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Henry Bourne (born 1694 in Newcastle Upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne is a City status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England. Situated on the north bank of the River Tyne, the city developed from a Roman Empire settlement called Pons Aelius, though it owes its name to the Newcastle Castle built in 1080, by Robert Curthose, the eldest son of...
 - died 1733) was an English
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 historian
Historian

A historian is an individual who studies and writes about history, and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, systematic narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all events in time....
. He was the son of a tailor
Tailor

A tailor is a person whose occupation is to sew and scissor menswear style jackets and the skirts or trousers that go with them.Although the term dates to the thirteenth century, tailor took on its modern sense in the late eighteenth century, and now refers to makers of men's and women's suit , coat s, trousers, and similar garments, u...
 and it was planned by his father that he would be apprenticed as a glazier
Glazier

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-S74736, Glaser bei der Arbeit.jpgA Glazier is a construction professional who selects, cuts, installs, replaces, and removes residential, Commerce, and artistic glass....
; however his promise was such that he was sent to the Royal Free Grammar School
Royal Grammar School, Newcastle

Royal Grammar School Newcastle upon Tyne, known locally as The RGS, is a long-established co-educational, independent school in Newcastle upon Tyne, England....
 where he flourished, winning a scholarship to Cambridge
Cambridge

The city status in the United Kingdom of Cambridge is a College town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about 50 miles north of London....
 under the tutelage of The Reverend Mr. Thomas Atherton, a fellow Novocastrian
Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne is a City status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England. Situated on the north bank of the River Tyne, the city developed from a Roman Empire settlement called Pons Aelius, though it owes its name to the Newcastle Castle built in 1080, by Robert Curthose, the eldest son of...
.

Bourne was appointed curate
Curate

From the Latin curatus , a curate is a person who is invested with the Cure of souls of a parish. In this sense it correctly means a parish....
 at All Hallows Church in Newcastle in 1724 and held the position until his death in 1733.

In 1725 Bourne published his most acclaimed work, Antiquities of the Common People.

His huge and very complete history of Newcastle was not quite finished upon his death, but was published 1736 under the title The History of Newcastle upon Tyne, or the Ancient and Present State of that Town.








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Henry Bourne (born 1694 in Newcastle Upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne is a City status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England. Situated on the north bank of the River Tyne, the city developed from a Roman Empire settlement called Pons Aelius, though it owes its name to the Newcastle Castle built in 1080, by Robert Curthose, the eldest son of...
 - died 1733) was an English
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 historian
Historian

A historian is an individual who studies and writes about history, and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, systematic narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all events in time....
. He was the son of a tailor
Tailor

A tailor is a person whose occupation is to sew and scissor menswear style jackets and the skirts or trousers that go with them.Although the term dates to the thirteenth century, tailor took on its modern sense in the late eighteenth century, and now refers to makers of men's and women's suit , coat s, trousers, and similar garments, u...
 and it was planned by his father that he would be apprenticed as a glazier
Glazier

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-S74736, Glaser bei der Arbeit.jpgA Glazier is a construction professional who selects, cuts, installs, replaces, and removes residential, Commerce, and artistic glass....
; however his promise was such that he was sent to the Royal Free Grammar School
Royal Grammar School, Newcastle

Royal Grammar School Newcastle upon Tyne, known locally as The RGS, is a long-established co-educational, independent school in Newcastle upon Tyne, England....
 where he flourished, winning a scholarship to Cambridge
Cambridge

The city status in the United Kingdom of Cambridge is a College town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about 50 miles north of London....
 under the tutelage of The Reverend Mr. Thomas Atherton, a fellow Novocastrian
Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne is a City status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England. Situated on the north bank of the River Tyne, the city developed from a Roman Empire settlement called Pons Aelius, though it owes its name to the Newcastle Castle built in 1080, by Robert Curthose, the eldest son of...
.

Bourne was appointed curate
Curate

From the Latin curatus , a curate is a person who is invested with the Cure of souls of a parish. In this sense it correctly means a parish....
 at All Hallows Church in Newcastle in 1724 and held the position until his death in 1733.

In 1725 Bourne published his most acclaimed work, Antiquities of the Common People.

His huge and very complete history of Newcastle was not quite finished upon his death, but was published 1736 under the title The History of Newcastle upon Tyne, or the Ancient and Present State of that Town.

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