Men of mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed . 815, aged 41 years. John Akenhead, theirson, died June 18, 1852, aged 92 years. POET .\ND DOCTOR OF MEDICINE. Ne\vc.\stle was the birthplace of at least one recognised poet—Mark Akenside. The family from which he sprang had beenestablished at Eachwick, in the parish of Heddon, for many genera-tions. It was old, respectable, and, in its later developments,Puritan. 1716, Dec. 18.—Abraham, son of Thomas Akenside,of Eachwick, a Dissenter, said to be baptised by somebody, is thedisrespectful entry of a member of the family which Mr. CadwalladerBates quotes (Archn
Men of mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed . 815, aged 41 years. John Akenhead, theirson, died June 18, 1852, aged 92 years. POET .\ND DOCTOR OF MEDICINE. Ne\vc.\stle was the birthplace of at least one recognised poet—Mark Akenside. The family from which he sprang had beenestablished at Eachwick, in the parish of Heddon, for many genera-tions. It was old, respectable, and, in its later developments,Puritan. 1716, Dec. 18.—Abraham, son of Thomas Akenside,of Eachwick, a Dissenter, said to be baptised by somebody, is thedisrespectful entry of a member of the family which Mr. CadwalladerBates quotes (Archneologia .4:iiana, vol. xi.) from Heddon Church MARK AKENSIDE. 27 registers. Mark Akenside, a younger son, came from Eachwick toNewcastle, and having served his apprenticeship and taken up hisfreedom, commenced business as a butcher. On the loth ofAugust, 1710, he married, at St. Nicholas Church, Mary years afterwards, on the 9th November, 1721, at theirhouse in All Hallow Bank, or Butcher Bank, the poet was THE BUTCHER HANK, NEWCASTLE, 1894. Three weeks from the date of his birth he was taken to the CloseGate Meeting House, where the family worshipped, and was baptisedby the learned and godly pastor of the congregation. Brand quotesthe entry of this interesting event:— Mark Akenside, born the 9thNovember, 1721 ; baptised the 30th of the same month by theRev. Mr. Benjamin Bennett. 28 MARK AKENSIDE. There was at that time in Newcastle one William Wilson, amember of the Puritan community that assembled at Close GateChapel, an amiable and scholarly man, who kept a private school,and occasionally preached for the minister. With him, after a shortcourse at the Royal Grammar School, young Akenside was placed tocomplete his elementary education. The boy was a cripple, throughan injury to his foot by a cleaver falling on it while playing in hisfathers shop at the age of seven, and this defect assisted the naturalbent of his mind towards books and study. It so
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