BUILDING CONTRACTOR AND MAYOR
Situated in the Consecrated/West Section of Jesmond Old Cemetery.
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Born in Gateshead and moved to Newcastle when young. He became the manager of a chemical works at Walker and was a Newcastle Councillor from 1866, being Mayor in 1871 and 1879. He was also a JP. He was Chairman of the Redheugh Bridge Company and a member of the Tyne Improvement Commission. He lived in Beaconsfield, Low Fell.
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Richard Cail specified his unusual massive four ton grey granite tombstone, reminiscent of a fallen tree trunk, in his will and designed it himself.
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He was much involved with railway and reservoir engineering.