{"id":6,"date":"2018-09-07T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-11-13T04:45:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T04:45:28","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/georgemarkhamtweddell\/2018\/09\/07\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"float: left;margin-right: 1em;text-align: left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-6MI6KrzrIgM\/T6KnP7BbjaI\/AAAAAAAAABs\/tkmpPR-n6QI\/s1600\/01-GMT&amp;ET.jpg\" style=\"clear: left;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-6MI6KrzrIgM\/T6KnP7BbjaI\/AAAAAAAAABs\/tkmpPR-n6QI\/s320\/01-GMT&amp;ET.jpg\" width=\"197\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\", sans-serif\">George and Elizabeth Tweddell<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\", sans-serif\">This is a hub for the work of <b>George Markham Tweddell <\/b>and his wife <b>Elizabeth Tweddell (AKA Florence Cleveland).<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\", sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<b><span style=\"color: red;, sans-serif\">THIS POST REMAINS ON TOP AS AN INTRODUCTION.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"float: right;margin-left: 1em;text-align: right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dAc2sRuPrRI\/T6Kn3NUzUsI\/AAAAAAAAAB8\/wcS0dCbg5Mo\/s1600\/PaulTweddell+in+Rose+Cottage.jpg\" style=\"clear: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"252\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dAc2sRuPrRI\/T6Kn3NUzUsI\/AAAAAAAAAB8\/wcS0dCbg5Mo\/s320\/PaulTweddell+in+Rose+Cottage.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\", sans-serif\">Paul Tweddell in Rose Cottage Stokesley<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\", sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\", sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\", sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\", sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\", sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\", sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\", sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\", sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\", sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\", sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\", sans-serif\">This site dedicated to the memory of &nbsp;<b>Paul Markham Tweddell<\/b>, who in 2005, became a valued friend and associate and unstinting in his&nbsp;dedication&nbsp;to recording and researching the history of his ancestors of &nbsp;&#8216;modest fame&#8217; as he termed it.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><span style=\", sans-serif\">Trev Teasdel<\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<b><br \/><\/b><br \/>\n<b><span style=\", sans-serif\">Notes<\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\", sans-serif\">For those visiting via Coastal view and Moor&#8217;s News re- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coastalviewandmoornews.co.uk\/the-latest-issue\/\">Holly Bush&#8217;s article<\/a>&nbsp;(page 33) on Captain Cook and the proposed pyramid on Roseberry Topping &#8211; The original article is here&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/georgemarkhamtweddell\/2013\/02\/17\/captain-cooks-monument-easby-moor-the-mystery-behind-it\/\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/georgemarkhamtweddell\/2013\/02\/17\/captain-cooks-monument-easby-moor-the-mystery-behind-it\/<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<b><br \/><\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\", sans-serif\"><b>George Markham Tweddell <\/b>&#8211; 1823 &#8211; 1903 was born in Stokesley on&nbsp;20th March 1823&nbsp;, North Yorkshire,&nbsp;and claimed he was the son of a Royal Navy Lieutenant, <b>George Markham<\/b>, who had been born in 1797 in the Rectory, Stokesley. His father, another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tweddellhistory.co.uk\/chapter2.html\">George Markham (1763-1822)<\/a>, 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-CeRnldAyx3k\/T6Ku5dTdsGI\/AAAAAAAAACI\/faFm8pMUo48\/s1600\/Tweddell+hist.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"272\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-CeRnldAyx3k\/T6Ku5dTdsGI\/AAAAAAAAACI\/faFm8pMUo48\/s400\/Tweddell+hist.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<span style=\", sans-serif\">George&#8217;s full history can be read on the <b>Tweddell History<\/b> site &#8211; here &#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tweddellhistory.co.uk\/index.html\"><b><span style=\"font-size: large\">http:\/\/www.tweddellhistory.co.uk\/index.html<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\", sans-serif\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\", sans-serif;font-size: large\"><b>About George Markham Tweddell<\/b> &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\", sans-serif\">Editor of Radical Newspaper &#8211; campaigning against the Corn Laws, Slavery and many other issues of the day.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\", sans-serif\">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.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\", sans-serif\">A prolific, wide ranging and well published poet &#8211; world wide, in papers, magazines and anthologies and his own books &#8211; and more recently has a collected poetic works published recently by Paul Tweddell and myself Trev Teasdel &#8211; with pdfs posted on this site.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\", sans-serif\">The author of The People&#8217;s History of Cleveland.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\", sans-serif\">A&nbsp;prominent&nbsp;member of &nbsp;the Cleveland Lodge of Freemasons \/ Odd fellows who published his own 100 Masonic Poems in sonnet form.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\", sans-serif\">A preserver of the Cleveland dialect.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\", sans-serif\">A Chartist who had poems published in their paper &#8211; Northern Star along side those of <b>Ebenezer Elliot<\/b> &#8211; the Poor Law Rhymer whom Tweddell corresponded with and had poetical exchanges with.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\", sans-serif\">And much much more!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<b><span style=\", sans-serif;font-size: large\">Elizabeth Tweddell (Aka Florence Cleveland)<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<span style=\", sans-serif\">Elizabeth Tweddell was the daughter of <b>Thomas Cole <\/b>(1787-1867) who was 34 years parish clerk of Stokesley in North Yorkshire and renowned for being the last person to toll the town&#8217;s curfew bell. She was the wife of George Markham Tweddell and became a respected dialect poet herself under the pen name of <b>Florence Cleveland. <\/b>Her<b>&nbsp;<\/b>book &#8211;&nbsp;<b>Rhymes and Sketches to illustrate the Cleveland Dialect<\/b>  &#8211; 1875<span style=\"background-color: white;color: #333333;font-size: 12px;line-height: 24px\">&nbsp;<\/span>is still popular in the local area and recently a Stockton on Tees folk duo <b>Megson<\/b> achieved national notoriety with write ups in the Guardian, Independent with an album of songs whose title song &#8211; <i>Take Yourself a Wife <\/i>&#8211; was based on one of her dialect poems &#8211; listen below.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\", sans-serif\">And on their second album Megson put music to Elizabeth Tweddell&#8217;s dialect poem &#8216;Twaa Match Lads&#8217; called here Two match Lads.<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/megson.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-longshot\">The Longshot by Megson<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\", sans-serif\">HERE<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\", sans-serif;font-size: large\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-Of0ay8-8BhM\/UNjjJoKjU1I\/AAAAAAAAA0o\/9D-ZmHmqNfs\/s1600\/Untmlm+-+1.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-Of0ay8-8BhM\/UNjjJoKjU1I\/AAAAAAAAA0o\/9D-ZmHmqNfs\/s400\/Untmlm+-+1.jpg\" width=\"302\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazettelive.co.uk\/news\/teesside-news\/2009\/08\/18\/works-of-george-markham-tweddell-on-show-in-stokesley-84229-24467796\/\"><span style=\", sans-serif\"><b>http:\/\/www.gazettelive.co.uk\/news\/teesside-news\/2009\/08\/18\/works-of-george-markham-tweddell-on-show-in-stokesley-84229-24467796\/<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George and Elizabeth Tweddell This is a hub for the work of George Markham Tweddell and his wife Elizabeth Tweddell (AKA Florence Cleveland). 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