Kit) (1911-1999), DL, JP, FRICS, FLAS, MA, Lieut-Col, land agent, born 31 January 1911, son of Henry Illingworth Bowring (qv), educ Marlborough College (1924-29) and Oxford University (1929-32), marr (1939) Helen, dau of Revd D Denholm Fraser, 1 son and 3 daus, served with Royal Fusiliers (Major, Hon Lieut-Col) 1931-1948, land agent 1948-1971 (retd), High Sheriff of Westmorland 1955-56, DL Westmorland 1973, Chairman of Heversham-with-Milnthorpe Internal Drainage Board, apptd November 1955 to February 1971, also member of Beetham and Arnside Internal Drainage Board 1956-1971, of Dallam Tower Estate Office, keen sportsman, shooting and fishing, died 8 October 1999
Bowring, Henry Illingworth (1869-1934), JP, barrister and magistrate, only son of Henry Price Bowring (1814-1893), one of original partners of Bowring Bros, and his wife, barrister but did not practise, JP City of Leeds 1900, member of court and council of Leeds University (chairman of finance committee for 20 years), Hon LLD 1922, purchased Whelprigg estate at Barbon from Major Joseph Gibson (qv) in 1924, resident in Westmorland from 1922, member of CWAAS from 1924, JP Westmorland, trustee of Kirkby Lonsdale Savings Bank, keen sportsman and country pursuits, died at Whelprigg, 8 January 1934, aged 64 (CW2, xxxiv (1934), 228-229)
Bowser, Sir Thomas (1748-1833), KCB, army officer, born at Kirkby Thore in 1748 [no bapt at KT], son of John Bowser, yeoman, had three sisters (Mary, wife of John Ellison, of Winton; Margaret, wife of Edward Thompson, of Kirkby Stephen; and Elizabeth, wife of Lancelot Compton, of Penrith), educ Appleby Grammar School, went to London as clerk in merchant’s counting house before entering military service of East India Company as cadet in 1772, distinguished military career in India, left India in 1803, leaving his property in hands of Messrs Chase, Chinnery & McDowall in Madras, but lost everything with failure of that house, being reduced to his basic pay and forcing him to sell family estate at Kirkby Thore, obtained grant of arms in 1803, when late of Kirkby Thore, then of Hanover Square, London, but prob resided at Datchet, near Windsor until 1820 when he returned to India, commanding Mysore division of East India Co army, succ General Sir Alexander Campbell as C-in-C of Madras Army in December 1824 until January 1826, then left India finally on the Mellish, installed Knight Grand Cross of the Bath in January 1827, large frame with deep scimitar gash on right cheek, unmarried, died at his house near Regent’s Park, London, in June 1833, aged 85, and buried at St Mary’s church, Portland Road, London (grant of arms in CRO, WDX 1207; portrait in possession of kinsman in 1850; WW, ii, 229-252)
Bowstead family (sometimes Boustead)
Bowstead, James (1801-1843; DCB), MA, DD, bishop, born at Great Salkeld, 1801, 2nd son of Joseph Bowstead (1759-1835), farmer, of Beck Bank, Great Salkeld, and descended from John Boustead, of Boustead Hill, Burgh-by-Sands, and nephew of Revd John Bowstead (qv), and brother of John, of Beck Bank, educ MA, DD (Cantab), a considerable scholar, Bishop of Sodor and Man 1838-1840 (cons 22 July 1838), nom to Lichfield 28 December 1839 and conf/trs Lichfield 23 January 1840, noted for his piety and charity, devoted his income to furtherance of education, died at Bristol following a fall from his horse aged only 42, this accident cutting short a promising career, 11 October 1843; ms Diary of Tour of Scotland [Corpus Christi College Library]
Bowstead, John (1754-1841) clergyman and schoolmaster, born Great Salkeld (some sources give Eastward), son of Thomas Bowstead (1728-1809), descended from John Boustead of Boustead Hill, Cumberland, educ Jesus and Peterhouse Colls, Cambridge, B.D. 1791, curate, Askham, 1777, curate, Clifton, 1785, perpetual curate, Mardale, 1800-30, rector, Great Musgrave, 1832-41, upon the translation of his nephew James Bowstead (qv) to the diocese of Lichfield was made prebendary of Lichfield, 1841, master, Bampton Grammar School for 54 years from 1776, gained a reputation for ‘turning out hundreds of local clergy’ including John Hodgson (qv), he appears in Ploughing in Latin: A History of Bampton (2003): CAC(C), DRC1/8, pp. 60, 63, 240; CAD, CCED, memorial inscription and portrait, Bampton church, J. Whiteside, ‘Mardale Chapel and the Holmes of Mardale’, CW2, 2 (1902), pp. 141-50, at p. 145; Carlisle Grammar Schools II, pp. 702-03, AWL, p.44; ME Noble, History of Bampton, 1901, 95; HD Rawnsley, Charles Gough, 1892, 21
Bowstead, Rowland (1766-1843), clergyman and schoolmaster, b. Great Salkeld, yst son of Thomas Bowstead, yst brother of Revd John Bowstead (qv), uncle of bishop James Bowstead (qv), schoolmaster Hawkshead GS and taught the younger Wordsworth brothers, he lodged with them at Ann Tyson’s, wrote the inscriptions in many of the books donated to Hawkshead Grammar school library, m. Agnes Sawrey, daughter of John Sawrey butcher and innkeeper (qv), headmaster Caistor GS, Lincs, in retirement rector of Ulceby, Lincs, cheated by Lord Yarborough’s agent at the time of the enclosures in an epic case of skullduggery (The Very Extraordinary Case of a Clergyman in consequences…….County of Lincoln, Goodwin and Lawson, Hull c.1830s (qv)), this trauma probably led to his return to the north west to be vicar of the tiny rural church of Littledale, Caton, near Lancaster, then St Michael’s Appleby, died Crackenthorpe Hall, home of his daughters (qv), buried with his wife Agnes under a chest tomb at Caton; T.W. Thompson, History of Hawkshead
Boyce, Christine (1928-2019), stained glass artist, born in Hull, educ Newcastle on Tyne college with LC Evetts, had infectious energy and a life packed with incident, marr Dan, son Charlie, lived in Malaya and Puerto Rico, discovered glass in 1960s and found her ideal medium, her reverence for the natural world and her consideration of spiritual meaning most evident, ‘a knowledgeable, kind and honest mentor’ (Hippisley-Cox), lived latterly at Banks near Brampton, among her work is the fine Norman Nicholson memorial window in Millom, St George’s (illustrated on the cover of Carew-Cox), the Wilson memorial at Egremont, St Mary and St Michael’s, memorial to Canon Richard Watson at Keswick, St John, an heraldic window at Lanercost priory, Abbey Mill, Lanercost, Ampthill, St Andrew, her last project in 2019, funeral Lanercost priory 26 November 2019; News and Star 22 November 2019, Journal of Stained Glass, an appreciation, vol XLIII, 2019, Alastair Carew-Cox (ed), Christine Boyce: Artist and Craftswoman, 2021; Lizzie Hippisley-Cox, CWAAS newsletter no 100, summer 2022, 16-17
Boyd, Edward Kenneth (1931-2008), headmaster Cumwhinton school; offered a professional footballer job in his teens but the letter was kept from him by his grandmother to ensure that he had a ‘proper job’; C. News 18.4.2008
Boydell, James (d.19965), pharmacist, lived Caldbeck 1975-1995, memorial window at Caldbeck church by Peter Strong (qv)
Boyden, Sylvia (or Sylva), (1899-1984)), early parachutist, came to Richmond Park, Surrey to watch an early test of the parachute from a balloon, enthused by the excitement she made a parachute landing herself. she was 17, she had stated she was 21 and gave her grandmother’s name, she made several balloon jumps (these differ from plane jumps in that they are made in still air), often with ‘mad’ major Hans Orde-Lees of the Balloon Corps of the RFC, she was billed in the New York Times as ‘the famous English air girl’, involved in RAF pageants in airshows in the UK and Europe, made 150 jumps in her career, visited the Calthorp Works where the early ‘Guardian Angel’ parachutes were made, with Orde-Lees she lobbied for parachutes to be essential kit on planes, in early days they were often deemed to be too bulky and heavy, in a Daily Mail sponsored event she flew in a mail plane north which involved dropping a bundle on the Daily Mail at the ‘Sauceries’ (Bitts Park, Carlisle), this was achieved 12 May 1919 but the plane crashed near Harker station (between Carlisle and Longtown), those on board all survived but Sylvia damaged her face and lost several teeth, she was treated at Fusehill Hospital, on 11 July 1919 she successfully jumped in a demonstration of the parachute in the USA but as one of her companions died they did not take up the ‘Guardian Angel’ design, later she married and became Mrs Marley and lived Southampton; G Routledge, Longtown, 2000 p.70
Boyle, Clara [nee Ash] m. Henry Boyle (1863-1919), a diplomat q.v.; she was involved with saving Jewish people in the 2nd WW; Rob David, A Country of Refuge, 2019, 65-71]; author of Boyle of Cairo, published posthumously, Titus Wilson, 1965 (could this be by her daughter ?)
Boyle, Lt. Cdr. Edward Courtney, VC (later rear admiral), [1883-1967], Carlisle, the VC citation of 21 May 1915 refers to his action as commander of submarine HMS E 14 which dived under a minefield to reach the Sea of Marmora and sank two Turkish gunboats; plaque on his birthplace in Chatsworth Square, Carlisle
Boyle, Edward (Eddie), foundry manager, Porter Engineering, Denton Holme, Carlisle, sang solos from the classical repertoire
Boyle, Henry (1863-1937), diplomat, of Ellerhow, Ellerigg, Ambleside, son of xx and Nellie, marr Clara Ash, of Poland (friend of Violet Wordsworth), who died young and was buried at Ambleside in autumn 1919, in folk-dancing group with Willie Heelis, contributor to Cumbria magazine (LDF, 28), consul-general in Berlin 1909-1914, Levant consular service 1883-1909 (papers in CRO, WD/CB); Clara Boyle, Boyle of Cairo, Titus Wilson, 1965
Boyle, Richard, 2nd viscount Shannon (1675-1740), army officer, son of Richard Boyle and Elizabeth Ponsonby, grandson of 1st viscount, educ Oxford, fought at the battle of the Boyne 1690, the storming of Vigo 1702, a raid in Barcelona 1705, c/o of viscount Shannon’s Foot, after this he was C in C of the Royal Irish Army in the 1720s and 30s, MP in turn for Arundel, Hythe and East Grinstead, briefly a member of the Kit Kat club, marr (1) Mary Sackville illegitimate dau of 6th earl Dorset (2) Grace Senhouse (qv) of Netherhall, their dau Grace became the countess of Middlesex but died before her husband Charles Sackville the 8th earl of Dorset (1711-1769 inherited as the 2nd duke of Dorset, she was an artist and probably taught by Arthur Pond (c.1705-58)
Boynton, Sir Thomas, 1578 visitation of Kendal (PPLC, 222)
Boyville, de, family of Millom; CW2 xli 15
Brabant, Frederick Gaspard (1855-1929), writer, The English Lakes, 1905 illustrated by Edmund Hort New (qv), a range of other topographical volumes including Oxfordshire (1919), Sussex (1920), Snowdonia (1920) and The Intelligent Life, Journal of Education, vol 20, 1886, 24
Bracken, John (fl.1660s), portrait painter, Daniel le Fleming and Lady Anne Clifford (qqv) sat to him; Marshall Hall, 8-11; booklet Mary Burkett qv
Bracken, Thomas Wilson (1865-1920), engineer, railway builder, soldier and patriot, son of John Bracken (1838-1874), farmer, and Elizabeth Brunskill, brought up at Firbank (W), of the Royal Engineers, first wife Dorothy Oliver, 6 children, 2nd Polly Coleman, dau Dorothy (1902-1972); Martin Gibson, Thomas Wilson Bracken: Servant of Empire, 2009; mss PRO Kew
Bradburne, John, [b. Skirwith, Eden Valley, d.1979], son of C of E priest converted to RC church; missionary and est. a leper colony; killed Zimbabwe 1979; JB Memorial Society – charity – Africa; Didier Rance, J.B. Le Vagabond de Dieu, review Julian Whittle C. News 20 July 2012, 21
Bradbury, Bernard (1912-2002), teacher and local historian, gave memorable guided tours of the town and the castle, his widow continued after his death; published several editions of his history of Cockermouth [1st edn. 1979]
Braddyll family of Conishead Priory
Braddyll family of Conishead, formerly of Bradhull (broad hill) and Brockhole and Portfield, near Whalley, in Lancashire Co. Museum is a 1590 portrait of John Braddyll of Portfield and Whalley by Robert Peake, the family also has links with Whalley Abbey and Samlesbury Hall, Conishead came to the Braddylls upon the death of Miles Dodding (qv), when his grandson Thomas Braddyll (d.1776) died he left his estates to his kinsman Wilson Gale (qv) who took his name; see Dodding, Gale and Wilson; the last Braddyll to live locally was Sarah Braddyll (qv); Hudleston (W)
Braddyll, John Richmond-Gale (fl.20thc.), engineer, 2nd son of Col Hubert Richmond-Gale-Braddyll (1886-1975) and Nellie Vokes (1893-1960), (his elder brother was killed in the RAF in WW2), director of Vickers, Barrow, lived Prospect House, Kirkby in Furness, 1960s-70s and later at a converted gunpowder mill at Nibthwaite, m. Patricia, who claimed descent from the Phillipsons of Calgarth (qv), daughters Sarah and Lucy
Braddyll, Sarah Richmond-Gale- (1955-2014), administrator, elder daughter of John Richmond-Gale-Braddyll (qv) and his wife Patricia of Prospect House, Kirkby-in-Furness, her godfather was C Roy Hudleston the local historian (qv), she married (1) Edmund Stephen Hodge (1947-1981), son of Edmund Albert Hodge (qv) of Elterwater Hall, after her husband’s premature death she lived at Stanyan Lodge, Ford Park, Ulverston, she took a great interest in her family history and the visual arts, for several years she gave great support to David Cross during his research into George Romney (qv) (her ancestor Col Wilson Braddyll (qv) of Conishead Priory sat to this artist while standing beside his horse which was painted by Sawrey Gilpin (qv)), Sarah typed up quantities of mss and frequently arrived at Isel Hall bearing gourmet sustenance, on a couple of occasions they visited Conishead Priory to examine the architecture and heraldic details, at Roy Hudleston’s funeral she introduced Cross to Tim Cockerill and they all contributed to the genesis of Cumbrian Lives, Cockerill becoming a major biographer in the project, she then married (2) David Morgan, former landlord of the Abbey Tavern, Barrow, and they settled in Alexander Rd, Ulverston
Braddyll, Thomas Richmond-Gale- (1778-1862), Colonel, son of Wilson Gale (qv), assumed addnl surnames of Richmund-Gale (later Richmond-Gale) by Royal Licence in 1819, inherited Conishead Priory (described as ruinous in 1821), originally commissioned Philip Wyatt to rebuild it, but dismissed for lack of progress in 1828, so employed George Webster for gothic design, embellishing it with armorial bearings of Braddyll and related families, this expense was in the unfulfilled hope of welcoming royalty, but compelled to sell it in 1847 when he was declared to be bankrupt, his mines had failed in Co. Durham (the family believed that this was compounded by the skulduggery of their inadequately supervised mining agent), house and contents put up for sale in 1848 (catalogue in CRO(B), Z3183), died 10 July 1862, aged 85, and buried at Lillington, co Warwick (MI in St Mary’s church, Ulverston), group portrait The Braddyll Family by Reynolds [Fitzwilliam Museum], several portraits by Downman, small pencil head taken at the hustings in Durham, in David A. Cross, Joseph Bouet’s Durham; Sarah Holmes, Paradise of Furness
Brade, Daniel (18xx-1896), architect, father died in June 1857 (probate granted April 1858), marr in Penge, January 1858, died in 1896, aged 67 (BT)
Bradford [nee Bassano], Dorothy [1918-2008], artist, b. Cockermouth; Guardian obit., 15 July 2008
Bradford, Rt Rev Samuel (1652-1731), clergyman, educated St Paul’s School, Charterhouse and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, also studied medicine, a private tutor, then held several livings in London, royal chaplain to William III, master of Corpus, bishop of Carlisle 1718-23, then of Rochester and appointed Dean of Westminster, which latter post was held in commendam, (a pluralist arrangement abolished in 1836); Hud (C)
Bradley, Arthur Granville (1850-1943), author, eldest son of the Very Revd George Granville Bradley (1821-1903; ODNB), dean of Westminster, educ Marlborough School, but sent to Challacombe in Devon at age of 14 to be tutored by Robert Martin, the rector, in 1860s, recalled in his Exmoor Memories, prolific author (esp of Canada and North America), incl The English Lakes, illustrated by E W Haslehurst (1910) and Highways and Byways in the Lake District, illustrated by Joseph Pennell (1927), died at his Sussex home in his 93rd year
Bradley, Basil (1842-1904), artist, born Hampstead, son of William and Eliza Bradley, educ Manchester school of art, lived Beathwaite House, Levens, later in Surrey, specialised in animals and farm livestock; Levens History Society website; Chris Beetles website
Bradley, Geoffrey, with GPH Watson wrote the Guide for Carlisle Castle (1937)
Bradley, Helen (1900-19xx), artist, born in Lees on outskirts of Oldham, attended Oldham School of Art, moved to Cartmel in 1959 and began painting in earnest, evolving her own style, began painting her childhood recollections, which brought her wide success (third volume of memories published in 1975), esp distinctive warmth of colour in skies and distance, gentle reflections in waters of lakes and pools merging into misty background of landscapes (evidence of Turner influence), exhibited three times in London (Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 1973), once at Salford Art Gallery (1973), once in Los Angeles and also at Anvil Gallery, Cartmel, for which she performed opening ceremony in 1972 (incorporating the Helen Bradley Centre in Cartmel) and close friend of owners, Austen and Marjory Denison (qv)
Bradley, Howard (b.c.1928), veterinary surgeon and poet, born Dalton, practiced Barrow, lived Rakesmoor Lane, member of the Barrow Education Action Group with Michael Scott and Malcolm Cross and others which strove to keep the grammar schools, member of Barrow’s International Forum with Dr Raj Vaidya qv, an erudite, perceptive and charming man who was an early mentor of David Cross, retired to Grange, then Kendal and finally Humshaugh near Hexham; married Jean (d.2020), two daughters Susan and Fiona,
Bradley, Orton (c.1787-1857), MRCS, surgeon and landowner, born at Kirkby Stephen, member of RCS London (not practising in 1851), surgeon to Westmorland Militia, of Eden Place, Hartley, Kirkby Stephen (1829, 1851), died 28 March 1857, aged 70, wife Mary died 3 July 1865, aged 78, 7 children (inc Reginald Robert (qv), Frances C (33 in 1851), Eleanora Catherine (22 in 1851, later Mrs Haddock)) (trustees’ papers in CRO, WDX 714)
Bradley, Reginald Robert (1825-1892), MA, clergyman and farmer, born at Kirkby Stephen, 10 November 1825, son of Orton Bradley (qv), educ Sedbergh School (entd February 1842, aged 16, left June 1845) and University College, Durham (Foundation Scholar, BA 1848, MA 1851), d and p 1849 (Dur), Curate of Warcop (1851) when still living with family at Eden Place, Hartley, Curate of Crosby Garrett (1858), Chaplain at Cape Coast Castle, Gold Coast, then at Papanui, Christchurch, New Zealand, with Gen Lic until 1889, then retired to farm at Charteris Bay, Lyttleton, Canterbury, NZ, until his death, 29 January 1892, aged 66 (SSR, 207)
Bradley, Thomas (17xx-18xx), MA, clergyman, Queen’s College, Oxford, headmaster of St Bees School 1811-1830
Bradley, Walter Elliot (18xx-19xx), clergyman, educ Cambridge University (BA 1901, MA 1905), d 1901 and p 1902 (Liv), curate of St Paul, Southport 1901-1905, and Hucknall Torkard, Notts 1905-1906, organising secretary, CMS for dios Liverpool and Sodor and Man and archdeacon of Chester 1906-1908, curate of Ilkley (i/c St John Evang, Ben Rhydding) 1912-1914, rector of Ulverston 1914-1917, vicar of Crosthwaite (C) 1917-1939, rural dean of Keswick 1918-1939, proc conv Carlisle 1921-1950, hon canon of Carlisle Cathedral 1933-1956 (Emeritus from 1956), rural dean of Amblesde 1942-1956, lic to off, dio Carlisle from 1939, of Field Head House, Outgate, Hawkshead (1965) (decd by 1971, but not buried at Hawkshead)
Bradshaigh, Dorothy (nee Bellingham) (1705-1785; ODNB), letter writer and cookery book compiler, the daughter of William Bellingham who was brought up at Levens Hall, married Sir Roger Bradshaigh of Haigh Hall, Wigan, her ms book of recipes (1779) is at Indiana University, an early entry being: ‘to make Scotch Collops’, there is a portrait by Edward Haytley
Bradshaw, George (1801-1853; ODNB), cartographer, printer and publisher, b Manchester, conceived of the railway guide known by his name and popular for decades, made a two day tour of the Lake District, this tour was recapitulated by Michael Portillo in his TV railway programmes
Bradshaw, Thomas (d.1930), schoolmaster, retired, of Tallantire, died 23 January 1930, admon 7 March 1930 (CRO, DWM/309/14)
Bradshaw, William Bradshaw Fletcher (c.1760-1815), born c.1760, son of xxxx Fletcher, assumed addnl surname of Bradshaw on inheriting Halton Hall estate in 1775 on death without issue of his great-uncle William Bradshaw (who had bought Halton in 1743), received a grant of original arms of Bradshaw in 1781, marr xxx, son (Robert Fletcher, aged 21 in 1822, who sold Halton in 1832, marr, son, also Robert Fletcher (born at Halton Hall, 1822), educ Sedbergh School (entd February 1832 and left December 1835), but whole family emigrated to Australia “owing to heavy losses”, and son said to be “a young man of the highest abilities and character” joined mounted police, but killed by being thrown against a tree by his stumbling horse), died aged 55, in 1815 (portrait by Romney last known to be in Valentine family home at Seaton Cote, Workington, when auctioned in 1955) (VCHL, viii, 122; SSR, 189-190)
Bragg, Alice CBE (nee Hopkinson, later Lady Bragg) (1899-1989), dau of Dr Albert Hopkinson of Withington, Manchester, educated Newnham Coll Cambridge, friend of Eileen Rutherford, marr (Sir) Lawrence Bragg in 1921, son of William Henry Bragg, joint Nobel Prize winners (qqv), a member of the Royal Commission on Marriage and Divorce and later president of National Marriage Guidance Council
Bragg, Geoffrey (formerly Geoffrey Kendal) (1910-1998), actor, see Kendal
Bragg, Gwendoline (nee Todd, later Lady Bragg) (1869-1929), artist, born Adelaide, Australia, dau of Sir Charles Todd (1826-1910), astronomer, meteorologist and electrical engineer and his wife Alice Gillam, educ Adelaide School of Design, married (Sir) William Henry Bragg (qv), mother of Sir Lawrence Bragg (qv) joint Nobel Prize winners
Bragg, Jane (fl.1816-1834), artist and drawing mistress Whitehaven, exhibited Carlisle Academy 1824-1830; Marshall Hall,11
Bragg, John (1723-1795), shoemaker and diarist, lived Whitehaven, diary covers 1771-1794 (ms W/H CRO DH/37), covers events, receipes, cures and letters to Hadwin relatives in Rhode Island
Bragg, John (fl. early 19thc), Russia merchant, born Egremont where he had a bleach field, imported flax and hemp from Russia
Bragg, Sir (William) Lawrence (1890-1971; ODNB), crystallographer, son of Sir William Henry qv and his wife Gwendoline Todd (1869-1929) dau of Sir Charles Todd government astronomer (1826-1910) (Todd went to Australia as post master general and was one of the frst to observe Neptune and the first to take a daguerreotype of the moon, his wife Alice gave her name to Alice Springs), Lawrence was a joint Nobel Prize winner (with his father William (qv)); John Jenkin, W and L Bragg: Father and Son: The Most Extraordinary Collaboration in Science, 2008; Melvyn Bragg Radio 4 programme 2013-4 Bragg on the Braggs; for Todd see Dictionary of Australian Biography, he and his father were the ‘founding fathers of crystallography’ and were ‘enlightened enough to think that women could do good science’ (Prof Judith Howard, Durham university); it is notable that Dorothy Hodgkin (ODNB) took forward their methods in examining the atomic structure of larger molecules
Bragg, Richard (‘Bonny Bragg’) (1819-1901), cattle dealer and amateur wrestler, 3rd son and 6th of ten children of William Bragg (1783-1868), farmer of Dowbiggin, by his first wife, Frances Preston (1787-1837), marr (1862) Ann Steele (1840-1915), 3 sons and 4 daus, his eldest sister Mary marr Dawson Watson (qv) (SH, V, 6, 24-28)
Bragg, William (17xx-18xx), agent, steward and solicitor, agent to Lieut-Gen Henry Wyndham, of Cockermouth Castle, steward of manor courts and Coroner for the Honour of Cockermouth and Lordship of Egremont, solicitor, of Castle Street, Cockermouth
Bragg, William (fl.mid 18thc), cooper, soon after January 1749 bought one of the first plots for sale on Irish Street soon after the establishment of the new town Maryport by Humphrey Senhouse, here he made barrels and cut pulley blocks for the shipping, as one of the buyers of the first plots he was enabled to purchase pews in the church, his son William (who married a Sibson) died at sea, as did two grandsons
Bragg, Sir William Henry (1862-1942; ODNB), OM, KBE, FRS, physicist, born at Westward, near Wigton, 2 July 1862, eldest of three sons of Robert John Bragg (1830-1885), a merchant navy officer, who became a farmer at Stoneraise Place, Westward, and of Mary (1833-1869), dau of Revd Robert Wood (qv), following her early death lived with his uncle William Bragg in Market Harborough, Leics, for six years, where educ at grammar school, King William’s College, Isle of Man (1875) and Trinity College, Cambridge (third wrangler 1884 and 1st cl honours 1885),^^^^ President of Royal Society 1935-1940, joint Nobel Prize for Physics [with his son Lawrence qv], pioneer of X-ray crystallography, etc, died at the director’s residence in the Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London, 12 March 1942 and cremated on 19 March (plaque in Chiddingfold church, Surrey; W Rothenstein drawing in Carlisle, etc); John Jenkin, W and L Bragg: Father and Son: The Most Extraordinary Collaboration in Science, 2008; Melvyn Bragg Radio 4 programme 2013-4 Bragg on the Braggs
Braham, John (1744-1856), the great tenor, an orphan of Jewish family, taken up by the Goldsmid family and became a successful opera singer, wrote his own song ‘The Death of Nelson’ which was popularperformed in Ulverston
Braid, James, professional golfer and course designer, began as maker of clubs and became a player, designed Brampton Golf Course 1909 and 200 other courses in England
Braithwaite family, from the 14thc-20thc in Hawkshead, Ambleside, Burneside and Kendal, one branch held the ‘right of ferriage’ on their boats from Claife to Bowness, which gave them a steady income for generations (Jehane Wake, Kleinwort Benson, 20), poem about the Ferry disaster of 1635, The Fatal Nuptial, Richard ‘Dapper Dick’ Braithwaite; publications of Garnett Braithwaite (1904-1981) qv
Braithwaite, Abigail (later Benson) [d.1761], quaker preacher, daughter of William Braithwaite of Elterwater hall, brought a dowry of £100 in 1729 when she m George Benson [d.1758] of Stangend, travelled widely in the north of England and had eight children, Jehane Wake, Kleinwort Benson, 21, 23
Braithwaite, Anna, close friend of Mary (Moffat) Livingstone (b.1821- died in Mozambique in 1862), wife of Dr David Livingstone, explorer (1813-1873; ODNB)
Braithwaite, Charles Lloyd I (1811-1893), woollen manufacturer and drysalter, 2nd son of Isaac Braithwaite (qv), marr (3 September 1838, at Friends’ Meeting House, Kendal) Susanna (1815-1894), dau of Isaac Wilson (qv), of Kent Terrace, Kendal, 2 sons (Charles Lloyd (qv) and Isaac (qv)) and 1 dau (Anna Mary, wife of Thomas Crewdson Wilson, qv), man of great energy and business ability, carried on old family business of drysalter and dyewood cutter [which had developed out of shearman dyer business of George Braithwaite (qv) at end of 17th century], but also founded and carried on (with his G F, his yr brother) a woollen manufactory, both housed in premises opening off Highgate and within a few yards of his home on Highgate (next to his parents in 1851), a recorded minister, an original member of CWAAS (with his son, CL junr.), of Ghyll Close, Kendal; Susanna, his wife, was co-secretary of managers of Castle Street School, Kendal from 1833 [with Elizabeth Hall until 1847, then with Mrs Somervell] until 1878)
Braithwaite, Charles Lloyd II (1840-1910), manufacturer, born 24 March 1840, er son of Charles Lloyd Braithwaite (qv), marr E H Davis, a trustee of Kendal and Northern Counties Permanent Benefit Building Society (1873)
Braithwaite, Christopher (1843-1898), JP, barrister, Major, Border Regt, er son of Garnett Braithwaite (1810-1845), of Plumtree Hall, Heversham, and his wife, Sarah Smith Wilson (b.1806), and er brother of Garnett (qv), marr (1869) Elizabeth Atkinson (1850-1922), no issue, assumed addnl name of Wilson in 1871, died in 1898
Braithwaite, Daniel (1731-1817), Post Office clerk, probably b. Kendal, friend of Romney (qv), who came to know him (via Kendal contacts?) after GR moved to London in 1762, when he was already a clerk in Post Office, enjoyed patronage of Anthony Todd (qv), who apptd him ‘first Clerk to the Secretary’ as from 30 January 1765, but lost his position later that year with Todd, but was reapptd with him in 1768, still enjoyed Todd’s patronage to rise to position of Controller of Post Office Foreign Department by 1789, active in artistic circles as a patron and collector, one of proprietors (with John Sewell and Isaac Reed) of the European Magazine for a time, owned property in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, besides his house in Arpur Street, London, marr, issue inc son James (apptd postmaster at New York ‘not long before the termination of the American war’), dedicatee of William Hayley’s own Life of George Romney (1809), died in 1817; (D A Cross, Romney Newsletter No.52, 2011, David A Cross, A Striking Likeness, 2000)
Braithwaite, Garnett (1845-1906), JP, MA, yr son of Garnett Braithwaite (1810-1845) and yr brother of Christopher (qv), after whose death in 1898 he assumed addnl name of Wilson, marr (1869) Elizabeth Kay (1847-1872), 2 sons (William Garnett (qv) and George (1872-1933) unm), of Plumgarths, Kendal, died in 1906
Braithwaite, Garnett Edward (1904-1981), Lieut-Colonel and family historian, only son of Brig-Gen William Garnett Braithwaite (qv), marr (1931) Margaret Fair (b.1903), 1 son (Anthony, b.1936) and 1 dau (Susan, b.1934), sold Bleaze Hall, Watercrook, Lane Head, Stainbank Green, Birkfield, Borwick Fold, Brigsteer, Helsington Lays and Leasgill 1950, and lived at Hill View Farm, Much Marcle, Ledbury, Herefordshire, continued his father’s research on Braithwaite and related families and published “Generoso germine gemmo”: Seven Centuries. Braithwaites of Hawkshead, Ambleside, Burneside and Kendal, 1332-1964 (1965) and The Braithwaite Clan (1974), died 16 November 1981 (CRO, WD/AG/118-119, 154-155)
Braithwaite, Gawen, of Ambleside; his sister Isabel was Sir Daniel Fleming’s paternal grandmother; sons: eldest Thomas (qv), 2nd son James (dspm), 3rd son John marr Elizabeth Hudson, no son but dau Elizabeth, who was 2nd wife of Sir John Otway (qv), and 4th son Robert marr Bridget, dau of Henry Fletcher (qv), of Moresby; daus: Jane was 1st wife of E dward Wilson, of Dallam Tower, and Dorothy was wife of Samuel Sandys (qv) (FiO, i, 206-07)
Braithwaite, George (1681-17xx), Baptist minister, born at Hawkshead in 1681 [but is he George, son of James Braithwaite of Loanthwaite, bapt on 25 February 1681, or son of Thomas of Fould in Hawkshead field, bapt on 10 May 1681], educ Hawkshead Grammar School and Oxford, bapt in London in 1706 by Revd David Crossley, pastor of church at Cripplegate, and ordained over the church at Hawkshead Hill in 1707, set to ministry of the word at Hawkshead Hill, obtained by gift or by purchase land of old meeting house and burial ground, with a farm at Sawrey Ground, from William Dennison, of Waterside, between 1707 and 1709, when he petitioned Lancaster Quarter Sessions to register a meeting place for an assembly of Protestants dissenting from the Church of England, 11 January 1709, which was clearly the beginning of Hawkshead Hill Baptist Chapel, not 1678 (as in HSC, 21, 122) which was foundation date of Torver Baptist meeting (LC, 11.1876; TWT, 326-27)
Braithwaite, George (1699-1737), bapt at Warcop, 7 January 1699/1700, er son of Richard Braithwaite, of Warcop Hall, and brother of Robert (d.1739/40, qv sub Admiral Richard), marr, son (Thomas, b.1723), churchwarden of Warcop in 1736 and 1737, buried at Warcop, 21 October 1737
Braithwaite, George III (d.1740) or (1683-1735)?, dyer, established dyeing and drysaltery business in Kendal from 1711, set up first family firm to supply vegetable and chemical based dyes to woollen industry in Kendal from premises acquired in 1701 off east side of Highgate in now Dr Manning’s Yard (formerly Braithwaite’s Yard)
Braithwaite, George IV (1714-1753), dyer, son of George Braithwaite III, (qv), lived in house straddling entrance to Braithwaite’s yard (see above)
Braithwaite, George V (1746-1812), dyer, son of George Braithwaite (IV, qv), marr (1767) Deborah Wilson (1743-1821), 7 children, family house opposite New Inn, Kendal (IRW, 148)
Braithwaite, George VI (1777-1853), dry salter, er son of George Braithwaite V (qv), in dry-salter business with brother Isaac I (qv), marr Mary, sister of Anna, daus of Charles Lloyd, of Bingley Hall, Birmingham [their sister Rachel Braithwaite marr Samuel Lloyd, first cousin of Mary and Anna], chairman of trustees of Milnthorpe Turnpike Trust (1845)
Braithwaite, George (1712-1770), tanner, son of William Braithwaite (1673-1739), of Loanthwaite, Hawkshead, and Agnes (nee -), marr (1742 at Burneside) Susannah Garnett (1718-1788), dau of Anthony Garnett (b.1683), of Castle Dairy, Kendal, and Sarah (nee -), 2 sons and 5 daus [er son, Garnett (1742-1807) unm; yr son William (b.1754) marr (1782) his cousin, Hannah (b.1753), dau of his mother’s yr sister, Elizabeth (nee Garnett) (1719-1790), who marr Joseph Gough (1722-1799)], came into possession of Castle Dairy and Garnett furniture (inc oak chest ‘A.G.1694’, roundels, long case clock); his widow Susanna buried in Kendal churchyard, 18 August 1788, aged 70
Braithwaite, George (1818-1875), MA, clergyman, born in Kendal, 15 April 1818, 4th and yst son of Joseph Braithwaite (qv), educ Sedbergh School (entd January 1830, aged 11, and left June 1836) and Queen’s College, Oxford (BA 1840, MA), marr (1842) Margaret Rawson (1821-1876), no issue, curate of St Peter the Less and St Paul’s, Chichester 1841-1843, Worsborough 1843-1845, Easton, Hants 1845-1846, and Perry Bar, Staffordshire 1847-1851, vicar of St Peter the Great and Sub Dean of Chichester 1851-1868, author of Sonnets and other Poems, The Fatal Energy of Idle Words, and numerous sermons, died at Yealand Conyers, 2 April 1875 (SSR, 187-188)
Braithwaite, George Foster sen (1813-1888), woollen manufacturer and engineer, Mayor of Kendal, yr son of Isaac Braithwaite (qv) and yr brother of C L Braithwaite (qv), with whom he joined in founding another family firm, Braithwaite & Co, in 1837, acquiring Meal Bank Mill on river Mint in Scalthwaiterigg, which they ran as a woollen and linsey manufactory, installed a turbine there to replace water wheel, enabling company to continue manufacturing linseys, tweeds and horse cloths well into 20th century, of Highgate, later built Hawesmead, Kendal (J Bintley, architect, 1867), marr (23 June 1846) Mary (1823-1909), 5th dau and yst of nine children of Adey Bellamy Savory (1780-1834) and aunt of Sir Joseph Savory (qv), 9 sons and 5 daus, an original member of CWAAS from 1866, author of article in Transactions on ‘Collin Field’ read on site on 8 September 1886 (CW1, ix, 188-196), of Hawesmead, Kendal, died at Blackheath, London, aged 74, and buried in Parkside cemetery, Kendal, 24 February 1888; see his son Herbert qv
Braithwaite, George Foster jnr (1847-1931), stock & share and insurance broker, of Albion Chambers, 15a Stricklandgate, Kendal (1905), eldest of nine sons and 14 children of G F Braithwaite (qv), educ Friends’ School, Stramongate, Kendal, Secretary of Kendal Dispensary Committee for 37 years, resigning in October 1920, then chairman until his death, marr, son Basil Foster and dau Emma Julian Phoebe, of 12 Vicarage Terrace, Kendal (1905, 1914), later of ‘Southfield’, Carlton Villas, Kendal, buried at Parkside cemetery, Kendal, 8 January 1931, aged 83
Braithwaite, Harold Bellamy (1867-1917), company manager, born in Kendal, 20 November 1867, ninth son and yst of 14 children of G F Braithwaite (qv), of Hawesmead, educ Sedbergh School (entd September 1882, left 1885), trained as an engineer at Bristol, returning to Kendal to business as woollen manufacturer, but took post as manager of The Swan Woollen, Washing, Cleansing & Dyeing Company, dyers and dry cleaners, of 88 Highgate (depot) and New Inn yard (works) from 1901 to 1908, but esp interested in fishing, cycling, music and field antiquities, author of The Salmonidae of Westmorland, Angling Reminiscences, and Leaves from an Angler’s Notebook (Kendal, 1884), reprinted from series of articles in Westmorland Gazette, planned to prepare guide to footpaths around Kendal for Kendal and District Footpaths’ Preservation Society (notes, letters and papers 1908-1910 in CRO, WDSo 1/63-113), member of CWAAS from 1909, of 20 Beastbanks (1905), then of 1 Cliffe Terrace, Kendal, died after a month’s illness at Kentdale Nursing Home, Kendal, 21 May 1917, aged 49, and buried at Parkside cemetery, Kendal, 24 May (CW2, xvii, 261)
Braithwaite, Henry (18xx-19xx), elected Kendal Borough Councillor 21 January 1913 and Alderman 31 July 1938, admitted Honorary Freeman of Borough of Kendal on 9 October 1945, of 58 Greenside, Kendal
Braithwaite, Herbert M (b.1864), 8th son of George F Braithwaite qv, at age of ten wrote An Account of the Great Flood which occurred in Kendal on October 6th 1874, printed 1875 (reprinted by Kendal Civic Society in 2005)
Braithwaite, Isaac I (1781-1861), drysalter, born in Kendal, 3 January 1781, yr son of George Braithwaite V (qv) and brother of George VI (qv), in business as “George & Isaac Braithwaite”, dry-saltery and dyeing business, marr (16 March 1808, at Birmingham) Anna (born 27 December 1788, died in Kendal, 18 December 1859), dau of Charles Lloyd, of Bingley Hall, Birmingham, and Mary Farmer, 5 sons (and 2 died inf) and 2 daus (Mary Caroline, wife of Sir Joseph Savory (qv), and Anna (aged 41, at home in 1851)), signatory (with W D Crewdson and Joseph Ferguson) protesting against proposed introduction of slave-grown sugars into British markets in 1840s (CRO, WD/HCW/acc.1547), of Highgate, Kendal (next to his son, Charles Lloyd Braithwaite, in 1851), all his family had left Society of Friends by 1840 under influence of Isaac Crewdson’s A Beacon to the Society of Friends (as had many other families related to Braithwaites), died in Kendal, 27 December 1861, aged 80
Braithwaite, Isaac II (1810-1890), eldest son of Isaac Braithwaite (qv), marr (1840) Louisa Masterman (1816-1886), 4 sons and 2 daus
Braithwaite, Isaac III (1844-1929), woollen manufacturer and drysalter, born at Highgate, Kendal, 9 August 1844, 2nd son of Charles Lloyd Braithwaite (qv), most of his family had left Society of Friends, but brought up in an evangelical environment, with strong Quaker background and tradition, educ Friends’ School, Stramongate, Kendal, but left school at about fifteen to go into father’s business of drysalters in Highgate, had some business experience in London, studied chemistry at Edinburgh University for two years and won gold medal (letters from Edinburgh to his mother 1860-62 in CRO, WD/HCW/acc.2930), glad to return home on 25 August 1862, worked in business house in City of London from June 1864 until August 1865, lodging at first with uncle Bevan and aunt Martha (further letters to mother), kept abreast of developments in drysaltery, established Isaac Braithwaite & Son, engineers, in 1885 to manufacture and sell his invention of a water heating apparatus (the “Thermodote”), [was this patented?], moving later into laundry machinery, remained all his life closely connected with both drysaltery business (as senior partner, Isaac Braithwaite & Son) and woollen manufactory (as chairman of directors, Braithwaite & Co Ltd), joint secretary of committee set up to finance building of Kendal Green School through subscription in 1872 (and later a trustee of school at time of appeal in 1911 for rebuilding after fire in 1910, whole life dominated by his Christian faith, religious work centred on YMCA (esp Bible class on Sunday afternoons), marr (1890) Mary Snowden Thomas (d.1931), whose brother Richard had married his cousin Anna Lloyd Braithwaite in 1878, of Baltimore, USA, no children, but stimulated by her to take greater part in affairs of Society of Friends, member of Kendal Borough Council for some years, took in their widowed brother-in-law, Thomas Crewdson Wilson (qv) and his four children in 1898, which prevented continuance of their travelling in the ministry, but asked to be Wardens of Woobrooke (the Settlement for Religious and Social Study established at Bournville, Birmingham by George Cadbury in 1903) in 1907, spent seven years there extending the buildings and increasing the number of students, with vacations spent back in Kendal dealing with business, retired from Woodbrooke at end of summer term 1914 to Ghyll Close, Kendal (to which they had moved from Castle Lodge in 1911), rented Holly Croft (first for a school run by their niece, Kathleen Wilson (qv) from 1910 to 1914, then purchased), and also Silver Howe and Overdale on Kendal Green from Martin Hodgson to put at disposal of Kendal Relief Committee for Belgian refugees from 1914, welcomed Conscientious Objectors to their house, wrote pamphlet on the peace question (privately printed and circulated), placed St Monica’s House, off Sedbergh Road, Kendal, at disposal of Council for Prevention and Rescue Work for a diocesan maternity home for unmarried mothers (opened on 20 February 1917) [but Holly Croft also became such a home and renamed St Monica’s in 1919 until early 1930s?], wife’s mind failed in his last years, died 15 February 1929 (obituary by his nephew, William E Wilson in The Friend, lxix, 1 March 1929 and lxxi, 23 January 1931 in CRO, WD/HCW/acc.2930; KG, 101-103, with photos on 102 and 119)
Braithwaite, James (d.1806), ironmonger, started ironmongery business in Highgate, Kendal, about beginning of 19th century (in premises later occupied by Pennington’s, grocers), marr Elizabeth (buried in Unitarian chapelyard), dau of James Cookson (qv), buried in Friends’ Burial ground at Mislet, near Troutbeck, and succ in business by his brother and sister, Tommy and Peggy Braithwaite, brother and sister of Dr J A Braithwaite (qv)
Braithwaite, James (fl.late 18thc), son of Daniel Braithwaite (qv) of the Post Office in London, he was appointed postmaster in New York soon after the end of the Civil War
Braithwaite, John (fl.16thc), oarsman, regularly rowed ‘the Great Boat’ from Bowness to Claife, the precursor of a long series of ferries across Windermere at this point, associated with that family’s established ‘right’ to run this service
Braithwaite, John (1633-1680; ODNB), quaker apologist and missionary, b.Cartmel
Braithwaite, John (1696-1740; ODNB), soldier and diplomat, son of John (1660-1739) and Silvestra Cooke
Braithwaite, John (17xx-18xx), High Constable of Kendal Ward and Treasurer (1813) (WQS)
Braithwaite, Maj Gen Sir John (1739-1803), 1st Bt, army officer, East India Co, C-in-C Madras, born in South Carolina, his father Col John Brathwaite was murdered by privateers off the Scillies in 1740 when he was a year old, grandson of John Brathwaite of Westmorland (qv) and his wife Sylvestra Cooke, educ Westminster, ensign 1765, captured at Seringpatam in 1782, served at Pondicherry and in the 4th Mysore War, married Elizabeth Browne, their son was the 2nd Bt who died without issue
Braithwaite, John (17xx-1854), of Orrest Head, Windermere, contributed £300 towards south aisle in new chapel (St Mary’s, Applethwaite) in 1852, will leaving £1200 to School at Bowness and £2000 for exhibition to St John’s College, Cambridge, and £1000 to each of four schools in area (Troutbeck, Great and Little Langdale, Birthwaite and Ings) for education of poor and labouring classes [details in IJ, 85], died 1 March 1854 (memorial window in south aisle)
Braithwaite, Dr John Airy (b.1758), physician, Lancaster; b. Mislet near Windermere; CW3 ii after p.190
Braithwaite, John Henry (18xx-19xx), carpet manufacturer, educ Friends’ School, Kendal, with Whitwell & Co, Docwray Hall mills, Kendal, of Layer Breton, Kendal Green (1905, 1914)
Braithwaite, John Waistell (18xx-1934), printer and stationer, Post Office, Market Square, Kirkby Stephen, member of CWAAS from 1908 and local correspondent for town and district, author of, Guide to Kirkby Stephen, Appleby, Brough, Warcop, Ravenstonedale, Mallerstang, &c. (1884) [revised edition, 1924] (commonplace book 1923-1928 in CRO, WDX 729), died at Kirkby Stephen, 11 March 1934 (CW2, xxxiv (1934), 229); G E Braithwaite, printer (J W B & Sons), of Kelso House, KS (1905); Robert Arthur Braithwaite, son of George, of Kelso House, buried in KS cemetery, 6 June 1924; Robert Waistell Braithwaite, printer, buried in KS cemetery, 6 October 1956, aged 85
Braithwaite, Joseph (1786-1826), Mayor of Kendal, son of William Braithwaite (yr son of George Braithwaite (qv), of Castle Dairy, Kendal), marr (1809) Eleanor (1785-1852), dau and 14th of fifteen children of James Wilson (qv), of Kendal, 2 sons (Garnett (1810-1845), of Plumtree Hall, Heversham, and William (1814-1837), of Low Gill, Tatham parish, co Lancaster, buried at Kendal, 3 February 1837, aged 22), Alderman and Mayor of Kendal 1819-20, died in 1826
Braithwaite, Joseph Bevan (1818-1905), Quaker and barrister, born in Kendal, 21 June 1818, yst son (and twin with Mary Caroline, wife of Joseph Savory, qv) of Isaac Braithwaite (qv), Barrister at Law, Middle Temple 1843, and his wife Anna, marr (27 August 1851, at Banbury) Martha (born 15 March 1823, died in London, 27 March 1895), dau of Joseph Ashby Gillett, of Banbury, and Martha Gibbins, 3 sons and 6 daus, one of leaders of Society of Friends in Britain, living at 312 Camden Road, north London, where he died, 15 November 1905, aged 87
Braithwaite, Joseph (1832-1882), benefactor, born at Wigton in 1832, lived most of life in Brighton and Hove, died in 1882, bequeathing £5,000 to RNLI after his wife’s death, which did not occur until 1934, when lifeboat named “Joseph Braithwaite” was launched by Countess of Lonsdale at Maryport (nearest lifeboat station to Wigton)
Braithwaite, Peggy (1919-1996), lighthouse keeper, born on Piel island, Barrow, daughter of the lighthouse keeper on Walney island, they collected water from the roof of their cottage and generated their own electricity, assistant keeper and in 1975 keeper, painted the exterior of the lighthouse eleven times in her lifetime, MBE 1984, sailed her own 50 foot yacht with her husband Ken, great knitter of bobble hats for the RNLI, often went shooting rabbits, in 1994 aged 74 retired to Barrow; Guardian 14 Jan 1996
Braithwaite, Reginald (1738-1809), clergyman, vicar of Hawkshead 1762-1809, of Belmount (built for him in 1774 after his marriage to Frances Irton a rich heiress), also built to the design of John Carr of York the Claife viewing station south of Ferry House, Windermere, to commemorate Father West’s 1st station on Windermere, Budworth calls the site Mount Braithwaite; confusion arises from the ownership of this site by the Revd William Braithwaite (qv) by 1800; later bought by JC Curwen (qv); (Irton connections, CW2, lxiii, 96-116) (TWT; EH)
Braithwaite, Richard (‘Dapper Dick’) (1588-1673; ODNB), DL, JP, poet and author, Captain in Trained Bands, born prob at Appleby, 2nd son of Sir Thomas Braithwaite (d. 1610), of Burneside Hall and Warcop (qv), inheriting Burneside Hall on father’s death (with Warcop going to his elder brother Thomas), also of Stramongate, Kendal, educ Oriel College, Oxford, wrote verse addresses ‘To the truly worthy, the Alderman of Kendall and his brethren’ and ‘To all true-bred Northerne Sparks, of the generous Society of Cottoneers, who hold their High-roade by the Pinder of Wakefield, the Shoo-maker of Bradford, and the white Coate of Kendall: Light gaines, Heavie Purses, good Tradings, with cleere Conscience’ (c.1615), marr 1st (May 1617) Frances (died at Burneside Hall in March 1633), dau of James Lawson, of Nesham, near Darlington, 2 sons (Thomas (bapt 5 March 1617/18, qv) and Richard (bapt 25 July 1619), marr 2nd (1639) Mary, dau of Roger Crofts, of Keitlington, Yorks, 1 son (Strafford, qv), leaving Burneside for manor of Catterick (of which he was seised jure uxoris) in Yorkshire, author of The English Gentleman (1630), in which he noted that textile slump of 1620s and 1630s had turned some cloth-workers in Kendal into paupers (pp. 125-126), and probable author of poem The Fatal Nuptual about Windermere ferryboat disaster on 19 October 1635, many other works, inc Barnaby’s Journal (poem in Latin with English translation), which had seven editions before 1815, died at East Appleton, near Richmond, 4 May 1673, and buried at Catterick (portrait in possession of Col G E Braithwaite in 1966); Burneside Hall descended to Richard Braithwaite (d. c.1750), who sold it to Thomas Shepherd, of Kendal (portrait by unknown artist in CC(AH), 11; WW, ii, 271-286); CW2 xxii; fine portrait print Cumbrian Images)
Braithwaite, Richard (16xx-17xx), of Warcop Hall, 2nd son of Richard Braithwaite (qv), marr Elizabeth, dau of Sir Robert Booth, Chief Justice of King’s Bench in Ireland,
Braithwaite, Richard (1662-1735), born 26 July 1662, eldest son of Richard Braithwaite (qv), of Warcop Hall, marr Dorothy, dau of Thomas Carleton, of Appleby, died v.p. and s.p. and buried at Warcop, 26 June 1735 (letter from him to Mr Justice Spearman at Durham, dated 22 November 1712, in Durham D&C MSS (Raine 117/25) quoted in CW2, lxx, 290-291)
Braithwaite, Richard (1728-1805), RN officer, of the W family, at sea from 1743, to Jamaica under his kinsman vice admiral Sir Challoner Ogle (1681-1750) (qv) of N, Lt 1755, Cdr 1756, Captain on Shannon (with his cousin Cuthbert Collingwood qv) in the channel until 1763, held pirates as prisoners, later at the battles of St Lucia and Martinique, at the relief of Gibraltar and the battle of Dogger Bank in 1787, flag rank 1790, vice adm 1793, admiral 1799; morethannelson.com
Braithwaite, Richard (c.1836-1918), manufacturer, died at 66 Exdale Road, Wavertree, Liverpool, aged 82, and buried at Parkside cemetery, 27 April 1918
Braithwaite, Robert (d.1740), of Warcop Hall, 2nd son of Richard Braithwaite (qv), marr (8 November 1727, at Warcop) Elizabeth (buried at Warcop, 18 July 1738), dau of Reginald Dobson, of Barwise Hall, nr Appleby [her sister and coheir Milcah marr Cuthbert Collingwood (1713-1788), of Newcastle, parents of Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood (1748-1810; ODNB)], 2 sons (Richard (qv), and Dobson (bapt 5 November and bur 4 December 1730 at Warcop) and 1 dau (Elizabeth, bapt 14 August 1731 and died inf at Warcop), buried at Warcop, 9 February 1739/40
Braithwaite, Robert (1816-1882), yr bro of CL, GF, and JB, in family business for few yrs, then entered church
Braithwaite, Samuel, surgeon; Gaskell W and C Leaders c.1910
Braithwaite, Samuel Hartley (1883-1947), composer and artist, his musical works include Snow Picture (1924) and Elegy (1927) which won awards from the Carnegie Trust, also A Night by Dalegarth Bridge (1921), By the Hot Lake and The Fighting Temeraire; he produced etchings and landscapes in Dorset and Lancashire, his semi-figurative paintings Foxtrot and Pavane echo his musical creativity; Biog Dic of Organists, Musical Quarterly vol xviii, issue 1, 1927, 59-71
Braithwaite, ‘Sir’ Stafford (1640-after 1672), born Catterick, son of Richard ‘Dapper Dick’ Braithwaite (qv) and Mary Croft, lived Burneside, died at sea,
Braithwaite, Sir Thomas (15xx-1610), landowner and recorder, one of yr sons of Robert Brathwaite, of Ambleside Hall, marr (c.1570) Dorothy, 2nd dau of Robert Bindloss (d.1595) of Borwick, 3 sons (inc Richard, qv) and 5 daus, sworn Recorder of Kendal in 1576, knighted 1591, acquired Burneside Hall, owned manors of Staveley and Winderwath, and also purchased manor of Warcop from John Warcop in 1590, died 1610, will dated 18 February 1606 [?] and proved at York, 28 May 1610; his widow lent £50 to Borough to be let on security for relief and help to poor widows and to young beginners needing stock to trade in occupation of shearman, 26 March 1609 (BoR, 233-234), a painting [Abbot Hall] shows him signing his will in 1607 [?]
Braithwaite, Sir Thomas (1583-1622), landowner, eldest son of Sir Thomas Braithwaite (qv), whom he succ in Warcop estate, knighted at Theobalds, Hertfordshire on 6 June 1616, buried at Warcop as “Sir Thomas Brathwait knyght”, 27 December 1622
Braithwaite, Sir Thomas (c.1617-1683), bapt at Kendal, 5 March 1617/18, son of Mr Richard Braithwaite (‘Dapper Dick’) (qv), of Burneside, died 14 May 1683, aged 66, and buried as “Sir Thomas Brathwayt of Strammongate Kt”, 16 May, in Bellingham chapel of Kendal Holy Trinity church (memorial brass)
Braithwaite, Thomas (c.1621-16xx), MA, clergyman, born in Windermere, son of Gawen Braithwaite (FiO, i, 318-319)
Braithwaite, Thomas (16xx-1674), Recorder of Kendal, eldest son of Gawen Braithwaite (1583-1653) of Bayesbrowne and Ambleside Hall, and Elizabeth, dau of Sir John Penruddock (1540-1601) (qv), of Hale, also uncle of Thomas, William and Samuel Sandes, marr Margaret, dau of Piers Leigh, of Lime, sworn Recorder of Kendal, 30 March 1648, died s.p. and buried at ?Grasmere, 2 December 1674; will dated 9 November 1674, leaving manor of Bayesbrowne to brother Robert, part of his Ambleside property to sister, Dorothy, wife of Samuel Sandys (qv), inter alia, and his coin collection (mostly Roman from Ambleside, 6 gold and 66 silver) to be presented by his friend, Dr Thomas Barlow (qv), to Oxford University, his bible to Elizabeth Lady Otway (qv sub Sir John Otway), gold ring and picture of the Creation to her son, Braithwaite Otway, etc, will resulting in litigation (N&B, i, 192; BoR, 241-247; CRO, WD/TE/7/161)
Braithwaite, William (1753-1800), clergyman and pluralist, vicar of Riseley, Beds and another living in Lincolnshire, owned the Claife station, Windermere, at his death; confusion exists between him and the Revd Reginald Braithwaite (qv)
Braithwaite, William Garnett (1870-1937), CB, CMG, DSO, JP, Brigadier-General, er son of Garnett Braithwaite (qv), of Plumgarths, marr (1902) Gwendolen Hewett (1877-1964), 1 son (Garnett, qv) and 2 daus (Mary and Eleanor), joined Royal Welch Fusiliers in 1891, of Plumtree Hall, Heversham (sold 1911), sold Romney portrait of his great grandfather, James Wilson (qv), at Sotheby’s on 12 May 1927 for £760
Bramley, Frank (1857-1915), artist, ‘late of Tongue Ghyll’, member Lake Artists, Renouf, 54-5
Bramwell, Revd John (17xx-18xx), clergyman, Curate of Lindale in Cartmel, marr (22 January 1787, at Crosthwaite) Mary Cartmell, of Crosthwaite chapelry [poss Mary, dau of John Cartmel, of Green, and Ellen, his wife, bapt at Crosthwaite, 26 March 1761]
Brancker, James (17xx-18xx), sugar merchant, from Liverpool, close friend of Hartley Coleridge (qv), bought Croft Lodge, Clappersgate, Ambleside in 1827, which he Gothicised with addition of a Perpendicular porch, castellated parapet and elaborate chimney pots, and then sold in 1843 [later a hotel, then used and neglected by Cleveland County Council, now flats], also acquired two houses on north side of road at Clappersgate in 1834 (by transfer of mortgage from Margaret Robinson in August 1834, then sold them on to Lydia Mackereth Freeman in December 1834, who died on 2 March 1837, having willed premises to Ruth Frogatt, wife of Wilson Hodgson, with reversion to JB, who conveyed them together with plot of land called Willy Hill to Wilson Hodgson, with residue of mortgage assigned to Robert Moser, of Kendal, 4 June 1845, deeds in CRO, WDX 229/T8-14), trustee of Ambleside Turnpike Road from 3 July 1832, acting as chairman in 1833 (minute book in CRO, WST/1), of Aigburth, Liverpool by 1845
Brander, Margaret (19xx-2018), librarian, Local Studies Librarian at Tullie House, Carlisle, member of Royal Scottish Country Dancing Society and teacher of Scottish Dancing, died at Pennine Lodge Care Home, 1 May 2018, aged 92, and cremated at Carlisle, 11 May (CN, 11.05.2018)
Brandreth, see Gandy
Branker, James (bap 1787), sugar merchant, from Liverpool, demolished Croft Lodge Clappersgate and commissioned the Websters to build the present ‘monstrously gothic’ house 1828-30 ‘in a style neither Vitruvius, Palladio, Inigo Jones, Piranesi nor Sir Jeffrey Wyatville ever dreamed of, even in a nightmare or under the influence of opium’ and that the house ‘offered good dinners but not so much good wine; Hartley Coleridge cited Hud (W), Hartley Coleridge (qv) was friendly with Branker, who sold the house in 1843; Hyde and Pevsner, 102
Brannan, Thomas Martin (19xx-19xx), local councillor, leader of Cumbria County Council, member for Keswick St John’s, of ‘Lingy Acre’, Portinscale, Keswick
Branthwaite family of Carling Gill and Orton Hall
Branthwaite, Eliza, married John Bateman of Tolson Hall, she was a descendant of Robert Branthwaite, Keeper of the Tower of London (qv)
Branthwaite, John (1822-1864), MA, college head and schoolmaster, born in Kendal, 6 May 1822, yr son of Richard Branthwaite (born at Orton, aged 68 in 1851, bookseller and papermaker; er brother Edward, bookseller and printer, aged 35, and sister, Frances Mary, aged 22 in 1851), educ Sedbergh School (entd August 1835, left June 1839) and Queen’s College, Oxford (Scholar, BA 1843, and Fellow), Curate of Holy Trinity, Windsor 1846-1848, Second Master of St Nicholas College, Shoreham 1848-1851, headmaster of Lancing College for 7 yrs, left in poor health, Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford 1860-1864, unmarried (?), drowned while bathing at Morecambe, 5 July 1864 (SSR, 193)
Branthwaite, Richard (16xx-16xx), steward, Lord Wharton’s steward and lieutenant, member of Westmorland county committee
Branthwaite, Robert (fl.early 17thc), gentleman gaoler or keeper of the Tower of London, temp James I, supervised Sir Walter Raleigh and others, from 1618 constable of Dublin Castle; Hudleston (W)
Brassey and Stephenson, builders, erected Carlisle railway station to the design of Sir William Tite (1798-1873; ODNB)
Brassey, Thomas (1805-1870; ODNB), engineering contractor, built the west coast railway line
Brassington, George William (19xx-19xx), BA, clergyman, educ University of Nottingham (BA 3rd cl Theol, 1957) and Cranmer Hall, Durham 1957, d 1959 and p 1960 (Manch), Curate of St Philip, Hulme, Manchester 1959-1961, and St Cuthbert, Trafford Park 1961-1963, Vicar of Grayrigg 1963-1968, Dalton-in-Furness from 1968, decd 1976/1987 (his Grayrigg press cuttings deposited in CRO, WDX 1989, by his widow, Mrs R Swidenbank)
Brassington, Thomas (1832-1888), clergyman, Vicar of Crook, buried 29 December 1888, aged 56, first interment in new burial ground at Crook
Bratby, John (1928-1992; ODNB), artist, born Wimbledon, son of Alfred Bratby wine taster, founder of ‘kitchen sink realism’, taught at Carlisle Art College, lived Denton Holme
Brathwaite, see Braithwaite
Brathwate, Richard (1588-1673; ODNB), poet; see Braithwaite
Bray, Kenneth Augustine (1895-1953), priest, sportsman and coach, b. Barrow-in-Furness, son of Rev TW Bray, moved to Honolulu, teacher and sports coach, established innovative traditions of sportsmanship, successful teams in football, basketball and baseball, persuaded Charles S Howard, the owner of the winning racehorse Seabiscuit, to donate a horseshoe which became an important talisman for his teams, althletics complex in Honolulu named after him in 1981
Bray, Rev Thomas (1656-1730), vicar of Burgh by Sands, keen on the establishment of parochial libraries, published a proposal that Parliament should enact a requirement that each parish should have one, his collection at Burgh still survives in its original box
Breach, Ian (1941-2013), Guardian journalist, lived many years in Milburn; obit Guardian 28 Jan 2013
Breaker, Charles (1906-1985), artist, b. Bowness, his mother a friend of Beatrix Potter qv, ran artists’ summer school in Cornwall with others including Percy Kelly (qv), portrait by Kurt Schwitters; see David A. Cross, Letters from Percy Kelly to Norman Nicholson
Breay, John (1919-19xx), MA, clergyman and historian, born in Windermere 1919, educ Selwyn College, Cambridge (BA 1941, MA 1945), and St Chad’s College, Durham (Dip Theol 1942), d 1942 and p 1943 (Carl), curate of Lowther with Askham 1942-1944, and Holy Trinity, Kendal 1944-1948, curate-in-charge of Kirkandrews-on-Esk 1948-1949 and rector 1949-1952, vicar of Soulby 1952-1955 (with Crosby Garrett from 1952), vicar of Warcop with Musgrave 1955-1959, leaving in April 1959 to be senior assistant priest at Tewkesbury Abbey and curate of Tewkesbury 1959 (Abbey House), vicar of Shepreth, Royston, dio Ely 1959-1977, rural dean of Barton 1967-1972, incumbent of Great with Little Chesterford 1977-1979, retired with perm to offic in dio Ely in 1979, great love of northern dales, author of A Fell-Side Parson: the Reverend Joseph Brunskill and his diaries 1826-1903 (1990; pr.1995), The Agrarian Background to the Rise of Political and Religious Dissent in the Northern Dales in the 16th and 17th centuries (1992) and Light in the Dales: an introduction to the political and religious ideals of the early Quakers in the Northern Dales from 1652, with The Quaker Registers of Ravenstonedale, Grisedale and Garsdale from 1652 (1992) [bound in 3 vols as Northern Studies and dedicated to sister, Mrs Mary Bolton of Slaidburn], of 66 Montague Road, Cambridge (JB mss: WDX 652)
Breay, Wilfrid (18xx-19xx), MA, clergyman, educ Selwyn College, Cambridge (BA 1913, MA 1917), d 1914 and p 1916 (Carl), curate in dio Carlisle of Holy Trinity, Carlisle 1914-1915, Barbon 1915-1916, Addingham 1916-1920, Middleton 1920-1925, and then briefly at Great Malvern 1925-1926, before returning to diocese at Windermere 1927-1938, priest in charge of Hutton Roof with Lupton 1938-1951 (resigned from Hutton Roof parish council in January 1951), curate-in-charge of Haile 1951-1961, retired to Walker Ground Cottage, Hawkshead (1965), then at Town End Cottage, Far Sawrey (1971), died by 1975 [but no sign of burial at Hawkshead or Sawrey]
Breeks, Eleanor (Nelly) (1838-1903), spinster, born at Warcop and bapt there, 7 April 1838, 4th dau and 6th of seven children of Richard Breeks (1799-1849), of Warcop, and his wife Elizabeth (1799-1870), dau of James Wilkinson, who had eloped and later married at Warcop on 13 February 1828, and sister of Agnes, who married George Moore (qv) as his 2nd wife in 1861, but she remained a spinster after her relationship with John Lewis (1836-1928; ODNB) (founder of the department store) was ended by her family in about 1864, she has been described as the ‘first love of John Lewis’ qv, living with her elder widowed sister Elizabeth (3rd wife of Canon G F Weston, qv) at Ash Bank, Penrith by 1895, but died in Leicester, aged 64, and buried in Beacon Edge cemetery, Penrith, 21 January 1903; £4,000 left by John Lewis as endowment fund for Warcop church in her name on condition that her portrait should hang in vestry for ever (CW3, vii, 234-237)
Breeks, James Wilkinson (1830-1872), JP, landowner, bapt at Warcop, 22 March 1830, yr son of Richard Breeks, of Warcop, and brother of Nelly Breeks (qv), Agnes Moore (qv) and Elizabeth Weston (qv), served in Madras Civil Service, like his brother Richard (1829-1852), marr (1863) Susan Maria (buried at Brough, 26 April 1923, aged 82), eldest dau of Sir William Denison, KCB, Governor of Madras, 1 son (Richard William (qv)), of Eden Gate, Warcop, which was left to him by his uncle, William Wilkinson (qv), who had built it, and of Helbeck Hall, Lord of Manor of Helbeck, obtained for himself and his father’s descendants a grant of arms (AWL, 50); Lena Elizabeth Breeks, of Helbeck Hall, buried at Brough, 20 July 1888, aged 20 – dau?; [Rosalie Dessoulavey, of Helbeck Hall, buried at Brough, 28 June 1892, aged 64 – who?]; Audrey Mary Lena Breeks, of Helbeck Hall, buried at Brough, 24 May 1951, aged 56 (or 58); Chia (?) Ellen Breeks, of Helbeck Hall, buried at Brough, 13 June 1951, aged 79
Breeks, James Wilkinson (1832-1872), civil servant Madras, 1st commissioner at Ootacamund, India, b. Warcop, made record of the tribes of South India; see Susan Breeks of Helbeck Hall, by Rosemary Blackett-Ord
Breeks, Richard William (1863-1920), Brigadier-General, only son of J W Breeks (qv), of The Hall, Blackheath Park, Charlton, buried at Brough, 6 May 1920, aged 56
Charles Wilkinson Breeks, of Broughton Craggs, near Cockermmouth, buried at Brough, after cremation, 6 January 1937, aged 66
Breeks, Susan (fl.1895-1901); Susan Breeks of Helbeck Hall, by Rosemary Blackett-Ord
Brennan, James (fl.1930s), scrap merchant and cinema proprietor, ran several cinemas in Barrow, converted the Royalty, Bowness and built the Roxy, Ulverston, also Carnforth, Kendal and other cinemas towards Manchester
Brennand (nee Airey), Jean (fl.20thc), postwoman at Ambleside, leaving school at 14 she began by delivering telegrams during the war, sometimes bringing news of a family death, her later round involved an ascent of ‘The Struggle’ each day to the Kirkstone Inn where she would be given coffee and a pastry by Mrs Atkinson the landlady, in wet weather her trousers, called ‘Camerons’ leaked dye thus turning her legs blue; Alan Cleaver, The Postal Paths, 1925, p.168
Brenton, Sir Jahleel (1770-1844) 1st Bt, RN officer, lived in retirement for a while c1840 in Casterton
Brett Young, Dr Francis (1854-1954; ODNB), doctor, soldier, novelist, playwright, composer, son of Thomas Brett Young, surgeon and his wife Elizabeth Jackson, lived for a few years near Hugh Walpole at Derwentwater also at Esthwaite Lodge, Marching on Tanga [1917], The Black Diamond [1921], Seahorses [1925], My Brother Jonathan [1928] which was made into a TV series; plaque Esthwaite; Francis Brett Young Society est 1979
Brettargh family, several generations lived at Woolton, Liverpool, John was vicar of Eastham, Cheshire, they became less prosperous in the 17thc under Nehemiah Brettargh, William, son of Roger the Walker lived at Brettargh Holt, Woolton, Liverpool, one branch were the Brettargh-Yates family who built the new Brettargh Holt near Kendal in 1871
Brettargh, Henry Dean (1824-1916), Roman Catholic priest, son of Henry Brettargh, of Inglewhite Lodge, Garstang, Lancs (of Brettargh Holt family), resident priest at Dodding Green, Skelsmergh 1891-1916
Brewer, Right Revd John (Jack) (1929-2000), STL, JCL, PhL, Roman Catholic bishop, born in Burnage, Manchester, 24 November 1929, educ Asbourne CE School, Ushaw College, Durham, and English College in Rome, ordained in Rome on 8 July 1956, curate at Sacred Heart, Moreton, Merseyside, then returned to English College as Vice-Rector in 1964 (starting modernisation of College buildings), Auxiliary Bishop of Shrewsbury, 28 July 1971, Co-adjutor Bishop of Lancaster, 15 November 1983, installed as fourth Bishop of Lancaster, 22 May 1985, Chairman of Committee for Ministerial Formation 1984-1988, chairman of theological committee of the Bishops’ Conference from 1988, chairman of department of Christian Life and Worship 1999, keen to further cause of Ecumenism, launched The Voice as diocesan newspaper, dedicated the restored Cathedral at Lancaster on 4 October 1995, launched the Diocese’s Covenant with the Poor as part of preparation for the Great Jubilee in 2000, and supported programme of renewal for diocese (‘New Start with Jesus’), but taken ill after presiding at Reception Mass in Lancaster Cathedral on evening of 29 December 1999, and died 10 June 2000 (LDD, 13-16)
Bridgeman, Orlando George Charles (1819-1898), 3rd earl of Bradford, owned St Catherine’s, Knotts, Browhead and Crosses in Applethwaite, Windermere and often lived at St Catherine’s (now demolished); Hud (W)
Bridgman, George, 4th earl of Bradford (1845-1915), soldier and peer; Gaskell, C and W Leaders, c.1910
Bridson, Joseph Ridgway (1831-1901; DCB), JP, born at Horwich, 10 April 1831, 4th of 6 sons and 12 children of Thomas Ridgway Bridson (1795-1863), JP (son of Paul Bridson (1766-1820), of Manx family, and (marr 1792) Mary Ridgway, of Bolton), and his wife (marr 1819) Sarah (d.1866), dau of Henry Matthews, cotton bleacher and dyer, took over Lever Bank Bleach Works and purchased Bolton Bleach and Dye Works, invented and patented many processes, Mayor of Bolton 1847, retired from running company in 1854 and moved from Bridge House, Bolton to Mornington House, Southport, where he died in early 1863 and buried at Horwich Church), JR had three elder brothers (Thomas, William and Harry), but left to take over management of bleach and dye business himself, co-founder (with G A Aufrere, qv) of Windermere Sailing Club in 1860, commissioned Jilt from Dan Hatcher of Southampton, first yacht specifically designed for racing on Windermere, in 1861, Commodore in 1866, 1874, 1877, 1880, 1883 and 1893, often cruised from Belle Isle in little yacht Maggie in evenings with wife, owned steam launch Glow Worm, rented Waterside Cottage, next to Old England, Bowness as summer residence in 1860s, leased Round House on Belle Isle from Curwens from about 1865 until 1885, where he owned flock of St Kilda sheep, built Bryerswood at Far Sawrey in 1885 (designed by Knill Freeman, of Bolton, in half-timbered style, with garden laid out by T H Mawson, his first formal garden commission, sold in 1900; demolished after WW2), member of Thirlmere Defence Association 1877, accomplished musician (playing cello and flute), with apartment in Bridge House, his Bolton residence, specially constructed for his collection of musical instruments, President of Windermere Music Guild, Bolton Philharmonic Society from 1873, Bolton Operatic Society, etc, enthusiastic amateur photographer, winning many prizes for his scenic views at London exhibitions, President of Bolton Photographic Society, ^^^ marr (1 July 1857) Margaret (will 20 August 1901, then returned to Broughton-in-Furness and died in 1903), dau of John Woodhouse, 2 sons (Athur Paul (qv sub Brydson) and Joseph Ridgway (1861-1933), Admiral, RN) and 4 daus, left Bryerswood in spring 1900 and moved to Holybourne, Alton, Hants, where he died in June 1901 (will 19 April 1901) (RWYC, 174; BSW, 127-135; plan of his property in Hawkshead parish in 1876 in CRO, WDX 647)
Brierley, Henry (1847-1933), BA, LLD, solicitor and antiquary, born in Rochdale in 1847, educ Rochdale Grammar School and Owen’s College, Manchester (Hon LLD 1920, first president of Old Owensian Association and president of Union in 1901 and 1902), articled to Rochdale solicitor, registrar of Bury County Court 1888-1898 and of Wigan County Court 1898-1928, retired, member of Rochdale School Board, chairman of Wigan Secondary Education Committee and governors of Wigan High School for Girls, of Thornhill, Wigan, then of 26 Swinley Road, Wigan from 1910, secretary of Lancashire Parish Register Society from 1899 for 32 years and responsible for transcribing and indexing more than seventy parish registers, and thirteen C & W registers, elected member of CWAAS 1905 (with his wife from 1910), council 1910 and honorary member 1919, friendly and experienced advice given to Society, member of council of Chetham and of Lancashire & Cheshire Record Societies, president of Lancashire Author’s Association from its formation (to maintain interest in Lancashire dialect) in 1909 until his death on day of AGM, at 6 Kilner Deyne, Rochdale, on 9 December 1933, aged 86 (CW2, xxxiv (1934), 227-228); published Memories of Quay St and Owens College, close colleague and friend of Thomas Baker Ashworth (1844-1878) qv, solicitor of Rochdale; (where are his voluminous mss ?, perhaps Preston, Bow Lane)
Brigg, H O (18xx-19xx), Methodist minister, former missionary, Superintendent Minister of Penrith Wesleyan Methodist Circuit, 1917
Briggs, Edward, Colonel, parliamentary commander
Briggs, Col Frederick Clifton [d.1917], Devonshire Regt., son of the Hon Augustus Briggs (1830-1882) of Bright hall, Barbados, president of the legislative assembly of the islands, saw action in Afghan and Boer wars, married Jessie Whitfield the daughter of George Whitfield of Modreeny co Tipperary, Jessy’s sister Kathleen married Sir Francis Osborne Bt., died of peritonitis shortly after his appointment as commander of the Barrow garrison
Briggs, John (c.1648-1737), BA, clergyman, aged 18 in 1666, from Lancaster, educ Wigan and Peterhouse, Cambridge (entered as pensioner in June 1666, transferred to Clare College in June 1667, BA 1669/70), ordained deacon (September 1670) and priest by faculty (April 1671), preferred to rectory of Heysham, but deprived for simony in 1674, vicar of Kirkby Lonsdale from 1676 (presented on 2 November and instituted on 20 November) on death of Henry Hoyle (qv), attractive script in registers, marr, no issue, died ‘in the 61st year of his residence at this Church’ and buried at Kirkby Lonsdale, 18 April 1737, aged 91 [sic] (CW2, xxix, 188)
Briggs, John (c.1786-1824), journalist and author, native of Ulverston, of Kendal from 1822, previously of Kirkby Lonsdale, Editor of the Westmorland Gazette 1822-1824 and The Lonsdale Magazine (3 vols) 1820-1822
Briggs, Robert (fl.1570s), first Recorder of Kendal, appointed Recorder or Steward of Borough by charter of incorporation, 28 November 1575, but removed 1576
Briggs, William (17xx-18xx), MD, physician, Physician to Kendal Dispensary and subscriber (1804) (CRO, WD/HCW), ? son of Thomas Briggs, MD, gent, of Poulton, Lancs, marr at Kendal by licence (25 May 1757) Mary Symons, of Kendal
Briggs, William Perry MD (1856-1928), physician, born Gilcrux, educ Edinburgh university under Lord Lister, involved in the tending of the wounded at Plevna during the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-8, medical officer of health Aspatria UDC, improved water supply and the health of his community as he had (via Lister) a good understanding of the need for cleanliness, marr the artist Rosa Mingaye; Anne Usher Thomas, Aspatria, 1993
Bright, Henry (c.1810-1873), artist, from East Anglia, pencil drawing of farmhouse and barn at Troutbeck, 1850 (purchased by WW Spooner Charitable Trust for Wordsworth Trust)
Bright, John (1811-1889), statesman, born Rochdale, visited the Lakes, when fishing at Ouse Bridge at the outflow of Bassenthwaite Lake he held his line round his finger and cut it, he ‘excelled at fly fishing’ and often went fishing in Scotland with Rupert Potter, father of Beatrix Potter, he also appears on the cover of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of 13 November 1875 in an engraving entitled: John Bright MP Landing a Salmon; L Harwood, Fish and Fishers, 207
Brindle, Frederick William (18xx-19xx), JP, of Hill Top, New Hutton (1929-1938), wife Helen
Brindley, Maud Mary (1866-1939), suffragette, born Carlisle, dau Major Eadon, twice imprisoned in Holloway for disorderly conduct, damage to private property and for smashing windows in Oxford St; Chris Donaldson, Cumbria Life, 2023
Brisco family, lived Crofton, near Wigton for 500 years, tomb inscription of 1741 in Thursby church ‘worth reading’ Hyde and Pevsner, Hudleston and Boumfrey (C)
Brisco, Arthur (1828-1860), ? son of Sir Wastell (qv), joined 11th hussars, involved in John Pallisser’s North America Exploration Expedition to Canada 1857-60, they aimed to survey and gather scientific information, Brisco was not a key participant it appears
Brisco, Christopher, taken prisoner at the burning of Wigton (probably in 1322); Hudleston and Boumfrey (C)
Brisco, Lady Caroline Alicia (nee Fleming) [d.1822], dau of Lt Gen Gilbert Fane Fleming of Shadwell Park, St Kitts, W. Indies, m. Sir John Brisco 1st bt. 1776, high sherrif 1778-9, laid out grounds at Crofton in 1770s, purchased Pope’s Villa Twickenham, mother of Sir Wastel 2nd bt., sat to Gainsborough, Lady Brisco [Kenwood; ex coll Sir Musgrave Horton Briso 4th Bt] qv
Brisco, John Cumberland [fl.early 16thc.]
Brisco, Sir John 1st Bt (1739-1805), of Crofton, married to Caroline (Carolina) Fleming, he sat to Gainsborough as did his wife (Kenwood)
Brisco, Sir John Brisco 1st baronet (1739-1805), son of the Rev John Brisco DD and Catherine Hylton, marr Carolina Alicia Fleming, dau of Gilbert Fane Fleming, she sat to Gainsborough (Kenwood), through his wife he inherited Fleming property at Basseterre on St Kitts, thus becoming a slave owner, briefly before his death he owned Pope’s House at Twickenham, left £500 towards the rebuilding of Thursby church
Brisco, Joseph, (17xx-1833) clergyman (literatus, i.e. no degree), curate, Brougham, 1776, curate, Edenhall and Langwathby, 1780, perpetual curate, Soulby, 1803-33, vicar, Crosby Ravensworth, 1810-33, buried at Crosby Ravensworth, 18 December 1833, aged 81, C.J. Gordon, ‘Crosby Ravensworth Church’, CW2, 8 (1908), pp. 206-33, at p. 233
Brisco, Miss (?d.1926), of Crofton Hall, her collection of pictures listed in a letter from A Bromley to Knoedler the dealers, 23 July 1926; Paul Mellon Centre, London archive ref FHS/4/1/7 Misc B (Bagnall Butler)
Brisco, Sir Musgrave Horton, 4th Bt [1833-1909], DL, JP, landowner, of Crofton Hall, nr Wigton, chairman of Allerdale-below-Derwent petty sessions (1894), family restored Thursby church in the 1840s
Brisco, Richard (d.1747), of Lamplugh Hall, bequeathed £12 pa [a yearly rental of some of his land] to poor widows and the school
Brisco, Susan, married Richard Gipin of Scaleby (qv); Hudleston and Boumfrey (C)
Brisco, Thomas, a priest who served against the Saracens; Hudleston and Boumfrey (C)
Brisco, Sir Wastell Bt (1778-1862), born Marylebone, son of Sir John Brisco 1st baronet (qv) and his wife Carolina who sat to Gainsborough (Kenwood), educ Christ Church Oxon, called to bar at Inner Temple 1801, succ his father in 1805, inherited property at Crofton and in St Kitts, his London address was 64 Wimpole St, high sheriff 1813-14, marr Sarah Ladbroke, dau of Robert Ladbroke, Wastell was in court following a carriage accident, following his separation there was a ‘spectacular conflict’ with her in the 1810s, Wastell being accused of cruelty and adultery, he placed an ad in the local papers stating that he would not honour further debts of his estranged wife, in 1833 she was imprisoned for libel following the Middlesex Sessions; British slavery website ucl; Nat Archives HO 17/94/160
Briscoe, William (15xx-16xx), MA, headmaster of St Bees School 1593-1612
Briscoe, William (c.1606-1688), lawyer and politician, M.P. for Cumberland during the Commonwealth
Brisset, Pierre Rene (d.1832), teacher of the French Language, of Finkle Street, Kendal, buried at Kendal, 14 June 1832, aged 110
Bristwald, Roger (12thc), mentioned in the founding document of Furness Abbey; CW3, 22, 209-215
Brittain, Vera (1893-1970; ODNB), author, her aunt Muriel, her father’s sister, married Henry Leigh Groves (qv) in 1906 at Jesus Church, Troutbeck, she was a bridesmaid aged 13
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976), composer, kt., visited Rosehill theatre, probably with Peter Pears (qv), also see his Cumbrian born librettist, Montagu Slater qv
Britten, Henry (b.1845), gamekeeper and market gardener, gamekeeper to FW Parker of Skirwith Abbey, marr Hannah, later market gardener at Skirwith at Beck Mill; CFHS March 2022, 51
Broadhurst, Henry Brooks (1857-1910), son of Henry Tootal Broadhurst, Tootal cotton manufacturer in Manchester, lived Houghton hall, Carlisle, his estate was the venue for one of the Rev Sidney Swann’s flying experiments with Sam Cody (qqv), d. Jamaica
Broadis, Ivor (1922-2019), footballer and jounalist, represented Carlisle United, Sunderland, Manchester City, Newcastle United and Queen of the South, fourteen caps for England, retired 1961 to become a sports journalist, died aged 96; New and Star 14 April 2019
Broadley-Smith, Alan Francis (1876-1915), huntsman, born Derby, son of William Herbert Broadley-Smith (1846-1912), timber merchant and his wife Mary M Trollope (1848-1905) dau of Arthur Trollope, Distributor of Stamps, Lincoln (both of Friar’s Gate, Derby, later of Broadlands and Waterhead House, Ambleside), lived Workington, Master of the Curwen Workington Foxhounds before the 1st WW, joined the 5th batt of the Border Regiment, promoted Major, killed 16 June 1915, buried at Bedford House Cemetery near Armentieres
Broadrick, Henry Crewdson (1874-1956), schoolmaster, yr son of Lieut R F Broadrick, RN, and yr brother of R W Broadrick (qv), Headmaster of Orley Farm Preparatory School, retired to Highfield, Windermere, wrote history of St Mary’s Church, Applethwaite, Windermere, 1848-1948 (1948), died 1956
Broadrick, Richard Wilfrid (1872-1903), MA, schoolmaster and climber, er son of Lieut Richard Fletcher Broadrick, RN (d.1879; 2nd son of George Broadrick, DL, JP, of Hamphall Stubbs and Ottrington Hall, Yorks), of Highfield, Windermere, and Frances Mary (1843-1931; buried at St Mary’s, Windermere, 13 May 1931, aged 88), 2nd dau of G B Crewdson (qv), of The Wood, Windermere, educ Cambridge University (MA), assistant master at Fettes College, Edinburgh 1900-1903, killed in climbing accident on Scawfell, falling from Pinnacle Rock, 21 September 1903, aged 31, and buried at St Mary’s, Windermere, 25 September (CRO, WDX 1474); memorial centre west window in St Mary’s church to his mother 1956
Brock, Sir Thomas (1847-1922; ODNB, sculptor, chosen to provide a large bronze of the queen Victoria soon after her death, the council committee from Carlisle visited Hove to see his work there, Brock then came to Carlisle in 1901 to inspect suggested sites, he preferred the Court Square site outside the station but settled on the Bitts Park site; Cross 2017, p.138
Brockbank, Alan (1929-2023), boat designer and boatbuilder, born in Windermere, son of James Brockbank, who delivered groceries by horse and cart, and his wife Annie Judd, National Service 1947-1949, marr Ethel Armer 1951, three children, built mahogany speed boats, aged 29 studied for CSE maths at Kendal College, in 1966 built Venture (still afloat), in 1968 established the Bowness Bay Boating Compnay with other boatbuilders, in 1993 this became Windermere Lake Cruises, built a fleet of fibreglass six berth cabin cruisers for hire, soon afterwards the firm purchased the four large Windermere steamers: MV Tern (1891), MV Swift (1900), MV Swan (1931) and MV Teal (1936), (built for the Furness railway company, later owned by the London Midland and Scottish Railway and eventually British Rail), MV Cygnet (1879) had been scrapped in 1955 and MV Swift was scrapped in 1999, the remaining trio continued a service for visitors from Ambleside to Bowness and Lakeside, near Newby Bridge; Guardian 31 January 2023
Brockbank, Clare MBE (nee O’Brien), wife of Roger Brockbank (qv), lived at Common Head, Staveley, active as the chair of the Friends of the Armitt and a member of the Romney Society, hosted some fine events in her home, attended the 100th anniversary event of the Armitt at the Linnean Society in 2012, an event acknowledging Beatrix Potter’s scientific activity, President of the Staveley and District History Society; Westmorland Gazette 25 April 2012 and her obit 17 May 2023
Brockbank, Edwin (18xx-1965), JP, CC, mill manager, son of a bobbin turner at Chadwick’s Mill, asst to his uncle (1909 up to WW1), manager, partner (1938), later owner (1946) of Staveley Wood Turning Company, Westmorland county councillor (Educn Cttee), chairman, Abbey Home, Staveley and leading figure in Staveley local life, president, Westmorland Music Council from 1958, chairman, Mary Wakefield Festival, started Staveley Operatic Society, etc, marr Alice Wilhelmina (painter, member of Kendal Art Society, committee member from 1949 and secretary 1951-1957 (succ by E M Bottomley (qv)), died 11 July 1959), 2 sons (xxx and Roger, qv), built their house ‘Craggy’ in 1920, later of Common Head/Kenwood, Staveley, strong down to earth personality, with a good voice (LVTT, 105)
Brockbank, Elizabeth (1882-1949), artist and miniaturist, lived Yealand Conyers, sold work to the Royal family, member of Lake artists, Renouf, 97-8
Brockbank, George (1839-1931), farmer, huntsman and ‘character’, lived Pool Bank, Crosthwaite, stories told about he Radish Feast at Levens Hall and the collection of mistletoe ‘honestly, if you can’; Levens History Society website
Brockbank, James Wilson (18xx-19xx), landowner and company director, proprietor of James Wilson Brockbank & Co, brewers and wine & spirit merchants, Bank Springs brewery, involved in iron trade of West Cumberland, director of various companies, large landowner and proprietor of royalties in Millom district, failed to be elected first chairman of Millom Rural parish council at meeting of 31 December 1894, losing by 4 votes to 6 for Thomas Barlow-Massicks (qv), of The Croft, Chapel Sucken, Kirksanton (1897, 1906)
Brockbank, John, clergyman, vicar of Beetham, resigned in 1670
Brockbank, John Ellwood (1927-2017), huntsman, racehorse trainer and farmer, born 13 June 1927 at Bolton Park, near Wigton, grew up on family farm, educ Brookfield School, Wigton, and Bootham School, York, moved to Westward Park in 1948, marr (1951) Elizabeth Allen, of Patterdale, 3 sons (Mark, Stephen and Tim) and 2 daus (Ruth and Joanna), Master of Cumberland Foxhounds 1966-1994 (succ by son Tim), committed to hunting with kennels at Westward, trainer and breeder of racehorses, with numerous successes at point to points, having been a rider himself (inc at Corbridge on day his first child was born), rode Old Oats in Foxhunters Chase at Aintree’s Grand National meeting in late 1960s, also Bobjob winning a record number of times in his novice chase season, also his home-bred horse A Kinsman winning many races in early 1980s (inc two hurdling and a chase at Cheltenham Festival), steward at Carlisle Racecourse for many years, full-time farmer, died 26 April 2017, aged 89, and funeral at St Hilds’ Church, Westward, 5 May (CN, 12 May 2017)
Brockbank, Roger (1923-2006), businessman, born 7 April 1923 and bapt at Staveley, 29 April, son of Edwin Brockbank (qv), brother killed in aircraft accident in July 1939, educ Windermere Grammar School and St Bees School (1940-1942, rugby first XV), served in RNVR 1942-1946 on Murmansk convoy (HMS Dasher) and in Far East with British Pacific Fleet, returned to St Bees as Housemaster on Foundation in 1946, obtained HSC in French and went on to Durham University (geography degree), ran family business of the Staveley Wood Turning Co, High Sheriff of Cumbria 1988, marr (19xx) Clare Elizabeth (O’Brien), MBE, dau of [?Terence Herriot O’Brien, JP, of 6 Thorny Hills, Kendal in 1938?], 1 son (David, owner of Staveley Mill Yard, bought ‘Craggy’ back in 2007 after family sold it in 1970, but put it on the market in 2012) and 1 dau, of Common Head, Staveley, died 3 October 2006 (OSB); obit W. Gazette 3 November 2006
Brocklebank family, shipbuilders and ship owners, see following
Brocklebank, Sir Aubrey, 3rd Bt (1873-1929), JP, company director, born 12 July 1873, eldest son of Sir Thomas Brocklebank, 2nd Bt (qv), educ Trinity College, Cambridge, marr (15 October 1898) Hon Grace Mary Jackson (d. 5 April 1940), dau of 1st Baron Allerton, 2 sons and 2 daus, High Sheriff of Cumberland 1921, Director of Great Western Railway, Cunard Steamship Co, Suez Canal Co, etc, died 19 April 1929
Brocklebank, Daniel (c.1705-1773), clergyman, curate of Torpenhow 1735-1757, vicar of Morland 1757-1773, 2 sons, died aged 68 and buried at Morland, 25 April 1773
Brocklebank, Daniel (1742-1801), shipbuilder, born at Torpenhow in 1742, yr son of Revd Daniel Brocklebank (qv), began shipbuilding in Whitehaven, opened branch in New York (closed after outbreak of war of independence), firm moved to Liverpool in 1802, oldest in country; his son Thomas (d.1845, aged 71, s.p.), was of Standfield, Liverpool and of Greenlands, Irton
Brocklebank, Harold (1853-1936), JP, shipowner, born 24 November 1853, 3rd son of Sir Thomas Brocklebank, 1st Bt (qv), marr (1878) Mary Ellen (d. 20 November 1929), dau of John Brogden (qv), of Ulverston, 2 sons and 3 daus, had Grizedale Hall rebuilt in 1903 (by Jacksons of Ambleside, with Robert Walker, architect), with 4,500 acre estate (incl seven farms), and lived there in style, employing over 50 staff (incl one man just to move cartloads of coal from Haverthwaite sidings to keep fires going in the Hall), JP Lancashire, died 1 December 1936, after which Hall was taken over by Forestry Commission, leased to a Holiday Fellowship in 1939 but requisitioned by War Office on outbreak of WW2 as German Officers POW Camp, thereafter remaining empty and in deteriorating condition, fixtures and fittings sold off, stripped out and demolished in 1957
Brocklebank, Sir John Montague 5th Bt (1915-1974), businessman, born Hoylake, bap Whitegate, educ Eton, son of Sir Aubrey Brocklebank 3rd bart, 1st class cricketer playing for Cambridge, Lancashire and Bengal, in the Royal Artillery from 1938, captured on the island of Cos and a POW at Hartmanndorf, inherited baronetcy from his elder brother in 1953, chairman Cunard 1959-1964, died Il Palazz, Malta 1974
Brocklebank, John (fl.mid 19thc.), timber merchant Ulverston, imported timber from 1843, his yard was by the canal, his sons John and William (qv) were shipbuilders; J Snell, 97ff
Brocklebank, John (d.1864) and William (1838-1899), shipbuilders Ulverston, bought the yard of Petty and Postlethwaite in 1863, by this date the main Brocklebank family (qv) had been operating for 60 years in Liverpool, they may be distantly related, one of his vessels was the William Brocklebank (1872), William lived Church Walk, ; J Snell, 97ff
Brocklebank, Ralph (1738-1804), clergyman, born at Torpenhow in 1738, er son of Revd Daniel Brocklebank (qv), curate of Corbridge, Northumberland, died at Egremont in 1804; his only son, John Brocklebank (1775-1839), of Hazelholm, Whitehaven, was Lieutenant in West Cumberland Volunteers
Brocklebank, Sir Thomas, 1st Bt, formerly Fisher (1814-1906), DL, JP, shipowner, born 24 November 1814, son of Wilson Fisher (1774-1844), of Keekle, who marr (1812) Anne (d.1836, aged 58), dau of Daniel Brocklebank (qv) and sister of Thomas Brocklebank (d.1845), marr (4 June 1844) Anne (d. 7 January 1883), dau of Joseph Robinson, of Bolton Hall, Cumberland, 4 sons and 4 daus, assumed surname and arms of Brocklebank in lieu of Fisher by Royal Licence, 5 December 1845, chairman of Messrs Thomas & John Brocklebank, High Sheriff of Cumberland 1864, created Baronet, 22 July 1885, of Greenlands and Springwood, co Lancaster, and of Duddon Hall, died 8 June 1906 (memorial window in Irton Church)
Brocklebank, Sir Thomas, 2nd Bt (1848-1911), JP, MA, born 1 March 1848, eldest son of Sir Thomas Brocklebank (qv), educ Cambridge (MA), marr (9 July 1872) Agnes Lydia (d. 1 December 1913), dau of Sir James Joseph Allport, of Littleover, Derbyshire, 4 sons and 3 daus, High Sheriff of Lancashire 1908, JP for Cumberland and Lancashire, bought Irton Hall in 1895, died 12 January 1911
Brocklebank, Sir Thomas Aubrey Lawies, 4th Bt (1899-1953), company director, born 23 October 1899, er son of Sir Aubrey Brocklebank, 3rd Bt (qv), educ Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, Chairman of Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, Director of Messrs Thomas & John Brocklebank Ltd, Midland Bank Ltd, Royal Insurance Co Ltd, etc, sold Irton Hall on succ in 1929, and Greenlands sold after his death in 1953, unmarried, succ by his yr bro, Captain John Montague Brocklebank, 5th Bt, TD (1915-1974)
Brocklebank, William (fl.1882), schoolmaster, of Coniston (1882), succ by Charles James Fox (qv)
Brogden, Alexander (1825-1892), politician, yr son of John Brogden (qv), MP for Wednesbury, built causeway connecting Holme Island to mainland in 1857, gave land for erection of a Wesleyan chapel at Grange-over-Sands (foundation stone laid by his wife on 11 September 1874, first service being held on 17 November 1876), of Lightburn House, Ulverston, died in Croydon, 26 November 1892
Brogden, John (1798-1867), engineer and railway pioneer, of Lightburn House, Ulverston and Holme Island, Grange-over-Sands, native of Marton or ?Worston, builder of Ulverston and Lancaster Railway (later taken over by Furness Railway Company) using £4-500,000 of own resources, had collection of geological specimens, bought Holme Island (an ornamental residence attrib to George Webster) in 1851, marr, 2 sons (John jun, of Manchester, died at Lightburn House, 6 November 1855, aged 31 (MI in Wesleyan church, Ulverston) and Alexander (qv)), died in 1867
Brokensha, Ernest (1917-1995), marine engineer, born Devonport, son of Arthur EC Brokensha (1886-1917) and his wife Adelaide Lipple, his father died during the 1st WW in the year of his birth, based at Admiralty headquarters at Bath, from c.1958-1965 worked at Barrow-in-Furness on the submarine programme, as senior overseer for the Admiralty, lived in Abbey Rd., married twice, 1) Emily Calloway (1916-1948) and 2) Xxxx Glyn, two sons, one daughter, latterly lived at Wells Rd, Bath, died at Bath, in the 1950s he drove a lovely old Austin 7 (?); ancestry.com
Bromley Family, monumental masons and sculptors, Keswick, several fine examples of their large detailed tombstones at Crosthwaite, one illustrated Hyde and Pevsner; J. Hughes, The Bromleys of Keswick, CW2, [1974] pp.186-9; Marshall Hall, 11; David A. Cross, Public Sculpture, 2017, 165-6
Bromley, Sir Henry, 5th Bt (1849-1905), landowner, born 6 August 1849, only son of Sir Henry Bromley, 4th Bt (1816-1895) and his first wife, Charlotte Frances Ann (d.1853), yst dau of Col Lancelot Rolleston, MP, of Watnall, Notts, Captain, Notts Yeo Cav, formerly 27th Foot, marr (23 January 1873) Adela Augusta (died 23 September 1926), only child of Westley Richards, 4 sons (Robert, 6th Bt (1874-1906), Maurice, 7th Bt (qv sub Bromley-Wilson), Rear Admiral Sir Arthur, KCMG, CVO (1876-19xx), and Herbert Assheton (1879-1915)) and 1 dau (Esther, wife of Charles Robert Tryon, qv sub Tryon-Wilson), acted as main trustee of Dallam Estate during minority of his 2nd son, Maurice, came on special train from his seat at Ashwell in Rutland to Sandside station in July 1894 for a two-month visit to Dallam Tower (WG, 12.07.1894), involved in Haverbrack Common dispute in 1893-94 by asserting his rights as trustee to privacy on his estate land (CM, ch.13), gave plain brass altar cross to Beetham church and later one to Milnthorpe church (which caused a bitter ‘popery’ dispute with churchwardens and Easter Vestry in 1897), photographed with Dallam Otterhounds at Underley Hall in c.1900 (CM, 404), died 11 March 1905
Bromley, John (1772-1841), engraver and stone cutter (1829), monumental mason, Keswick; of the Bromley family (qv)
Bromley, John (1876-1945), politician, MP for Barrow 1924-1931, unsuccessfully contested Leeds North East as Labour candidate at 1918 general election, then contested Barrow-in-Furness for Labour in 1922, but lost by 1,927 votes, and lost again in 1923 by just 420 votes, finally winning with majority of 710 on 29 October 1924 and increased majority in 1929, but retired at 1931 general election, to become President of Trades Union Congress in 1932-1933, died 7 September 1945
Bronte, Branwell (1817-1848; ODNB), artist and tutor, brother of Charlotte Bronte (qv), employed briefly by Robert Postlethwaite’s family at Broughton-in-Furness
Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855; ODNB), novelist, stayed with Sir James Kay Shuttleworth (father of 1st Lord Shuttleworth, qv) near Windermere in August 1850, where she met Elizabeth Gaskell (who published her Life in 1857), and also with Harriet Martineau at Ambleside in December 1850 (who was critical of Villette on its publication, leading to a rupture in their relations)
Brookbank, John (16xx-1712), clergyman, bapt 26 January 1620 [or is it at Beetham?], son of John Brockbank, of Haslerigg in parish of Cartmel [but not in Cartmel PR, though a James, son of John, is bapt 5 March 1619/20], ordained d 21 December 1662 and p 20 December 1663 (Chester), instituted to parish of Beetham on presentation from king on 13 September 1664, bought Langthwaite estate at Casterton from James Greenwood in 1676, with further purchases of land in 1677 and 1705 (deeds in CRO, WD/Whelp/6/T19-33), marr, son (Thomas, qv), buried at Beetham as Curate of Witherslack, 10 June 1712 (ECW, ii, 984-985)
Brookbank, Thomas (c.1671-1732), MA, clergyman, bapt at Beetham, 20 April 1671, son of Revd John Brookbank (qv), of Witherslack, educ Queen’s College, Oxford (matric 24 October 1687, aged 18, BA 1692, MA St Mary Hall 1694), Minister of Cartmel for 26 years from 1706, marr Elizabeth, 1 son (John) and 3 daus (Mary (bapt 12 January 1706/7), Anne (bapt 1 December 1708), Elizabeth (bapt 26 June 1710, decd), Elizabeth (bapt 5 December 1711), and Ellen (bapt 14 February 1713/14) all at Cartmel), will made 23 September 1729, with codicil dated 26 January 1732 (copy in CRO, WD/Whelp/6/T37), died and buried at Cartmel, 3 February 1732; his son John inherited Langthwaite estate and other property in Kirkby Lonsdale on condition that he assign Sparth estate to his sisters, but he (and his wife Jane) sold Langthwaite to Richard Dawson, of Masongill, Thornton-in-Lonsdale, on 31 January 1738 (E Axon, TLCAS (1941/2), lvi, 99-103; ECW, ii, 986; Langthwaite deeds in CRO, WD/Whelp/6)
Brooke, Arthur (1846-1924), army officer and merchant, marr Jane (Jenny) (1847-1885), dau of Edward Mucklow (d.1903), JP, of Castle Head, Lindale-in-Cartmel, and Bennetts, Whitstone, Cornwall, who died at Finchley in October 1885, aged 38, and buried at Lindale, 9 October (memorial window in south of nave in Lindale church), children bapt at Lindale in 1870s, when merchant, of Muswell Hill, London, late Lieut-Col, 3rd Battn Royal Fusiliers, later of Brock Wood, Burwash, Sussex, died at Brock Lodge, Sedlescombe Road South, St Leonard’s-on-Sea, Sussex, aged 77, and buried at Lindale, 16 May 1924
Brooke, Stopford Augustus (1832-1916; ODNB), MA, preacher, author and hymn writer, b. Glendoen, Letterkenny, Donegal, son of the Rev Richard Sinclair Brooke, ed. Trinity college Dublin, m. Emma Beaumont, six daughters including Honor, a social reformer, one grandson Henry [1903-1984; ODNB] became Home Secretary, visited Lady Shelley in her old age at Boscombe House and heard her personal reminiscences of Wordsworth and others from her early years at Mirehouse on Bassenthwaite, popular preacher at Bedford Chapel, Bloomsbury, chaplain to Victoria, this he ceased after some years as he had independent means, in 1880 he seceded from the church, became more interested in literature and the arts, wrote on Turner, Tennyson, Browning and Shakespeare, assisted with fund raising for Dove Cottage, died at Four Winds, the house he had built in 1911 for his retirement at Cranleigh, Surrey, 18 March 1916 (as a Unitarian minister) and cremated at Woking crematorium, 23 March; L.P. Jacks, The Life and Letters of Stopford Brooke, 1917;
Brooker, James (1816-after 1859), figurehead carver, born Liverpool, apprenticed to Archibald Robertson (1795-1859) at Greenock, lived Maryport working for Woods (his brother George joined him), built house at Eaglesfield Rd with a small version of The Lion of Lucerne which he carved over the doorway, exhibited a figure of Ceres at the Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace at which he won a medal, carved the figureheads for the Warlock (1840), Syren (1840), Enchantress (1841), Lord Hardinge (1846) (recorded as having ‘striking detail’ including his medals), Aladdin (1856) of the Sancta Bega (1864) built by Lumley Kennedy of Whitehaven, he also carved an eagle lectern for Crosthwaite church; Marshall Hall, 11; CW2 c 207; Grace’s Guide; Whitehaven Herald 16 May 1846, Daniel Hay, ‘Sea Breezes’ magazine 1947
Brooke, Edward, clerk, worked for Col Bolton of Liverpool and Storrs, involved in a duel, Brooke was shot through the head on 20 December 1805; Ulverston Advertiser, 28 December; J Snell, Ulverston Canal, 17
Brooke, Gustavus Vaughan (1818-1866), actor, of Irish extraction, worked with Barry Sullivan and performed in Ulverston in medodrama and Shakespeare on tour
Brooke, Henry (fl.1830s), son of Henry Brooke, the son was editor of the Carlisle Patriot
Brooks, (William) Collin MC (1893-1959; ODNB), journalist, born Stanwix, Carlisle, son of William Edward Brooks (1864-1914) a traveller for Lever Bros, and his wife Isabella Collin Thomas (1863-1915), educ Chrst Church Hall Southport, trainee accountant, commercial traveller, 1913 into journalism, est the Manchester Press Agency, 1st WW in army, awarded MC after the battle of Piave, begun to defend Venice, marr Susannah Marsden, 5 children, worked for Ways and Means, the Liverpool Courier and the Liverpool Post, 1923 joined Yorkshire Post, 1928 Financial News, 1934 Sunday Despatch, friendly with Lord Rothermere, ghosted his memoirs, 2nd WW involved broadcasting ‘Any Questions’ and the ‘Brains Trust’, 39 books published, all typed with two fingers on a Corona typewriter, member of several gentlemen’s clubs
Brough, Alan, ‘Tutty’ [1942-2010], eccentric and collector of horses, owner of a herd of Shetland ponies at Newbiggin, Stainton, Penrith and previously the ‘Mosedale lion’; C and W Herald 23 July 2010
Brougham family; CW2 lx 131
Brougham, Auriole Margaretta (d.1938), daughter of Major James Brougham JP (b.1845) of Woodland Hall, Kirkby Ireleth, and Elizabeth Montagu Shaw, married Viscount Ipswich (1884-1918) in 1913 (who died in an air accident in 1918) and lived at Potterspury House, Stony Stratford, she was the mother of John Charles William, 9th duke of Grafton (1914-1936), she remarried Lt Col Gavin Hume-Gore, the duke died when his Bugatti crashed in the Limerick Grand Prix (he was descended from Henry Fitzroy, the 1st duke, a son of Charles II and his mistress Barbara Villiers); Hud (W); Debrett
Brougham, Eleanor Mabel Valentine (1883-1966), writer, aunt of the 1st baron Brougham and Vaux (qv), published Corn from Olde Fields: An Anthology of English Poems from 14thc to 17thc, 1918, News out of Scotland XIVc-XVIIIc, 1926, Epitaphs, selected by EMVB, 1927; British Library catalogue
Brougham, Henry (1665-1696; ODNB), priest and pro-proctor Oxford, son of Henry Brougham of Scales Hall (C) and Mary Slee, sheriff in 1693
Brougham and Vaux, Henry, 1st baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868; ODNB) PC QC FRS, politician, law reformer, abolitionist, energetic polymath, b. Edinburgh, son of Edward Brougham of Brougham Hall and his wife Eleanor Syme, ed Edinburgh Royal High School and Edinburgh university, called to the bar Lincoln’s Inn, much involved with the Reform Bill and the abolition of slavery, extended and enlarged Brougham Hall, visits from London society including Edward VII qv, purchased the Brougham Altarpiece [or Triptych] for St Wilfred’s church [now at Carlisle cathedral] in addition to quantities of other European medieval woodwork, popularized both the Brougham carriage and visits to the south of France, d. Cannes, France; Henry Summerson et al, Brougham Castle, Cumbria, 1998Benjamin Furnival, The Windsor of the North: A History of Brougham Hall, 1999; for the triptych see David A. Cross, 2017, 140-2; for medieval woodwork Hyde and Pevsner 196-7; pencil portrait by Joseph Bouet illustrated in David A Cross, Joseph Bouet, original in special collections Durham University Library
Brougham, Henry Charles, 3rd Baron Brougham and Vaux (1836-1927), DL, JP, landowner, eldest son of 2nd Baron, marr (18 April 1882, at St Paul’s, Knightsbridge) Adora Francis Olga (Zoe), Lady Musgrave (died in Middlesex, 17 December 1925), dau of Peter Wells, of Forest Farm, Windsor Forest, Berkshire, and widow of Sir Richard Courtenay Musgrave (qv), of Edenhall, who was a close friend (dying prematurely at 42), 1 son (Henry, 1887-1927) and 1 dau (Eleanor Mabel Valentine, 1883-1966) and six step-children, JP Westmorland (qual 21 October 1869), died 1927 (BH&HHC, 90-103 with photo on p.95)
Brougham, James (17xx-1833), MP, brother of Lord Chancellor Brougham, welcomed to Kendal as parliamentary candidate designate for borough on day of procession in town to celebrate passing of Reform Bill on 6 September 1832, and elected first MP for Kendal, without opposition, chaired through streets and later dined with 200 electors (out of 310) at the King’s Arms, 11 December 1832, but serious rioting broke out during polling a week later in Westmorland county election on 18 December, died 22 December 1833, aged 54, and buried at Brougham
Brougham, Victor Henry Peter (1909-1967), 4th baron Brougham and Vaux, broke the bank of Monte Carlo, twice, he had to sell the hall, which was partly demolished in the 1930s
Brougham,William, 2nd Baron Brougham and Vaux (1795-1886), DL, born at Edinburgh, 1795, succ brother, Henry (qv), by special remainder in 1868, marr (1834) Emily Frances, only dau of Sir Charles William Taylor, Bt, DL Westmorland (apptd in November 1871), died at Brougham Hall, 3 January 1886, aged 90, and buried in Brougham churchyard, 7 January
Broughton, Thomas, of Broughton-in-Furness, fought for Richard III at Bosworth Field in 1485 and then supported Lambert Simnel (qv) in 1487, took refuge at Witherslack; Thomas West, Antiquities of Furness, 210
Brown, Rev Abraham (fl. late 18thc), celebrated Cumberland wrestler; Hud (C)
Brown, Annie Bell (fl.late 19thc), married Robert Hardy Williamson, her sister Harriet married his brother Richard (qv), Robert saved a sailor in the freezing water of the Baltic, won an Albert Medal for gallantry
Brown, Betty (1909-1965)(Mabel Raven), later Gilson, botanist, born Hensingham, Whitehaven, dau of Tom Brown (1874-1935) a solicitor, 1st class honours degree Newnham Coll Cambridge, fellow of Newnham and lecturer in botany 1939-1946, sister of Prof Julian Brown (qv), marr Hugh Gilson (qv), died Cumberland
Brown, Cyril Harold (18xx-1956), clergyman, trained at Bishop Wilson Theol Coll, IoM 1918, d 1919 and p 1920 (S&M), curate of St Thomas, Douglas 1919-1920, organising secretary, SPG, York 1921-1925, vicar of Firbank with Howgill 1925-1930 (inducted as first vicar of United Benefice on 1 November 1925), had 33 Easter communicants in 1926, St Oswald, Bradford 1930-1943, and Cottingley, Bingley 1943-1954, diocesan inspector of schools, Bradford 1943-, hon canon of Bradford Cathedral 1946-, marr Mabel (died 27 April 1975), dau (Bettina, died 7 March 2004), died at Bingley, 24 November 1956 and buried at Firbank, 14 December
Brown, Dame Edith Mary [1864-1956; ODNB], DBE, physician and medical educationalist, b. Whitehaven, MA Cantab, MD Bruxelles, est Christian Medical College at Ludhiana, India with the Greenfield sisters, Martha and Kay, who operated beforehand as medical missionaries
Brown, Edward, Prince of Wales Hotel, Grasmere, 1851-1885
Brown, Ford Madox (1821-1893; ODNB), visited the Lakes, painting of Windermere with highland cattle (Tullie House)
Brown, Geoffrey (d.2019), historian, farmer and secretary of the Herdwick Society, began as a historian working for the WEA and the extra mural department of Nottingham University, a fell farmer from the 1960s, assisted in the production of the Lakeland Shepherds’ Guide (1985), published Herdwicks (2009), lobbied for the establishment of Herdwicks as a heritage breed, also the Lakes as a World Heritage Site, did great work to restore the local situation after the Foot and Mouth outbreak, marr Clare, after his death an Innovative Award was established in his memory
Brown, Helen Wright, wife of Thomas Brown land agent and mother of Prof Julian Brown (qv), MBE for services to the WRVS in the war
Brown, Isaac (1860-1946), trade unionist, born Moor Row (C), from 12 worked in the Yarlside iron mine near Barrow, in 1891 to Y and then to USA, worked in copper mines, returned to Y in 1895, joined the Y Miners Association and the Independent Labour Party, elected to Henswood RDC in 1897, stood in the 1918 election for Pontefract but was defeated,
Brown, James Walter (1850-1930), clergyman, author of Round Carlisle Cross: old stories retold (12 edns 1921-29), selected from weekly articles contributed to Cumberland News, 2nd edition ed by Thomas Gray and Marley Denwood (1951), A Cathedral Idyll (1915), died at his home, 35 Chiswick Street, Carlisle, 1 March 1930, aged 79 (CW2, xxx, 236-37); probably identical with the composer of ‘Little St Hugh: A Cantata’ (1909), ‘Kinmont Willie’ (1922) and Lyrics and Songs (1893)
Brown, John (1715-1766), writer, spent some early years in Cumberland, prolific essayist and writer of sermons, influenced the rise of Lakeland tourism by his Description of the Lake at Keswick (1751-3), thus has been called ‘the Columbus of Keswick’; Bicknell; NN anthology; Wordsworth Trust website
Brown, John Wilson (1874-19xx), librarian, born 23 January 1874, started work in new library Kendal, in the Old Market Hall when building opened in December 1892 (his job included “cleaning all windows, stoking the furness [sic], preserving order…and cleaning the oil lamps”, working 12 hours a day and paid £49 pa), apptd Chief Librarian to Public Free Library, Stricklandgate, Kendal, from 22 April 1905, new Carnegie Library opened in 1909, of 13 Crescent Green, Kendal (1914) and Brantside, Horncop, Kendal (1928), retired in January 1939 to Silloth
Brown, Dr Joseph, edited a work by Cardinal Barberini
Brown, Joseph, schoolmaster, son of John Brown, of Kendal, spinner, apptd Master of Grammar School, Kendal 1869, resigning in 1886 on establishment of new Grammar School (on amalgamation with Blue Coat School) and becoming Master of the Sandes Preparatory School, sub-editor on James Murray’s English Dictionary from 1879, leaderwriter for Kendal Mercury and Times, good platform speaker at political meetings, keen musician and member of Kendal Choral Society
Brown, Joseph (b.c.1780), wine merchant, originally of Scales, near Kirkoswald, father of Joseph Brown (1809-1902), barrister (qv), probably the Joseph Brown, wine merchant of Lawrence Pountney Lane who died in 1831; his will in National Archives PROB 11/1791B/131
Brown, Joseph KC (1809-1902), barrister, born Walworth, Sy, son of Joseph Brown (b.c.1780), wine merchant, born near Kirkoswald, (qv), educ Camberwell GS by his uncle John Whitridge of Carlisle, worked for Armstrongs a London merchant, then studied law with Peter Turner, attended Queens’ Coll Cambridge, called to the bar Middle Temple 1845, est a good practice, 1865 took silk, thus QC (on accession of Edward VII KC), treasurer Middle Temple, marr Mary Smith, 3s and 2d, worked on the Employers’ Liability Act (1880), took a prominent part in the replacement of the old Law Reports, CB 1893, Fellow Geographical Society, at 93 he was the oldest and longest serving KC, his daughter Marianne married Joseph Addison, later president of the Law Society, Brown’s law firm lasted under his son Reginald and his grandchildren into the late 20thc
Brown, (Thomas) Julian FBA FSA FKC (1923-1987), paleographer, born Tirril, son of a land agent, educ Charney Hall, Winchester and Christ Church Oxford, graduated in classics in 1948 after the war, in the 1950s his mother ran the Langstrath Hotel, Borrowdale, lived Carlisle, assistant keeper of manuscripts at the BM, his commentary on the Lindisfarne Gospels established his reputation (facsimile publ 1960), professor Kings Coll London 1961-1984, publ The Stoneyhurst Gospel of St John (1969), The Durham Ritual (1969) and Codex Vaticanus Palatinus Latinus 235 (1989) ed with T Mackay, Hon DPhil Durham 1986, married twice, two children; Proceedings of the British Academy vol 75 (1989), 341; Times obit 24 Jan 1987, 18; Michael Lapidge ed, Interpreters of Early Medieval Britain, 2002, 533 ff
Brown, Peter (d.1746), with Hugh Brown (d.1746), not natives of the county, an old man and a young one, of no known relationship, sentenced to transportation for shop breaking at Kirkby Lonsdale, but returned illegally and executed at Appleby in 1746
Brown, Richard (1709-1785), b. Winton, Queen’s College, Oxon
Brown, Robert Pennyman Hull (c.1814-1876), clergyman, no benefice (1858), died at Pull Wyke, Ambleside, 21 April 1876, aged 62
Brown, Robert Percival (18xx-193x), MA, clergyman, schoolmaster and antiquary, educ St Paul’s School and Trinity College, Cambridge (Scholar, BA (first class in Classical Tripos) 1884, and MA 1888), d 1886 and p 1887 (Sodor & Man), assistant master, Marlborough College 1884-1885, asst master and chaplain, King William’s College, Isle of Man 1885-1888, first headmaster of new Kendal Grammar School 1888-1891, headmaster of Eltham College (Royal Naval School) 1891-1896, and of Warwick School 1896-1902, priest-in-charge of Holy Trinity, Stirling, with St Ninian’s Mission, dio Edinburgh 1904-1905 and rector 1905-1917, TCF 1914-1917, vicar of Kirkby Lonsdale 1917-1933 (with Lupton to 1926), transcribed KL PRs, compiled list and article on ‘The Vicars of Kirkby Lonsdale’ (CW2, xxix, 166-192, author of Edward Wilson of Nether Levens (1557-1653) and his Kin (CWAAS Tract No XII, 1930), member of CWAAS from 1924 and of Council from 1925 (CW2, xxix, 192), left KL in summer 1933, retiring to The Elms, Ashacre Lane, Worthing, Sussex (1939), decd by 1948 [not buried at KL, no obit in CW2]
Brown, Thomas, b. Scotland, gardener at The Fitz, Cockermouth, wrote poems on deaths of Tennyson, HRH Duchess of York, Princess of Wales; H. Winter, Cockermouth Great Scholars
Brown, Thomas Forster (1835-1907; DCB), mining engineer
Brown, Tom, clergyman, rector of Long Marton 1960-1963
Brown, William (17xx-18xx), artist, first recorded as a marine watercolour painter in Maryport in 1811, painting in oil on large canvasses by 1819, inc view of Kendal from Thorny Hills, showing mill race supplying water power to Castle Mills (rebuilt in 1805/6) and river beyond, Miller Bridge, and tenter-frames on Gooseholme, also painted canal basin at Carlisle in 1823, as well as landscapes and genre paintings; Marshall Hall, 11-12
Brown, William (fl.18thc), of Tallentire Hall, near Cockermouth, his wife (nee Harris) sat to Romney
Brown, William Michael Court OBE (1918-1968; ODNB), medical researcher, born Scotby, near Carlisle, son of James Court Brown, market gardener and Jessie Buchanan, BSc and MD by 1942, qualified in radiotherapy and worked at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, marr Caroline dau of William Thom of Edinburgh, fellow of the Faculty of Radiology 1950, member of the Medical Research Council in London, directed their research into the damaging effects of radiation using data from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with Richard Doll (1912-2005) showed that leukaemia incidence was directly proportional to the dose of radiation, other research involving the genetic basis of diseases, retired to Edinburgh
Browne family of Townend, ‘one of the oldest families in Troutbeck’, at least from the early 16thc., their unusual yeoman’s house is replete with oak panelling and furniture (National Trust)
Browne, Benjamin (1664-1748), county official, born 1664, son of George Browne (1626-1703) (qv), of Town End, Troutbeck, High Constable of Kendal Ward 1711-1732, 2 sons (Benjamin and George), made will on 7 September 1748 (CRO, WD/TE/ F14); Benjamin Browne the younger, of Town End, Troutbeck, wife Elizabeth, dau of James Longmire the elder, of Linefoot, yeoman, made will on 8 May 1746 (proved 10 May 1748, CRO, WD/TE/ F21)
Browne, Benjamin (c.1714-1750), excise officer, born near Penrith, died 15 May 1750 (epitaph in Alresford churchyard (CRO, WD/TE/12/25)
Browne, Benjamin (1787-1807), surgeon, born 15 April 1787 and bapt at Troutbeck, 13 May, 2nd son of George Browne (1741-1804) (qv), apprenticed with mother’s consent to William Simpson (qv), surgeon and apothecary, of Ambleside, 20 October 1804, but on his death in July 1806, set out to be medical student at Edinburgh University in November 1806, about to set up in practice in Ambleside in 1807, when he drowned in accident on Windermere (perhaps preparing for the Regatta), 13 July 1807 and buried at Troutbeck, 16 July, leaving an illegitimate son (George, born 18 March 1808 and bapt 22 March) by Agnes Simpson, widow of William Simpson, his late master (letters in CRO, WD/TE/ Bound MSS vols II, 1-2, V, 246-248, 253, 305-306; CW2, xci, 199-211)
Browne, Christopher (1703-1747), apothecary, son of Henry Browne (1673-1710), marr (November 1730) Katherine, dau of Alderman Thomas Rowlandson (qv), mayor of Kendal 1735, of 45 Stricklandgate, Kendal, died 20 July 1747 (KK, 344)
Browne, George (1834-1914), landowner, born 1834, only son of George Browne (qv), of Town End, Troutbeck, marr Margaret Dixon (1842-1909), of Kentmere, will dated 31 January 1903, bequeathing Town End to his wife Margaret for life with his 3 daus, Lucy Eleanor (1864-1913), Clara Jane (1866-1943) and Katharine Margaret (1869-1909) (buried at Troutbeck, 4 October 1909) as joint tenants, then to them in equal shares and as tenants in common, admin of estate granted to surviving dau, Clara Jane Browne, 30 September 1914
Browne, Gerard (1612-16xx), clergyman, bapt at Wigan, 9 June 1612, son of William Browne, of Wigan, educ Brasenose College, Oxford (matric 15 February 1633, BA 28 November 1635), vicar of Mottram in Longdendale, Cheshire 1637-1644, Royalist supporter, forced out of pulpit about 1643 and ejected for his refusal of the Covenant, brought in custody to Nantwich after order against him by County Committee confirmed on 25 April 1644, went to Aughton near Ormskirk and chapel of Maghull as minister until approved as minister of Blackrod in 1647, assigned a good character in survey of 1650, removed to Cockerham by 1652, minister of Burton in Kendal by 1657 when his dau Elizabeth was born (bapt 13 December 1657), followed by Bridget (bapt 28 April 1660) and son Gerard (bapt 3 November 1661), wife Frances buried at Burton, 27 September 1662, instituted again on 22 October 1662 on presentation of George Middleton (qv), but gone by August 1664 (ECW, ii, 990-992)
Browne, John (1677-1763), clergyman, from Cockburnspath, Berwickshire, marr (August 1712) Eleanor (c.1679-1758), dau of – Potts and widow of Anthony Troutbeck (d.1710), 1 son (John below) and 1 dau (Margaret, 1713-1722), vicar of Wigton from 1715/6
Browne, John (1715-1766; ODNB), DD, MA, clergyman, moralist and playwright, b. Rothbury, son of Revd John Brown (qv), educ Wigton Grammar School and St John’s Camb, MA 1739, DD 1755, minor canon of Carlisle cathedral, chaplain bishop Osbaldeston qv,vicar of St Nicholas, Newcastle, author of the plays Athelstane and Barbarossa, both performed by David Garrick, his Description of the Lake at Keswick published in 1767 was one of earliest of the district by a ‘tourist’, is cited frequently, died 23 September 1766 (CW2, lxix, 240-274)
Browne, Joseph (1700-1767), born at Tongue, Watermillock, son of George Browne, ed Barton school, Queen’s college MA 1724, fellow 1731, DD 1743, given the living of Bramshot, Hants in 1746, Sedleian professor of natural philiosphy 1746 until his death, prebend and chancellor Hereford, provost Queen’s College, Oxford 1756, VC of Oxford 1759-65, suffered a stroke 1765, died 1767; Previous Vice Chancellors, Oxford, 2011
Browne, Magdalene (nee Dacre) (1538-1608; ODNB), daughter of the 3rd baron Dacre of Gilsland (qv) and his wife Elizabeth Talbot, childhood spent at Naworth, aged 13 sent to the house of Anne, countess of Bedford, maid of honour to Mary Tudor and walked in the bridal procession at her wedding to Philip II of Spain in 1554, marr Anthony Browne 1556, 1st viscount Montagu, 5s and 3d, lived Battle Abbey, Cowdray and Montague House, highly thought of by Elizabeth I, in her widowhood after 1592 maintained a household of 80 people, mostly catholics, including three priests, Battle Abbey was known as ‘Little Rome’ and a safe house for travelling priests, Richard Smith published her biography The Life of the Most Hon and Vertuous (sic) Lady Viscountess Montague (1627), died at Battle, buried Midhurst; described as ‘a singular ornament of the catholic religion in England’
Browne, Philip Theodore Briarly (18xx-1951), police officer, Chief Constable to Standing Joint Committee of Cumberland and Westmorland 1926-1951, died at Acton Lodge, Temple Sowerby, and cremated at Darlington after service in church, 5 December 1951
Browne, Richard (1647/8-1693/4; ODNB), physician, son of Thomas Browne of Barton (W), educ Queen’s, no graduation, wrote Medecina musica, a medical essay on the effects of singing and dancing on human bodies, then to Leiden to study medicine, publ a transl of latin texts: The Cure of Old Age (1683) by Roger Bacon and other works
Browne, Stuart [1946-1999], author, director and scriptwriter, wrote novel Dangerous Parking, this became a film with Tom Conti (2007), m. actress Kathryn Pogson who played Ophelia in Jonathan Miller’s Hamlet; Observer 18 March 2001
Browne, Thomas (1792-1866), clergyman, yst son of George Browne (qv), of Town End, Troutbeck, marr Mary Jackson, 1 son, vicar of Carlton in Cleveland (letters, papers, diaries and sermons in CRO, WD/TE/14); son, William Jackson Browne, bookbinder (diary and notebooks 1885-1889 in CRO, WD/TE/14)
Browne, William (1732-1802), high sheriff, born 19 September 1732, 4th son of William and Mary Browne, of Orthwaite Hall, educ Uldale School (Hutchinson, ii, 373), later paid for flagging floor in place of clay, had commercial interests sufficient to provide him with means to buy properties, inc Tallantire Hall and manors of Dovenby, Papcastle and Tallantire in 1776 (Lysons, lxx 36-38), High Sheriff of Cumberland 1790, marr (3 September 1779) Mary (d.1818, aged 76), widow of Richard Lancaster, 1 son (William, qv) and 3 daus, died in 1802, aged 70, and buried with wife in remains of old chancel at Bridekirk (CW2, lxx, 153)
Browne, William (1780-1861), JP, High Sheriff, born 3 December 1780 and bapt at Bridekirk next day, son of William Browne (qv), of Tallantire Hall, Bridekirk, and heir to W G Browne, ‘the Traveller’ (qv) in event of failure of male heirs, High Sheriff of Cumberland 1816, JP Cumberland for many years, owned manuscript copy of John Denton’s History of Cumberland with Hugh Todd’s City of Carlisle and other documents [formerly belonging to Josiah Relph (d.1743), of Sebergham, and later to David Mawson (CW3, iv, 164)], which were used by Lysons brothers for their History of Cumberland, marr (1803) Catherine (1779-1859), dau of William Stewart, of Castle Stewart, 3 sons (William (1808-1809), William (qv) and John Stewart (b.1814)) and 6 daus (inc Caroline, who marr (8 December 1838, at Bridekirk) 2nd Baron Teignmouth (1796-1885) (qv), 3 sons and 3 daus, and died 20 September 1899, aged 83), died 2 March 1861, aged 80, and buried with wife, who died 29 January 1859, aged 80, in Bridekirk churchyard (MI) (CW2, lxx, 153-154)
Browne, William (1812-1894), JP, MA, barrister, born 9 July 1812 and bapt at Bridekirk, 8 September, er surv son of William Browne (qv), educ Balliol College, Oxford (MA 1840), barrister-at-law, Lincoln’s Inn 1843, joined Northern Circuit and practised for some years at Carlisle Quarter Sessions, marr (1847) Isabella (1825-1905/6), only dau of Robert Midford, of London, son (William Charles, qv) and dau (Nina, wife of Dr Gore Ring, qv), lived in Carlisle until his father’s death in 1861, where he took an interest in some religious societies and occasionally spoke at Bible Society meetings, then of Tallantire Hall, Bridekirk, which he had extended in 1863 (by Joseph Bintley), also built school opposite, founder member of CWAAS and member of Council, contributed papers to Transactions on ‘Bridekirk, and its Registers’ in 1878 (CW1, iv, 257-279) and ‘William George Browne of Orthwaite or Allerthwaite Hall’ in 1882 (CW1, vi, 355-356), wrote to Chancellor Ferguson on 5 July 1887 recalling playing as a child amongst stones of an old dove cote in field close to Tallantire Hall (CW1, ix, 432), died suddenly at Keswick railway station, 7 April 1894 (having been staying in town (with his dau?) and about to return to Cockermouth), aged 81, and buried in Crosthwaite churchyard, 11 April, after which Tallantire was sold, his widow Isabella, then of ‘The Hollies’, being buried with him, 3 January 1906, aged 81 (WCT, 11.04.1894; CW2, lxx, 154-155)
Browne, Revd William Charles (18xx-19xx), clergyman, pres born at Tallantire Hall and bapt at Bridekirk, son of William Browne (qv), trained at Sarum College 1876, d 1878 and p 1880 (Sarum), Curate of Tyneham, Wareham, Dorset 1878-1890, and of Dilton Marsh, Westbury, Wilts 1890-1893, Vicar of Netheravon, nr Salisbury 1893-1895, Vicar of Haynes, Bedford 1895-
Browne, William George (1768-1813; ODNB), BA, scholar and traveller, born on Great Tower Hill, London, 25 July 1768, son of George Browne, wine merchant, and grandson of William Browne (1700-1771), of Woodhall in Caldbeck parish, who had acquired Orthwaite Hall in c.1723, which he (WGB) inherited but which his nephew, George Browne sold to Joseph Gillbanks, of Whitefield House, Ireby in 1837, murdered about 120 miles from Tabriz on his way to Tehran in late summer of 1813 (CW2, lxx, …)
Browning, D. Peter J. (19xx-2010), CBE, MA, education administrator, became youngest parish clerk in England during WW2 at age of 18, career in education administration in Cumberland, Southampton and Bedfordshire, where he set up an Anglo-Italian society for Italian workers in the local brickfields, took over chairmanship of Armitt Trust [Armitt sisters qqv] from John Gavin in 1991, used his administrative and diplomatic skills in fundraising for new Armitt building and its construction, presiding over its opening by Princess Alexandra in 1997, with vision to establish it as a reference collection of academic importance, also established series of concerts in Rydal Church which raised funds for the Armitt, wife Eleanor, of Park Fell, Skelwith Bridge, Ambleside, died in February 2010
Brownrigg, Elizabeth, the last May Queen, Keswick, 1938; her mother had been May Queen in 1912
Brownrigg, Giles [d.1633], founded Ireleth School in 1608 [the plaque states 1608 but it was actually 1612]; CW2 xlviii 145
Brownrigg, Sir Robert 1st Bt (1759-1833; ODNB), colonial governor, a cousin of Dr William Brownrigg (qv) (they are both descended from Henry Brownrigg (1650-1723) who was born in Beckermet), ensign 1775, 9th regt of foot, military secretary to duke of York 1795, quartermaster general 1813-1820, acquired kingdom of Kandy in Sri Lanka for the crown, cr bart 1816, he returned with the 7th-8thc statue of Tara (BM) in uncertain circumstamces
Brownrigg, William (1711-1800; ODNB), MD, FRS, physician and chemist, born 24 March 1711 at High Close Hall, Plumbland, eldest of seven children of George Brownrigg (1677-1760), of Ormathwaite, agent for estate, and his cousin, Mary (d.1770, aged 80), dau of Henry Brownrigg, settled in Whitehaven in early 1737 to practise medicine, marr (3 August 1741) Mary (1721-1794, buried 17 February at Crosthwaite), dau of John Spedding (qv), no issue, also investigated nature of exhalations in coal mines, then led to inquire into nature of mineral waters, suggested to Joseph Priestly the imitation of Pyrmont water by impregnating it with carbonic acid gas, also one of discoverers of nature of Calybeate waters, made several communications on these subjects to Royal Society in 1741, elected FRS, described in paper to Royal Society in 1746 an apparatus contrived to convey carburetted hydrogen gas (or fire damp, as it was then called) in a constant stream from coal pit into his laboratory, where many experiments were made on it, well acquainted with mining operations in Cumberland, went to live about 1770 in semi-retirement at Ormathwaite Hall, near Keswick (which estate passed to his great-nephew, John Benn, qv), died 6 January 1800, aged 88, and buried at Crosthwaite church, 12 January (plaque in chancel) (DH, 136-137); Joshua Dixon, The Literary Life of William Brownrigg, 1801; Henry Lonsdale’s Worthies; JV Beckett, W.B. FRS, Physician, Chemist and Country Gentleman, 1977; Jean Ward and Joan Yell, The Medical Casebook of WB, Medical History Supplement, vol.13, 1993, 25
Brownrigg, William (1xxx-19xx), politician, farmer from Kirkbampton, contested Penrith and the Border in 1951, polling 158 votes, and in 1955 as Home Rule for Cumberland candidate
Brownsword, Revd William (16xx-16xx), MA, clergyman, Vicar of Kendal, brought suit against Quakers for non-payment of tithes, granted freedom within Borough of Kendal on 6 November 1662 (BoR, 21), gave four volumes of Bellarmine’s Opera to Sandes Library, Kendal, 1675
Brucciani family [fl.20thc], makers of ice cream Barrow and ran two coffee shops in Dalton Rd., known locally as ‘top Brucci’s’ and ‘bottom Brucci’s’ [? related to Bricciani, the cast maker in London 1864 and to the Bruccianis of Preston; other Italian familes include Pieri family Carlisle and Luccini family Keswick qqv
Bruce, see Brus
Bruce, Christian (d.1356; ODNB), noblewoman, dau of Robert VI de Brus (Bruce), she may have been the sister of King Robert whom English sources rumoured was for the hand of Andrew Harcla, earl of Carlisle (qv), when he attended to negotiate a peace with the Scots in 1323
Bruce, Edward, earl of Carrick (c.1280-1318; ODNB), soldier and claimant to the Irish throne, among other deeds, on 16 April 1314 he invaded Cumberland, burned towns, killed people and rustled cattle, as blackmail had fallen into arrears
Bruce, Sir George Barclay (1821-1908; ODNB), civil engineer, born Newcastle, his father John Bruce founded the Percy Street Academy which George Stephenson attended, George Bruce was then apprenticed to Stephenson and became a railway engineer in Cumberland, India and South America, involved with several northern routes including the Haltwhistle to Alston Moor line, also lines to Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont, he won the Telford Medal and was much involved with the Institute of Civil Engineers, president 1887-9, marr Helen Norah Simpson, several children
Bruce, John Collingwood (1805-1892; ODNB), minister and antiquary, born Newcastle, son of John and Mary Bruce, his father was a schoolmaster at Alnwick and Newcastle, educ Mill Hill and Glasgow university, worked in the school founded by his father until 1865, enthusiastic student of Hadrian’s Wall, especially the central section, established a numbering system for the milecastles which is still in use, publ include A History of Northumbria (1858), The Roman Wall (1861) and A Handbook of the Roman Wall (1861) which had 13 editions by the 20thc, A Handbook of Newcastle (1863) and with John Stokoe, Northumbrian Minstrelsy (1882), married Charlotte Gainsford of Gerrards Cross, one son, Sir Gainsford Bruce (1834-1912), a judge and PC
Bruce, Marjorie, dau of Robert the Bruce, when 12 years old is said to have been sent to Edward I (qv) at Lanercost, then escorted to London and imprisoned in a cage outside the Tower at the command of the king and she was later immured in a nunnery; a similar fate is said to have been meted out to Mary Bruce (sister of Robert the Bruce) and Isabella McDuff (countess Buchan who crowned the Bruce), who were sent to Edward at Lanercost and then imprisoned in cages one at Berwick and the other at Roxburgh (they may have been metal structures inside turrets); Andrew Laing, History of Scotland, vol 2 dispels this myth; David McClaine, Ladies in Cages, 2013; Prestwich biography
Bruce, Mr (fl.mid 19thc), architect, built Christ Church at Cockermouth (1865) (qv Rev Puxley) and St Margaret’s church at Wythop (1865) (qv Rev Ormiston), Bruce does not appear in standard lists of his profession, maybe he died young ?
Bruce, Robert the (1274-1329); CW2 xcii 77; father’s tomb Holme Cultrum
Bruce (Brus), Robert V de (c.1220-1295; ODNB), magnate and claimant to Scots throne, son of Robert IV de Bruce (c.1195-1226x33), held land in both Scotland and England, a councillor to Alexander III and approved by Henry III on the exclusion of the Comyns in 1255, Henry III sent him to Scotland in 1257, he was sheriff of Cumberland, with John Comyn he witnessed royal charters in 1262, constable of Carlisle castle 1267-8, again sent to Scotland and was with Alexander III at Scone in 1270, aged about 50 he went on crusade to Palestine, again sought the throne, involved in the arrangements intended to bring the Maid of Norway to marry Edward I’s heir, marr 1) Isabel de Clare and 2) Christine de Ireby (qv)
Bruce (Brus), Robert VI de, earl of Carrick (1243-1304; ODNB), son of Robert V de Bruce (d.1295) and Isabel de Clare, probably born at Writtle, Essex, his father’s manor, ransomed his father in 1264, met Marjorie the widowed countess of Carrick out hunting and married her, much to the fury of Alexander III, 5 sons including king Robert the Bruce of Scotland (1274-1329; ODNB)
Bruce, Robert I, king of Scotland (1274-1329; ODNB), aka ‘Robert the Bruce’, grandson of Robert de Bruce 5th lord Annandale and descended from David 1st (qv), Robert was king from 1306 to his death in 1329, he led the Scots against the English in the 1st war of Scots independence, with William Wallace fighting against Edward I of England (qv), notoriously involved in the murder of his rival, John Comyn III of Badenoch in Greyfriars church Dumfries
Bruce, Sir Robert (c.1297-1332; ODNB), royal bastard, son of king Robert the Bruce (qv), lord of Liddesdale
Brumwell, James Teasdale (c.1827-18xx), MRCS, LLAC, surgeon and general practitioner, born in Kendal, aged 34 in 1851, Lowther Street, Kendal (1849, 1858) and 71 Stricklandgate (1873), wife Jane (born at Bootle, Cumberland, aged 35 in 1851), 2 sons (George, aged 4, and James, aged 2 in 1851), dau Jane Elizabeth (born 29 October and bapt 22 November 1850), twins (born 26 December 1852 and bapt 2 February 1853), twins again (born 1 June and bapt 4 June 1855), and dau (born 13 April and bapt 9 July 1858), used to drive his four-wheeled dogcart across river Kent at Kirkland to keep the ford open (MOK, 132); ? his son George William Brumwell, LRCP Edin, hon surgeon to Memorial Hospital, Kendal (1906)
Brumwell, Elizabeth and Mary, sisters??, teachers, ran academy in Kent Street (1849, 1851), at 93 Stricklandgate, Kendal (1861 census)
Brumwell, William Cownley, grocer, Highgate, Kendal; Frances and Mary Brumwell, milliners and dress makers, Highgate (1829)
Brunlees, Sir James (1816-1892; ODNB), civil engineer, bridge, viaduct and pier designer, born at Kelso, 5 January 1816
Brunner, William [c.1829-1912] itinerant photographer; CWAAS 2017, 177
Brunskill family; CW2 iii 366
Brunskill, Anthony (18xx-1894), collector of folk-lore in Crosby Garrett, died in August 1894
Brunskill, Joseph [1826-1903], cleric, headmaster and diarist, trained at St Bees college, held livings in Cumbria from 1853-1903, rector of Threlkeld 1870-1893, John Breay, A Fell-side Parson, 1990; John Breay ed. Joseph Brunskill and his Diaries, Canterbury Press, Norwich,1995, review CWAAS newsletter, 1995 or 6, (diary 1849-1854 in CRO, WDX 214/acc.2177; family papers WDX 848
Brunskill, Richard (18xx-18xx) and John William (18xx-18xx), photographic artists, of Sedbergh, purchased parcel of land on Castle Park Road, Kendal, from Isaac Whitwell (qv) on 15 February 1868 and later (when of Sedbergh and of Bowness) sold it to Thomas Baron, draper and reedmaker, of Kendal, 1 March 1873 (deeds in CRO, WD/RG/acc.1210), of Bowness (1885)
Brunskill, Richard and John William (1820s-19xx), photographers, brothers born in Sedbergh, moved to Bowness in early 1860s and took cottage at Matson Ground, working from ‘Brunskills’ Wood-shed’ studio, later of North Terrace, Bowness, took on Henry Herbert from Durham in 1886, business ceased trading in 1910 (large collection of 17,800 glass portrait plates in Armitt Museum and Library: Still Lives exhibition in Summer 2017)
Brunskill, Ronald William (1929-2015), OBE, FSA, MA, PhD, ARIBA, architect and historian, born 3 January 1929, died 9 October 2015, reader in architectural history, Reading university and author of books on Lakeland vernacular architecture; CWAAS 150th volume, 303ff; obit. CW3 xviii 1-2
Brunskill, Stephen (1748-1836), Methodist local preacher, 62 years ministry, of Orton, despite several visits by John Wesley in 1753 and later, no attempt made to establish Wesleyan Methodist Society in Kendal until his preaching from steps of old playhouse in Market Place in 1787, Methodists then rented old playhouse as a meeting room until purchasing it for £89 in 1795, attending “Arian chapel” in morning and heard one of Countess of Huntingdon’s preachers in afternoon, later at Sand Area, Kendal, believed to have lived at Owlet Ash, Milnthorpe in 1809 (copy of account of Life of Stephen Brunskill of Orton (1837) in CRO, WDY 596)
Brunskill, Stephen (fl.1860s), JP, corn merchant, son of John Brunskill, of Lambrigg Foot, near Kendal, cousin of John Hewetson Wilson (qv), who apptd him his executor (with R W Buckley, qv) in will of 8 July 1862, and left £500 as long as he was his agent at time of his death, corn, cattle cake and manure merchant, of Exchange Chambers, Highgate, Kendal, and of Hill Top, New Hutton (1885, but gone by 1894), member of council of Cumberland & Westmorland Agricultural Society (1868), qual as JP Westmorland (23 May 1868)
Brus, see Bruce
Brus, Peter de (fl.1246-1260), baron, son of Peter de Brus and Helwise, er sister of William de Lancaster (qv), Baron of Kendal, issued charter of confirmation to free burgesses of Kendal in 1246x1260 (printed in CW2, xix, 113-117)
Bryan, Revd Philip (19xx-201x), clergyman, Vicar of St Bees and Chaplain to St Bees School 1977-2006
Bryce, John (1832-1896), company secretary, born in 1832, son of James Bryce (decd by 1869), working in office of Alex Cowan & Sons, papermakers, Penicuik, near Edinburgh, when he joined James Cropper & Co Ltd, as a manager at Burneside in 1852, apptd a partner in 1859, Company Secretary 1852-1896, took practical interest in welfare of workers, left money in will to establish an Institute with library, reading room, billiard room and hall for use of parish (designed by J F Curwen), also left two bursaries for school, etc, built Gowan Lea (now Melmore) 1875, one of Conservators for Westmorland for Kent, Bela, Winster, Leven & Duddon Fishery District (1894), marr. Helen Nelson White, no issue (his sister Lucy was wife of Thomas Jones (qv), schoolmaster and author of History of Burneside (1912)), died at Gowan Lea, Burneside, aged 63, and buried in Burneside churchyard, 28 March 1896 (JC&Co)
Brydson, Arthur Paul (formerly Bridson) (1859-1922), MA, JP, antiquary, born 27 September 1859, elder son of J R Bridson (qv), educ Harrow and Magdalen College, Oxford (MA), marr (26 September 1889) Catherine Day (died 2 June 1944), dau of Matthew Benson Harrison (qv), of Leigh House, Datchet, and heiress to Water Park, on south-east shore of Coniston, under will of her aunt Dora, wife of John Bolland and dau of Benson Harrison (qv), of Scale How, Ambleside and Water Park, and his wife Dorothy Wordsworth, 1 son and 1 dau, changed his name to Brydson after death of his father by Deed Poll, 26 December 1901, former Captain, Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry, author of Some Records of Two Lakeland Townships (Blawith and Nibthwaite) (Ulverston, 1908), chiefly from original documents, which he consulted himself in PRO and BM, London, and Sidelights on Mediaeval Windermere, with illustrations drawn by his brother, Captain Bridson, RN (Kendal, 1911), as well as three articles in Transactions, member of CWAAS from 1908, and subscriber to its record publication fund, member of committee for church inventories and contributed schedules for rural deanery of Dalton, friend of Alfred Fell (qv), also active in public work as member of Ulverston RDC and Board of Guardians, Kent etc Fishery Conservators, and North Lonsdale Unionist Association, JP for cos Westmorland and Lancashire, of Water Park, High Nibthwaite, Ulverston, where he died 25 January 1922, aged 62 (CW2, xxii, 468); his son, Paul Reginald Benson Brydson, of Water Park, born 7 June 1892, buried at Colton, 25 May 1977, aged 84
Brymer, Jack [1915-2003; ODNB], clarinettist, performed at Rosehill theatre c.1990
Bubb, Capt Jeremiah (d.1692) governor of Carlisle castle and MP for Carlisle, his son Jeremiah was an apothecary in Carlisle then Weymouth, son George (1691-1762) MP 1716-1761, lord lieutenant Somerset, treasurer of the Navy, cr baron Melcombe of Melcombe Regis d.s.p.
Buccleuch, duke of, see Montagu-Douglas-Scott
Buchanan, Revd George (d.1665), MA, clergyman, Vicar of Kirkby Lonsdale 1660-1661, then collated by bishop of Carlisle to vicarage of Stanwix, to which he was instituted on 24 April 1661, died there in December 1665; his eldest son, James Buchanan, becoming headmaster of Sedbergh School 1657-1662 (CW2, xxix, 186)
Buchanan, Sir George Seaton (1869-1936), physician and advocate for public health regulation, the son of Sir George Buchanan MD, he married Rhoda Agnes Atkinson the daughter of Thomas Atkinson of Plumgarths, near Kendal, established the Health Organisation for the League of Nations; Royal College of Physicians website
Buchanan, Jim (c.1943-2010), council leader and veterinary surgeon, assistant to Tom Wolfe, veterinary surgeon, at Aspatria from c.1970, later took over practice, marr Fiona, 2 sons (Ian and Stuart), Cumbria County Councillor for Aspatria and Wharrels from 19xx, Leader of Cumbria County Council since 2008, but had announced on 22 March 2010 his decision to stand down on 22 April because of ill health, but died at home, 8 April 2010, aged 67
Buck, Nathaniel see Buck, Samuel
Buck, Samuel (1696-1779) and his brother Nathaniel (d.1759-1774), topographical printmakers, born in Yorkshire, in a period of 34 years they produced more than 400 detailed drawings of monasteries, castles et al which were reproduced as engravings, collectively known as ‘Buck’s Antiquities’, these include quite a number of Cumbrian castles including Carlisle, Naworth, Scaleby, Kendal, Appleby, Cockermouth, Egremont, Millom and Rose, examples are in the Jackson collection in Carlisle Library, intriguingly, their 1727 print of Gleaston Castle has a far less precise technique, suggesting that this is an early work or a forgery; their joint portraits by Highmore were engraved (NPG) and bear adulatory lines including the notion that by drawing old ruins, they were in a sense preserving them for posterity saying that the castles and churches had thus been: ‘Snatched from the Inexorable Jaws of Time’, in a sense anticipating Ruskin
Buckham, Mr, ran a coffee house in Whitehaven, in late 18thc he kept a book for the subscriptions for the new Dispensary, meetings for the Dispensary also held on his premises; Sydney, biog of Dr Joshua Dixon, 2009
Buckle, Sir Cuthbert (c.1533-1594), Lord Mayor of London, born c.1533 in parish of Brough, son of Christopher Buckle, of Brough-under-Stainmore, marr 1st Joan, 1 son (John, d. young), marr 2nd Elizabeth, dau of Thomas Marston, merchant, of London, 1 son (Sir Christopher Buckle), vintner, citizen and Alderman of City of London, Sheriff in 1582, Lord Mayor in 1593-94, lived in Mark Lane, owned property in parishes of St Mary-at-Hill and St Dunstan-in-the-East, built bridge over Augill beck in 1593 (“Buckle Bridge”), left annuity of £8, chargeable on Spittle estate, towards maintenance of schoolmaster at Stainmore in his will, contested by his heir-at-law, but decree in favour of school made in 1600, died in Banstead, Surrey in 1594 (pedigrees in Buckle MSS 19-25 in West Sussex RO; N&B, 575)
Buckle, Christopher Richard Sandford (Dicky) (1916-2001), ballet critic, son of Lt Col Christopher G Buckle DSO MC who died in 1918 when his son was two, brought up by his mother Rose Sandford at Old Cottage,Warcop, she was descended from several aristocratic families, educated Marlborough and Balliol Coll Oxford, then at Heatherleys where he studied set design but soon shifted his focus to ballet, his mother wanted him to be a banker, Scots Guards 2nd WW, established the magazine Ballet in 1939 for which he wrote much of the copy, became the ballet critic on the Observer, published Nijinski (1971) and Diaghilev (1979), regularly visited Warcop, wrote several volumes of autobiography; obit Guardian 19 Dec 2002
Buckley, Abigail Jackson (nee Jackson) [d.1763], heiress, of Kirkby Lonsdale, perhaps daughter of the Rev Leonard Jackson [1650-1726], held estates in Cumberland, Yorkshire, Lancashire and co. Dublin, m. 1st Mr Buckley, perhaps an Irishman, m. 2nd 1737 Sir Oliver Crofton 5th Bt [d.1780], owned Jackson Hall, KL
Buckley, F.W. [fl.1860s], chief supporter of the Staveley Gasworks
Buckley, Norman H (d.1974), MBE, world speed record holder, Union Internationale Motonautique, former Commodore of Windermere Motor Boat Racing Club, tenant (with brother Kenneth) of Low Wood, Windermere 1952-1958 and purchased freehold, 18 July 1958, bought “Crag Wood” on lakeside in 1948, son of Robert Buckley, solicitors, Manchester; Mrs B Buckley died in 1981; friend of Donald Campbell qv; owner of Miss Windermere IV; owned Low Wood Hotel
Buckley, Miss, artist, sister of Sydney Buckley
Buckley, Richard Wilson (18xx-1875), barrister and benefactor, born at Runcorn, yr son of Samuel Buckley (died intestate, 11 July 1861, letters of admon granted to RWB, 7 January 1862), excise officer, of Liverpool, and late of Albert Place, Kensington, co Middlesex, and his wife Elizabeth, dau of Thomas Wilson (d.1844/45), of Boughton, near Chester, and nephew of John Hewetson Wilson (qv), whose lands in Westmorland and house in Sussex he inherited on his death in 1862, lived in London (4 Albert Place, Kensington, with chambers at 50 Lincoln’s Inn Fields) or at The Grange, Worth, Sussex, but also built himself house at Browfoot, Staveley, which he visited regularly, took greater interest in estate than his uncle, gave land, money, advice and leadership to church and community in Staveley, helped reorganise school, helped set up Staveley Gas Company (1862/5), Staveley Building Society and Staveley Fire Brigade, rebuilt farmhouses on estate and extended The Abbey into a gentleman’s residence (let out to Daniel Harrison, qv), final gift of buildings for Staveley Working Men’s Institute (opened in September 1876 as his memorial), died without issue in 1875, will dated 10 November 1875, with codicil of 17 December, leaving his estate to his sister, Sarah Martha (two years younger), wife of Edward Johnson (qv), and after both their deaths in 1890, divided between their children, his (RWB’s) nephews and nieces (photograph presented to Staveley Institute in 1892) (CRO, WDX 572; LVTT, 14-15)
Buckley, Sydney (b.1899), architect, artist and writer, born Oldham, taught at Oldham Art College, later lived Grange over Sands, established a studio in Cartmel Gatehouse, unm. lived with his sister, died Cartmel, renowned etcher and engraver, painter of landscapes and architectural subjects, member of Lake Artists, work includes Holker Hall (c.1970)
Budden, John (1939-2022), teacher, journalist and broadcaster, born Kent, taught English, moved to Cumberland to teach, began his journalism in tandem with a school timetable, racing columnist on the Cumberland News from 1966, regularly attended all the northern racecourses, also worked for Sporting Life, friend of the jockey and Greystoke trainer Gordon W Richards (1930-1998) (qv), a raconteur, ‘a lovely man – whatever he did, he did well’, wife Jackie died 2021, two sons, Kelso race named after him; C News 2 September 2022
Budden, L (18xx-19xx), BA, MusB, Headmaster of Appleby Grammar School 1932-1943
Buddicom, Revd Robert (18xx-18xx), clergyman and college head, vicar of St Bees and Principal of St Bees Theological College 1840-1846
Budworth, Joseph, (qv) Palmer
Budworth, Joseph (c.1753-1815), FSA, early tourist (‘The Rambler’), Captain, born c.1753, from Manchester, spent most of his life soldiering, lost an arm at Siege of Gibraltar in 17xx, visit to Lakes in 1792, aged 39, constantly reminiscing about his army days and old comrades, his reactions to the Lakes are fresh and spontaneous (eg roads in Kendal so ill-paved that he could mind nothing but his feet), no stock epithets, took particular relish in the food on his travels, had lively interest in local people, esp landlords of inns, and gathered local gossip, visited Peter Crosthwaite’s museum at Keswick (and considered his shilling well spent), first to describe Mary Robinson (qv), dau of landlord of Fish Inn, Buttermere, in 1792 and brought her to public notice, and called again at Fish Inn on his second visit in January 1798 (account in GM), one of first to climb fells and not just stay at lake level, climbing in Langdale Pikes on 7 November 1797, accompanied by Paul Postlethwaite, a local 15 year old shepherd boy, when he became crag-fast on Pavey Ark (a precipitous rock face above Stickle Tarn), possibly Jack’s Rake, but led to safety by the boy, described in his A Fortnight’s Ramble to the Lakes in Westmorland, Lancashire and Cumberland by a Rambler (1792) (with later editions in 1795 and 1810) (The Lakers, 68-73, 95)
Bueth (fl.early 11thc), Saxon earl, built Bueth’s castle, now Bewcastle, father or forbear of Gilles (qv)
‘Buffalo Bill’ (William Frederick Cody), soldier, buffalo Hunter and showman, established his Wild West Show in 1872 with daredevil riding, native Americans and re-enactments, he made a fortune taking the performance all over the USA and then Europe, came to Catlisle in 1904
Bulley, Right Revd Sydney Cyril (1907-1989), MA, Bishop of Carlisle, born 12 June 1907, 2nd son of Jethro Bulley, Newton Abbot, Devon, educ Newton Abbot Grammar School and St Chads college, University of Durham (Van Mildert scholar 1932, BA 1932, Dip Th 1933, MA 1936), ordained d 1933 and p 1934, Curate of Newark Parish Church 1933-1942, Director of Religious Education, Dio Southwell 1936-1942, Vicar of St Andrew’s, Worksop 1942-1946, Chaplain to High Sheriff of Notts 1943, Hon Canon of Southwell Minster 1945, Vicar and Rural Dean of Mansfield 1946-1951, Proctor in Convocation of York 1946-1951, Vicar of Ambleside with Rydal 1951-1959, Archdeacon of Westmorland and Director of Religious Education, Dio Carlisle 1951-1958, Archdeacon of Westmorland and Furness 1959-1966, Hon Canon of Carlisle Cathedral 1951-1966, Examining Chaplain to Bishop of Carlisle 1952-1966, Suffragan Bishop of Penrith (consecr in York Minster, 24 February 1959) 1959-1966, chairman of governors of Casterton School 1962-1972 (succ Mr Partridge, who died in 1962 after 25 years as chairman), apptd a Governor (LEA) of Charlotte Mason College, Ambleside in 1960 (accepting with note that he was just retiring as a governor of Ripon Training College, also of Derby College), translated to Carlisle in 1966, resigned in 1972, went out to Australia for two years after retiring as Chaplain nd Tutor, All Saints’ College, Bathurst, NSW 1973-1975, Hon Asst Bishop, Dio Oxford from 1975, Chairman: Southwell Dio Education Committee 1942-1951, Worksop Youth Committee 1943-1945, Mansfield Youth Committee 1947-1948, Member: Southwell Dio Board of Finance 1942-1951, Central Council of the Church for Education 1951-1954, Westmorland Education Committee 1951-1964, Governor: Derby Training College 1938-1951, Ripon Training College 1953-1958, Lancaster College of Education 1963-1969, Chairman of Governors: Casterton School 1962-1972, St Chad’s College, Durham University 1969-1983 (Hon Fellow 1987), and St Mary’s School, Wantage 1979-1984, Chaplain to Queen 1955-1959, Hon DD Dunelm 1972, autobiography The Glass of Time (1981), also author of Faith, Fire and Fun (verse) (1985) and Glimpses of the Divine (1987), Bishop Bulley Barn at Rydal Hall, of Fox How, Ambleside (when Bishop of Penrith), retired to The Manor, Loncot, Faringdon, Oxon (1975), then at 3 Upper Cross Lane, East Hagbourne, Didcot (1987), unmarried, died 20 November 1989; his autobiography, The Glass of Time; R.Watson, Mitred Men of Cumbria
Bullock, Charles (24 February 1829 - 23 September 1911), clergyman, one of six children of a grocer, after attending St Bees Anglican theological college he was ordained in 1855, to the curacy of Rotherham, in 1856, to the curacy of Ripley, Harrogate, and afterwards to Christ Church, Luton, in 1859-60 he became, first, curate, then rector, of St. Nicholas', Worcester, where he was responsible for the restoration of the church and the building of a rectory house, instituted ‘Robin dinners’ for poor children at Christmas, a successful author of ecclesiastical popular literature, in 1874 he removed to Blackheath, to concentrate on writing and the editorship of various magazines , including the evangelical parish-magazine inset Home Words from 1871 to 1902, in recognition of his services to ecclesiastical literature, the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred on him the degree of B.D.; Thompson Cooper, ed. "BULLOCK, The Rev. Charles, B.D." Men of the time: a dictionary of contemporaries, containing biographical notices of eminent characters of both sexes (11 ed. 1884), Jane Platt, Subscribing to Faith? The Anglican Parish Magazine 1859-1929 (2015); The Annual Register; The Literary Yearbook; other publications listed on Wikipedia require checking
Bullough family, ran a department store in Carlisle in Castle St for 100 years, est present building [later Hoopers] in 1910; founder ? John Bullough, sons Michael and Malcolm
Bulman, Cecil George (18xx-1969), chairman of Westmorland Valuation Panel, WCC (1966), member of CWAAS from 1946, member of council 1948-1966, marr, dau (Shelagh Munro, wife of Sir Joseph Gurney Pease, Bt, qv), of 270 London Road, Harraby, Carlisle, died c.1969
Bulman, Henry (1846-1916), grocer, of Armathwaite, prominent in congregation of Armathwaite Methodist Chapel (formerly United Methodist, known locally as ‘Bulman’s Chapel’), which was opened on 26 November 1876 (CRO, DFCM 1/3)
Bulmer, TF, writer and maker of directories, History, Topography and Directory of Furness and Cartmel undated, etc
Bulteel, Hon Mary (1832-1916), lady in waiting to Victoria, dau of John Crocker Bulteel and granddaughter of the 2nd earl Grey, married Victoria’s private secretary Gen Henry Ponsonby (qv), friend of George Eliot
Bunbury, Sir Henry Edward 7th bt FSA (1778-1860; ODNB), army officer, son of the caricaturist Henry William Bunbury (qv) and nephew of Sir Charles the 6th bart, educ Westminster, joined Coldstream Guards 1795, quartermaster general 1805, distinguished himself in 1806 at the battle of Maida, in Calabria, MP, under-secretary of war 1809-16, major general, KCB, conveyed to Napoleon the sentence of deportation to St Helena in 1815, resigned 1821 on death of his uncle, marr 1) Louisa the sister of Charles James Fox and 2) Emily Napier granddaughter of 2nd duke of Richmond, publ The Great War with France (1854); two of his three sons in ODNB, Sir Charles, a naturalist and diarist; Edward, an archaeologist and author and Henry William St Pierre, an explorer, diarist and observer of Aboriginal customs in Australia
Bunbury, Sarah (nee Lennox) (1745-1826; ODNB), dau of the 2nd duke of Lennox and a descendant of Charles II and his mistress Louise de Kerouaille, much admired at court, she was a bridesmaid to Queen Charlotte and marr Sir Charles Bunbury 6th bt, the brother of William Henry Bunbury (qv), she has been described as ‘the most notorious’ of the Lennox sisters, she divorced Sir Charles in 1776 and in his death having no male heir, the baronetcy passed to William Henry Bunbury’s son Henry, who became the 7th bart
Bunbury, William Henry, (1750-1811; ODNB) artist and caricaturist, b. Manor House, Mildenhall, Suffolk, younger son of the Rev Sir William Bunbury 5th baronet of Mildenhall, Norfolk and his wife Eleanor Graham, dau of Col Vere Graham of Wix Abbey, Essex, ed Westminster and St Catherine’s Cambridge, popular in London as ‘the fourth man of contemporary caricature’ after the trio Rowlandson, Gillray and Cruikshank, specialised in riding subjects, m. Catherine Horneck, dau of Capt Kane William Horneck RE in 1771, their son Henry [1778-1860; ODNB] became a Lt Gen and the 7th baronet, moved to the Lake District as it was cheaper than London, here he painted several works in oils incl Rustics in a Landscape [another priv coll Herefordshire], died Keswick; Marshall Hall, 12; Hugh Belsey ex catalogue; Karen Marie Roche, Picturing an Englishman: The Art of Henry William Bunbury 1770-1787, PhD thesis, 2008, Exeter
Bundy, Sidney Percival (1909-2002), headmaster, born Carisbrook, Isle of Wight, son of Sidney Albert Bundy (1880-1968) engineering fitter and his wife Mabel Clara Whiston, his parents moved to Barrow before 1939 where his father worked in Vickers and the family lived on Walney Island, 2nd WW in RN, marr Phyllis Penney (b.1913), headmaster 1947-1970 at St Paul’s C of E primary school, Barrow, closely involved in the move from the Victorian school building on Wheatclose Rd to two new classrooms on Hawcoat Lane (opened c.1958 by Viscount Knollys, chairman of Vickers) and by 1960 four classrooms of the new school, vice chairman PCC 1973-1993, active in the parish and deputy churchwarden 1985-1993, wrote St Paul’s Parish of Newbarns and Hawcoat 1843-1993: The History of St Paul’s Church and St Paul’s School (c.1990), involved in local musicals and the pageant held in the rugby field, keen folk dancer beyond his 90th birthday, enthusiastic gardener who welcomed visitors to open garden events at 74, Fairfield Lane, at some point but not in the war he lost an eye (this was fascinating to his pupils); ancestry.co.uk; personal memories of pupils
Bunney, Edith Adelaide (nee Hewetson) (1868-1948), artist and photographer, born in 1868, yr dau of John Hewetson (qv), of Ravenstonedale, studied in London at P H Calderon’s Art Studio, Slade Fine Art School, Royal Academy Schools, and also in Paris, marr (1899) Michael Frank Wharlton Bunney (1873-1927), MBE, FRIBA, 3rd son of John Wharlton Bunney (1828-1882) and Elizabeth (nee Fallon) (1838-1934), 1 son (Michael J H, qv), talented painter in oils, assisted husband with his photographic record of Georgian buildings for Horace Field, FRIBA, also took architectural and family photographs in Ravenstonedale with a Frena detective camera (ex inf Sally Bunney)
Bunney, Michael John Hewetson (1907-1997), MA, FRIBA, architect, born in Bolton House, Hampstead, 1907, son and only child of Michael Frank Wharlton Bunney and of Edith Adelaide Hewetson (qv), of Street and Hwith, Ravenstonedale, educ University College School, Hampstead, Uppingham School, and Queen’s College, Oxford (president of OU Archaeological Society in 1929), surveyed old domestic architecture of Oxford between 1928 and 1935 (report and photographs with National Monuments Record Centre), attended Architectural Association in Bedford Square, London 1930-1934 (Hons Dip with Dist), marr (1935) Charlotte qv only dau and eldest child of Edward Hodson Gray, 1 son and 1 dau, lived at Downshire Hill, London until outbreak of WW2, during which he served in RAF, de-mobbed and went to Norfolk as sort of partner with Edward Boardman & Son for 2 and half years, worked on clothing factory for F W Harmer & Co, started war-damaged rebuilding job in Croydon for private client, met C B Martindale (qv), of Carlisle, who asked them to start designing houses for Glebe scheme at Wetheral and work on vicarage schemes, opened Kendal office in Lowther Street in 1949, worked on plans for Crosscrake, St John’s Carlisle and Holm Cultram vicarages, but association with Martindale fell through in 195x, then worked on alterations and conversions to existing or old buildings, farm improvement schemes (under Hill Farming Act), Kendal Methodist Church, etc in 1950s before Abbot Hall ^^^^ member of council, CWAAS 1973- (ex inf Sally Bunney; CRO, WD/Hew)
Bunney, Charlotte (nee Gray) (1910-1995), ARIBA, architect, born in Pretoria, South Africa, 1910, only dau and eldest child of Edward Hodson Gray
Buntin, Tom Fletcher (1910-1993), farmer, born at Pye Howe in Great Langdale, 15 February 1910, yr son and yst of six children of John Fletcher Buntin (only son of John Buntin, farmer, of Robinson Place and Pye Howe, educ St Bees School, contributed articles to Lake District Herald under name of Robin Ghyll, kept diaries and scrapbooks, marr (1896) Hannah, dau of John and Jane Stables, of Walthwaite in Chapel Stile, died in 1969, aged 95), author of Life in Langdale: the Memoirs of a Lakeland farmer (Kendal, 1993), of Loughrigg Fold, died 9 December 1993
Burgess, John (1838-1903), newspaper editor, joined company in 1867, Editor of Carlisle Patriot [first issue on 3 June 1815] and of East Cumberland News 1868-1903
Burgess, Sir John Lawie (1912-1987), OBE, TD, DL, JP, newspaper proprietor and editor, born 17 November 1912, son of R N Burgess (qv), educ Trinity College, Glenalmond, served WW2 with Border Regt (CO 4th Bn Chindit campaign, Burma 1942-1944, despatches, OBE) in France, Middle East, Tobruk, Syria, India and Burma, Hon Col, 4th Bn, The Border Regt 1955-1968, chairman of Reuters Ltd 1959-1968, chairman of Press Association 1954-1955 (and a director 1950-1957), editor-in-chief and chairman of Cumberland Newspapers Group Ltd from 1945, starting an evening paper News and Star in Carlisle in 1967, also acquired The Whitehaven News (est 1852), Times and Star in 1967, Hexham Courant (est 1864) and The Mail at Barrow (est 1898), and later Eskdale and Liddesdale Advertiser at Langholm (est 1848), member of council, Newspaper Society 1947-1982, Commonwealth Press Union, chairman of Border Television Ltd 1960-1981, vice-chairman 1981-1982, former chairman of Cumbria Branch of the Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen’s Association, DL Cumberland 1955, High Sheriff of Cumberland 1969-70, JP City of Carlisle 1952-1982, knighted 1972, marr (1948) Alice Elizabeth, dau of F E Gilleron, of Elgin, 2 sons (Robin qv and Charles) and 1 dau, formerly of the Old Hall, Rockcliffe, later of The Limes, Cavendish Terrace, Stanwix, Carlisle, died 10 February 1987, aged 74; obit NewYork Times 12 Feb 1987
Burgess, Robert Lawie Frederick (Robin) (1950-2019), OBE, DL, newspaper proprietor, eldest son of Sir John Burgess (qv), marr, High Sheriff of Cumbria 2006-2007, started a magazines division with Cumbria Life in 1998, sold CN Group to Newsquest Media Group as from 9 March 2018,
Burgess, Robert Nelson (1867-1945), FJI, newspaper proprietor and editor, son of John Burgess (qv), Editor of Carlisle Patriot, changing name to Cumberland News on merger with The East Cumberland News in 1910, and managing director until 1945, founded Cumberland Evening News, President, Newspaper Society 1931-1932, chairman, Press Association 1931, Director, Reuters 1925-1932, marr (19xx) Jean Hope Lawie, of Carlisle, son (Sir John, qv), of Evening Hill, Thursby
Burgess, Thomas (d.1848), iron and brass founder, probably from Annan, set up his foundry in 1824 at the old Cockpit, Lowther St, advert 1825 offers bells and large brass cocks, cast bells for churches at Christ Church, Carlisle, Sebergham, Hayton, Stapleton and Wetheral, in partnership for a time with Thomas Hayton, the partnership was dissolved in 1835, the later works were at Water St, in 1837 he constructed an iron bridge for the railway on Wigton Rd, in the 1830s he stood for the council against Thomas Scarrow but seems to have been unsuccessful, he was succeeded by his former employee Daniel Clark; Perriam, Lowther St, 34; Grace’s Guide
Burgess, William (b.1897), rugby league player, active from the 1910s to the 1930s, captain of England, landlord of the Washington hotel, Roose Rd, Barrow
Burgoyne, General John (1722-1792; ODNB), army officer and playwright, his name was given to several public houses in England, including one at Urswick, by tradition this house was named by a returning soldier who had fought with the general
Burke and Hare, ‘Resurrectionists’, see Hare
Burkett, Mary Elizabeth [1924-2014] OBE, museum director, author, patron and preserver of Isel Hall, born in north east, strong links with her maternal grandparents in Armagh, ed. St Hilds, Durham, taught in several schools and then lectured in art and craft at Charlotte Mason college, Ambleside, travelled in Middle East, appointed assistant curator under Helen Kapp qv at Abbot Hall, became director herself in 1966 and developed the collections holding numerous exhibitions, encouraged local artists, building a formidable network throughout the north west, President, North West Federation of Museums and Art Galleries from February 1975, unwillingly retired aged 60 in 1987, when about to leave on a world cruise she discovered that she had been left Isel Hall by her friend Margaret Austen-Leigh, a cousin of Sir Hilton Lawson qv, the last Isel baronet, spent the rest of her life living there, keeping out the weather and achieving considerable restorations, created a stir when she painted the pele tower pink, played the organ in Isel church, encouraged several creative people to live there including Josephina de Vasconcellos, Edward Hughes qqv, Finbar O’Suillabheain and David Cross, continued to be much involved in artistic and charitable organizations throughout the county, established a Feltmakers organization of which she became president, published a number of books, including The Art of the Feltmaker and others co-written with others on William Green [with David Sloss] and Percy Kelly [with Val Rickerby], and booklets including John Bracken, portrait painter qv, Kurt Schwitters in the Lake District, her large collection of illustrated letters from Percy Kelly were edited by David Cross, much supported by her unpaid secretary Dorathy Morgan, opened the house on Mondays, developing a loyal team of guides, died aged 90, funeral Isel church, buried in the churchyard beside the Austen-Leighs, memorial service in the cathedral with a eulogy by Melvyn Bragg who famously began with the words: “nobody ever said ‘No!’ to Mary Burkett”, volume on her travels, volume of autobiography; obituary by Kate Haste, The Guardian, Friday 5th December 2014; CW3 xv 1
Burn family (fl. 19thc), plantsmen, gardeners and garden designers, of Distington, Cockermouth and Allendale, John (qv), Johnson (qv), Robert Joseph and Peter, a market gardener n Brampton
Burn, Bernard (d.1833), murderee and collier, lived Workington, in Carlisle in October 1833 to enjoy the fair, murdered by Thomas Nicholson, also a collier and three others, arraigned before Lord Lyndhurst at Cumberland Assizes August 1834, found not guilty; Baggaley, Murders in the Lake District, 28-38
Burn, James (1831-1xxx), schoolmaster, son of James Burn, farmer, of Martindale, aged 31 when marr (17 April 1862, at Barton) Mary (23), dau of William Armstrong, farmer, of Martindale, schoolmaster of Martindale School 1860-1875
Burn, John (1743-1802; ODNB), JP, legal editor, born at Orton Hall and bapt, 2 October 1743, only son of Richard Burn (qv), by Anne, his 2nd wife, marr (?), had illegitimate son (Joseph) by Teasdale lady, trained for legal profession but did not practise, produced no original work, but edited, corrected and continued father’s legal writings, published 16th edition of The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer in four volumes in 1788, 17th edition in 1795, which included appendix of all new laws relating to office of JP introduced since outbreak of war with France in February 1793 (incl laws re militia, treatment of aliens and new set of precedents respecting excise laws), and two further editions, also updated father’s New Law Dictionary in 1792, JP for Cumberland and Westmorland, “an able and upright magistrate”, passed over his heir at law (Revd Richard Burn) in favour of his illegitimate son, Joseph (qv), and died at Orton Hall, 20 February 1802, aged 58, and buried in churchyard, 24 February (MI in Orton church)
Burn, John (1844-1917), plantsman, gardener and garden designer, born Cockermouth, son of Robert Joseph Burn master market gardener at the High Nursery, St Helen’s Cockermouth and his wife Frances Adamson, planted trees on the fells from the age of twelve, gardener to Mr Kemp of Birkenhead who was laying out gardens at Keswick, he had great affection for his own work with pine trees at Underscar, then at Greysouthern, marr Barbara Jeffrey of Bedale (Y), in 1871 he was in Lympstone, Devon, then in 1881 a gardener in Saltburn-by-the Sea, he had greater benefit from his contract with nurserymen, including John Harrison at Darlington, Henry May at Bedale, Mr Skerving at Liverpool, Little and Ballantine (qv) at Carlisle and Lucombe Pince at Exeter, in 1881 he was appointed Superintendant of Public Parks, Leicester, he lived in a lodge at Abbey Park and encouraged the annual festivals, here he welcomed the Prince and Princess of Wales when the gardens were opened in 1882, in 1911 he returned to Keswick as a landscape gardener, died and buried Cockermouth; Leicester Evening Mail 13 July 1917; CFHS March 2026
Burn, Johnson (fl.19thc), of Cockermouth uncle of John Burn (qv), innkeeper, gardener, seedsman at Allendale, est the Allendale Flower and Horticultural Show in a pavilion in his pub garden in 1848
Burn, Joseph, formerly Teasdale (1770-1818), merchant, born in 1770, illegitimate son of John Burn (qv), merchant, of Barcelona, Spain, and of St George’s, Bloomsbury, London, was left moiety of manor of Orton on condition that he changed his name to Burn, which he did by Royal Licence in 1802 and obtained grant of arms in 1810, marr Eulalia (died at Bath, 6 May 1813, aged 31), dau of Joseph Vila, of Barcelona, 1 son (Richard, qv) and 1 dau (Sophia, born 19 November 1807 and bapt at Orton, 16 January 1808), died at Barcelona, 12 July 1818, aged 48 (MI in Orton church)
Burn, Peter (1831-1902), poet, draper and Congregationalist, of Brampton, wrote poem ‘The Logic of Crows’ written in the style of the Ingoldsby Legends on occasion of vestry meeting called to consider re-pewing of Brampton church before abolition of church rates in 1868, close friend of the vicar Henry Whitehead, author of Reminiscences of the late Rev Henry Whitehead, a Non Conformist’s Tribute to a Churchman (Carlisle, 1899) (complete revised edition of his Poems, London, 1900); memorial placed on Brampton Moot Hall by the Friends of Peter Burn; Parsons, Brampton, 1996, 56-8
Burn, Revd Richard (1709-1785; ODNB), DCL, JP, BA, clergyman, legal writer and antiquary, born at Winton in parish of Kirkby Stephen, son of Richard Burn, educ Queen’s College, Oxford (matric 1729, BA 1734), marr 1st Eleanor (buried at Orton, 21 October 1739), marr 2nd Anne (died 7 January 1770, aged 73, and buried at Orton, 10 January), 1 son (John, qv), vicar of Orton 1736-1785, DCL Oxford 1762, apptd chancellor of Carlisle diocese on 26 February 1765, JP for Cumberland and Westmorland, with Joseph Nicholson (qv) made use of Machel’s mss for their history, giving receipt for the six volumes to dean and chapter and returning them in 1775, published The History of Cumberland and Westmorland in 1777, his account of the Quakers questioned by G Harrison, brother of Thomas Harrison (qv), the Kendal attorney, who forwarded his letter on 19 April 1778 (CRO, WPR 9/2/1/6), died at Orton, 12 November 1785, aged 75, and buried in churchyard on 15 November (MI in Orton church) (WW, ii, 119-132)
Burn, Dr Richard, chancellor of Carlisle, antiquary; monument Orton [W] Pevsner
Burn, Richard (17xx-1814), clergyman (literatus, i.e. no degree), rector, Kirkandrews-on-Eden with Beaumont, from 1780 until 1814/15, known as ‘the elder’, his son, Richard Burn ‘the younger’ (d. 1846), followed him as rector; CAC(C), DRC1/8, p.87, CCED; Whellan (1860), p. 148; ‘Diaries of Richard Burn, 1780-1814, and Richard Burn, 1815-1846’: CAC(C), DX434/2
Burn, Richard (1811-1898), DL, JP, born 16 November 1811, only son of Joseph Burn (qv), marr (1836) Elizabeth, eldest dau of William Cuthbert, of Beaufront Castle, Hexham, no issue, succ to Orton Hall, High Sheriff of Westmorland 1852, DL and JP, Lieut-Col, Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry Cavalry, Chairman, Westmorland Conservative Association (1880), wrote to Mr Gibson concerning possible division of county association in 1885 (letter of 2 March 1885 in CRO, WD/MG/ box 4), laid foundation stone of new Market House for weekly market of butter and farm produce at Orton on 30 August 1864 (initially started in Assembly Rooms of the ‘Three Tuns Inn’ on 2 August) and formally opened on 31 May 1865, an original member of CWAAS, of Orton Hall, died 1898 s.p.
Burn, Thomas Cuthbert (18xx-19xx), solicitor, of 52 Main Street, Cockermouth, clerk to Cockermouth and Papcastle School Board, and to Cockermouth Burial Board, secretary to Derwent Fishery Board, and to Cockermouth Conservative Association, also Conservative registration agent for borough, of Rosemount, Papcastle (1883, 1894)
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley [1833-1898] Bt., friendly with the 9th earl of Carlisle qv, stayed Naworth castle with the Howard family; designed the stained glass at St Martin’s Brampton, also Jesus Church, Troutbeck and elsewhere; see Penn, Stained Glass in Cumbria; William Morris qv
Burnell, Robert (d.1292; ODNB), Lord Chancellor 1274-1292 and Bishop of Bath & Wells 1275-1292, lord of 82 manors, incl Newton Reigny, which he sold to Hugh Lowther in 1290
Burnet, John (c.1948-2010), local government chief executive, born at South Shields, qualified solicitor, joined Cumbria County Council as senior assistant clerk and deputy county solicitor in 1982, apptd first Director of Economic Development in 1986, responsible for creating Derwent Howe Industrial Estate in Workington and Furness Business Park in Barrow, Chief Executive of Cumbria County Council 1991-1997, dealing with ‘hung’ council for a time, but retiring early after months of ill-health in 1997, business and political columnist for The Cumberland News after retirement, marr Deidre (senior lecturer at Carlisle campus of Northumbria University), until emigrating to Spain, living in Alicante, died in Santa Ana Hospital, Motril, while on holiday in Malaga, 18 Feruary 2010, aged 63; memorial service and ashes scattered at Ettleton cemetery, Newcastleton, 6 March
Burnett, Charles Ridley (18xx-19xx), MA, clergyman, son of Revd George Burnett (qv), educ St John’s College, Oxford (BA 1898, MA 1901), d 1899 and p 1900 (Dur), curate of Byers Green, Spennymoor, Durham 1899-1902 and St George’s, Barrow 1902-1904, SPG College, Trinchinopoly 1905-1907, inc of Holy Trinity, Bombay 1907-1909, missionary at Wei Hai Wei, dio Shantung, China 1911-1927, Furlough 1909-1911 and 1927, organising secretary, Dio Carlisle 1928-1935, vicar of St Paul’s, Carlisle 1928-1932, vicar of Upperby, Carlisle 1932-1938, chaplain of Mental Hospital, Garlands 1933-1938, vicar of Pennington, Ulverston 1938-1943, hon canon of Carlisle Cathedral 1938-1947 and emeritus from 1947, lic to preach, dio Carlisle from 1947, retired to The Patch, Scotby, died by 1957
Burnett, David Ian Ridley (1937-2011), solicitor, born in Carlisle, joined family law firm, wife died in September 2011, 2 sons, buried at St Mary’s church, Beaumont, with later memorial service at Scotby (CN, 06.01.2012)
Burnett, Edward JH, solicitor, founder of the Carlisle firm, Dutch vice consul covering west coast ports in Cumberland, there was at that time a pkaque to this effect on 6, Victoria Place
Burnett, George (18xx-1899), BA, clergyman, educ Trinity College, Dublin (BA 1845, Div Test 1846), d 1850 (Ossory) and p 1851 (Cashel), minister of St James, Birkenhead 1858-1863, vicar of Scotby 1865-1899, marr, 8 sons and 3 daus; James R. Burnett, of The Red Beeches, Scotby, member of CWAAS from 1905 – a son?
Burnett, Frank R., (18xx-1961), schoolmaster, son of Revd George Burnett (qv), was a house master at St Bees School and had house built there before taking over Seascale Prep School from his brother George qv in 19xx, 2 sons (Roger (qv) and Michael (killed in action in WW2)), member of CWAAS from 1937, later of Church Lane, Boot, Holmrook, collapsed and died on Seascale golf course
Burnett, George (18xx-19xx), headmaster and school proprietor, eldest son of Revd George Burnett (qv), founded Seascale Preparatory School in 1897, first purpose-built major building erected by John Laing, then retired and handed over to his yr brother Frank in 19xx, but continued as a master himself, of Lakenhow, Seascale
Burnett, Henry Ridley (18xx-19xx), AMIEE, electrical engineer, pres? son of Revd George Burnett (qv), Borough Electrical Engineer, Barrow-in-Furness, office in Buccleuch Street, of Roman House, Barrow (1909, 1912)
Burnett, Roger Francis (1913-1984), MA, headmaster and school proprietor, er son of Frank R Burnett (qv) and grandson of Revd George Burnett (qv), educ Seascale Prep School, Worksop and St Edmund Hall, Oxford (MA), served WW2 in Intelligence Corps, then returned to take over running of Seascale Preparatory School, trust formed in 1968, but school forced to close in March 1972, marr (195x) Isobel Ellen (late of Boot, Ravenglass and Cleator Moor, died 22 December 2018, aged 97), 1 son (Ridley) and 1 dau (Rowan), died in late October 1984, memorial service and burial of ashes at St Catherine’s church, Boot, Eskdale, 10 November 1984 (WN, 01.11.1984)
Burnett, Revd William Ridley (18xx-19xx), MA, clergyman, son of Revd George Burnett (qv), educ St John’s College, Oxford (BA 1892, MA 1896), d 1895 (Man for Dur) and p 1896 (Dur), Curate of New Seaham, Durham 1895-1900, Curate of Crosthwaite (Cu) 1900-1906, Vicar of Thornthwaite with Braithwaite 1907-1937, TCF 1916-1919, Lic to Offic, Dio Carlisle from 1947, retired to Parkett Hill, Scotby, died by 1957
Burney, Samuel (fl.early 20thc), pit deputy of William Pit, after the William pit disaster of 1910 was awarded the Edward Medal for bravery
Burns, Felix (1863-1920), born Perth, bandmaster Carlisle, married Kate and settled in Carlisle, 12 children many of whom became professional musicians, conducted the Band of the Battalion, Border Regt, involved in the Boer War and the 1st WW, organist, choirmaster and composer of 400 works; Kim Tame, The Life and Work of Felix Burns, Bandmaster, 1923
Burns, Isaac [1869-1946], trades unionist
Burns, John (1782-1834), diarist, born at Hensingham, Whitehaven, in 1782, er son and second of five children of Thomas Burns, labourer, and Ann, of Hensingham, went to sea, on ship off coast of Spain in early 1799 when he was captured, in hands of Spanish by 31 March 1799 with companions in irons, later joined by crew of the Fox, also captured, taken ashore on 13 April 1799 and marched to border with France, narrative in his diary starts from that date detailing his journey through France to Dunkirk, where he sailed for Rye on 8 January 1800, reached Dover on 12 January and sent on to Plymouth on 27-28 January, discharged on 10 February and sailed for Shields, arrived on 26 March and travelled via Newcastle to Carlisle on 28-29 March, Cockermouth on 30 March and reached Whitehaven on 31 March, diary ended at Hensingham, 1 April 1800, death reported in Cumberland Pacquet of 21 March 1834 (Diary Captive of the French in 1799 edited by Jean Ward and Anne Dick, CHS, 1999)
Burns, Richard [1601-1648] ‘Great Richard’, M.P. Carlisle; CW2 lxxxiv
Burns, Robert [1759-1796; ODNB], poet, occasionally visited Carlisle from Dumfris, fined for grazing his horse on The Bitts, Carlisle on 1st June 1787
Burns, William (18xx-19xx), trade unionist, a cooper by trade, who was instrumental in forming a union movement at Gatebeck gunpowder works, later became Secretary of Municipal and General Workers Union ???
Burnyeat, Hildegard (nee Retzloff) (b.1875), born in Germany, daughter of Col Retzloff a Prussian army officer, married William JD Burnyeat (qv), lived Moresby House in 1915, that August accused of signalling to a German U boat which then shelled the toluene plant at Lowca, she was arrested and under the Defence of the Realm Act interned at Aylesbury Prison, her husband died a year later, next accommodated at Harrogate, she later remarried to become Frau Van der Loeff; Whitehaven News 3 May 2012
Burnyeat, John (1631-1690) like John Banks (q.v.) son of a yeoman farmer of Cumberland, travelled to Scotland and Ireland 1658-9, and the American colonies from 1664-1667 and 1670-1674, debated with Roger Williams (New England Firebrand 1670), Burnyeat himself was author of the journal Truth Exalted (1671), wrote four other tracts, George Fox wrote in his preface to Burnyeat’s Journal in Journals of the Lives and Gospel Labours of William Caton and John Burnyeat, 1839, p 143ff: he was a ‘faithful Friend and brother…..(who) endured great troubles, storms and trials in Ireland (having) many disputes with priests and professors…...he was a peacemaker…...(who) travelled through many rivers and desperate bogs……(and sometimes) laid out at nights in Indian houses…..’ Hugh Barbour and Arthur Roberts, Early Quaker Writings, 1973 2nd ed 2002
Burnyeat, William John Dalzell (1874-1916), JP, MA, politician, barrister and company director, born 13 March 1874, eldest son of William Burnyeat (1849-1921), JP, of Millgrove, Moresby, (who was son of William Burnyeat (1819-1874), businessman, of Whitehaven, joining his cousin Tom Dalzell in Liverpool in 1865 in firm of Burnyeat & Dalzell) and his wife Sarah Frances Dalzell, educ Rugby School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford (Exhibitioner), called to bar, Inner Temple 1899 and practised on Northern Circuit, director of a group of enterprises rel to iron industries of West Cumberland, member of several public bodies, magistrate for co Cumberland, Liberal MP for Whitehaven 1906-1910, winning seat from Augustus Helder (qv) in Liberal landslide of 1906, but didn’t defend seat in general election of January 1910, member of CWAAS from 1902, marr (1908) Hildegard Retzlaff, of Friedenau, Berlin (arrested ^^ ?), of Moresby House from 1911, died s.p. and v.p. 8/10 May 1916, aged 42 (CW2, xvi (1916), 310)
Burra family, farmers including Robert [1714-1754] Robert [1741-1823] and Robert [b.1767] both of Roans, Morland
Burra, Edward [1905-1976], artist; had Cumberland ancestors; his gg grandfather William Burra [1802-1880] a magistrate and banker, was the son of Robert Burra [b.1767] above who married Mary Salkeld at Crosby Ravensworth in 1792
Burrell, Edward (c.1794-1837), banker, native of Kendal, banker, of Orrell, near Liverpool, died aged 44 and buried at Kendal, 29 September 1837
Burridge, Tyson H (1937-2018), haulage contractor, est firm with one vehicle based at Mockerkin near Cockermouth, the firm grew, was incorporated in 1991 and eventually absorbed four other haulage firms, it has been based at Distington since 1979, each vehicle has a unique ‘tarnside’ name, an idea which stems from the origin of the firm near Mockerkin tarn, marr Audrey Salkeld, one dau; Times and Star, April 2018
Burrough, E H (Ted) (19xx-19xx), TD, MA, schoolmaster, educ Emmanuel College, Cambridge, appointed Headmaster of Heversham Grammar School in September 1951, outgoing and avuncular, resigned in April 1955 and succ by G L Willatt (qv)
Burrough, Edward (1634-1663), quaker leader, born Underbarrow (W), became a controversialist, met Charles II to discuss the relief from persecution of the Quakers in New England, soon afterwards he was imprisoned in Newgate where he later died
Burrough, Edward (c.1686-1776), clergyman, of Carleton Hall, Holmrook (CW2, lxix, 180-186)
Burrough, Rev Stanley (1725-1807), headmaster Rugby 1759-1778, son of the Rev Edward Burroughs of Drigg, dropped the s at the end of his name, marr Mary Frewen
Burrough, William (d.1759), of Brampton, son of William Burrough of London and his wife Margaret (m.1718), daughter of Thomas Highmore (1692-1780), sergeant painter to William III, Queen Anne and George I, had children including Cdr Charles Burrough RN (1753-1810), present on HMS Russell at Camperdowne in 1797, his great grandson was Admiral Sir Harold Martin Burrough (1888-1977); Hud (C)
Burroughs, Edgar Rice (1875-1950), author of Tarzan of the Apes (1912); see Greystoke
Burrow, Revd Curwen (1706-17xx), BA, clergyman, born at Hutton-in-the-Forest in 1706, son of Revd Joshua Burrow (qv), educ Kirkby Lonsdale and Christ’s College, Cambridge (admitted to scholarship, 16 April 1723, matric 1726, scholar 1727, BA 1729/30), ordained deacon July 1730 and priest September 1737, possibly curate to his cousin, Curwen Hudleston (qv) as Rector of Clifton in 1758 (LRNW, 297)
Burrow, Joseph Ashton (1812-1881), naval chaplain (CW2, lxix, 202)
Burrow, Revd Joshua (1667-17xx), BA, clergyman, born at Nether Kellet, and bapt at Bolton-le-Sands, 28 July 1664 [not 1667], son of Timothy Burrow, husbandman, and nephew of Revd Rowland Burrow (qv), admitted to scholarship to St John’s College, Cambridge, 23 June 1683, BA 1686/7, Rector of Hutton-in-the-Forest 1695-1728 (instituted on 20 May 1695, succ Nicholas Tomlinson, qv) and of Asby 1728-1739, marr (15 April 1706, at Whitehaven/St Bees) Katherine Robertson, ?widow of Ebenezer Robinson (marr 28 March 1699 at Whitehaven/St Bees), dau of Thomas and Joyce Curwen, 1 son (Curwen, qv) (LRNW, 297; ECW, 491)
Burrow, Revd Rowland (c.1641-1707), MA, clergyman, son of Robert Burrow, of Beetham, educ Sedbergh School and St John’s College, Cambridge (admitted in 1657 at sixteen), collated to Clifton as Rector on 7 June 1668 and also instituted to Brougham on presentation by earl of Thanet on 16 March 1680, holding both until his death, signed anti-Jacobite “Association” for protection of William III, 1 August 1696, Chaplain to Earl of Thanet, baptised Brabazon, the son of Alonzo Vere and Lady Kathrine, his wife, dau of late William Earl of Meath, at his own house in Eamont Bridge, par Barton, on 19 May 1699, buried in choir of Clifton church, 26 November 1707 (LRNW, 297, 301; ECW, 1240-41, 1248; SSR, 84)
Burrow, Thomas (1909-1986; ODNB), orientalist, born Leck, Lancashire, son of Joshua, a farmer, ed QE School, Kirkby Lonsdale, and Christ’s Coll Camb, his work includes The Language of the Karosthi, Documents from Chinese Turkestan (1937), based on his PhD, he was assistant keeper of Oriental books and mss at BM 1937-44 (Lawrence Binyon (qv) was there from 1913), professor of Sanskrit at Oxford until 1976, retired, publ The Sanskrit Language (1955) with Murray B Emeneau at Berkeley, publ A Dravidian Etymological Dictionary (1961), FBA 1976, marr Inez Mary Haley in secret
Burrows, Obediah (fl.19thc), landlord, licensee of the Eagle and Child at Heversham, in 1830 he bought the sign of the Ring o’ Bells [at Kendal ?] and used it as a draught screen, later lived at Heversham Cottage
Burscough, Robert (1650/1-1709; ODNB), clergyman, son of Thomas Burscough of Cartmel, educ Queen’s Coll Oxford, presented to vicarage of Totnes by Charles II, wrote A Treatise of Church Government (1692) in response to Richard Burthogge (bap 1638-1705; ODNB) who had pub The Nature of Church Government (1692), this was followed by his A Discourse of Schism (1699), elected prebend of Exeter 1701, archdeacon of Barnstable 1703, buried at Bath, described by the antiquary Anthony Wood (1632-95) as ‘one of the most truly ingenious, learned and pious of all the ministers in the world’ (ODNB)
Burton, Miss EF, contributor to the OED, daughter of the chancellor of Carlisle, lived at St Nicholas
Burton, Canon Charles James (1791-1887), clergyman, son of Edmund Burton of Cliburn and Temple Sowerby, chancellor of Carlisle; Hud (W)
Burton, Emanuel (1764-1830), clock and watch maker, born in Fish Market, Kendal, 1764, 3rd son of Emanuel Burton and Deborah Lancaster, marr (1786) Margaret Newby, 1 son and ?, Burgess of Kendal, of Finkle Street, “a respected townsman and deservedly esteemed as an upright character” (WG), died aged 65 and buried at Kendal, 18 February 1830 (The Burton Family of Clockmakers in CW2, lxxxi, 83-91)
Burton, J., clockmaker, Backbarrow; CW2 lxiv 391
Burton, Keith (fl.20thc) , philatelist and businessman, lived on the Wirral, established North West Philatelic Society in West Kirkby, retired to Lorton living at High Barn and later at Sca Fell, a large Victorian house, marr Marian, 2 daus
Burton, Myles Theodore (17xx-18xx), banker, built Fair View, Ulverston in early 19th century, with conservatories and garden terraces with statues, marr ?, only child Elizabeth (died 1872) marr Charles Storr Kennedy (qv), with house passing to Kennedy family of Stone Cross
Burton, Thomas (d.1661; ODNB), MP and diarist, of Brampton Hall (W)
Burton, Thomas (c.1575-16xx), MA, protégé of Dudleys of Yanwath, native of Cumberland, matric Queen’s College, Oxford 10 November 1592, aged 17, entd Lent term 1592/3, admitted St Antony Exhibitioner of Oriel, 16 June 1595 on nomination of Edmund Dudley (qv), one of nine elected “paupers pueri” of Queen’s College, 20 December 1595, and admitted “in perpetuum scholarem” (fellow) with six others on 1 March 1602/3, BA 24 April 1599, MA 30 June 1602, treasurer 1606-07, and fellow until 1608, asked for his opinion on legality of marriage with the cousin german of a deceased wife in letter of 13 February 1619/20 from John Dudley (qv) (FiO, 338-339)
Burton, Sir Thomas (fl.mid 17thc), posed as a Roundhead, the better to support the king is he the same man as the above ?]
Busfeild, William (18xx-18xx), JP, of Morland Hall (1885) let from Revd F H Atkinson (qv), JP Westmorland (qualif 22 October 1875)
Bush, James (1791-1849), clergyman, father of James and Paul Bush (qqv), Lord Byron’s fag at Harrow; friend of the poet, Southey (qv), educ Oriel Coll., Oxford, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1816, curate, Crosthwaite, 1835, curate, Plumbland, 1840-49, rector and patron, South Luffenham (Rutland), 1828-49, author of The Choice: or, Lines on the Beatitudes (1841): OAD; Harvard Univ. Library: Benjamin Bailey’s Scrapbook, 1791-1853, 30, British Magazine, 1836, p. 104; CJ, 1 May, 1841, Spectator, 22. Dec. 1849; M.K. Dauglish, P.K. Stephenson (eds) Harrow School Register, 1800-1911 (3rd edition, 1911; CFH p. 48
Bush, James (1817-1889), clergyman, son of James Bush (1791-1849) (qv), educ St Mary Hall, Oxford, B.A. 1846, M.A. 1848, curate, Wythburn, 1846, curate, Threlkeld, 1847, curate, Ousby, 1848, rector, Ormside, 1851, rector, Ousby, 1854-76; CAC(C) DRC1/9, pp. 249, 415 and DRC1/10, p. 22; OAD; CFH, p. 48; Margaret Armstrong (ed.), Thirlmere across the Bridges to Chapel, 1849-52, from the Diary of Revd Basil R. Lawson, Curate of Wythburn (Keswick, 1989), p. 14 (the three precarious and ancient packhorse bridges across the valley at Thirlmere were drowned when the valley was inundated by Manchester waterworks; they appear in a print Thirlmere Looking North by Thomas Allom)
Bush, Paul (1822-1904), clergyman, son of James Bush (1791-1849) (qv), educ St Mary Hall, Oxford, B.A.1843, M.A.1847, curate, St John’s-in-the-Vale, 1846, rector, Duloe (near Liskeard, Cornwall), 1850, vicar, Herodsfoot (also near Liskeard), 1878-82, hon. canon, Truro, 1882; CAC(C) DRC1/9, p. 415; CAD; Harvard Univ. Library: Benjamin Bailey’s Scrapbook, 1791-1853, pp. 20-21
Bushby, the Rev Austin (1755-1819), son of Thomas Bushby (1716-1792) of Greystoke, 2nd master Kepier School, Houghton le Spring, later of Harthill (Y) and rector of Oxhill, Warwicks, retired to Greystoke, his brother Thomas was a mariner who died on the Guinea coast in 1764; Hud (C)
Bushby, Sir Joseph [1902-1976], High Court justice, son of Wilfred Bushby Hewson, ed. Wigton, where the Bushbys had a woollen mill, married Helen Mary [b.1905] daughter of Leonard Ropner and granddaughter of Sir Emil Ropner Bt. [1838-1924] (politician and shipbuilder and a friend of Leonard Smelt qv), bequeathed a sextant to Greenwich Museum
Bushby, Thomas [1861-1918], artist; lived Carlisle, produced commercial designs for the decorative tins of Hudson Scott qv, painted memorable watercolours of the city, notably the Carlisle Academy of Art in Finkle St. ; Marshall Hall,12-13; Renouf, 70-71
Busher, Thomas (18xx-1872), borough treasurer, ?linen and woollen draper, of Highgate, Kendal, died 18 September 1872, aged 63, and buried in Parkside cemetery, Kendal, 23 September [son Edward left for Australia]
Busoni, Ferruccio (1866-1924), Italian composer and pianist, gave concerts in the UK, including Barrow in Furness organised by the education committee; P. L. Scowcroft, musicwebinternational Cumbrian Music, programme in Bodleian music library
Butcher, Hugh (1941-2023), sociologist, born Sittingbourne, Kent, BSc (Econ), MSc (Sociol), a senior member of the Cleator Moor Community Development Project (CDP) in the 1970s, one of several Home Office selected deprived communities, they renovated rat infested streets, among the many innovations by his team were an Old People’s Co-op, and adventure playground, a Toy Library, he was then a lecturer at St John’s College, York and finally Leeds University, published inter alia, Pensioned Off (1977), Community Participation and Poverty (1979), married Val, a careers officer in Cumbria and later HE consultant, retired to near Tadcaster, died October 2023
Butler, Elizabeth Marian [1885-1959; ODNB], linguist and novelist, born Bardsea, daughter of Theobald Fitzwalter Butler [1845-1914] qv, iron merchant, business in Barrow, BA Newnham College, professor Manchester, novels include The Myth of the Magus [1947], Paperchase is her autobiography; mss at Manchester ?
Butler, Kathleen Teresa Blake [1883-1950; ODNB], college head, born Bardsea, daughter of Theobald Fitzwalter Butler [1845-1914] qv, iron merchant, business in Barrow, BA modern languages Newnham College, Schroeder professor of German, Cambridge, mistress of Girton [1942-1949], memorial booklet 8 May 1950, sister of Elizabeth Marian Butler qv, ; History of French Literature 2 vols.; mss Girton Library
Butler, Samuel (c.1750-1812), actor and theatre manager, poss b. Harrogate, worked with the actor manager Tate Wilkinson (1739-1803), established a circuit mostly in Yorkshire which included Kendal and Ulverston from c.1780, est Richmond Theatre in 1788, George Cuitt the Richmond artists painted the scenery, marr 1.Tryphosa Brockell (1729-1797) an actress and had an illegitimate child with Mary Burrell in Kendal in 1797, died Beveerley where he has a plaque; Jane Hatcher, Richmondians, 2021; Sybil Rosenfelt, The Georgian Theatre in Richmond and its Circuit, 1984
Butler, Revd Samuel Johnston (18xx-1894), MA, clergyman, Curate of Penrith 1848, collated Vicar by Bishop Percy 1853, Hon Canon of Carlisle 1872, Rector of Great Salkeld 1879, died 23 July 1894, aged 74 (HPC, 119-123)
Butler, Theobald Fitzwalter (18xx-19xx), DL, JP, iron ore, coal and coke merchant, Mayor of Barrow-in-Furness 1906-1911, of 119 Duke Street, lived Bardsea and later Infield, Barrow (1911)
Butterfield sisters (fl. early 19thc), Annie and Emma, handbell ringers of Ulverston from 1917, Emma was later the first woman to conduct a handbell event
Butterworth, Arthur Eckersley MBE (1923-2014), composer, born Manchester, son of a choirmaster, educated Northern Manchester GS and Royal Manchester College of Music (RNCM), studied orchestration with Vaughan Williams, conducted Huddersfield Philharmonic Orchestra, wrote seven symphonies (no 1 conducted by Sir John Barbirolli), eight concerti, brass band music, inspired by the Yorkshire Dales and Lake District wrote inter alia ‘Lakeland Summer Nights’ (1949); obituary 22 December 2014; P. L. Scowcroft, musicwebinternational Cumbrian Music
Butterworth, Revd John Compton (18xx-19xx), MA, Vicar of Christ Church, Carlisle 1895-1904
Buttle, Thomas (17xx-18xx), land surveyor and commissioner for Kendal Mintsfeet Inclosure Award 1814 (Act 1811) (CRO, WD/RG/acc 419), inclosure commissioner for Preston Patrick (boundaries confirmed against appeal of Thomas Gregg, 9 January 1815, while appeal of Lord Lonsdale was withdrawn, WQ/O/12), of Jackson Hall, Kirkby Lonsdale (later the renamed Rose and Crown until Queen Adelaide’s visit in 1840, then and still the Royal Hotel)
Byard, Revd Frank (18xx-19xx), MA, clergyman, collated Vicar of Penrith by Bishop Diggle in July 1911, Hon Canon of Carlisle from 1917
Byers, Revd James (fl.1880s), Minister of Congregational Chapel, Kirkby Stephen (built in 1865), contributed short chapter on the Derivation of Local Names to J W Braithwaite’s Guide (1884)
Byrnes, Joseph (d.29 Oct 1885), police constable, murdered at Plumpton 1885, following up the jewellery robbers of Netherby Hall, his three assailants were hanged at Carlisle 8 Feb 1885; Martin Baggoley, Murder and Crime: The Lake District