John Brand (antiquarian)

He was author of Observations on Popular Antiquities: including the whole of Mr Bourne's "Antiquitates Vulgares," with addenda to every chapter of that work.

[1] Born in Washington, County Durham, he was educated at the Royal Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne.

He was initially apprenticed as a cordwainer, and later was ordained, holding in succession the curacies of Bolam, Northumberland, of St Andrew's, Newcastle, and of Cramlington.

When this churchyard was cleared, his remains were moved to West Norwood Cemetery within the enclosure that the church acquired there in 1847.

(The incorporated work was the Popular Antiquities of Henry Bourne, published 1725, with Brand's own extensive annotations).