Month: October 2017

William Hall Burnett’s visit to John Ruskin at Brantwood, 1893

William Hall Burnett’s visit to John Ruskin at Brantwood, 1893

In 1887 William Hall Burnett moved with his family from Middlesbrough to Blackburn to take up the post of Editor of the Blackburn Standard.  He instigated a regular feature on the back page (page 8) of The Weekly Standard and Express Newspaper which initially was entitled ‘Passing notes and Gossip’ – as it developed he …

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3. Indomitable pluck and perseverance & the ‘winged art’

This is the third posting on the timeline of William’s life. It describes further influences on his education and development during his early teenage years in Stokesley and before he moved to Middlesbrough in around 1855. _______________________________________________ Having gained some idea of William’s family and where he spent his early years, what do we know …

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