Details about this item have proved to be elusive. Hunt’s Book Trade in Northumberland and Durham to 1860 list no-one in Paradise Row. Parson & White’s 1827 Durham and Northumberland Directory is similarly negative in its list of Academies and Schools. Perhaps Thos. Graham, music professor, Paradise-Row, in the general section of the Directory is a plausible inhabitant of the Academy but again we know nothing further of him.