Capt Boss News Today

NORTHALLERTON was a “pocket borough”. It needed cleaning up. A new broom was required to sweep away centuries of rottenness and open the town up…

How was it done? A splendid, 190-year-old silver tureen, one of the great treasures of the town, tells the story. The inscription on the tureen, which is topped by a hand clasping a key, says it was presented to Captain John George Boss by the friends of “reform and liberty of conscience”. The inscriptions says it was presented to him “as a token of esteem for his unwearied exertions in an arduous contest of six months, making every sacrifice even when visited with deep domestic a...