Biographies - Biographicon

Ann Allan of Blackwell Grange was a prominent local philanthropist and friend to local personalities.

Antiquary and printer George Allan was an influential cultural figure in the Northeast

Robert Anderson, known as the ‘Bard of Cumberland' was an English labouring class poet who wrote in Cumbrian dialect.

David Erskine Baker - actor, freemason and social mover

Susanna Blamire, posthumously dubbed the ‘Muse of Cumberland’ has been called "unquestionably the best female writer of her age”

Dr Tipping Brown was a highly regarded freemason, musician and literary man

Rowland Burdon was a Newcastle Banker, one time Mayor of Stockton and the first Durham MP not to have been an aristocrat.

Samuel Butler managed one of the most successful northern theatre circuits of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

James Cawdell was an actor and manager of the Durham theatre circuit.