Men of mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed . d in due time procured his enrolmentamong the knights of the Order of Christ and of the Tower and RE V. BERK RLE Y ADDISON. 15 Sword of Portugal. Here upon Tyneside he is more faithfullyremembered as the promoter of learned societies, and the represent-ative of culture and taste in what may be called the by-paths ofbusy lives. To those whose remembrance extends beyond the greatfire and explosion which devastated the river sides of Newcastle andGateshead, in October 1854, there are few more pleasing memoriesthan those of the annual meetings of the Newcastle a
Men of mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed . d in due time procured his enrolmentamong the knights of the Order of Christ and of the Tower and RE V. BERK RLE Y ADDISON. 15 Sword of Portugal. Here upon Tyneside he is more faithfullyremembered as the promoter of learned societies, and the represent-ative of culture and taste in what may be called the by-paths ofbusy lives. To those whose remembrance extends beyond the greatfire and explosion which devastated the river sides of Newcastle andGateshead, in October 1854, there are few more pleasing memoriesthan those of the annual meetings of the Newcastle and Carlisle Rail-way Literary Institute, where, with his foreign orders on his breast,the English biographer of Camoens, venerable and venerated, coun-selled the young men of his day to cultivate the graces and refine-ments of literature. VICAR OF JESMOND. On the 13th of January, 1882, at Jesmond Vicarage, Newcastle, inhis 67th year, died Canon Berkeley Addison, , Vicar ofJesmond. He was the second son of the Rev. Jos. Addison,. of Shiffnell, Shropshire, and was educated at St. Peters College,Cambridge, where he was classical prizeman in 1836, and in 1839. Ordained deacon in 1839, and priest in 1S40, he 16 THOMAS ADDISON. held brief curacies at Brighton and Kensington, and in 1843 settledin Edinburgh as curate under Dean Ramsay, editor of the well-known books on Scottish wit and humour. There he remainedtwelve years, preaching with great acceptance. In 1855 he wasappointed rector of Collyhurst, near Manchester, and it was fromthence, when Jesmond Church was completed, at the close of i860,that he was brought to Newcastle. The story of the erection of Jesmond Church, as a protestagainst the election of Vicar Moody to the Mastership of the MaryMagdalene Hospital, will be told hereafter. It is sufficient to say, inthis connection, that Mr. Addison was unanimously appointed to theliving, and that his ministrations justified the choice of the eloquent p
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