William ATKINSON

 

 

bd. 1832

Bapt.  31 Dec 1832, Newcastle All Saints
occ. Solicitor’s clerk/Surgical barber
dd. 1926

Bur.  12 March 1926, Old Jesmond Cemetery

 

A Long Lived Freeman

 

My cousin Louise has dug out a very lengthy and rather lovely obituary for William in the Newcastle Chronicle, who it seems enjoyed a particularly long and active life.  William was a Freeman of the City of Newcastle who was “put as a boy into the solicitor’s office of Messers Joblin and Main”.  He seems to have inherited a barbers shop in Nun Street his youth however, switching professions as a result.  The article states that his ‘grandsire’ was the benefactor, although we suspect that this may in fact have been his uncle Henry Danby. According to the article William “would probably be the last of the blood letting barbers”.

 

William was a keen sportsman; apparently a batsman for the county of Northumberland, member of the North of England Coursing Club, shareholder of the Gosforth Park Race Company and involved with the promotion of rowing and aquatic sports.

 

 

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