John Brand
January | February 2015
Two hundred and fifty years ago he taught
at the Newcastle Grammar School, where he ‘did not
have recourse to the strap’ (rare
omission for the time), albeit he was large and fair
and ‘a jovial man, and as lumbering as his book’
(which was an unhurried look
into Histories and Antiquities of the Town
and County of Newcastle…