The bards and authors of Cleveland and South Durham and the vicinage.
Subtitle: First series.
By: By George Markham Tweddell ...
Publisher: Tweddell and sons
Published: 1864
Place of publication: Stokesley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: Authors, English -- Homes and haunts -- England -- Cleveland.; Authors, English -- Homes and haunts -- England -- Durham (County); Cleveland (England) -- Biography. Literature, History; Durham (England : County) -- Biography. Literature, History
First sentence: "The first name that we meet with of any eminence in our literature, as that of a writer who composed in his mother tongue, was a native of this district, and was employed in tending cattle, or in other words, followed the humble occupation of a herdsman, during the Saxon Heparchy. This was Caedmon...!" (spelt Cedmon in the book).

Contents -
Introduction, Cedmon (Caedmon), Walter de Hemingford, John Gower, Rev. Bernard Gilpin, D.D., Roger Ascham, Dean Whittingham, Francis Mewburn, Lionel Charlton, John Jackson, of Rudby, Thomas John Cleaver, Sir Thomas Chaloner the Elder, Sir Thomas Chaloner the Younger, Rev. Edward Chaloner, D.D., Thomas Chaloner, MP, the Commonwealthman, James Chaloner, MP, the Commonwealthman, Rev. Henry Foulis, BD, William Martin, Joseph Reed, William Emerson, John Reed Appleton, FSA, Jabez Cole,MB, William Mudd, John Castillo, Bishop Brian Walton DD, Thomas Webber, Byron Webber, John Walker Ord FGSL, John Ryley Robinson,LLD, James Clephan,Henry Heavisides, Samual Gordon FSA.Scot, Frank Wilkinson, The Hon Commodore Constantine John Phipps, afterwards Baron Mulgrave, Rev. James Holme BA, Rev. Thomas Holme, Rev. John Graves, List of sunscribers,
Description: Tweddell describes the work as kind of  'Cyclopedia' of Poets and Prose writers  from Cleveland and South Durham from Caedmon's time up until the 1860's often with woodcuts of the authors and others by Bewick. Contains extracts from their writings along with Tweddell's commentary on their work and lives. Tweddell challanges a few ideas such as the birth place / residence of John Gower (the Moral) which he claims was in Stittenham and Sexhow (Nr Stokesley) rather than Cantebury or elsewhere. An online pdf version can be found here - (May take a while to load as big file)  http://www.tweddellhistory.co.uk/outlet/uploads/Bards%20And%20Authors%20of%20Cleveland%20%20and%20South%20Durham%20-%20George%20Markham%20Twedddell%201872.pdf
Notes: Issued in 12 parts, 1864-1867. The "Second series" has not yet appeared (June, '02) Volume one issued as a complete book 1872 by Tweddell and Sons, Stokesley, North Yorkshire.

Proposed second and third book never appeared. We think he had prepared a second volume or at least notes towards but many of his notes were destroyed posthumously in the Stokesely floods of the 1930's unfortunately. Volume one tells us which authors he intended to include though and I am attempting to put together what information we have on these authors on this Cleveland (UK) literature site (it will take a while though). http://outlet.glassorange.org/
 
The authors were -
Allan the Antiquary and Allen the Member, Robert Armstrong, the Rev. JC. Atkinson, EG Ayre, JG Baker, WB  Baker, WGJ Barker, Dr Bateman,Wm Bewick, Mrs Blackett, Rev John Brewster, John Buchanan, WH Burnett, Margaret Burton, Sir IS Byerley, Rev Charles Cator, Wm Chapman, Rev EG Charlesworth, Sir Hugh Chomley, James Conway, Captain Cook, Stephen Coulson, Timothy Crosby, LF Crummey, Wm Danby, Dr. Dixon, WL Dodd, Mrs Earnshaw, Rev GS Faber, Lady Falkland, John Farndale, D. Ferguson, Mary Gaines, Geo Garbutt, Francis Gibson, Thos.Gill, Rev James Grahame, JG Grant, CC Hall, Archdeacon Harcourt, EM Heavisides, WH Hinton, Dr Ingledew, Robt. Jackson, GB Johnson, the Joneses, Rev Wm Kay, TF Ker, Marquis of Londonderry, WHD Longstaff, Sir JH Lowther, Angus Macphereson, Wm Mason of Gisbro', Eta Mawr, Thos Mease, Mrs Merryweather, Dr Conyers Middleton, Capt. Middleton, Mrs Miller, James Milligan, Rev. Vere Monro, Sheffield Earl of Mulgrave, James Myre, Dr Robert Newton, the late Marquis of Normanby, Rev. John Oxlee, Geo Ord, Thomas Pierson, Ralph Punshon, HG Reid and Mrs, the various Richardsons, Thos Richmond, Joseph Ritson, FK Robinson, Rev Wm Romaine, Thos Rymer, the Scoresbys, Sir Cuthbert Sharp, Rev David Simpson, Martin Simpson, Thos Simpson, Rev Gideeon Smales, IG Speed, 
Henry Spencer, Robt. Stephenson, Rev. Lawrence Sterne and his 'Eugenius' John Hall Stephenson, your friend Robt Surtees, GW Sutton, Edmund Teesdale, Justice Temple, James Thomas, James Thompson, John Toy, Rev John Wallace, The Watkinses, Thos Ward, Thos Watson, Richard Winter, Rev Thos Wood, John Wright, Rev Dr Young and a host of other writers,