Richard Welford (1836–1919) was a British journalist, biographer, local historian, businessman and politician associated with

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in the 19th century. He was the author of a number of well-known works of history of the area and of its leading citizens.

Biography

Richard Welford was born in Holloway, London in 1836. He worked in

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as a reporter for the Bucks Advertiser, before moving to Newcastle in 1854 to work for the

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. He was appointed its sub-editor in 1858, a position he held for three years before resigning in 1861 to become a freelance writer. In concert with his writing, he took up, by 1871, a position as secretary of a local shipping company, rising to become managing director of the Tyne Steam Shipping Company. He was active in local politics, serving on the South Gosforth Local Board and acting as a magistrate. Welford acted as president of the short-lived

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from 1893 to 1900. He inherited J. W. Fenwick's library of documents and manuscript music for the

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upon Fenwick's death in 1907. The Tyne Tees Steam Shipping Company named a passenger cargo ship commissioned by them from Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd and launched 6 November 1907, completed February 1908 as ''Richard Welford''. Welford died in 1919. A

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of Welford is displayed in the

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Works

He was the author of: *''A History of the Parish of Gosforth'' (1879) *''St Nicholas Church and its monuments'' (1880) *''Pictures of Tyneside Sixty Years Ago'' (1881) – a reprint from original plates of ''Pictures of Tyneside Sixty Years Ago'' by

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*''History of Newcastle and Gateshead'' - written in celebration of the town's elevation to

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in 1882
Volume I – 14th and 15th centuries
(1884)
Volume II – 16th century
(1885)
Volume III – 16th and 17th centuries
(1887) *''Men of Mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed'' (1895)
Volume 1

Volume II

Volume IIIEarly printing in Newcastle-upon-Tyne
(1895)
Records of the Committees for compounding, etc., with delinquent royalists in Durham and Northumberland during the civil war, etc., 1643–1660
(1905) *''Newcastle Typography and Bibliography, from 1639 to 1800'' (date unknown)

References

External links

Articles and chapters by Richard Welford
principally in the ''Proceedings of the

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'', on

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