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unusual facts about Sir William Blackett, 1st Baronet, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne



Active ingredient

While Aesica, Piramal, MSD (Northumberland), Sanofi (Tyne & Wear) and GlaxoSmithKline (County Durham) are all secondary pharmaceutical manufacturers who formulate and package API's for consumer use.

Arthur Bigge, 1st Baron Stamfordham

Bigge was the son of John Frederic Bigge (1814–1885) Vicar of Stamfordham, Northumberland and the grandson of Charles William Bigge (1773–1849) of Benton House, Little Benton, Newcastle on Tyne and Linden Hall, Longhorsley, Northumberland, High Sheriff of Northumberland and a prominent merchant and banker in Newcastle on Tyne.

Barry Cole

Apart from two years (1970–1972) as Northern Arts Fellow in Literature at the universities of Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and two years (1955–1957) in the RAF as a National Serviceman, he worked until 1995 as an editor at the Central Office of Information, and is now a freelance editor and writer.

Blackett baronets

The Blackett Baronetcy, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the County of Northumberland, was created in the Baronetage of England on 23 January 1685 for William Blackett, third son of the first Baronet of the 1673 creation.

Blackett of Wylam

John Blackett (died 1714) was the son of John (above), grandson of Christopher Blackett of Hoppyland (1612-1675) and the greatnephew of Sir William Blackett.

Brian B. Thompson

Brian co-created the regional soap Quayside (Director Tom Hopper) for Tyne Tees TV and worked on the first series of Revelations for Granada (Producer, Tony Wood).

Bridgeman baronets

The Bridgeman Baronetcy, of Ridley in the County of Chester, was created on 12 November 1773 for Orlando Bridgeman, Member of Parliament for Horsham and younger son of the 1st Baronet, of the Great Lever creation.

Bright Club

The Centre for Life in Newcastle upon Tyne launched their first Bright Club in July 2011, hosted by their Comedian in Residence, Helen Keen.

Chestnut Lodge, Widnes

Widnes is a busier station with express trains operated by East Midlands Trains also stopping with services to Nottingham, and services operated by First TransPennine Express to Newcastle-upon-Tyne via Manchester, Leeds, York, Teesside, and Sunderland.

Christopher Blackett

Blackett was born a Blackett of Wylam and the eldest son by the second marriage of John Blackett, a High Sheriff of Northumberland, whose family descended from Christopher Blackett, an elder brother of Sir William Blackett, and Alice Fenwick, sole heir of her father.

ComputerTown UK

An example of such a group was 'ComputerTown North East' (Newcastle-upon-Tyne & Gateshead) which met in the Tyne & Wear Science Museum cafe (and thus could claim to be the first ever cyber-cafe on Tyneside).

Copsi

Copsi's rule lasted a mere five weeks, at which time he was murdered by Osulf, son of Eadulf III of the ancient Bernician family —which had historically governed the area from Bamburgh, at Newburn-upon-Tyne.

David Clelland

He also recorded "The Socialist ABC" on the CD "From Tees to Tyne", saying "I've been singing this song as a party piece for years, but I was surprised and delighted when the people from The Northumbria Anthology asked me to record it".

Drighlington

The Royalist army under the Earl of Newcastle defeated the Parliamentarians under the command of Lord Ferdinando Fairfax and his son Sir Thomas.

Edinburgh Labour Students

Catherine McKinnell MP for Newcastle upon Tyne North and Shadow Exchequer Secretary

Edward R. Pease

In 1886, he moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, began working as a cabinet-maker and formed a branch of the National Labour Federation.

Electric Boys

When headlining Newcastle upon Tyne, Riverside club, the band were joined on stage by the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis, who were performing in the same venue at around the same time.

England riots

1991 England riots, mainly in Oxford, Cardiff, Dudley, Leeds and Newcastle upon Tyne; riots in Birmingham around the same time

Flavio de Carvalho

Carvalho was educated in France from 1911 to 1914, and then in Newcastle-upon-Tyne until 1922, attending the King Edward the Seventh School of Fine Arts and Durham University's Armstrong College.

Gosforth Central

Gosforth Central Middle School, a middle school in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, England

Gosforth Central Park, a park near to Gosforth High Street in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, England

High Level Bridge

Another plan for a high level bridge was that of Richard Grainger, who proposed to erect a superstructure on the Tyne Bridge, consisting of a viaduct for passengers and other traffic, supported on metal tubes resting upon piers of the bridge.

John Erasmus Blackett

He was one of the original partners of the Newcastle upon Tyne Fire Office, now part of Aviva plc.

John Timmons

He played his part in ensuring that the contract for the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 liner went to the Clyde shipyards rather than the Tyne.

Joshua Barnes

A tradition routed in the Utopia (1516) of Thomas More, which found prominent manifestations in The Blazing World (1666) of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and The Isle of Pines of Henry Neville.

Julia Vogl

During 2013 Julia Vogl has been involved in a participatory artwork at the Discovery Museum Newcastle upon Tyne.

Le Bon Marché

It is often incorrectly cited as the world's first department store, as that honour actually goes to Bainbridge's of Newcastle upon Tyne in England.

Liberty of Durham

The liberty was known variously as the "Liberty of Durham", "Liberty of St Cuthbert's Land" "The lands of St. Cuthbert between Tyne and Tees" or "The Liberty of Haliwerfolc".

Newcastle High School

Central Newcastle High School, an independent all-girls school in Newcastle upon Tyne

News Guardian

Over the years the newspaper has reported some of the biggest stories to hit the north east including the Meadow Well Riots on September 9 1991, the decline of the ship yards on the Tyne, and the long-running police investigation into the Sara Cameron murder - the 21-year-old Finnish student found dead in Whitley Bay on April 28 2001.

Night action at the Battle of Jutland

The seas abated and the ship was able to head for the Tyne, arriving some two and a half days after the engagement.

Pam Royle

On 25 February 2009, ITV Tyne Tees and ITV Border merged news output whilst the respective programme titles were retained, Royle now presents both ITV News Tyne Tees and Lookaround.

Pensions in the United Kingdom

To the Duke of Richmond and his heirs was granted in 1676 a duty of one shilling per ton of all coals exported from the Tyne for consumption in England.

Piercy Morrison

Morrison was born in Brotton, North Yorkshire in 1868 to Robert Morrison, a mine owner from Newcastle upon Tyne.

Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull

The earl had five sons, one of whom became Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, another was Francis Pierrepont (died 1659), a colonel in the parliamentary army and afterwards a member of the Long Parliament; and another was William Pierrepont (1608–1679), father-in-law of Gilbert Holles, 3rd Earl of Clare and also Henry Cavendish Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Scottish art in the Prehistoric era

The Romans began military expeditions into what is now Scotland from about 71 CE, building a series of forts, but by CE 87 the occupation was limited to the Southern Uplands and by the end of the first century the northern limit of Roman expansion was a line drawn between the Tyne and Solway Firth.

Sir William Blackett, 1st Baronet, of Newcastle

His father, was a successful businessman at Jarrow and Gateshead and retired to Hoppyland, County Durham.

Sir William Blackett, 2nd Baronet

Blackett was the son of William Blackett and his wife Julia Conyers.

He bequeathed his estates at Allendale, Northumberland and Wallington Hall, Cambo to his nephew Sir Walter Calverley, 2nd Baronet of Calverley, conditional upon the latter's marriage to Elizabeth Orde, Blackett's natural daughter and his change of name to Blackett.

SS El Grillo

The steam ship SS El Grillo was built in 1922 at Armstrong W. G. & Whitworth Co. Ltd., Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and operated by The Bowring Steamship Co., based at Liverpool.

St Aidan's Academy

St Aidan's Catholic Academy, a Roman Cathoic secondary school in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England

Stanhope and Tyne Railway

The Stanhope and Tyne Railway (formally the Stanhope and Tyne Railroad Company) was an early British industrial railway that ran from Stanhope, in County Durham, to South Shields at the mouth of the River Tyne.

The Mag

Over the years, other Newcastle United fanzines followed - The Number Nine, Talk of the Tyne, Half Mag Half Biscuit and Toon Army News to name just some.

Trident Television

In 1992, Yorkshire and Tyne Tees merged again, to create Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television.

Tyne Dock

Tyne Dock Metro station, on the Tyne and Wear Metro, serves the Tyne Dock area, as well as neighbouring West Harton.

Wallington Hall

The hall house was rebuilt in 1688 around the ancient Pele Tower house for Sir William Blackett and was later substantially rebuilt again, in Palladian style, for Sir Walter Blackett by architect Daniel Garret, before passing to the Trevelyan family in 1777.

West Moor

Rather than a village, West Moor might nowadays best be described as a suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne; it is close to Killingworth, Forest Hall, Longbenton and Gosforth Park.

William Henry Watson

Watson married, first, in 1826, a daughter of William Armstrong of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and sister of Lord Armstrong; secondly, in 1831, Mary, daughter of Anthony Hollist of Midhurst, Sussex.

William Streatfeild

William's father, Rev. William Champion Streatfeild, was the sometime Vicar of Howick, Ryton-on-Tyne, Kings Worthy and Frant.


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