Berkeley Addison

[1] Ordained deacon in 1839, and priest in 1840, he held brief curacies at Brighton and Kensington, and in 1843 settled in Edinburgh as curate under Dean Ramsay where he remained for twelve years.

[1] Richard Welford describes Adamson as an eloquent preacher, a fluent platform speaker, and a liberal-minded man, who soon became popular in Newcastle.

When the School Board was formed in the town, he was put forward as one of the Church candidates, and, of the fifteen representatives elected, was returned tenth on the poll.

His fellow-members elected him to be the first vice-chairman of the Board, from which position he succeeded to the chairmanship, a post which he occupied until his retirement in 1877.

[1] The congregation at Jesmond celebrated the twentieth anniversary of his ministry by presenting him with a purse of gold containing £320, and an address, in which his faithful services were recognised, and a hope was expressed that he might be long spared to uphold and expound those great principles of the Reformation which Jesmond Church was founded to perpetuate.