Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

He gave many invited lectures including the Wilde ( University of Oxford ), Riddell Newcastle University, Boutwood University of Cambridge, Scott Holland University of London, Bicentary Georgetown University.

Algernon Charles Swinburne, who wrote two poems to Scott, spent much time with him in Newcastle after being sent down from Oxford.

His grandfather, William Scott of Sandgate, a suburb of Newcastle, was clerk to a fitter, a sort of water-carrier and broker of coals.

* 15 June 2005 – Newcastle United sign Chelsea midfielder Scott Parker for £ 6. 5million.

Alan Scott Pardew ( born 18 July 1961 in Wimbledon, Surrey ) is an English football manager and former player who has managed Newcastle United since 2010.

In 1760 he married, and began tuition on a larger scale in Newcastle, where he had among his pupils John Scott, afterwards Lord Eldon and Lord High Chancellor of England.

The Dominican friary was founded by a wealthy Newcastle merchant, Sir Peter Scott.

Scott and Thurston played in Australia ’ s Test win against New Zealand in May, and were joined by Tonga for the victory against the Kiwis in Newcastle in October.

This followed a close-season in which Newcastle manager Graeme Souness signed a number of other midfield players, including Emre Belözoğlu, Scott Parker, Albert Luque and Nolberto Solano.

This is where the great Yorkshire man Scott Jackson was first recruited by Newcastle United before going on to become the Magpies third leading goal scorer with 187 in three seasons at St James ' Park. Cottenham is also home to the Cottenham Renegades, North Cambridge's only Rugby for pleasure club.

Scott was born at Heworth, a village about four miles from Newcastle upon Tyne, the son of a coalfitter ( or tradesman engaged in the transport of coal ).

Dr. J Burdon-SandersonSource: 1894 Vanity Fair caricatureSir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, 1st Baronet FRS ( 21 December 1828-23 November 1905 ) was an English physiologist born near Newcastle upon Tyne.

Scott was born in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England ; home of Newcastle Brown Ale and Newcastle United Football Club soccer.

Initially schooled in Newcastle, Scott moved to an all-boys boarding school in Lancaster.

File: Newcastle railway station exterior. JPG | The station from Scott Street

He is referring to the twinned monasteries of Monkwearmouth and Jarrow, near modern-day Newcastle, claimed as his birthplace, there is also a tradition that he was born at Monkton, two miles from the monastery at Jarrow.

Charlton was related to several professional footballers on his mother's side of the family: his uncles were Jack Milburn ( Leeds United and Bradford City ), George Milburn ( Leeds United and Chesterfield ), Jim Milburn ( Leeds United and Bradford City ) and Stan Milburn ( Chesterfield, Leicester City and Rochdale ), and legendary Newcastle United and England footballer Jackie Milburn, was his mother's cousin.

The news about Davy's lamp was made public at a Royal Society meeting in Newcastle on 3 November 1815, and the paper describing the lamp was formally presented on 9 November.

During this time, England played at a number of different venues across the country, though by the time of the 2006 World Cup qualifiers this had largely settled down to having Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium as the primary venue, with Newcastle United's St. James ' Park used on occasions where Old Trafford was unavailable.

George Stephenson was born in Wylam, Northumberland, west of Newcastle upon Tyne.

In September 1825 the works at Forth Street, Newcastle completed the first locomotive for the new railway: originally named Active, it was soon renamed Locomotion.

Nielson, captain ) was carrying a cargo of coal from Newcastle, New South Wales to San Francisco when it wrecked on Jarvis ' southern shore.

George was a pioneer aviator who with his colleague Jobling built and flew a biplane at Newcastle in England in 1910.

He was made a midshipman on the wooden, steam, fully rigged frigate HMS Newcastle in September 1874.

In January 1997 Dalglish was appointed manager of Premier League side Newcastle United on a three-and-a-half-year contract, taking over from Kevin Keegan.

The 1997 – 98 campaign saw Newcastle finish in only 13th place and, despite Dalglish achieving some notable successes during the season ( including a 3 – 2 UEFA Champions League win over Barcelona and an FA Cup final appearance against Arsenal ), he was sacked by Freddie Shepherd after two draws in the opening two games of the subsequent 1998 – 1999 season, and replaced by former Chelsea manager Ruud Gullit.

Lincoln was named after Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle, 9th Earl of Lincoln – a cousin of the Wentworth governors.

Palin's first travel documentary was part of the 1980 BBC Television series Great Railway Journeys of the World, in which, humorously reminiscing about his childhood hobby of train spotting, he travelled throughout the UK by train, from London to the Kyle of Lochalsh, via Manchester, York, Newcastle upon Tyne, Edinburgh and Inverness.

The first international academic conference on the subject of Pagan studies was held at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, North-East England in 1993.

Notable pub-rock venues include the Largs Pier Hotel and the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel in Adelaide, the Royal Antler Hotel in Narrabeen, Sydney and the Civic Hotel in Sydney's city centre, the famous Star Hotel in Newcastle NSW and the Station Hotel in Prahran, Melbourne, which was one of the premier pub-rock venues in Australia for more than two decades, Poyntons Carlton Club Hotel in Carlton Melbourne's first Sunday night Live pub-rock venue.

The comic was started in Newcastle upon Tyne in December 1979 by Chris Donald, who produced the comic from his bedroom in his parents ' Jesmond home with help from his brother Simon and friend Jim Brownlow.

The first theatrical adaptation of Wings of Desire was created by the Northern Stage theatre company in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK in 2003.

* West End Broadcast ( WeB FM ), a radio station in Newcastle, England, that was a forerunner of NE1fm

Walpole was instead succeeded as Prime Minister by Lord Wilmington, though the real power in the new government was divided between Lord Carteret and the Pelham brothers ( Henry and Thomas, Duke of Newcastle ).

In 1754, Henry Pelham died suddenly, and was succeeded as Prime Minister by his brother, the Duke of Newcastle.

It was widely believed that Newcastle had done this because he feared the ambitions of both Pitt and Fox, and believed he would find it easier to dominate the inexperienced Robinson.

As the government came under increasing attack, Newcastle replaced Robinson with Fox who it was acknowledged carried more political weight and again slighted Pitt.

It's only once he arrived in Newcastle that he felt he had returned to a civilized part of the world and the inhabitable face of the Earth, Scotland and the far north of England being " wild, bare and never visited by the sun in winter ".

When Dudley visited Newcastle and listened to his preaching in June 1552, he had mixed feelings about the fire-brand preacher, but he saw Knox as a potential asset.

In 1897, T. R. H the Duke and Duchess of York ( George V and Queen Mary ), grandparents to Elizabeth II, visited Newcastle to open the Slieve Donard Hotel.

During the summer of 1748 Newcastle made his first ever trip outside Britain when he visited Hanover, and was received with a rapturous reception wherever he went.

Charles Dickens visited Tynemouth and wrote in a letter from Newcastle, dated 4 March 1867:

The teenager also was impressive against English Premier League side Newcastle United, when the Magpies visited D. C. during a pre-season training stint in the US.

On 9 January 2012 it was given a temporary Virgin Money rebrand when Richard Branson visited Newcastle.

In 1935 he married Janet Adam Smith, critic and anthologist, and fellow mountaineer ; they lived in Fern Avenue, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne where they were visited by W. H. Auden in September 1937.

In the autumn of 1280 he visited in the company of Queen Eleanor on his way to Newcastle.

The tour visited Sheffield, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool, Cardiff and Dublin.

The friary was traditionally the lodging place of English kings whenever they visited or passed through Newcastle.

The plague visited Newcastle four times during the 16th century, in 1579 when 200 people died, in 1589 when 1700 died, in 1595 and finally in 1597.

For the second episode, which aired on 11 September 2004, the judges visited Newcastle.