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Myers Literary Guide:
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The North-East
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JOHN TROTTER BROCKETT (1788 - 1842) Brockett was born in Witton Gilbert, but his parents soon moved to Gateshead, and Brockett was educated under the care of the Rev. William Turner. He was a lawyer by profession, and a man of refined tastes. He was a keen student of numismatics as well as English antiquities and philology. When his books and coins were auctioned at Sothebys in 1823, the sale of the former lasted ten days, and of the latter fourteen. In 1818, Brockett published a work which led to the foundation of the Newcastle Typographical Society and contributed to its series of publications. In 1825 he brought out his Glossary of North Country Words in Use. This includes a definition of the word 'chare': A narrow street, lane or alley... peculiar to Newcastle, where there are several, particularly on the Quayside... from the Saxon cyrran, to turn; a chare being a turning from some superior street.Brockett served as secretary of the Newcastle Lit and Phil, where his portrait hangs, and was on the council of the Society of Antiquaries. He died at Albion Place, now Leazes Park Road in Newcastle.
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