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| George and Elizabeth Tweddell |
This is a hub for the work of George Markham Tweddell and his wife Elizabeth Tweddell (AKA Florence Cleveland).
THIS POST REMAINS ON TOP AS AN INTRODUCTION.
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| Paul Tweddell in Rose Cottage Stokesley |
This site dedicated to the memory of Paul Markham Tweddell, who in 2005, became a valued friend and associate and unstinting in his dedication to recording and researching the history of his ancestors of ‘modest fame’ as he termed it.
Trev Teasdel
Notes
For those visiting via Coastal view and Moor’s News re- Holly Bush’s article (page 33) on Captain Cook and the proposed pyramid on Roseberry Topping – The original article is here https://www.artsrainbow.com/georgemarkhamtweddell/2013/02/17/captain-cooks-monument-easby-moor-the-mystery-behind-it/
George Markham Tweddell – 1823 – 1903 was born in Stokesley on 20th March 1823 , North Yorkshire, and claimed he was the son of a Royal Navy Lieutenant, George Markham, who had been born in 1797 in the Rectory, Stokesley. His father, another George Markham (1763-1822), was the Rector of Stokesley, whilst also holding the post of Dean of York, and his grandfather was Archbishop Markham (1719-1807), famed for saving the walls of York from demolition in the first decade of the nineteenth century with the help of the author Walter Scott.
About George Markham Tweddell –
- Editor of Radical Newspaper – campaigning against the Corn Laws, Slavery and many other issues of the day.
- A printer, publisher and author of many books including Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham, Shakespeare and his Times and Contemporaries, History of Stockton and Darlington Railway, and many more.
- A prolific, wide ranging and well published poet – world wide, in papers, magazines and anthologies and his own books – and more recently has a collected poetic works published recently by Paul Tweddell and myself Trev Teasdel – with pdfs posted on this site.
- The author of The People’s History of Cleveland.
- A prominent member of the Cleveland Lodge of Freemasons / Odd fellows who published his own 100 Masonic Poems in sonnet form.
- A preserver of the Cleveland dialect.
- A Chartist who had poems published in their paper – Northern Star along side those of Ebenezer Elliot – the Poor Law Rhymer whom Tweddell corresponded with and had poetical exchanges with.
- And much much more!
And on their second album Megson put music to Elizabeth Tweddell’s dialect poem ‘Twaa Match Lads’ called here Two match Lads.
The Longshot by Megson
HERE
