Rockingham were early 19th century pottery manufacturers whose flamboyant, ornamental pieces gained royal attention in 1830.
[6] Freemantle utilised his local links to assemble his collections, for example he discusses locating the pottery with a ‘Mr Charles Drury’.
Though Brotherton purchased not only Mendelssohn items but Freemantle’s entire collecting library, including other literature and books on theology and local Yorkshire history.
Brotherton did not purchase Freemantle’s coins and seals collection, which now reside at Weston Park Museum, Sheffield.
During Symington’s employment, he illicitly sold a large proportion of Mendelsson materials from the collection to the Library of Congress for personal profit.
Giving two lectures during his time there the first ‘The Call of Templeborough’ on 12 November 1912 and the second ‘Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (Mrs. D.G Rossetti)’ on 11 February 1913.
[2] - 1876 – The 24th Psalm: The earth is the Lord's/ Composed by Luis Spohr; adapted to the English, from the Original German - 1879 – A Collection of Kyries, Glorias, Chants, complied, composed, or arranged by W. T. Freemantle - 1909 – Our local Bibliography - 1911 – The bibliography of Sheffield and District, Section 1 - 1913 – Templeborough: A Roman Station - 1918 – The Rev.