Men of mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed . s, andEdward Bulmer were free butchers; John was a member of theIncorporated Company of Feltmakers, Curriers, etc.; while anotherThomas and another John belonged to the House CarpentersCompany. Into one of these two last-named families (the housecarpenters) were born Fenwick and William Bulmer, whose happylot it was to make the name known and remembered far beyond thelimits of their ancestral home. Fenwick went to London, made a 432 WILLIAM BULMER. fortune in trade, and became Sir Fenwick Bulmer, Knight; Williamwent to London also, and attained to universal
Men of mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed . s, andEdward Bulmer were free butchers; John was a member of theIncorporated Company of Feltmakers, Curriers, etc.; while anotherThomas and another John belonged to the House CarpentersCompany. Into one of these two last-named families (the housecarpenters) were born Fenwick and William Bulmer, whose happylot it was to make the name known and remembered far beyond thelimits of their ancestral home. Fenwick went to London, made a 432 WILLIAM BULMER. fortune in trade, and became Sir Fenwick Bulmer, Knight; Williamwent to London also, and attained to universal fame as a reformerand improver of the art of typography. William Bulmer was born in 1756, eleven years after his brotherFenwick. He served his apprenticeship in John Thompsons print-ing-office, Burnt House Entry, one of the narrow alleys extendingfrom the upper part of the Side towards St. Nicholas Church-yard. Thomas Bewick was serving articles at the same time withRalph Beilby, and the two lads, meeting at the workshop of Gilbert. Gray, bookbinder, struck up an acquaintance which lasted throughlife. Bewick tells us in his Autobiography that Bulmer used toprove the cuts he (Bewick) had executed, being countenancedtherein by his master, who was himself extremely curious andeager to see wood engraving succeed. The writer of a biographicalsketch of Mr. Bulmer in the Gentle?!iafis Magazifie (from whichmuch of what follows is derived) adds that Bewick and Bulmermade it a practice whilst youths to visit together every morning afarmhouse at Elswick, and indulge in Goody Coxons hot rye-cakeand buttermilk—dainties which that lady prepared for all who were J J VZZ/A M B ULAIER. 433 inclined to enjoy a walk from the town before the business of theday commenced. It was Bulmer who printed the engraving of the Huntsman and Old Hound, which obtained for Bewick thepremium of the Society of Arts, and to him is attributed the creditof suggesting to the rising engraver an improvement, which wa
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