Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 782 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: William Bernard Ogden, articled clerk, of Sunderland
Covering Dates: 1814-1823, 1932
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Records deposited on long-term loan,29 July 1985
(Acc: 1606(D))
County Record Office,
County Hall,
DURHAM.
DHl 5UL
Telephone (0191) 3833253
William Bernard Ogden was articled to Thomas Collin, lawyer, of Sunderland on 27 September 1814. The diaries record his activities during the period of his clerkship. They describe his social life including a strenuous programme of reading in Latin, French and Italian and his professional life, including extensive journeys throughout County Durham on business. He also notes current affairs, including Napoleon's return to France in 1815.
The diaries proper finish in 1822, but Ogden added notes in the last volume of the most important events of his life between that date and 1858. In 1822 he went into partnership with John Hodgson in London. In 1828, the partnership was dissolved and Ogden carried on the practice in St. Mildred's Court, Poultry, on his own. In January 1845, having left London, he became an acting director of the Northumberland and Durham District Bank. His father died in 1850 and his mother in 1852.
The Northumberland and Durham District Bank failed in 1857 and the entries cease with the winding up of the bank in 1858 and the author's removal to Dunning Street, Sunderland. A note at the end of the last volume by W.H. Cook notes that W.B. Ogden was killed on 6 December 1870 in a railway accident at Broddey Whins while on a journey to Newcastle to make a final distribution to a bank depositor. In a typescript note describing the accident inserted in volume one of the diaries and signed "J.D." Ogden is described as a chemical manufacturer at the time of his death.
Catalogue Contents
Ref: D/X 782/2
`Records of The Events of my Life during my Clerkship and Remarks on various subjects during that time. No. II From 12th April 1815 To 25th June 1816. Both inclusive By W.B. Odgen, Sunderland'
(1 volume, paper bound)
Ref: D/X 782/3`Records of The Events of my Life during My Clerkship and Remarks On various Subjects during that time. No. III From lst July 1816 To 30th Augt. 1817 Both inclusive By W.B. Ogden, Sunderland'
(1 volume, paper bound)
Ref: D/X 782/4Diary kept by W.B. Ogden, 5 September 1817 - 23 August 1823. W.B. Ogden continued the diary to 1822, but in February 1859 cut out `10 leaves, which only Extended to 1822 and now appears much too Sentimental'. Ogden did, however, insert notes of the major events of his later life from 1822 to 7 May 1858 At end: `List of Books and other Articles belonging to me left at Sunderland, Febry 1819'
(1 volume, paper bound)
Ref: D/X 782/5Letter from John Oxberry, 21 Grasmere Street, Gateshead to W.H. Cook, Ivan Lea, Cleadon commenting on the quality of the diaries and recommending that they be published, 13 July 1932
Originally enclosed in D/X 782/5
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 782/l`Records of The Events of my Life during my Clerkship and Remarks on various Subjects during that time. No I From 28th Febry. 1814 To 31st Mar. 1815 Both inclusive By W.B. Ogden, Sunderland'
(1 volume, paper bound)
