bust of Losh made, by David Dunbar the younger; and in 1836, after his death, a statue by John Graham Lough. He was a vice-president also of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne. Losh collected meteorological data in Newcastle from 1802. He collected a million items of meteorological data from 1802-1833, this data has contributed to climate change studies in 2019. Losh’s data highlighted the River Tyne froze over for a whole month in January 1814. This attracted a fair and visitors, with tents pitched on the ice by the Newcastle bridge. Death and burial Losh died at Greta Bridge, Yorkshire, on 23 September 1833. He was buried at Gosforth on 3 October, with a well-attended funeral. Diary Losh kept a diary from January 1797, for the rest of his life. It is preserved, in 33 volumes, that were kept at Tullie House, and then went to the Carlisle Public Library. An edition in two volumes of the diaries from 1811 was published by the Surtees Society, from 1962, edited by Edward Hughes. He expressed a private view in the diary, as a colliery owner, that industrial relations in mining were too adversarial, and the owners and "viewers" excessive in their wish to exploit labour. Family Losh married Cecelia or Cecilia Baldwin, daughter of Roger Baldwin F.R.S., rector of Aldingham, then in Lancashire. There was a connection through Wordsworth, whose student time at St John's College, Cambridge had overlapped with Cecilia's brother John Baldwin's. They had a family of five sons and three daughters, with one child, the first-born, who died shortly. Of the daughters: Cecilia (1801–1866) married William Gale, a cousin; Margaret Catherine (1813–1894) married Edmund Townson on 9 July 1836; Jemima Christophina (1817–1891) married Richard Blomley Postlethwaite on 10 April 1841. Of the sons, William Septimus Losh (1810–1888) was the survivor, and his son James Arlosh (1834–1904), who took the old form of the family surname, was an only child, the last in the male line. Arlosh was a patron of Edward Burne-Jones; on his death, childless, his money went to Manchester College.V. D. Davis, A History of Manchester College (1932) (PDF), at p. 178 Sources The Worthies of Cumberland, Henry Lonsdale, published by George Routledge & sons, 1873William Wordsworth: The Critical Heritage, Robert Woof, published by Routledge, 2001The Diaries and Correspondence of James Losh. Diary, 1811–1823, published for the Society by Andrews & Co, 1962The