n. a person supporting the reforms advocated by Lord Durham in his Report of 1839.
- 1839  (Patriot) Whose heart's as false as his liver's white, / Be sure that man is "A Durhamite".
- 1937  A volley of stones put the "Durhamites" to flight, one being carried off wounded, and others hiding in cellars, in the woods, or among the rushes of the lake-shore.