Material to come to this. The Reverend Thos. Wood from Whitby – mentioned in Gideon Smales Authors of Whitby c 1867.
The Rev Thos Wood (Whitby)
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John Wright – Bard of Cleveland
Material to come to this. John Wright born in Guisborough on February 7th 1807 and moved to Great Ayton in 1855. Links to his books and his story to come to this.
Bishop Brian Walton D. D.
Material to come to this. Chapter in George Markham Tweddell’s Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham 1872. Born in Seamer, two miles from Stokesley in 1600.
Edith Wilkinson
Material to come to this. Edith Wilkinson appeared Gideon Smales book Whitby Authors 1865.
Frank Wilkinson
Info to come to this. Chapter in George Markham Tweddell’s Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham 1872. Frank Wilkinson was born at Hurworth on Tees June 7th. Tweddell’s poem on Frank Wilkinson can be seen here. 1826 http://sonnetsonpoets.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/frank-wilkinson.html
Byron Webber
Info to come to this. Byron Webber was grandson to Thomas Webber born 1838 in Stockton on Tees. Chapter in George Markham Tweddell’s Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham 1872.
Thomas Webber
Info to come to this. Chapter in George Markham Tweddell’s Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham 1872. Born in Tiverton in Devon about 1783, Thomas Webber the “Stockton Poet Laureate”
Dean William Whittingham
George Markham Tweddell included Dean William Wittingham in his 1872 book Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham. It seems that Dean Wittingham was Dean of Durham in 1563 and relates to the ‘South Durham‘ part of the book rather than the Tees Valley or North Yorkshire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Whittingham
Chapter from George Markham Tweddell’s Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham 1872. Click arrow to enlarge, read or download.
Dean Wittingahm
Ida Watkins
Info to come to this. Also mentioned in Gideon Smales Whitby Authors 1865.
John Watkins (Whitby)
Material to come to this. here is an article by professor Malcolm Chase of Leeds University on John Watkins – uncle to William Watkins in the post below this. http://georgemarkhamtweddell.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/john-watkins-1808-1858-poet-chartist-by.html
There is also an article by Alice Barrigan on the Whitby Paper Wars here – http://northyorkshirehistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/literary-wars-in-whitby-1825-to-1833.html which mentions John Watkins.