William Chatto

1799 (age 65)

He used the pseudonym Stephen Oliver (Junior). In 1834 he gave up business to write. Also in this year, he acquired, probably from the Atkinson family, the Henry Atkinson manuscript, an important early source of violin music, dating from the 1690s, and written in or near Newcastle. He was editor in 1839-1841 of the New Sporting Magazine, and in 1844 projected a penny daily comic illustrated paper entitled: Puck, a journalette of Fun. Foreign this paper, which he edited himself, he secured the services of contributors including Tom Taylor, but it had only a brief existence. He died in the London Charterhouse, 28 February 1864, and was buried in Highgate Cemetery.

William Chatto

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The only son of William Chatto, a merchant who died at Gibraltar in 1804, was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne on 17 April 1799.

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He used the pseudonym Stephen Oliver (Junior). In 1834 he gave up business to write. Also in this year, he acquired, probably from the Atkinson family, the Henry Atkinson manuscript, an important early source of violin music, dating from the 1690s, and written in or near Newcastle.

He was editor in 1839-1841 of the New Sporting Magazine, and in 1844 projected a penny daily comic illustrated paper entitled: Puck, a journalette of Fun.

Foreign this paper, which he edited himself, he secured the services of contributors including Tom Taylor, but it had only a brief existence. He died in the London Charterhouse, 28 February 1864, and was buried in Highgate Cemetery.

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In 1839, Chatto was elected an honorary member of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne.

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