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Description: | Walter Claverley (1708-1777) took the Blackett name following the death of his uncle, the third Sir William Blackett, in 1728. The Blackett family became important in the North-East after making their money from lead mines in Allendale, County Durham. The family home was Wallington, at Cambo, Northumberland. Sir Walter Blackett was Mayor of Newcastle five times during the years 1735 to 1771. He became known as the father of the poor when he gave money to needy people in Newcastle during a famine in 1740. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | work artists politics living in the North East art men coal mining | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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