He possesses a weak intellect; yet he conceives that no man is more cunning and shrewd than himself. He has a kind of mania for watches and seldom has the same watch above a month. Though he exchanges watches, he generally gets the worst of the bargain, yet he does not think so, for with a knowing twinkle of the eyes and an inward chuckle, he brags how he has taken in the party he exchanged with. Photograph and extract from Heavisidess Almanack 1904. Taken from the Annals of Stockton on Tees by Henry Heavisides (father of Michael)