ISAAC MILBURN-BONESETTER

Isaac Milburn gravestone

Isaac Milburn is buried in the the churchyard of St Peter and St Paul at Longhoughton in Northumberland. Milburn was famous as a self taught bonesetter who attracted clients from far and near-including royalty.There are articles in the C19 press which claim that he was able to teach the medical establishment a thing or two about setting bones to rights.His story almost sounds like something from Thomas Hardy. The monument appears to be of marble and is one of the few to the north of the church. Milburn spent some time at Wallington and there is an account of him out near Harnham helping to catch smugglers.

Milburn also lived at Elsdon,as an innkeeper and at Longframlington before moving to Longhoughton.My information is taken from Smugglers and Poachers at Wallington Hall which was a Frank Graham publiation of 1979.It reprints a substantial article on Milburn's bone-setting from the Newcastle Courant of 28/03/1879.