May Lecture
- April 15, 2025 2:47 pm
- By Tash Back
Friday 18 April, 7.30pm, Joseph Wright Hall
The early memoirs of William Smith Hesleden (1774-1854), solicitor and antiquarian of Barton-upon-Humber.
Dr Martin Watkinson, FSA
Martin will describe how he found the memoirs of William Smith Hesleden in a university library in America and what they tell us about life in Barton at the end of the eighteenth century. He will describe William’s education and apprenticeship, his friendship with Sir John Nelthorpe, his work amongst the poor, and his love of drawing, local history and architecture which has left us a wonderful legacy of published and unpublished work.