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Charnley, bookseller.* This intelligent and 

 honest man, I account as one of the Newcastle 

 worthies. The Revd. William Turner, Secretary 

 to the Literary and Philosophical Society in 

 Newcastle, and Minister of the Unitarian Chapel. 

 He was in my way of judging a Master of Arts. 

 His talents were great in various departments of 

 science and as a lecturer on such subjects, and I 

 know not how I can say more or less of him than 

 that his character was composed of everthing 

 great, good, amiable and praiseworthy. His 

 friend and associate, Robert Doubleday,f vice- 

 president of the Literary and Philosophical 

 Society also partook very greatly of the same 

 good qualities and attainments as Mr. Turner. 

 There were others, set after set, with whom I 

 lived in habits of intimacy, and some of these may 

 be dated a long way back. Gilfrid Ward, woollen 

 draper (of facetious memory) ; he died 25th of 

 January 1798, aged 52 years and was buried at 

 St. John's ; Joseph Bell, painter, he also displayed 

 considerable abilities as a painter, poet, and a man 

 of talents in other respects, but with keeping much 

 company, he became also much dissipated ; he 

 died 26th April, 1806, aged 60, and was buried at 

 St. Andrews. I was also long acquainted with 

 William Bell, portrait painter, etc. He was, as 

 a painter accounted eminent in that profession, 

 and was awarded a gold medal from the Society 

 of Arts for the best historical painting. He 

 died in Newcastle Infirmary in the year 1830, aged 

 60. I was also long afterwards on the most 



* William Charnley died loth August, 1803, aged 76, and was 

 buried at St. John's. 



f Robert Doubleday died 2yth January 1823, aged 70. 



