WhitbyMuseum.org.uk The Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society
Title
Whitby Lit. and Phil. Society
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- The Society - About Us (Brief History)
- The Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society was founded in 1823 by a group of leading Whitby citizens led by the Rev. George Young, the author of the classic nineteenth century "History of Whitby" (1819) and minister at the Presbyterian Church. The chief object of the Society was to setup and maintain a museum, specialising in fossils, since "Whitby is a chief town of a district abounding with petrifications and containing not a few Antiquities". Ever since Whitby Museum has been run for the people of Whitby by the people of Whitby.
