page_title: Thomas Robert Swinburne
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Robert Swinburne / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: cu31924104002419 (find matches) Title: North-country sketches, notes, essays and reviews .. Year: 1893 (1890s) Authors: Neasham, George Bewick, John, 1760-1795 Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828 Wordsworth Collection Subjects: Publisher: Durham, Printed for the author by T. Caldcleugh Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: to the west of the City of Durham, close up to the oldabbey lands of Bearpark and Durham, the ancient domainof St. Cuthbert, and is visible for miles around. There isa noble chapel occupying the centre of the south front,which stretches east and west of it in a line close upon900 feet long. Some idea of its extent may be gatheredwhen it is stated that a string carried round the entire pileof buildings, but excluding those that cannot be reachedby cloisters within, would include an area of eight acres.The place, in folk-etymology, derives its name from YewShaw, or the wood of Yews, which, tradition says, theNormans planted to commemorate their comrades w^hofell in battle with the English. Of this wood only onetree survives, and this is gnarled and hollowed by time.At the College Jubilee, in 1858, a second tree was plantedto succeed the old one then fast decaying, and to per-petuate the tradition. Ushaw is in the Chapelry of Esh ^ *^The Chapels at Ushaw, with an Historical Introduction. Text Appearing After Image: SKETCHES. 337 and it is a curious fact that this place also derives its namefrom the tree called *^ aesc by our Anglo-Saxon ancestors.In the neighbourhood, and in fact all over Durham, theash tree is pronounced **esh, and the name is so writtenin the earliest parish register&#160;; and there are much earlierforms in the Glossary to Boyles * Durham. Although Ushaw only began its existence at thecommencement of this century, it may lay claim toantiquity, being the lineal descendant of Crook Hall andits ancestor the great College of Douay, which wasfounded by Cardinal Allen in 1568. When the Collegewas seized by the army of the French Republic in 1793, anumber of the professors and students contrived to escapeto England and found shelter, first at the Mission Houseof Pontop Hall, and afterwards at Crook Hall, whichbecame the temporary home of the College. Mgr. Eyreand Dr. Lingard were at the head of this small community,and during the fifteen years of its existence twenty-fivepriests were ord Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Lieutenant-General Thomas Robert Swinburne of Marcus FRSE DL was a British military administrator serving in the British Army. He served at the Battle of Waterloo. He was a gifted amateur artist.
context_section_description: He was born in March 1794 and raised at Pontop Hall, a 17th-century manor house in County Durham. He was the eldest son of Thomas Swinburne (d.1825) and his wife, Charlotte Spearman.
  In June 1813 he became an Ensign in the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards. He was at the Battle of Waterloo at Quatre Bras and survived uninjured. He was also at the Siege of Peronne. In December 1816 he was promoted to Captain and transferred to the 3rd Dragoon Guards. He became Lt Colonel in 1838 and Brevet Colonel in 1851. He was Major General in 1857 and Lt General shortly before death
  From 1838 he was in administrative roles, based in Edinburgh, living at 33 Royal Terrace on Calton Hill.
  In 1839 he was elected an Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposer was John Gordon of Cairnbulg.
  He also had estates at Marcus in Forfar (sometimes shown as Margus), and was made Deputy Lieutenant of Forfar.
  He retired to 13 Great Stuart Street on the Moray Estate in west Edinburgh. He died there on 29 February 1864. He is buried with his wife in Dean Cemetery.
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