Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Bewick, John William
BEWICK, The Right Rev. John William, D.D., Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, was born at Minster Acres, Northumberland, April 20, 1824, and at the age of thirteen became an alumnus of St. Cuthbert's College, Ushaw, where he completed his course of studies for the priesthood, distinguishing himself as a first-class scholar. Promoted to priest's orders in 1850, he was first placed as assistant priest at the cathedral in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. In 1854 he was removed to a more responsible position in North Shields, where he laboured for fifteen or sixteen years. Shortly after being appointed in 1868 by Bishop Chadwick his Vicar-General, he resigned the rectory of North Shields, and took up his residence at Tynemouth, where he founded the mission of Our Lady and St. Oswin. He was appointed a canon of the cathedral chapter in 1865, and ten years later received the doctor's cap from the Holy See. In Sept., 1882, he was nominated to the See of Hexham and Newcastle, which had become vacant by the death of Dr. James Chadwick, and he was consecrated by Cardinal Manning on the 18th of the following month in St. Mary's cathedral church, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.