THE HANCOCK MUSEUM AND ITS HISTORY VU 



Tees, he built there a special room to accommodate his 

 museum. He was a patron of Bewick, and it was for him 

 that Bewick engraved his noted woodcut of the Chillingham 

 bull. 



MARMADUKE TUNSTALL. 

 After the portrait in Fox's " Newcastle Museum." 



Tunstall died in 1790 at the age of 48, and a year later his 

 museum (known at that time as the Wycliffe Museum) was 

 sold to George Allan, of Blackwell Grange, Darlington. Allan 

 was a distinguished antiquary, an authority on heraldry, and 

 a man of industrious and methodical habits. The care of a 

 museum was an occupation after his own heart. He installed 

 the collection in two large rooms in his house, where the 

 objects were systematically arranged and were all labelled in 

 his beautiful handwriting. The remains of Allan's labels are 

 still adhering to a few ot the ethnological specimens in the 

 Hancock Museum. Many additions also were made to the 



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