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<\/a><\/div>\nAnd oft, in distant Burmah, sigh\u2019d once more
\nBardlike to loiter in the pleasant fields
\nAnd flower-strewn footpaths of his native land:
\nAnd when he sang by Sitong\u2019s eastern stream, 5
\nHis songs breathed love for home, and Hurworth Rose
\nIn his \u2018mind\u2019s eye,\u2019 with all its quiet homes
\nAnd dear familiar faces, till he wept,
\nAnd felt himself a child again.\u201d<\/p>\n
George Markham Tweddell<\/b>
\n\u2018Peter Proletarius\u2019
\n[Bards and Authors, p. 350]
\n92<\/p>\n
This poem introduced the chapter on Frank Wilkinson in Tweddell’s Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham 1872.<\/p>\n
Extract from
\n” Frank Wilkinson<\/b> was born at Hurworth on Tees, June 7th 1826, at which place his father was master of a National School for thirty two years.. At an early age, Frank entered the post-office at Darlington, as an assistant clerk, and afterwards, became an apprentice to Mr Robeert Dixon, a chemist and druggist in that town. On the death of his Edward Wilkinson, 1843, the rector and principle inhabitants of Hurworth wished his son to Frank to succeed him as school master of Hurworth, though only 17 years old ! And after receiving training for that purpose at Durham, he was appointed school master of Hurworth. He remained at until the early part of 1849, when he resigned the school and went to London ; but like Dick Whittington in the story books, he did not find the streets of the great metropolis paved with gold; and failing to meet with a situation to suit him there, he entered the service of the East India Company….returning in 1859 “<\/p>\n