The Joseph window behind Bishop William Van Mildert’s statue shows Joseph’s life of being sold as a slave by his brothers. William Van Mildert was the Bishop of Durham along with being one of the ...

Granville’s father Thomas was a prebendary who was required to live in Durham for six months of the year. For a while Granville was at the Grammar School on the Green where he learned languages. G...

The Marquess of Londonderry supported the use of child labour in the mines, was against strikes, unions, and tenancy rights, and he was an uncaring landlord of estates in Ireland.

Several anti-slavery meetings were held in the Guildhall in the Market Square in 1792, 1814 and 1826.

Cloisters has memorials devoted to Thomas, John, Judith, Mary and Ann Jemima Sharp, family of Granville Sharp

He was a Pole of limited stature born in 1739. He was a talented violinist and guitarist who came to England and organized subscription concerts

In 1784 Stephen Kemble wrote a poem justifying The Slave Trade

As Bishop of Durham, he was a controversial figure, who dined publicly with Unitarians and Roman Catholics, subscribed to the publication of the abolitionist Newcastle Unitarian Minister and abolit...

"This floor stone commemorates Dr Henry Evans Holder III. 'Sacred to the Memory of HENRY EVANS HOLDER. M.D. of the Island of Barbados who departed this life February 22nd 1817 Aged 36 Years.'"

Having been secularized the Parliamentarians in the Civil War incarcerated 3,000 Scottish prisoners in the Cathedral in 1650.

Reverand Gerald Valerian Wellesley was a Prebendary of the Cathedral & Rector of Bishop Wearmouth.

He was the son of Charles Cadogan, 3rd Earl Cadogan, co-heir of his grandfather Hans Sloane’s estate in Chelsea. Charles lent £20,500 to a group to buy a 320-acre estate in Grenada, together with t...