| 词条 | John Trotter Brockett |
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John Trotter Brockett (1788-1842), was a British attorney, antiquarian, numismatist, and philologist. LifeBrockett was born at Witton Gilbert, County Durham. In his early youth his parents moved to Gateshead, and he was educated under the care of the Rev. William Turner of Newcastle. The law having been selected as his profession, he was, after the usual course of study, admitted an attorney, and practiced for many years at Newcastle, where he was respected as an able and eloquent advocate in the mayor's and sheriff's courts, and a sound lawyer in the branches of his profession which deal with tenures and conveyancing. He was a man of refined tastes, and a close student of numismatics and of English antiquities and philology. He made considerable collections of books and coins and medals, in 1823-1824 the choice library and cabinets which he had formed up to that time were dispersed by auction at Sotheby's, the sale of the latter occupying ten days, and that of the former fourteen days. Brockett was a member of the Society of Antiquaries of London, a secretary of the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society, and one of the council of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne. He died at Albion Place, Newcastle, on 12 October 1842, aged 54. PublicationsIn 1818 he published Hints on the Propriety of establishing a Typographical Society in Newcastle (8vo, pp. 8), which led to the foundation of such a society, and gave an impulse to the production of an interesting series of privately printed tracts at Newcastle. To that series he himself contributed several works, including:
Also reprints of tracts on Henry III; on Robert, Earl of Salisbury; and of three accounts of the siege of Newcastle. In 1818 he published an Enquiry into the Question whether the Freeholders of the Town and County of Newcastle-upon-Tyne are entitled to vote for Members of Parliament for the County of Northumberland, and in 1825 the first edition of his Glossary of North Country Words in Use (Newcastle-on-Tyne, 8vo). The manuscript collections for this valuable work were not originally intended for publication, and they passed into the library of John George Lambton, afterwards Lord Durham, but that gentleman surrendered them for the public service. A second edition, to a large extent rewritten, was published in 1829; and a third was in preparation at the time of the author's death, and was published, under the editorship of W. E. Brockett, in 1846 (2 vols. 8vo). PapersHe also contributed papers to the first three volumes of Archæologia Æliana. In 1882 a Glossographia Anglicana, from a manuscript left by Brockett, was privately printed by the society, called "The sette of odd volumes",' with a biographical sketch of the author by Frederick B. Coomer of Newcastle, who names one or two tracts by Brockett not noted above, and memoirs by him of Thomas and John Bewick, prefixed to the 1820 edition of Bewick's Select Fables. References{{DNB|wstitle=Brockett, John Trotter}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Brockett, John Trotter}} 13 : 1788 births|1842 deaths|18th-century English people|19th-century English people|English numismatists|English lawyers|English antiquarians|Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London|English philologists|19th-century British writers|19th-century philologists|People from County Durham|People from Gateshead |
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