Obituary

John Buddle

Illustration from AOCM

1843, October 10th

Died, at Wallsend, in the county of Northumberland, in the 70th year of his age, John Buddle, esq. The deceased was born at Kyo, near Tanfield, Durham, his father being then the schoolmaster at that place, though ultimately the manager of the celebrated Wallsend Colliery, a situation in which his son succeeded him in 1806. As a mining engineer and colliery manager, Mr. Buddle had long stood in the front rank of his profession, and the extensive and varied scientific knowledge which he possessed, and the almost unrivalled skill and judgement with which he applied that knowledge to actual practice, procured for him the highest professional reputation, not only in this country, but abroad. His sterling honesty and unaffected kindness of heart caused him to be loved and respected by his friends, and the liberality with which he privately bestowed large sums in acts of charity will be long and gratefully remembered by those numerous individuals who were the objects of his unostentatious benevolence. Mr. Buddle left a fortune of not less than £150,000, as a monument of his skill and enterprise. October 16th, the remains of the deceased were interred at Benwell. Sixty gentlemen on horseback preceded the hearse, which was followed by nine mourning coaches, upwards of sixty private carriages, and a great number of workmen from various collieries.

Sources

LRL - Local Records by John Latimer. Published in 1857. Provides a "Historical Register of Remarkable Events", ordered by date - continues the work by John Sykes for the period 1832-1857.

AOCM - Annals of Coal Mining and the Coal Trade by Robert L. Galloway. Published in two volumes in 1898.