Josiah Shufflebotham,
T. D.Born in Newcastle upon Tyne. Involved in the Northern Political Union during the 1830s, fighting for parliamentary reform. Elected to the Newcastle town council (1835-1840). Author of verse dramas, including The Italian Wife (1823); philosophical treatises, including On Mundane and Moral Government (1852); a collection of fishing songs, The Coquet-Dale Fishing Songs (1852), with Robert Roxby; and the novel The Eve of St Mark: a Romance of Venice (1857). Biographical information: ODNB. (AC, CC)