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Talbot’s correspondentsTalbot corresponded with more than 1100 individuals and institutions. Most of them are represented below. In this index, each person is listed only under their last known name. This list will be updated frequently as additional biographical information is developed. Enquiries, suggestions and corrections are always welcome. Enquiries to
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a’COURT William Henry Ashe - William Henry Ashe a’Court, 2nd Baron Heytesbury (1 Jul 1809 - 21 Apr 1891), MP, diplomat ABBOTT Francis - Francis Abbott, (b. 1802), English-born Secretary of the Scottish General Post Office, Edinburgh and a personal friend of the Talbots ABNEY William de Wiveleslie - Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney (24 Jul 1843 - 3 Dec1920), Captain, chemist & educator ACADEMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES - Paris ADAM Alexander Forsyth - Alexander Forsyth Adam (1822-1881), WS, Edinburgh; Hon Sec, Photographic Society of Scotland, 1860-1862 ADAM Diamantina, née Palatiano - Lady Diamantina Adam, née Palatiano (1797 - 1 Jun 1844); born in Corfu 2nd wife of Gen Sir Frederick Adam (1784-1853); Lord Byron refered as a "Greek beauty". ADAM Frederick - Gen Sir Frederick Adam (1784-1853), Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Isles; Gov of Madras ADAMS NH - NH Adams, of the Royal Asiatic Society, London ADAMSON John - Dr John Adamson (1809-1870), physician & photographic pioneer, St Andrews ADDAMS Robert - Prof Robert Addams (1789 - 11 Jul 1875), Professor of Experimental Philosophy at The London Institution and The Royal Institution AIRY George Biddell - Sir George Biddell Airy (27 Jul 1801 - 2 Jan 1892), Astronomer Royal ALEXANDER Harry Head - Harry Head Alexander (1811-1842), printer; Secretary, Chippenham Literary & Scientific Institution ALEXANDER Richard - Richard Alexander, watchmaker & bookseller, Chippenham ALLEN Stephen - Stephen Allen (1813-1889), tutor, Cambridge; sometimes clergy, latterly of Shouldham Hall, Norfolk AMICI Giovanni Battista - Prof Giovanni Battista Amici (25 Mar 1786 - 10 Apr 1863), Italian astronomer, botanist, optician & man of science ANCHEUS [?] - of the Hotel Grande Bretagne, Bellagio ANSTIE George Washington - George Washington Anstie (1799 - 17 Jul 1882) of Park Dale, Devizes; Secretary, Wiltshire Anti-Slavery Society ANTHONY E & H T Company - E & H T Anthony Co., New York; photographers & photographic manufacturers ANTHONY Edward - Edward Anthony (31 Jan 1819 - 14 Dec 1888), New York; photographer & merchant ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY - London APPS Alfred - Alfred Apps, (1839-1913), The Strand, London; optician & electrical instrument maker ARAGO Dominique François Jean - Dominique François Jean Arago (26 Feb 1786 - 2 Oct 1853), French physicist, astronomer & man of science ARMACKS & STRICLAIN - horticultural suppliers, Peckham ARNEY William A - William A Arney, sometime resident of Fisherton Goal, Wiltshire ARNOLD Thomas Kerchever - Rev Thomas Kerchever Arnold (1800- 9 Mar 1853), educator & theological writer; Rector of Lyndon, Rutland, 1830-1853. ARNOLD William Langton - William Langton Arnold (1801- 3 Nov 1822) Cambridge student; brother of TK Arnold; first chemical scholar elected on the Micklebrough foundation ARTARIA & FONTAINE - publishers, Mannheim & London ASHER & Company - foreign booksellers & publishers, Berlin & London ASKEW Thomas - Thomas Askew, of Salisbury ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY - (later Royal Astronomical Society), London ATHENAEUM journal - The Athenæum and (London) Literary Chronicle, London ATKINS John - Capt John Atkins, 17th Lancers; debtor, resident in Lancaster Castle ATTWOOD Thomas - Thomas Attwood (6 Oct 1783 - 6 Mar1856), radical MP, banker & manufacturer ATWOOD Henry Adams Sergison - Rev Henry Adams Sergison Atwood (13 Jan 1800 - 22 Jun 1877), astronomer, author AUNT [unidentified] - [of WHFT] AUSTIN Stephen - Stephen Austin (1804-1892), printer & publisher, Hertford AWDRY Frederick - Frederick Awdry (1817-1884), solicitor, Chippenham AWDRY Henry Goddard - Henry Goddard Awdry (1804-1881), solicitor, Chippenham AWDRY John - John Awdry (1766-1844), solicitor, Reybridge AWDRY John Wither - Sir John Wither Awdry (1795-1878), JP & Chief Justice, Bombay Supreme Court AWDRY Justly William - Justly William Awdry (1819-1919), solicitor, Chippenham AWDRY Miss - Miss Awdry, of Rey Bridge Cottage, Reybridge, Wiltshire AWDRY West - West Awdry (1807-1892), solicitor, Chippenham AWDRY William Henry - William Henry Awdry (1778-1847), solicitor, Chippenham BABBAGE Charles - Prof Charles Babbage (26 Dec 1792 - 18 Oct 1871), mathematician & inventor BADCOCK Robert Gibson - Robert Gibson Badcock (1805-1871), banker, antiquarian,The Elms, Taunton BAGSTER Jonathan - Jonathon Bagster (1813-1872), publisher, London BAGSTER Robert - Robert Bagster (1848-1924), publisher, London BAILEY Charles - Charles Bailey (1815-1878), architect & archaeologist BAILEY Owen - Owen Bailey (1813-1866); Importer of Works of Art, Printseller & Publisher, London BAILLIE David - David Baillie (b. 1787), Scottish-born gentleman, resident in London BAILLIER Hippolyte BOOKSELLERS - Hippolyte Baillier Booksellers, Paris & London BAKER Thomas John Lloyd - Thomas John Lloyd Baker (1777-1841), High Sheriff BALFOUR John Hutton - Dr John Hutton Balfour (15 Sep 1808 - 11 Feb 1884), Scottish botanist BANKES William John - William John Bankes (11 Dec 1786 - 15 Apr 1855), MP, Egyptologist and adventurer BANKS Alexander - Alexander Banks, of the Engraving, Lithographic & General Printing Office, Edinburgh BANKS Charles Selman - Charles Selman Banks (1805-1881), stonemason, Lacock BANKS George, snr - George Banks, snr (1786-1864), stonemason & coalseller, Lacock BANKS Henry Haig - Henry Haig Banks (b. 7 Nov 1835), engraver, Edinburgh BANKS William - William Banks (b. 1809), engraver, copperplate printer and lithographer, Edinburgh BANKS WILLIAM & SON - William Banks & Son, engravers, printers and lithographers, Edinburgh BARCLAY George - George Barclay (b. 1802), master engraver & printer, London BARING Alexander - Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton (27 Oct 1773 - 13 May1848), financier & statesman BARING Charles Thomas - Charles Thomas Baring (1807-1879), Bishop of Gloucester & Bristol from 1856-1861 BARING Francis - Francis Baring, 3rd Baron Ashburton, (20 May 1800 - 6 Sep 1868), MP BARING Frederick - Rev Frederick Baring (31 Jan 1806 - 4 Jun 1868); Rector of Abbotstone, and Vicar of Itchen Stoke, Hampshire, 1830-1845 BARLOW & LE CAPELAIN - Patent Journal Office, London BARNES Charlotte Davison, née Bland - Charlotte Davison Barnes, née Bland (b. 1788), wife of Rev Theophilus Barnes, Rector of Castleford BARRAUD Henry - Henry Barraud (16 May 1811 - 17 Jun 1874), English portrait & genre painter BARRESWIL Charles Louis - Charles Louis Barreswil (13 Dec 1817 - 22 Nov 1870), French chemist BARRON Archibald Farquharson - Archibald Farquharson Barron (1835-1903), author; Supt, Royal Horticultural Society Garden, London BARROW John - Sir John Barrow (19 Jun 1764 - 23 Nov 1848), Sec of the Admiralty, scientist & man of letters BARRY Henry - Rev Henry Barry, clergy & scholar, Chippenham BARTON John - Sir John Barton (5 Aug 1771 - 25 Aug 1834), instrument maker, Royal Mint BASSET Francis - Francis Basset, 1st Baron de Dunstanville of Tahidy and 1st Baron Basset of Stratton, Cornwall (9 Aug 1757 - 14 Feb 1835), MP, FRS & political writer; In 1824, his 2nd marriage was to Harriett, née Lemon (d. 1864) BASSETT Alexander - Alexander Bassett (1824-1887), civil and mining engineer in Wiltshire and Wales; JP in Wales BATES E - E Bates, tax official, London BATHURST William Lennox - William Lennox Bathurst, Baron Bathurst (14 Feb 1791 - 24 Feb 1878), MP BATTERSBY Thomas Dundas Harford - Rev Thomas Dundas Harford Battersby (1823-1883), author BAUER Franz Andreas - Franz Andreas Bauer, Francis Bauer (14 Mar 1758 - 11 Dec 1840), FRS; Austrian botanical illustrator, resident at Kew BAYER M J - M J Bayer, courier to the Talbot family in the 1860s-1870s BEACH William Hicks - William Hicks Beach (24 Jul 1783 - 22 Dec 1856), MP BEARD Richard - Richard Beard (22 Dec 1801 - 7 Jun 1885), coal merchant & daguerreotypist, London BEATTY Francis Steward - Francis Steward Beatty (1807-1891), Irish engraver, Daguerreotypist and social activist BECKER J A - J A Becker, Paris BECKETT William Thomas - William Thomas Beckett (b. 1818), curate of Lacock BEDFORD Francis Octavius - Francis Octavius Bedford (Sep 1815 - 15 May 1894), architectural draughtsman,lithographer and photographer, London BELCHER Edward - Sir Edward Belcher (27 Feb 1799 - 18 Mar 1877), native of Nova Scotia; Admiral, scientist; Artic explorer; author BENNET Archibald - Archibald Bennet (1783-1868), Secretary of the Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh BENNETT Edward Turner - Edward Turner Bennett (6 Jan 1797 - 21 Aug1836), zoologist & author BENTHAM George - George Bentham (22 Sep 1800 - 10 Sep 1884), philosopher & botanist BEOKER A - A Beoker, correspondent from France BERENS Richard - Richard Berens, DCL (1782-1849), Fellow and Bursar of All Souls College, Oxford BERTOLONI Antoino - Prof Antoino Bertoloni (8 Feb 1793 - 17 Apr 1869), Italian botanist BESSEMER Henry - Sir Henry Bessemer (19 Jan 1813 - 15 Mar 1898), inventor & astronomer BIENMULLER Wilhelm - Wilhelm Bienmuller, engraver & photographer, Avignon BIGGS Richard W - Richard W Biggs (d. 1883), Mayor of Devizes BILTON William - Rev William Bilton (1800-1888), amateur geologist, travel author BINGHAM RICHARDS & Company - London BIOT Jean-Baptiste - Jean-Baptiste Biot (21 Apr 1774 - 3 Feb 1862), French physicist, mathematician, astronomer; discover of meteorites; polarization of light BIRCH Samuel - Dr Samuel Birch (3 Dec 1813 - 27 Nov 1885), Egyptologist, linguist, antiquary, Keeper at the British Museum, London BISHOP George St M - George St M Bishop, heraldic painter to Her Majesty, of Bishop & Tait, London BLOMFIELD Arthur - Arthur Blomfield (1827-1896), curate of Lacock, Mar 1854-1864 BLOMFIELD Charles James - Dr Charles James Blomfield (29 May 1786 - 5 Aug 1857), Bishop of London BLORE Edward - Edward Blore (13 Sep 1787 - 4 Sep 1879), landscape architect; artist; antiquary BOGER Deeble - Deeble Boger (d. 1875), of Wolsdon; solicitor to the Mt Edgcumbes BOHN Henry George - Henry George Bohn (4 Jan 1796 - 22 Aug 1884), bookseller & publisher, London BOLTON John Henry - John Henry Bolton (1795-1873), solicitor, London BONNEY Thomas Kaye - Thomas Kaye Bonney (1782- 7 Apr 1863), Rector of Normanton, Rutland, 1814-1863; Prebendary of Lincoln, 1823-1863; Archdeacon of Leicester, 1831-1863 BOOTT Francis - Dr Francis Boott (1792-1863), American physician & botanist; resident in Britain after 1820 BOSANQUET James Whatman - James Whatman Bosanquet (10 Jan 1804 - 22 Dec 1877), banker, Assyriologist & author BOSCAWEN William Henry - Rev William Henry Boscawen; Rector, Marchwiel, Denbigshire; father of WSC Boscawen BOSCAWEN William St Chad - William St Chad Boscawen (1854-1913), Assyriologist & author; son of WH Boscawen BOSSARD Fr A - Fr A Bossard; Swiss; photographic chemist in Ohio in 1858; sometimes resident in France; photographer, author, authority on bivalves BOUARD Alfred François - Alfred François Bouard, (1801-1868), Advocate to the French Embassy in London; Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur BOURDELAIN John jnr - John Bourdelain jnr, assistant to Antoine Claudet at the Royal Adelaide Gallery, London BOURNE Alfred - Alfred Bourne, surgeon, dentist & daguerreotypist, Trinidad BOUVERIE Bridget - Lady Bridget Bouverie, née Douglas (1758 - 26 Feb 1842), widow of Hon William Henry Bouverie (1752-1806) BOWERBANK Lewis - Rev Lewis Bowerbank (1782-1853), curate of St Cyriac's, Lacock,1846-1847; former Rector of St Catherines, Jamaica, 1823-1843; friend of Rev George Bridges BOWIE Jean - Jean Bowie, London: relative? of James Bowie (1789-1869), plant collector in Brazil and Cape Town for Kew BOWLER Robert Ewan - Robert Ewan Bowler (1794-1874), engraver, lithographer & artist, London BOWLES William Lisle - Rev William Lisle Bowles (24 Sep 1762 - 7 Apr 1850), Wiltshire poet, critic & antiquary BRADBURY George S - George S Bradbury, governor of Union Workhouse, World's End, Chippenham BRANDE William Thomas - William Thomas Brande (11 Jan 1788 - 11 Feb 1866), chemist & author BRAYLEY Edward William, jnr - Edward William Brayley, jnr (1801 - 1 Feb 1870), librarian & lecturer; Asst, Royal Institution; Sec, Russell Institution, London BRETT Edmund Percy - Rev Edmund Percy Brett (1824-1879, Ireland); Vicar of Sandhurst, Gloucestershire 1854-1879 BREWSTER David - Sir David Brewster (11 Dec 1781 - 10 Feb 1868), Scottish scientist & journalist; one of WHFT's closest friends BRIDGES George Wilson - Rev George Wilson Bridges (1788 - 20 Sep 1863), photographer & traveller; sometime resident of Jamaica and Canada BRIGHAM RICHARDS & Company - shippers, London BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY Editor - Editor, The British Journal of Photography BRITISH MUSEUM TRUSTEES - Trustees of the British Museum, London BRITTON John - John Britton (7 Jul 1771 - 1857), antiquary; his library formed the core of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society BRODIE William Bird - William Bird Brodie (26 Sep 1780 - 1863), MP BROMLEY Robert Howe - Adm Sir Robert Howe Bromley (28 Nov 1778 - 8 Jul 1857), of Stoke BROOKER Thomas - Thomas Brooker (1813-1885), copper and steel plate printer & 'Artistic Printer', London BROUGHAM Henry Peter - Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham & Vaux (18 Sep1778 - 7 May 1868), Scottish; MP, lawyer, statesman; Lord Chancellor BROUGHTON Henry Delves - Sir Henry Delves Broughton, 9th Baronet of Broughton (22 Jun 1808 - 26 Feb 1899); High Sheriff BROWN David - David Brown, assistant to Nicolaas Henneman in London BROWN Edward - Edward Brown (1812-1865) auctioneer & hotel proprietor, Grasmere BROWN Mr - acquaintance of Jacques Étienne Gay BROWN T L - T L Brown, Secretary, Royal Panopticon of Science & Art, London BROWNING John - John Browning (1835 - 14 Dec 1925), scientific instrument maker, London; supplier of spectroscopes to WHFT BRUDENELL-BRUCE Charles William - Charles William Brudenell-Bruce, styled Lord Charles Bruce (18 Jun 1834 - 16 Apr 1897), soldier, MP; Vice-Chamberlain of the Household to Queen Victoria, 1880-1885 BRUNEL Isambard Kingdom - Isambard Kingdom Brunel (9 Apr 1806 - 15 Sep 1859), mechanical and civil engineer; entrepreneur BRUNNER William - William Brunner, Hungarian refugee & photographer BRUNTON John Dickinson - John Dickinson Brunton (1821-1907), engineer and amateur calotypist BUCKLAND William - William Buckland (12 Mar 1784 - 14 Aug 1856), Dean of Westminster; palaeontologist & geologist BUCKLE Samuel - Samuel Buckle (14 Sep 1809 - 30 May 1860), brewer & photographer, Leamington BUNSEN Christian Karl Josias Frieherr von - Chevalier Christian Karl Josias Frieherr von Bunsen (25 Aug 1761 - 28 Nov 1860), diplomat and scholar; Prussian Ambassador to Britain BUNTING Thomas Percival - Thomas Percival Bunting (19 Oct 1810 - 1885), author BURDEN Richard - Richard Burden, Excise officer, India Docks; factotum for the Feildings and for WHFT BURDEN William H - William H Burden, son of Richard Burden; seaman and botanical collector BURGESS Henry - Henry Burgess (1808-1886), Scottish author BURKE John Bernard - Sir John Bernard Burke (5 Jan 1814 - 12 Dec 1892), military; genealogist & editor; d. Ireland, as Keeper of State Papers BURNELL John - John Burnell (b. 1806) - lantern, leaf & horn manufacturer, London; would-be photographic inventor BUSCH & Co - Edward Busch & Co, merchants, Liverpool BUTLER George - Rev George Butler (5 Jul 1774 - 30 Apr 1853), Head Master of Harrow School, 1805-1829 (WHFT attended then); Dean of Petersborough from 1842 BUTLER Henry Montagu - Henry Montagu Butler (2 Jul 1833 - 14 Jan 1918), Headmaster at Harrow, 1859-1885; author BUTLER Sarah Maria, née Gray - Sarah Maria Butler, née Gray (24 Jun 1796 - 24 Feb 1872), wife of George Butler, Dean of Peterborough BUTLER Thomas - Thomas Butler (1810-1907), assistant secretary, British Museum, London C - unknown correspondent, not a family member, possibly in France CALDWELL Henry Berney - Henry Berney Caldwell (b. 1805), magistrate CALLCOTT Maria, n�e Dundas - Lady Maria Callcott, n�e Dundas (19 Jul 1785 - 21 Nov 1842), traveller & author; 1st m Thomas Graham (d. 1822) in 1809; 2nd m. in 1827 the famous landscape painter Sir Augustus Wall Callcott (1791-1844). CAMPBELL Alicia, née Kelly - Alicia Campbell, née Kelly; 'Tam' (1768-1829), wife of Maj William Campbell, 24th Reg Foot, friend and companion at arms with Stephen Fox Strangways CAMPBELL Elizabeth W, née Thynne - Lady Elizabeth W Campbell, née Thynne, Lady Cawdor (27 Feb 1795 - 16 Feb 1866), wife of John Frederick Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor, FRS, MP. CAMPBELL John - John Campbell, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane (26 Oct 1796 - 8 Nov 1862), MP, Scottish nobleman, scientist CANDOLLE Augustin Pyrame de - Augustin Pyramus (or Pyrame) de Candolle (4 Feb 1778 - 9 Sep 1841), Swiss botanist CAPEL James - James Capel; stockbroker, London CARPMAEL & Company - London patent agents, London CARPMAEL William - William Carpmael (27 Feb 1804 - 9 Jul 1867), patent agent & engineer, London CARTER James & Company - James Carter & Co, seedsmen & florists, London CARTER Thomas - Thomas Carter, excise officer, Chippenham CARTWRIGHT W - W Cartwright, Secretary, North Wilts Reform Association CATTERMOLE Richard - Rev Richard Cattermole (1795-1858), author CAUCHOIX Robert Aglae - Robert Aglae Cauchoix (24 Apr 1776 - 5 Feb 1845), instrument maker, Paris CAVENDISH William George Spencer - William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire (21 May 1790 - 18 Jan 1858); Whig politician; horticulturalist; 'The Bachelor Duke' CAYLEY Edward Stillingfleet - Edward Stillingfleet Cayley (13 Aug 1802 - 25 Feb 1862), Liberal MP; editor CETTO Anton Freiherr von - Anton Freiherr von Cetto (7 Mar 1756 - 23 Mar 1847), Bavarian statesman CHADWICK Edwin - Sir Edwin Chadwick (1800-1890), Secretary, Poor Law Commissioners Office; active in sanitary reforms CHANCE James Timmins - Sir James Timmins Chance (29 Aug 1814 - 8 Feb 1902), manufacturer & engineer CHANDLER Charles - Charles Chandler, of Devizes CHEVALIER Charles - Charles Chevalier (19 Apr 1804 - 21 Nov 1859), optician, Paris CHILDREN John George - John George Children (18 May 1777 - 1 Jan 1852), librarian & scientist; father of Anna Atkins CHRISTIE Samuel Hunter - Dr Samuel Hunter Christie (22 Mar 1784 - 24 Jan 1865), mathematician & Secretary of the Royal Society CHRISTY William, jnr - William Christy, jnr; London-based seed collector in Funchal and elsewhere CLARK David - David Clark, of Inlands Farme, near Lacock CLARK George Thomas - George Thomas Clark (1809-1877), JP, civil engineer & author CLARKE Charles S - Charles S Clarke, Secretary to Bishop Charles John Ellicott CLAUDET Antoine François Jean - Antoine François Jean Claudet (12 Aug 1797 - 27 Dec 1867), French-born scientist, merchant & photographer, resident in London CLEMENTS Nathaniel - Nathaniel Clements, 2nd Earl Leitrim (9 May 1768 - 31 Dec 1854), Irish nobleman and politician CLOUZARD & SOULIER - photographers, Paris CLUTTERBUCK Thomas - Thomas Clutterbuck (1779-1852), of Harnish, Wiltshire COACH Company - York House, Bath COCHRANE John - John Cochrane, printer, bookseller & binder, Melksham CODDINGTON Henry - Rev Henry Coddington (20 Feb 1798 - 1 Mar 1845), FRS, natural philosopher, fellow & tutor, Trinity College, Cambridge; b. Ireland, d. in Rome COGHILL John Joscelyn - Sir John Joscelyn Coghill, 4th Bart., (11 Feb 1826 - 29 Nov 1905), JP, High Sheriff & writer of operas COLE Christopher - Sir Christopher Cole (10 Jun 1770 - 24 Aug1836), Captain, MP & naval officer; WHFT's uncle COLE Henry - Sir Henry Cole (15 Jul 1808 - 18 Apr 1882), civil servant, artist, patron of the arts; Director of the South Kensington Museum (later the V&A), London COLE Mary Lucy, née Fox Strangways - Lady Mary Lucy Cole, née Fox Strangways (11 Feb 1776 - 3 Feb 1855); m. Thomas Mansel Talbot (1747-1813), Feb 1794; m. Capt Sir Christopher Cole (1770-1836), 28 Apr 1815; WHFT's aunt COLEMAN Walter - Walter Coleman (1778-1845), of Langley Fitzhurst COLERIDGE Herbert - Herbert Coleridge (1830-1861) author; Secretary of proposed Philological Society COLLEN Henry - Henry Collen (9 Oct 1800 - 8 May 1879), miniature painter to the Queen, calotypist & spiritualist, London COLLIS George Richmond - George Richmond Collis (1811- 21 Aug 1881) silversmith, Birmingham; also vice consul for several countries COLLS Richard - Richard Colls (1802-1880), artist, picture dealer and photographer, London COLLYNS Charles Palk - Charles Palk Collyns (1793-1864), surgeon COMBES John - John Combes, mining engineer CONYERS Timothy - Timothy Conyers (b 1801), clergyman, Lacock COOPER Anthony Ashley - Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Ashley, 7th Earl of Shaftsbury (28 Apr 1801 - 1 Oct 1885), MP, social reformer & philanthropist COOPER John - John Cooper, banker, North Wilts Bank, Melksham COOPER John, jnr - John Cooper, jnr (b. 1801), clothier, Trowbridge COOPER William Ricketts - William Ricketts Cooper (1843-1878), Secretary, Society of Biblical Archaeology, London CORDERO DI SAN QUINTINO Giulio dei Conti - Jules de St Quintin, Giulio dei Conti Cordero Di San Quintino (1778-1857), Italian Egyptologist COTTRELL George Edward - George Edward Cottrell (1812-1889), London barrister; bankrupt in 1865 COUTTS & Company - bankers, London COVENTRY Andrew - Andrew Coventy, Edinburgh Advocate; member Photographic Society of Scotland & Royal Society of Edinburgh COVENTRY Arthur - Arthur Coventry, of Smith & Coventry Iron Works, Manchester COWDEROY Benjamin Thomas - Benjamin Thomas Cowderoy (22 Jan 1812 - 1 Oct 1904), land agent in Reading; man of science; business manager for WHFT; later a politician and promoter in Victoria, Australia COWELL John Clayton - Maj Gen Sir John Clayton Cowell (1832 - 29 Aug 1894), Master of the Royal Household COX & SONS - printers, London COX John Axtell Deacon - John Axtell Deacon Cox (1810-1877) printer, London COXE William H - William H Coxe (d. 18 Dec 1869), son of Rev H O Coxe, Bodley's Librarian; Asst to Dr Samuel Birch at the British Museum and, briefly, Prof of Sanskrit at Kings College, London. CRELLE August Leopold - August Leopold Crelle (17 Mar 1780 - 6 Oct 1855), German mathematician CROFTON Denis - Denis Crofton (1819-1887), Irish Assyriologist, author and philanthropist CROOKES William - Sir William Crookes (17 Jun 1832 - 4 Apr 1921), chemist & physicist; editor of The Photographic News CUMBERLAND UNION BANK - Keswick CUNDALL Joseph - Joseph Cundall (22 Sep 1818 - 10 Jan 1865), pioneering calotypist, studio photographer & publisher, London CUNLIFFE-OFFLEY Elizabeth Emma, née Crewe - Elizabeth Emma Cunliffe-Offley, née Crewe (d. 15 Feb 1850), wife of Foster Cunliffe-Offley (1782-1832); of Madeley Manor, Staffordshire CUNNINGTON William - William Cunningham (1813-1906), archaeologist DAFFORNE James - James Dafforne (1804-1880), writer on art and assistant to the editor of The Art-Union (later, the Art Journal) DALTON James - Rev James Dalton (14 Nov 1764 - 2 Jan 1843), FLS, botanist DARLEY John - John Darley, snr (1786-1867), architect & surveyor, Chippenham DAUBENY Charles Giles Bridle - Prof Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny (11 Feb 1795 - 12 Dec 1867), MD; botanist, geologist & chemist DAVENPORT Edmund Sharington - Rev Edmund Sharington Davenport (18 May 1778 - 27 Feb 1842), Vicar of Worfield DAVIDSON James - James Davidson (15 Aug 1793 - 8 Oct 1864), antiquary & bibliographer DAVIDSON Robert - Robert Davidson (1804-1894), Scottish chemist, dyer, astronomer & collector; electrical inventor; the 'Father of the Electric Locomotive' DAVIS Edmund Louis - Edmund Louis Davis, President, Horticultural Society of London DAVIS Joseph - Joseph Davis, accountant, Horticultural Society of London DAVY Jane, née Kerr - Lady Jane Davy, née Kerr (5 Feb 1780 - 8 May 1855), Scottish socialite; 1st m Shuckburgh Apreece (d. 1807); 2nd m in 1812 to Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) DAY & SONS - lithographers, London DAY Edward E - Dr Edward E Day, physician, Bristol DAY Frances Sally - Miss Frances Sally Day (1816-1892), miniature portrait painter and photographer; first woman Photographer to the Queen; of Camden Town, near London DE LA RUE Warren - Warren De La Rue [sometimes Delarue] (18 Jan 1815 - 19 Apr 1889), printer, chemist; pioneer of astronomical photography DE MORGAN Augustus - Augustus De Morgan (27 Jun 1806 - 18 Mar 1871), mathematician DE STARCK Henry George - Henry George De Starck (1796-1865), clergy DE STARCK Juliana Dorothea - Miss Juliana Dorothea De Starck (1762-1841) DE THANNENBERG Léon - Count Léon De Thannenberg, artist DELAGRANGE Joseph Elisabeth George Mathieu - Joseph Elisabeth George Mathieu Delagrange, French Advocat DELAMOTTE Philip Henry - Philip Henry Delamotte (21 Apr 1821 - 24 Feb 1889), artist & photographer DELBRUCK Martin Friedrich Rudolph von - Martin Friedrich Rudolph von Delbruck (16 Apr 1817 - 1 Feb 1903), Prussian statesman DELITZSCH Conrad Gerhard Friederich - Prof Conrad Gerhard Friederich Delitzsch (3 Sep 1850 - 19 Dec 1922), German biblical scholar DENIS C A - C A Denis, Belgian artist, writing from London DESPREZ Philip Charles Soulbien - Philip Charles Soulbien Desprez (1812-1879), author & curate; called the 'Ultra Preterist' DIAMOND Hugh Welch - Dr Hugh Welch Diamond (1809 - 21 Jun 1886), surgeon & photographer DICK Thomas - Rev Thomas Dick (24 Nov 1774 - 29 Jul 1857), Scottish scientific writer DICKINSON Elizabeth - Elizabeth Dickinson (d. before 1833), of Bowden Park DICKINSON William Binley - William Binley Dickinson (1790-1870), numismatic scholar DIGBY Theresa Anna Maria, née Fox Strangways - Theresa Anna Maria Digby, née Fox Strangways (1814-1874), WHFT's cousin, m. 20 Jun 1837 Edward St. Vincent Digby, 9th Baron Digby of Geashill (1809 -1889); Bedchamber Woman to the Queen DIGHTON Thomas Dibden - Thomas Dibden Dighton (1799-1883), architect & model maker, London DILKE Charles Wentworth (the elder) - Charles Wentworth Dilke, the elder (1789-1864), newspaper editor, critic & antiquary DILLWYN Lewis Weston - Lewis Weston Dillwyn (21 Aug 1778 - 31 Aug 1855), MP, FRS; Welsh botanist; born in Essex to a Pennsylvania Quaker DISDERI & Co - Disderi & Co, photographers, Paris; firm of André Adolphe Eugéne Disdéri (28 Mar 1819 - 4 Oct 1889), promoter of cartes-de-visite DOBBIE Malcolm G - Malcolm G Dobbie (1829-1882), Secretary, Edinburgh Photographic Society DOD Charles Roger Phipps - Charles Roger Phipps Dod (8 May 1793 - 21 Feb 1855), Irish author & editor DODDS Joseph - Joseph Dodds (1819-1891), MP & solicitor (struck off for embezzlement, 1889), Stockton DON David - David Don (21 Dec 1800 - 15 Dec 1841), Scottish botanist DOUDNEY Edward - Edward Doudney, waterproofer & tailor, London DOUGLAS Henry Alexander - Rev Henry Alexander Douglas (1821-1875), Scottish chaplain to Cape Town DOUSBERY Thomas - Thomas Dousbery, Sec, Household Servants Institution & Select Registry, London DOVE John - John Dove (b. 1811), editor & author, Glasgow DOWDING Thomas - Thomas Dowding, baker, Chippenham DOWNING Charles Toogood - Dr Charles Toogood Downing (1811-1873), MD, traveller in China, photographic experimenter DRACH Solomon Moses - Solomon Moses Drach (1835 - 8 Feb 1869), FRAS; Commissions Agent, astronomer, antiquary DROEGE Friedrich - Friedrich Droege, or Frederich Droge (1801-1854), German-born miniature painter, active in London, later a photographer DRY Thomas - Thomas Dry (b. 1811), solicitor, London DUBOSQ Jules - Jules Dubosq (5 Mar 1817 - 24 Sep 1886), French optician & instrument maker; photographer DUCKETT William - William Duckett, wine merchant, Bath DUNCOMBE George Francis - George Francis Duncombe (1831-1915), French-born British subject; Executive Committee of the Great Exhibition of 1851 DUNDAS Harriet, née Hale - Lady Harriet Dundas, née Hale (16 Jun 1769 -18 Apr 1834); wife of Lawrence Dundas, 1st Earl of Zetland (1766-1839) DUVIGNAN E - E Duvignan, French inventor of printing for the blind EARLE Richard - Richard Earle, secretary, Colonial Office EASTLAKE Charles Lock - Sir Charles Lock Eastlake (17 Nov 1793 - 24 Dec 1865), painter; 1st Keeper of the National Gallery, London EDEN George - George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland (25 Aug 1784 - 1 Jan 1849), MP, Governor General of India; 1st Lord of the Admiralty; executor for Charles Feilding EDGCUMBE Caroline Augusta, née Feilding - Lady Caroline Augusta Edgcumbe, née Feilding (22 Jan 1808 - 2 Nov 1881); WHFT's half-sister; Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria, 1840-1854 & 1863-1865; m. 3rd Earl Mt Edgcumbe 6 Dec 1831 EDGCUMBE Charles Ernest - Lt Col Charles Ernest Edgcumbe (23 Oct 1838 - 14 Sep 1915), JP, WHFT's nephew EDGCUMBE Ernest Augustus - Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, Lord Valletort, 3rd Earl of Mt Edgcumbe (23 Mar 1797 - 3 Sep 1861), WHFT's brother-in-law EDGCUMBE Ernestine Emma Horatia - Ernestine Emma Horatia Edgcumbe (16 Aug 1843 - 20 May 1925), WHFT's niece EDGCUMBE William Henry - William Henry Edgcumbe, Lord Valletort, 4th Earl Mt Edgcumbe (5 Nov 1833 - 25 Sep1917); 'Val'; JP & Lord Steward of the Royal Household; WHFT's nephew 'Bimbo' EDGELL Edward Betenson - Edward Betenson Edgell (d. 1904), rector of Bromham, Wiltshire EDITOR OF THE (unidentified publication) - EGERTON Daniel - Daniel Egerton (14 Apr 1772 - Jul 1835), English actor EGG Joseph - Joseph Egg (d 1837), Alsatian gunsmith, based in London EGGELING Hans Julius - Prof Hans Julius Eggeling (1842-1918), Orientalist & Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, London; Prof of Sanskrit, Edinburgh Univ; died during a visit to Germany ELLACOMBE Henry Nicholson - Henry Nicholson Ellacombe (1822-1916), clergyman, Honorary Canon of Bristol, Vicar of Bitton; gardener & author ELLICOTT Charles John - Charles John Ellicott (25 Apr 1819 - 15 Oct 1905), Lord Bishop of Gloucester & Bristol ELLIOTT Ann - Ann Elliott (b 1781), Post Mistress, Chippenham ELLIOTT Charles - Elliott,a scientific instrument maker, London;had just become an apptrentice to John Newman at 122 Regent Street ELLIOTT Robinson - Robinson Elliott [sometimes Robinson Elliot] (1814-1894), painter, poet & inventor, of South Shields, near Newcastle upon Tyne ELLIS Robert - Robert Ellis (1823-1885), physician, chemist & author ELPHINSTONE Howard - Sir Howard Elphinstone, 2nd Bart (9 Jun 1804 - 16 Mar 1893), Whig MP & barrister ELWES Henry John - Henry John Elwes (16 May 1846 - 26 Nov 1922), botanical traveller; specialist in lillies EMPSON Charles - Charles Empson (21 Dec 1794 - 25 Jun 1861), traveller, fine art bookseller & museum keeper, Bath ERTEL Traugott Lebrecht von - Traugott Lebrecht von Ertel (1777-1858), scientific instrument maker, Munich ESTCOURT Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron Bucknall - Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron Bucknall Estcourt (4 Apr 1801 - 6 Jan 1876), Conservative MP; born Thomas Bucknall-Estcourt, he used this name until 1839 and then Thomas Sotheron from 1839 to 1855. EVANS Hugh C - Hugh C Evans, printer, Bristol EYRES William - William Eyres, ironmonger & wheelwright, Melksham FANE John - John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland [Lord Burghersh until 1841] (2 Feb 1784 - 16 Oct 1859), statesman; founder of The Royal Academy of Music FARADAY Michael - Prof Michael Faraday (22 Sep 1791 - 25 Aug 1867), scientist; discoverer of electromagnetism; lecturer at The Royal Institution FAZAKERLEY Eleanor, née Montague - Hon. Eleanor Fazakerley, née Montague (d. 26 Jul 1847); m. John Nicolaas Fazakerley in 1822 FAZAKERLEY John Nicholas - John Nicholas Fazakerley (7 Mar 1787 - 16 Jul 1852), Whig MP FEILDEN Mary Haughton, née Jackson - Mary Haughton Feilden, née Jackson (d. 9 Jan 1867), Dowager Lady Feilden of Feniscowles, Lancashire; widow of Sir William Feilden, 1st Bart (1772-1850) FEILDING Charles - Rear Admiral Charles Feilding (31 Aug 1780 - 2 Sep 1837), Royal Navy; WHFT's step-father; m 24 Apr 1804 FEILDING Elisabeth Theresa, née Fox Strangways - Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, née Fox Strangways; 'Lilly' (16 Nov 1773 - 12 Mar 1846); WHFT's mother; 1st m. William Davenport Talbot (1 Aug 1763 - 30 Jul 1800), 17 Apr 1796; 2nd m Charles Feilding 24 Apr 1804 FEILDING Matilda - Matilda Feilding (8 Jan 1775 - Jun 1849), WHFT's 'aunt' - sister of his stepfather, Charles Feilding FELLOWES Thomas A - Thomas A Fellowes, solicitor, Chippenham FELLOWS Charles - Sir Charles Fellows (Aug 1799 - 8 Nov 1860), archaeologist FENTON Roger - Roger Fenton (28 Mar 1819 - 8 Aug 1869), photographer & lawyer FERRIER Claude Marie - Claude Marie Ferrier (1811-1889), photographer & photographic publisher, Paris FERRIER Jacques-Alexandre - Jacques-Alexandre Ferrier (1831-1912), son of Claude Marie Ferrier, photographer & photographic publisher, Paris FESTEAU A - A Festeau, Paris FIELD Thomas - Thomas Field, assistant to Henneman & Malone in London FIGUIER Guillaume Louis - Dr Guillaume Louis Figuier (15 Feb 1819 - 8 Nov 1894), French physican, author & chemist FINCH George - George Finch (1794 - 29 Jun 1870), MP, landowner and JP FINCH Henrietta - Henrietta Finch (25 Apr 1794 - 21 Apr 1828) FITZGERALD Robert - Robert Fitzgerald, pauper; formerly of the Commissariats Staff FITZMAURICE Henry Charles Keith Petty - Henry Charles Keith Petty Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (4 Jan 1845 - 3 Jun 1927); Governor General of Canada; Viceroy of India; WHFT's first cousin, once removed FITZMAURICE Henry Petty (Lord) - Lord Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (2 Jul 1780 - 31 Jan 1863), MP & noted statesman; WHFT's uncle FITZMAURICE Henry Petty (Sir) - Sir Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, 4th Marquess of Lansdowne (7 Jan 1816 - 5 Jul 1866), Baron Wycombe, (Earl of Shelburne, 1836-1863), MP; WHFT's cousin FITZMAURICE Louisa Emma Petty, née Fox Strangways - Louisa Emma Petty Fitzmaurice, née Fox Strangways, Marchioness of Lansdowne (27 Jun1785 - 3 Apr 1851), wife of Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne; Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria, 1837-1838; WHFT's aunt FITZMAURICE William Thomas Petty - William Thomas Petty Fitzmaurice, Earl of Kerry (30 Mar 1811 - 21 Aug 1836), MP FITZSIMMONS Cornelius - Cornelius Fitzsimmons, Scottish gardener at Lacock Abbey FIZEAU Armand Hippolyte Louis - Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau (23 Sep 1819 - 18 Sep 1896), French physicist FLETCHER George & Henry - George & Henry Fletcher, army clothiers, London FLETCHER Henry M - Henry M Fletcher, manager, Derry Hill National School, Calne FLICERI G - G Fliceri, of Milan FLUDYER Mary, née Fane - Lady Mary Fludyer, née Fane (1772-1855), daughter of John Fane, 9th Earl of Westmorland FOOT Henry - Henry Foot, photographer, Bath FOOT James - James Foot, photographer, Bath FOOT Samuel - Samuel Foot, Salisbury solicitor FORBES James David - Prof James David Forbes (20 Apr 1809 - 31 Dec 1868), FRS, Scottish scientist FORD J - J Ford, warehouseman of Bath FOSTER Peter Le Neve - Peter Le Neve Foster (17 Aug 1809 - 21 Feb 1879), photographer & microscopist; Sec, Society of Arts FOUCAULT Jean Bernard Léon - Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (18 Sep 1819 - 11 Feb 1868), French physicist FOX Caroline - Caroline Fox (3 Nov 1767 - 18 Mar 1845), daughter of 2nd Baron Holland, diarist FRAHNSTOVER & POGGE - Hamburg FRAMPTON Harriot Louisa, née Fox Strangways - Lady Harriot Louisa Frampton, née Fox Strangways (1778 - 6 Aug 1844); dau of Henry Thomas Fox Strangways, 2nd Earl of Ilchester & Mary Theresa O'Grady; m. James Frampton (1769-1855) in 1799 FRAMPTON Henry - Henry Frampton (1804-1879) FRAMPTON James - Lt Col James Frampton (1769- 8 Feb1855), High Sheriff, of Moreton, Dorset FRAMPTON Louisa Charlotte - Louisa Charlotte Frampton (1808-1885), author FRAMPTON Mary - Mary Frampton (1773-1846), botanist & author FRANCK G - Dr G Franck, German photographer and author FRANKLAND-RUSSELL Louisa Anne, née Murray - Lady Louisa Anne Frankland-Russell, née Murray (29 May 1790 - 21 Feb 1871), wife of Sir Robert Frankland-Russell, 7th Baronet Russell of Thirkleby (1784-1849); sister of WHFT's aunt the Countess of Ilchester. FRANKLEN Isabella Catherine, née Talbot - Isabella Catherine Franklen, née Talbot (1804-1874); WHFT's cousin FRATICELLI Pietro - Pietro Fraticelli (1803-1866), Italian publisher of Dante FRAUNHOFER Joseph von - Joseph von Fraunhofer (6 Mar 1787 - 7 Jun 1826), optician, Munich FREE-MAN AND LOVER OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY - FREEMAN James - James Freeman (1814-1870), Daguerreotypist for Richard Beard in Bath; possible calotypist in Bath and later claimed to have worked for WHFT; from 1853, partner in Freeman Studios in Sydney, Australia; died during a visit to Wales FREETH Sampson - Lt Sampson Freeth (1815-1891), Royal Engineers FRY Herbert - Herbert Fry (1830-1885), London publisher of guidebooks and the National Gallery of Photographic Portraits FULLER John Bird - John Bird Fuller (6 Mar 1801 - 27 May 1872), High Sheriff FULLER John Mee - Prof John Mee Fuller (11 Dec 1834 - 16 Aug 1893), vicar & author FULLER Neston - Neston Fuller, of Monk's Park, Wiltshire FURLONGE William Holland - William Holland Furlonge, sometimes William Holland Furlong (1826-1881), Irish born chemist, photographer and Assyriologist FURSDON Charles - Charles Fursdon (b. 1798), Trinity College, Cambridge, scholar FUSS Paul Heinrich von - Paul Heinrich von Fuss (1797-1855), mathematician, of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg FUSSELL Stephen & Isaac - Stephan Fussell & Isaac Fussell, Lacock tennants GABRIELLI J J - J J Gabrielli, warehouseman or art agent in London GAISFORD Henrietta Horatia Maria, née Feilding - Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (28 Aug 1810 - 9 Aug 1851), WHFT's half-sister; m Thomas Gaisford 1 Jan 1850 GAISFORD Horace Charles - Lt Horace Charles Gaisford (1851-1879), WHFT's nephew GAISFORD Thomas - Capt Thomas Gaisford (12 Dec 1816 - 26 Feb 1898), JP, WHFT's brother-in-law GALE John - John Gale, carpenter at Lacock GALIGNANI Mssrs - John Anthony Galignani and William Galignani, from 1821 publishers of their father's Galignani's Messenger, Paris GALLWEY Harriet Payne, née Quin - Lady Harriet Payne Gallwey, née Quin (1784-1845), wife of Lt Gen Sir William Payne Gallwey (1759-1831), 1st Bart GALLWEY Martha - Lady Martha Gallwey, sister of Lt Gen Sir William Payne Gallwey, 1st Bart (1759-1831) GALTON Francis - Sir Francis Galton (16 Feb 1822 - 21 Jan 1911), FRS; scientist & polymath GAMBART Jean Joseph Ernest Theodore - Jean Joseph Ernest Theodore Gambart 'Ernest Gambart' (12 Oct 1814 - 12 Apr 1902), Belgian printseller & publisher, active in London GARDEN Felix Robert - Felix Robert Garden (d. 1872), chemical supplier, London; successor to his father, Alexander Garden, former partner in Accum & Garden GARDNER John - John Gardner (1804-1880), chemist & Secretary, Royal College of Chemistry, London GASSIOT John Peter - John Peter Gassiot (1797-1877), merchant & electro-chemist GAY Jacques Étienne - Jacques Étienne Gay (1768-1864), French botanist GELLER William Overend - William Overend Geller [b. Gelder], (1804-1881), artist GERGONNE Joseph Diez - Joseph Diez Gergonne (1771-1859), French mathematician GIBBS & Company - Genoa GIBSON J & H G - J & HG Gibson, Writers of the Signet, Edinburgh; John (1796-1877) and his 2nd son, Henry Gordon (1827-1869) GIBSON John, jnr. - John Gibson, jnr, (1796-1877), Writer of the Signet, of the firm of J & HG Gibson, Edinburgh GIBSON-CRAIG Margaret Christian - Margaret Christian Gibson-Craig (d. 1871), daughter of Sir James Gibson-Craig (1799-1886), Scottish politician, bibliophile & art collector GILCHRIST-CLARK John - John Gilchrist-Clark (1830- 18 Aug 1881), Scottish JP; WHFT's son-in-law GILCHRIST-CLARK John Henry - John Henry Gilchrist-Clark (1861-1902), Scottish JP; WHFT's grandson GILCHRIST-CLARK Matilda Caroline, née Talbot - Matilda Caroline Gilchrist-Clark, née Talbot (25 Feb 1839-1927), 'Tilly', WHFT's 3rd daughter; m. John Gilchrist-Clark 16 Jun 1859 GLADSTONE John Neilson - Capt John Neilson Gladstone (1807-1863), MP GLADSTONE William Henry - William Henry Gladstone (1840-1891), politician & author GLENGALL E - E Glengall, member of the Athenaeum Club GLIDDON George Robbins - George Robbins Gliddon (1809-1857), American diplomat & Egyptologist, born in Devonshire GODDARD John Frederick - John Frederick Goddard (1797-1866), lecturer, chemist & photographer GODWIN George, jnr - George Godwin, jnr (1813-1888) London architect; editor of The Builder; Secretary of the Art Union GOLDNEY & FELLOWES - solicitors, Chippenham GOLDNEY Harry - Harry Goldney, town clerk of Chippenham GORDON Elizabeth Anne, née Coxe - Elizabeth Anne Gordon, née Coxe; 'Bessey' GORDON Harriet, née Douglas - Harriet Gordon, née Douglas, Lady Aberdeen (d. 1833) GORDON Robert - Robert Gordon ( (1786-1864). MP GREAT EXHIBITION of 1851 Executive Committee - GREEN J F - J F Green, house agent, Grasmere GREENE E H - E H Greene, property owner, Beanacre, Wilts GREENHILL J N - J N Greenhill, art dealer, London GREENWOOD Henry - Henry Greenwood, editor, The British Journal of Photography & stationer in Liverpool GREY Charles - Lt Gen Charles Grey (1804-1870), MP, Private Secretary to the Queen GRIFFITH George - George Griffith (1833-1902), Science Master at Harrow and Assistant General Secretary, British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1862-1878 and 1890-1902 GRIMSLEY Thomas - Thomas Grimsley, stonemason, Oxford GRINCATO - [name uncertain] - artist or art dealer GRIVEL Joseph - Joseph Grivel (1810-1876), Swiss Assyriologist GRIVEL L - L Grivel, son of Joseph Grivel, the Assyriologist GROGAN William - William Grogan, Auctioneer & Estate Agent, 66 Park St, Grosvenor Sq, London GROSETT John Rock - John Rock Grosett (1783-1866), MP; Jamaican Parliament; Provincial Grandmaster of Freemasonry; occupant of Lacock Abbey until summer 1827 GROVE George - Sir George Grove (1820-1900), writer on music and lexicographer; editor, Macmillan & Company, London GROVE William Robert - Sir William Robert Grove (1811-1896), scientist GUEST Edwin - Edwin Guest (1802-1880), barrister, linguist & author GUNDRY William - William Gundry, banker, Chippenham GUTCH John Wheeley Gough - Dr John Wheeley Gough Gutch (1809-1862), surgeon, author & photographer GUTHRIE John - Rev John Guthrie (1792-1865), Vicar at Calne from 1835-1865 & from 1858, Canon Residenciary of Bristol Cathedral HACK B N - B N Hack, solicitor's agent, London HADDY John - John Haddy, horse provider, Bath HADDY William - William Haddy, horse provider, Bath HAIGH Daniel Henry - Rev Daniel Henry Haigh (1819-1879), antiquary HAIGHT Richard Kip - Richard Kip Haight (1798-1862), American merchant, poet & traveller HALL Samuel Carter - Samuel Carter Hall (1800-1889), editor of the Art Union HALLAM Samuel - Samuel Hallam, member of the Conservative Club HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS James Orchard - James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-1889), antiquary HALLORAN Charles - Charles Halloran, Secretary, Corsham Literary & Philosophical Society HAMILTON William Rowan - Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865), Irish mathematician HAMMERSLEY & Co - Hammersely & Company, bankers, London HANDFORD E - E Handford, printer for Thomas Brooker, London HANISCH Julius - Julius Hanisch, Swiss inventor HARDWICKE Robert - Robert Hardwicke, publisher, London HARFORD John Scandrett - John Scandrett Harford (1785-1866), banker, author & watercolourist HARFORD Louisa Hart, née Davis - Louisa Hart Harford, née Davis (1796-1872) HARLE Charles Ebenezer - Charles Ebenezer Harle, scholar HARMAN Ezekiel - (1773-1845), of Bowden Park, Wilts; neighbour of WHFT, active in local affairs HARMAN Ezekiel Dickinson - Ezekiel Dickinson Harman (b. 1811), son of Ezekiel Harman HARPER & SUTTON LABORATORIES - Norwich HARRIS Col - Col Harris, enquirer about a calotype license HARRIS William Snow - Sir William Snow Harris (1791-1867), scientist HARRISON & SONS - printers, London HARRISON Alfred Edwin - Alfred Edwin Harrison (1825 - 1 Jan 1862); asst to Lovejoy's bookshop in Reading; asst to Henneman in Reading and later bookkeeper for him in London; died in a lunatic assylum HARRISON Charles W - Charles W Harrison, electrical engineer HARRISON David - David Harrison, sometime assistant to Nicolaas Henneman in London HARRISON Henry - Henry Harrison (1785-1865), London architect, active the parish of St James's, London, which included Sackville Street. He consulted on proposed changes to the South Front of Lacock Abbey and worked on Sir Charles Lemon's Carclew House, Cornwall. HASELEY J - J Haseley, metalworker, Birmingham HATCHARD & Company - publishers & booksellers, London HATCHARD Thomas - Thomas Hatchard (1794- 13 Nov 1858), publisher & bookseller, London HAWKINS Edward - Edward Hawkins (1780-1867), FRS, numismatist & archaelologist; from 1826-1860, Keeper of Antiquities for the British Museum. HAWORTH Adrian Hardy - Adrian Hardy Haworth (1767 - 24 Aug 1833), etymologist, botanist & carcinologist HAY William George - William George Hay 18th Earl of Erroll (19 Feb 1801 - 21 Apr 1846), Scottish; Lord Steward of the Household, 1839-1841 HAYWARD John R - John R Hayward, Barrister, London HAYWARD Thomas - (b. 1783), farmer, Wick Farm, Lacock HEADLAM Arthur William - Rev Arthur William Headlam (1826-1909), clergy; private tutor to Charles Henry Talbot HEALE William - William Heale (1786-1869), Nursery, Seedsman & Florist, Calne, Wiltshire HEATH Robert Vernon - Robert Vernon Heath (1820 - 25 Oct 1895), known as Vernon Heath, photographer & author HEEREN Friedrich - Prof Dr Friedrich Heeren (11 Aug 1803 - 2 May 1885), German chemist HELLYER William Varlo - William Varlo Hellyer (1776-1868), lawyer, VP of the Royal Institution, London, and Sec of their Lectures Committee HENDERSON Arthur & Co - Arthur Henderson & Co, nursery & seedsmen, Pine Apple Pl, London; (Arthur Henderson b. 1817); successors to John Andrew Henderson & Co, florists HENDERSON Hugh - Hugh Henderson, photographer, Glasgow HENDERSON James - James Henderson (b. 1824), photographer, London and Launceston, Cornwall HENDERSON John Andrew & Co - John Andrew Henderson & Co, florists, Pine Apple Pl, London HENLEY William Thomas - William Thomas Henley (1814-1882), instrument maker HENNECART J F - J F Hennecart, specialist gauzemaker, Paris HENNEMAN Nicolaas - Nicolaas Henneman (18 Nov 1813 - 18 Jan 1898), Dutch, active in England; WHFT's valet, then assistant; photographer; opened calotype printing studio in Reading in 1843 and transferred to London in 1848. From 1848-1851, this operated as Henneman & Malone HENSLOW John Stevens - Prof Rev John Stevens Henslow (6 Feb 1796 - 16 May 1861), botanist, geologist; mentor of Charles Darwin HERBERT Edward Henry Charles Hugh - Edward Henry Charles Hugh Herbert (30 Mar 1802 - 30 May1852), 2nd son of 2nd Earl Carnarvon HERBERT Henry George - Henry George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon (1772-1833) HERBERT Henry John George - Henry John George Herbert, Lord Porchester, 3rd Earl of Carnarvon (1800-1849) HERBERT Letitia Emily Dorothea, née Allen - Letitia Emily Dorothea Herbert, née Allen (1782-1878); m. Rev Hon William Herbert in 1806 HERBERT William - Hon Rev William Herbert (1778-1847), Rector of Spofforth, Yorkshire; Dean of Manchester; son of Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Carnavon; botanist; linguist HERSCHEL John - Capt John Herschel (1837-1921), FRS, FRAS, military engineer & astronomer; son of Sir John Herschel HERSCHEL John Frederick William - Sir John Frederick William Herschel (1792-1871), astronomer & scientist HERVEY Thomas Kibble - Thomas Kibble Hervey (1799-1859), solicitor & author HESCOCK S G - S G Hescock, possible assistant to Nicolaas Henneman in London HICKS Augusta Sophia, née Feilding - Augusta Sophia Hicks, née Feilding (1776-1858), WHFT's aunt (sister of Charles Feilding, his stepfather) HIGGINS John - John Higgins, inventor, 370 Oxford St, London HIGHLEY Samuel, jnr - Samuel Highly, jnr (1825-1900), assistant editor of the British Journal of Photography; Secretary, Photographic Society of Great Britain HIGMAN John Philips - Rev John Philips Higman (1793-1855), mathematician HILL David Octavius - David Octavius Hill (1802-1870), Scottish painter & photographer HINCKS Edward - Rev Edward Hincks (19 Aug 1792 - 3 Dec 1866), Irish clergyman; Egyptologist & Orientalist HIND John Russell - John Russel Hind (1823-1895), astronomer HIRD William Greenwood - William Greenwood Hird (1818-1889), scholar, author & book keeper HIRST Thomas Archer - Thomas Archer Hirst (1830-1892), mathematician & Secretary of the British Association for the Advancement of Science HOBART Mrs - Mrs Hobart, portrait owner, London HOBBS William - builder HOBHOUSE Charles Parry - Sir Charles Parry Hobhouse (1825-1916), judge HOBHOUSE John Cam - John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton (1786-1869), statesman & friend of Byron HOCHSTETTER Christian Ferdinand - Prof Christian Ferdinand Hochstetter (1787-1860), Austrian botanist, mineralogist & clergyman HODGES Edward Richmond - Edward Richmond Hodges (1826-1881), orientalist & missionary HODRING HODRING & TOWNSHEND - representing the Undersheriff's Office, Salisbury HOGARTH Joseph - Joseph Hogarth (1802 - 9 Oct 1879), London printseller HOITT William - William Hoitt, of the Selwood Foresters HOLMES Nathaniel - Nathaniel Holmes, of the Universal Private Telegraph Company, London HOLTZAPFFEL & Company - machinery and tool manufacturers, London HOOKER Maria Sarah, née Turner - Maria Sarah Hooker, née Turner (1797-1872), eldest daughter Dawson Turner, banker, botanist, and antiquary, & wife of Sir William Jackson Hooker HOOKER Thomas Redman - Rev Thomas Redman Hooker (1762-1838), WHFT's tutor at Rottingdean HOOKER William Jackson - Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), Professor & botanist HOOPER Francis Philip - Francis Philip Hooper, London solicitor HOPPER Thomas - Thomas Hopper (1776-1856), architect & surveyor, London HORLOCK Knightley William - Knightley William Horlock (1802-1882), author & huntsman HORSLEY John Callcott - John Callcott Horsley (1817-1903), artist and nephew of the famous landscape painter Sir Augustus Wall Callcott (1791-1844). HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON - HOVELL John Rayner - John Rayner Hovell (b. 1823), of Hastings HUDSON James - James Hudson, Asst Sec, Royal Society, London HUGHES LOCKE OLIVIER SAUNDERS - Devizes HUGHES William Hughes - William Hughes Hughes (1792-1874), MP & author HUMBOLDT Alexander von - Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), German scientist HUMPHRYS Robert - Robert Humphrys (1778-1839), of Ivy House, near Chippenham, Wiltshire; book club organiser HUNLOKE Anne, née Eccleston - Lady Anne Hunloke, née Eccleston (1788-1872); after 1860, known as Lady Anne Scarisbrick HUNNEMAN James - James Hunneman, London nurseryman HUNT Robert - Robert Hunt (1807-1887), scientist & photographic historian IBBETSON Levett Landon Boscawen - Levett Landon Boscawen Ibbetson (1799-1869), Geologist, inventor, organiser and early photographer ILLINGWORTH Richard - Richard Illingworth, agricultural reformer, of Bristol INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF CHIPPENHAM - INSTITUT D'AFRIQUE - Paris ISAAC John Raphael - John Raphael Isaac (1808-1870), engraver & lithographer, Liverpool JACKSON John Edward - Rev Canon John Edward Jackson (1805-1891) antiquary; author; Daguerreotypist; Hon Canon, Bristol Cathedral; Rector, Leigh Delamere, nr Chippenham JACKSON Jonathan - Jonathan Jackson, photographer and medical and photographic chemist, of Jackson Brothers, Manchester JACQUIN Joseph Franz Freiherr von - Prof Joseph Franz Freiherr von Jacquin (1766-1839), Austrian botanist JAMES CAPEL NORBURY TROTTER & Company - stockbrokers, London JAMES Henry - Sir Henry James (1803-1877), surveyor, Director General of The Ordnance Survey JAMIN Jean Theodor - Jean Theodor Jamin, optician in partnership with Alphonse Darlot, Paris JELLICORSE John - John Jellicorse, of the Stansfield Mill, Halifax JENKINSON Charles Cecil Cope - Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson, 3rd Earl Liverpool (1784-1851) JENNINGS Peter Harnett - Peter Harnett Jennings (b. 1816), of The Shrubbery, Dover JERDAN William - William Jerdan (1782-1869), Editor of The Literary Gazette from 1817-1850; staunch supporter of WHFT JIGGINS James - James Jiggins (b. 1795), New Inn, Parker's Piece, Cambridge; possibly earlier a servant to the Feildings JOHNSON John - John Johnson, optician, London JOHNSON William - editor of The Practical Mechanics Journal JOHNSTON Thomas Brumby - Thomas Brumby Johnston (1814-1897), Secretary, Photographic Society of Scotland, Edinburgh JOHNSTONE F Hutchinson - Lt F Hutchinson Johnstone, of Dublin JOLLIFFE Sophia Penelope, née Sheffield - Lady Sophia Penelope Jolliffe, née Sheffield (1822-1882), 'Sophy', first m WTHF Strangways, WHFT's uncle, on 21 Jul 1857, becoming Countess of Ilchester; second, m 19 Jan 1867, William George Henry Jolliffe, 1st Baron Hylton JONES Calvert Richard - Rev Calvert Richard Jones (4 Dec 1802 - 7 Nov 1877), Welsh painter & photographer JONES George - George Jones (b. 1816), butler at Lacock until the end of 1851; manager for Henneman iin London until early 1853 JOUBERT DE LA FERTÉ - Ferdinand Jean - Ferdinand Jean Joubert de la Ferté (1810-1884), French-born engraver & photographer; British citizen from 1855, active in London; sometimes worked for Warren De La Rue JOURNAL DES PATENTES - Journal des Patentes (Paris) JOY Henry Hall - Henry Hall Joy (1786-1840), lawyer, owner of Hartham Park and friend of Byron JUGENHEIM Le Compte - Le Compte Jugenheim, Count Jugenheim, of Paris; Bach collector KARSLAKE & CREALOCK - solicitors, London KATER Henry - Capt Henry Kater (1777-1835), instrument maker & man of science KEAN James - James Kean, dealer in paper, London KEENE C & Company - C Keene & Co, fabric dealer, London KEITH James - James Keith, printseller, Edinburgh KELLAND Philip - Prof Philip Kelland (1808-1879), English-born mathematician, influential in educational reform in Scotland KEMP George - Dr George Kemp, Scottish physician (b. 1818) KERRISON Robert Masters - Dr Robert Masters Kerrison (1776-1847), New Burlington St, London; physician and advocate for clean water supplies KEY Thomas Hewitt - Thomas Hewitt Key (1799-1875), philologist KIDD John - John Kidd, factotum to Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart (1803-1854), politician & advocate of Polish independence KILBURN William Edward - William Edward Kilburn (1818-1891), photographer, London KILVERT John - Dr John Kilvert (1798-1861), surgeon & amateur paleontologist, Bath KING John Myers - Rev John Myers King (1804-1887), author and Vicar of Cutcombe Vicarage, nr Dunster KING William Charles - William Charles King, solicitor, London KING William Read - William Read King (1781-1864), solicitor, London KING William Richard - William Richard King, solicitor, London KING Willlam Read & Son - William Read King & Son, solicitors, London KINNEAR Charles George Hood - Charles George Hood Kinnear (1830-1894), Edinburgh architect & Secretary, Photographic Society of Scotland, Edinburgh KNIGHT George - George Knight, photographic supplier, Foster Lane, Cheapside, London; one of WHFT's licensees. KNOTT Richard - Richard Knott, of Lacock KOZIEL E - E Koziel (d 1900), Sec, Société Française de Photographie KREEFT John Christopher Tobias - John Christopher Tobias Kreeft, Christopher Kreeft (1787-1850), merchant & Mecklenburg Consulate General, London LABARTHE Jules - Jules Labarthe, Swiss calotypist LABOUCHERE Henry - Rt Hon Henry Labouchere, 1stBaron Taunton (1798-1869), politician; President of the Board of Trade LACAN Ernest - Ernest Lacan (1828-1879), editor of La Lumiére & Le Moniteur de la Photographie (Paris).(Paris) LACEY Job - Job Lacey, courier LACROIX P - P Lacroix, British Consulate, Nice LADD John Nelson - John Nelson Ladd, accountant, Calne LAMBERT Aylmer Bourke - Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761-1842), botanist LANGENHEIM Ernst Wilhelm (William) - Ernst Wilhelm (William) Langenheim (1807-1874), German photographer, active in Philadelphia LANGENHEIM Friedrich (Frederick) - Friedrich (Frederick) Langenheim (1809-1897), German photographer, active in Philadelphia LANGENHEIM W & F Co - W & F Langenheim Co, German photographers, active in Philadelphia LANGSTON Julia Frances, née Moreton - Hon Julia Frances Langston, née Moreton (d. 1869), daughter of Baron Ducie, later 1st Earl of Ducie LAULERIE Martin - Martin Laulerie, Sec of the Société Française de Photographie LAWES Joseph - Joseph Lawes, owner, Angel Inn, Chippenham LEA John Walter - John Walter Lea (1827-1888), religious scholar, Assyriologist LEEFE Frederick Ewbank - Frederick Ewbank Leefe (1811-1833), electrotyper; former employee of the Photogalvanographic Company, London LEFEVRE John George Shaw - Sir John George Shaw Lefevre (1797-1879), Poor Law Commissioner LEMON Charles - Sir Charles Lemon (3 Sep 1784 - 13 Feb 1868), politician & scientist; WHFT's uncle LEMON Charlotte Anne, née Strangways - Lady Charlotte Anne Lemon, née Strangways (7 Feb 1784 -27 May 1826), WHFT's auntl m Charles Lemon 5 Dec 1810 LENORMANT François - François Lenormant (1837-1883), French archaeologist LÉON M & J LÉVY - M. Léon & J. Lévy, photographic suppliers, Paris; the company was active from1864-1874 & continued under various other names until 1970. LEPLAY Pierre Guillaume Frédéric - Pierre Guillaume Frédéric Leplay (1806-1882), French mining engineer & sociologist LEPSIUS Karl Richard - Dr Karl Richard Lepsius (1810-1884), German Egyptologist LEREBOURS Noël Marie Paymal - Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours (1807-1873), optician, of Lerebours & Secretan, Paris LEVESON-GOWER Granville George - Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl of Granville (1815-1891), MP & diplomat LINDLEY John - Prof John Lindley (1799-1865), botanist LINNEAN SOCIETY - London LITTLE Robert D - Robert D Little, land surveyor, Chippenham LLEWELYN Emma Thomasina, née Talbot - Emma Thomasina Llewelyn, née Talbot (1806-1881), photographer; WHFT's Welsh cousin LLEWELYN John Dillwyn - John Dillwyn Llewelyn (1810-1882), Welsh photographer, JP & High Sheriff LLOYD Hannibal Evans - Hannibal Evans Lloyd (1771-1847), philologist LOCKE Anna Maria Selina, née Powell - Anna Maria Selina Locke, née Powell (d 1838), wife of Wadham Locke (d 1835), JP, High Sheriff, of Rowdeford House, Wiltshire LODER Richard - Richard Loder, wholesale stationer, London LONG Charles Edward - Charles Edward Long (1796-1861), genealogist & antiquary LONG Richard Penruddock - Richard Penruddock Long (1825-1875), MP LONG Walter - Walter Long (1793-1867), MP LONGBOTTOM Robert J - Robert J Longbottom (b. 1803), Sec, Royal Polytechnic Institution, London LONGMAN & Company - publishers, London LONGMAN Thomas - Thomas Longman (1804-1879), publisher, London LONGMAN William - William Longman (1813-1877), publisher, London LOVEJOY George - George Lovejoy (1808-1883), bookseller, Reading LOW Augusta Ludlow, née Shakespear - Augusta Ludlow Low, née Shakespear (1809-1892), wife of General Sir John Low LOWE Joseph - Joseph Lowe, Secretary, Anglo-Mexican Mining Association, London LOWER Marc Antony - Marc Antony Lower (1813-1876), author, etymologist LUBBOCK John William - John William Lubbock, 3rd Baronet (1803-1865), mathematician & astronomer LUMLEY George - George Lumley, printseller and later author LUSIGNAN J - J Lusignan, assistant to Lord Guilford LUXMOORE William T - William T Luxmoore, agent for The Albany, London LYE Benjamin Leigh - Capt Benjamin Leigh Lye (1785-1855), veteran of Waterloo; Sec & Treas, Bath & West of England Society LYTTELTON George William - Sir George William Lyttelton, 4th Baron Frankley (1817-1876), politician & scholar MACAULAY Thomas Babington - Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859), MP & historian MACDONALD Flora Isabella Clementina - Flora Isabella Clementina Macdonald (1822-1899), Maid of Honor and Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria MACDONALD James Leonard - James Leonard Macdonald (1833-1922), cleric, St Brides, Liverpool; later, Vicar of All Saints, Hyde Park, London MACKAY Miss - Miss Mackay, of London; autograph collector MACKENZIE Robert Shelton - Dr Robert Shelton Mackenzie (1809- 30 Nov 1880), Irish-born author & literary editor, based in England; after 1852, resident in the US; d. in Philadelphia MACKENZIE William - William Mackenzie, publisher, Glasgow, London & Edinburgh MADDEN Frederick - Sir Frederick Madden (1801-1873), librarian & author MAGGS Joseph Herbert - Joseph Herbert Maggs, waterproof covering mfr, Melksham MAGINN James J - James J Maginn, Manchester photographer MAGRATH Edward - Edward Magrath, Secretary of the Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall, London: WHFT's club; a gentleman's club composed primarily of artists and scientists MALCOLM James Drysdale - James Drysdale Malcolm (1817-1882); lecturer; inventor; Sec, Western Literary & Scientific Institution, London; publisher of The Index; Sec, Leeds Conservative Society MALONE Thomas Augustine - Thomas Augustine Malone (1823-1867), chemist. From 1847-1851, he was in partnership with Nicolaas Henneman as Henneman & Malone, Photographers on Paper to the Queen. His ill health forced the dissolution of the partnership by July 1851 MANSEL Rawleigh Addenbrooke - Rawleigh Addenbrooke Mansel, 'Rory'; photographer & High Sherriff of Carmanthenshire; half-brother to Calvert Jones MANSELL W A & Company - W A Mansell & Co, photographers, fine art publishers, carvers, gilders & mount cutters, London; William Axon Mansell (1845-1906) MARET Hugues Antoine Joseph Eugéne - Hugues Antoine Joseph Eugéne Maret, Marquis de Bassano, (1806-1889), photographic entrepreneur, Paris MARKLOVE Henry Robert Jenner - Henry Robert Jenner Manlove (1790-1849), Cheltenham artist & photographer MARRIAN & GAUSBY - Birmingham silversmiths MARRIAN Benjamin James Pratt - Benjamin James Pratt Marrian (1811-1891), commonly, J P Marrian, Birmingham brass founder, inventor of gimballed naval lamps, possible photographer MARSHALL J H - J H Marshall, landlord at Grasmere MARTEN George Robert - George Robert Marten (1801-1878), JP MARTENS Friedrich von - Friedrich von Martens (1809-1875), German inventor & photographer, active in Paris MARTIUS Carl Friedrich Philipp von - Dr Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794-1868), German botanist MARWICK James D - James D Marwick, photographer & City Clerk for Edinburgh MASON Nathaniel Haslope - Nathaniel Haslope Mason (1828-1904), botanist & plant collector MATHISON William Collings - William Collings Mathison (1817-1870), tutor at Cambridge, author, Rector, Dickleburgh, Norfolk MATTEUCCI Carlo - Prof Carlo Matteucci (1811-1868), Italian physicist MATTHEWS John - Rev John Matthews, curate of Lacock ca. 1850 MAURI Ernesto - Ernesto Mauri (1791-1836), Italian botanist MAXWELL John Hall - John Hall Maxwell (1812-1866), agriculturalist, Secretary, Highland & Agricultural Society of Scotland MAXWELL Mary, née Clark - Mary Maxwell, née Clark; wife of William Maxwell (1797- 2 May 1863) of Carruchan, Dumfries, the last Chief of Maxwell MAY John - John May, manager of the Seend Ironstone Quarry MAYER John George - John George Mayer, London furrier MAYO Charles T - Charles T Mayo, Corsham solicitor MAYO Joseph - Rev Joseph Mayo, of Brow Cottage; Secretary, Devizes Literary & Scientific Institution MAZZIANI Domenico - Domenico Mazziani, Botanical Garden, Corfu MCCORMICK Robert - Dr Robert Mccormick (1800-1890), surgeon & naturalist MCCRACKEN J I - J I Mccracken, of Bingham, Richards & Company, London MCCRAW William - William Mccraw (b. 1825), Edinburgh photographer MCFARLANE A - A Mcfarlane, photographic experimenter, Liverpool MCLEAN & HAES - London photographers - Thomas Miller McLean (b 1832) and Frank Haes (1833-1916) MCPHAIL John - John Mcphail, Lacock Abbey gardener MENANT Joachim - Joachim Menant (1820-1899), French Assyriologist & magistrate MENDEL - Dr Mendel, of Ettinge Mense MENTEATH Charles Granville Stuart - Charles Granville Stuart Menteath (1800-1880), barrister MERCIER Philip H - Philip H Mercier, of Geneva MEREWETHER Henry Alworth, jnr - Henry Alworth Merewether, jnr (1813-1877), JP, author & Recorder for Devizes METHAM Lorenzo Pastor (TRIPE until May 1863) - Lorenzo Pastor Metham - Lorenzo Pastor Tripe until May 1863 - (1812-1899), surgeon, Mason, Patron of Royal British Female Orphan Asylum & brother of Linnaeus P Tripe METHUEN Jane Dorothea, née Mildmay - Jane Dorothea Methuen, née Mildmay (1789-1846) METHUEN Paul - Paul Methuen, Baron Methuen (1779-1849), MP; his seat was Corsham House, Corsham Court, Wiltshire, 3 mi NW of Lacock MEYER Edward - Edward Meyer - Eduard Meyer (1855-1930), German author on Troy, resident in England MICHELL Edward - Edward Michell, solicitor, Chippenham MILES & EDWARDS - Henry Miles & John Edwards - furniture printers, upholsterers & cabinet makers, London MILLARD & MANN - Millard & Mann, Tailors & Army Clothiers, Edinburgh; Robert Millard (b 1813) & William Mann (b 1810) MILMAN Henry Hart - (1791-1868), antiquary & Dean of St Paul's Cathedral MINCHIN William - William Minchin, Trustee MITCHELL & SON - Mitchell & Son, specialist printers, London MITCHELL John - John Mitchell, chemist & assayist, London MITSCHERLICH Eilhard - Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794-1863), German mineralogist & chemist MOFFAT John - John Moffat (1819-1894), Scottish engraver & photographer MOHL Julius von - Julius von Mohl (1800-1876), German orientalist MOIGNO l'Abbé François Napoléon Marie - l'Abbé François Napoléon Marie Moigno (1804-1884), French physicist & editor of Cosmos MONTAGU W - W Montagu, co-editor of The Polytechnic Journal MONTGOMERIE George Stephen Molyneux - Rev George Stephen Molyneux Montgomerie (1790- 17 Jan 1850), close friend of Talbot family, artist, Rector of Garboldisham, near Thetford, Norfolk; d by his own hand MOORE Thomas (poet) - Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 - 25 Feb 1852), Irish poet, close friend of the Feildings and Talbots; neighbour to Lacock Abbey MOORE Thomas (saddler) - Thomas Moore (1801 - possibly d. 1854), saddler in Lacock; member of the Lacock Parish Vestry MOORE William - William Moore, gardener's assistant at Lacock Abbey MORETTI Giuseppe - Giuseppe Moretti (1782-1853), Italian botanist & author MORIES Charles - Charles Mories, Hon Sec (unidentified organisation) MORIN D R - D R Morin, visitor to WHFT MORTIMORE N - N Mortimore, prospector MOSSE Charles - Charles Mosse, Parliamentary clerk MOWER William - William Mower, upholsterer & coffin maker, London MUNDY Francis Noel - Francis Noel Mundy (1833-1903), WHFT's nephew MUNDY Harriot Georgiana, née Frampton - Harriot Georgiana Mundy, née Frampton (1806-1886); WHFT's cousin & sister-in-law; m. William Mundy, 1830 MUNDY Laura - Laura Mundy (1805- 1 Sep 1842), WHFT's sister-in-law MUNDY Sarah Leaper, née Newton - Sarah Leaper Mundy, née Newton (d. 10 March 1836), WHFT's mother in law MUNDY William - William Mundy (1801-1877), politician, WHFT's brother-in-law MUNRO Benjamin - Benjamin Munro, botanist MUNRO Donald - Donald Munro (d. 1853), Gardener to Horticultural Society of London MURCHISON Roderick Impey - Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet Murchison (1792-1871), geologist MURRAY & HEATH - (Robert Murray & Vernon Heath), instrument makers & photographers, London; after 1862 the firm was continued by Prof Charles Heisch MURRAY Amelia Matilda 'Emily' - Amelia Matilda Murray, 'Emily' (1795-1884), Maid of Honor to Queen Victoria; social reformer; traveller; author MURRAY Edward - Rev Edward Murray (1798-1852), author & inventor MURRAY George - George Murray (1784-1860), Bishop of Rochester MURRAY James Oswald - James Oswald Murray (1823-1870, d in France), artist; of Manchester and Paris; contributor to La Lumiere (Paris) MURRAY John - John Murray (1808-1892), London publisher MURRAY Robert - Robert Murray (1798-1857), Irish instrument maker, based in London at John Newman; from 1855 photographic partner with Vernon Heath MURRAY S M - S M Murray, botanist, of Bromley, Kent MURRAY T Lamie - T Lamie Murray, Sec, Society for Relieving Distress MUSHET JOHN & SON - John Mushet & Son, property agents, Edinburgh NAPIER Caroline Amelia, née Fox - Caroline Amelia Napier, née Fox (d. 1860) NAPIER William Francis Patrick - Lt Gen Sir William Francis Patrick Napier (1785-1860); author NASH David William - David William Nash (1809-1876), barrister & author NASH John - John Nash, Asst Sec, Philological Society NAYLOR T W - T W Naylor, unemployed inventor in Newcastle NEELD Joseph - Joseph Neeld (1789-1856), MP & botanist NEILL & Company - Neill & Co, Edinburgh printers NESBITT Alexander - Alexander Nesbitt (1817-1886), archaeologist & collector of ancient glass NETHERCLIFT Joseph - Joseph Netherclift (1792-1863), London lithographer NEWBERY John - John Newbery, autograph collector, Reading NICCOLLS Mary - Mary Niccolls, of Bath NICHOLL Christiana Judy - Christiana Judy Nicholl, of Merthyr Mawr NICHOLL Edward Powell - Rev Edward Powell Nicholl (1831-1902), Vicar of Lacock from 1864 until his resignation in 1870; photographer NICHOLL Jane Harriot, née Talbot - Jane Harriot Nicholl, née Talbot (1796- 12 Jan 1874), WHFT's cousin NICHOLL John - Dr John Nicholl (1797-1853), MP NICHOLL Lucy Mary - Lucy Mary Nicholl (1824-1876), of Merthyr Mawr NICHOLS John Gough - John Gough Nichols (1806-1873), London printer & author NICHOLSON Richard - Richard Nicholson, London solicitor NICOL John - Dr John Nicol (d. 1910), Chemist; VP, Edinburgh Photographic Society NICOLAS Nicholas Harris - Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1799-1848), antiquary, reformer & author NINET Victor - Victor Ninet (b. 1823); Paris daguerreotypist, photographer, author & manufacturer NORRIS Edwin - Dr Edwin Norris (1795-1872), orientalist; Secretary, & Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society NORTH Frederick - Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (7 Feb 1766-14 Oct 1827), politician and colonial administrator; in 1824 he founded the Ionian Academy on Corfu, the first university established in modern Greece. NURSE William Mountford - William Mountford Nurse (1788- 2 Dec 1855), a Director of the Royal Polytechnic Institution O'BRIEN Susannah Sarah Louisa, née Fox Strangways - Lady Susannah Sarah Louisa O'Brien, née Fox Strangways (1743-1827), WHFT's great aunt OAKELEY Herbert Stanley - Sir Herbert Stanley Oakeley (1830-1903), Prof of Music at Edinburgh ODHAMS Elizabeth - Elizabeth Odhams, servant at Lacock Abbey OLIVER Daniel - Prof Daniel Oliver (1830-1916), Librarian (1860-1890) and Keeper (1864-1890), Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Prof of Botany, University College, London (1861-1888). OLIVIER Daniel Joseph - Rev Daniel Joseph Olivier (d 1858), Clifton Rectory, Bedfordshire OLIVIER, Mary Milligen, née Dacre - Mary Milligen Olivier, née Dacre (d. 14 Feb 1858), wife of Henry Stephen Olivier of Potterne, Wilts OLLIVANT Alfred - Alfred Ollivant, Bishop of Llandaff (1798-1882), author OPPERT Julius - Prof Julius Oppert (1825-1905), German Assyriologist, active in Paris ORD William Henry, jnr - William Henry Ord, jnr (1803-1838), MP, Lord of the Treasury & barrister OSBORN & SONS - Osborn & Sons, nurserymen, Fulham OSBORNE John Walter - John Walter Osborne (1828-1902), Irish-born inventor of photolithographer, active in Australia OVERTON R - R Overton, Sheffield silversmith OWEN Francis Philip Cunliffe - Sir Francis Philip Cunliffe Owen (1828-1894), naval officer & museum curator OWEN Hugh - Hugh Owen (1808-1897), Bristol photographer, Talbotypist, one of WHFT's licensees PAGE William Bridgewater, jnr - William Bridgewater Page, jnr; of W B Page & Sons, nurseryman; Botanic Gardens, Southampton PAGE William, Esq - William Page, Esq, 3 Argyll St, London PALEY James - Rev James Paley (1790-1863), Vicar at Lacock 1814-1853 PALEY Robert C - Rev Robert C Paley (1829-1853), missionary to Abbeokuta, photographer PALGRAVE Francis - Sir Francis Palgrave, formerly Cohen (1788-1861), historian; ; Deputy Keeper of the Public Record Office from its founding in 1838 PANIZZI Anthonio Genesio Maria - Sir Anthonio Genesio Maria Panizzi (1797-1879), British Museum Librarian PARKER F - F Parker, printer, London PARSONS Daniel - Rev Daniel Parsons (1811-1887), historian PARSONS William - William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800-1867), astronomer & MP PAYNE & FOSS - Payne & Foss, booksellers, London PEACOCK George - Prof George Peacock (1791-1858), mathematician PEARSON Hugh Nicolaas - Hugh Nicolaas Pearson, Dean of Salisbury (1776-1856) PEEL Robert - Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), Prime Minister PENNANT Elizabeth Dawkins, née Bouverie - Elizabeth Dawkins Pennant, née Bouverie (d 1859), wife of George Hay Dawkins Pennant (d 1840), of Penrhyn Castle, Wales PERCEVAL Dudley Montagu - Dudley Montagu Perceval (1800-1856), author PERCIJ Giovanni - Giovanni Percij, London servant to the Feildings and Talbots PERCY Algernon - Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland (1792-1865), peer & philanthropist PERKINS, BACON & Company - Perkins, Bacon & Co, London bank note engravers PERVASONE Giovanni - Giovanni Pervasone, botanist PETIT DE BILLIER Amélina - Amélina Petit de Billier, 'Mamie', 'Amandier' (1798- 8 September 1876), governess and later close friend of the Talbot family PETIT DE BILLIER Mssr [brother] - Mssr Petit de Billier, Paris-based brother of Amélina Petit de Billier, the Talbot family governess PETIT DE BILLIER Mssr [nephew] - Mssr Petit de Billier (most likely either Frederic Petit de Billier or Fritz Petit de Billier), nephews of AmÀ ¨lina Petit de Billier, Talbot family governess and later close friend of the family PETTER & GALPIN Co - Petter & Galpin Co, London printers; George William Petter (1823-1888) and Thomas Dixon Galpin (1828-1910) PETTITT Alfred - Alfred Pettitt (1821-1880), Lake District photographer & painter PETTY Walter - Walter Petty (1815-1877), miniature painter, Manchester; photographic colourist, London PHELPS Philip - Philip Phelps (b. 1807), Land Agent in Melksham; sometime Surveyor of Taxes & Bailiff, Lacock PHILIPON Charles - Charles Philipon (1806-1862), French caricaturist, lithographer & journalist PHILLIPPS Samuel March - Samuel March Phillipps (1780-1862), legal writer & Under Secretary of State PHILLIPPS Thomas - Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), antiquary & collector PHILLIPS Harry - Harry Phillips (1766-1839), London auctioneer PHILLIPS John - Prof John Phillips (1800-1874), BAAS founder & geologist PHILLIPS Joseph - Joseph Phillips, Chippenham solicitor PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE Editor - Editor of The Philosophical Magazine PHIPPS Charles Lewis - Charles Lewis Phipps (1782-1862), JP PIM James - James Pim (d. 1856), Irish Quaker banker & atmospheric railway promoter PINCH Charles - Charles Pinch, Bath architect PINCHES Theophilus Goldridge - Theophilus Goldridge Pinches (1856-1934), Assyriologist & author PITTAR Richard W - Richard W Pittar (b 1818) Irish-born barrister for Sarl & Co, Champion Iron Mines, Seend, Wiltshire PLAYFAIR Hugh Lyon - Sir Hugh Lyon Playfair (1786-1861), military & provost of St Andrew's University PLAYFAIR Lyon - Dr Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair (1818-1898), chemist PLIMMER George - Dr George Plimmer, Melksham surgeon POLLARD F - F Pollard, BAAS organiser, Exeter POLLOCK William Frederick - Sir William Frederick Pollack (1815-1888), 2nd Bt, Master of the Court of Exchequer PONCELET Jean Victor - Dr Jean Victor Poncelet (1788-1867), French mathematician POOLE & CARPMAEL - Poole & Carpmael, London solicitors POOLE HENRY & SON - Henry Poole & Son, marble and stoneworkers, London POOLE Moses - Moses Poole, of Poole & Carpmael, Patent Attorneys, London PORTER Anne Agnes - Anne Agnes Porter, 'Po' or 'Miss Porter' (1750-1814), Scottish born governess to the 2nd Earl of Ilchester, primarily at Penrice PORTER Charles - Charles Porter (1797-1877); fellow Cambridge student with WHFT; Clergyman POWELL Baden - Rev Prof Baden Powell (1796-1860), mathematician PRATT W T - W T Pratt, amateur photoengraving experimenter, London PRENDERGAST Jeffry Francis - Jeffry Francis Prendergast (1799-1879), barrister; WHFT's fellow student at Trinity College, Cambridge. PRESTON R W - R W Preston, of London; photolithographer PRETSCH Paul - Paul Pretsch (1808-1873), Austrian photographer & inventor; founder of the Photogalvanographic Company PRICE & BOLTON - Price & Bolton, London solicitors PRICE William Frederick Lake - William Frederick Lake Price (1810-1896), artist & photographer PRICHARD John - John Prichard, Welsh architect; Charles Henry Talbot apprenticed to PRING Thomas - Thomas Pring, builder, in Reading PRITCHARD Andrew - Andrew Pritchard (1804-1882), London optician PRITCHARD Henry Baden - Henry Baden Pritchard (1841-1884), photographer & chemist PROVIS John - John Provis, timber merchant, antiquary, lecturer & railway promoter, Chippenham PURVIS James - Rev James Purvis (b. 1827), Master of Grammar School, Oswestry; photographic inventor PUSEY Edward Bouverie - Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800-1882), theologian PUSEY Philip - Philip Pusey (1799-1855), agriculturalist, MP PYMONT W - W Pymont, picture seller, London QUARITCH Bernard - Bernard Quaritch (1819-1899), London bookseller QUETELET Lambert Adolphe Jacques - Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet (1796-1874), Belgian mathematician RADDI Joseph - Joseph Raddi - Giuseppe Raddi (1770-1829), Italian botanist RAMSDEN John William - John William Ramsden (1834-1894), photographer in Leeds RANDALL David - David Randall, of Neath, solicitor for CRM Talbot RANDELL John A - Secretary, Wilts Rifle Association RAVENSCROFT Henry - Henry Ravenscroft, London wigmaker RAWLINSON Henry Creswick - Sir Henry Creswick Rawlinson, 1st Baronet (1810-1895), MP, orientalist; Trustee of the British Museum from 1876 RAWLINSON John Henry - John Henry Rawlinson - patent agent and solicitor, London READ R - R Read, official of the St James's Club, London READE Joseph Bancroft - Rev Joseph Bancroft Reade (1801-1870), microscopist & photographer READING David - David Reading, builder, working on Lacock Abbey REDHOUSE James William - Sir James Wilson Redhouse (1811-1892), orientalist REEVE Lovell Augustus - Lovell Augustus Reeve (1814-1865), botanist, publisher and editor; noted for publishing Charles Piazzi Smyth's 1856 Teneriffe, illustrated with original stereo photographs; Editor of The Literary Gazette from 1851-1856 REEVES Thomas, jnr - Thomas Reeves, jnr (b. 1822), daguerreotypist & photographer,, London REEVES Thomas, snr - Thomas Reeves, snr (b 1786), father of Thomas Reeves, jnr REICH J H - J H Reich, Swiss tutor REILLY L - L Reilly, coach operator, Bath REILLY T - T Reilly, of the General Post Office, London RICHARDSON Henry F - Henry F Richardson, Sec, Agricultural Employment Institute, London RICHARDSON John - Sir John Richardson (1787-1865), arctic explorer & naturalist RIDGWAY James Leech - James Leech Ridgway (1801-1862), London publisher RIGAUD Stephen Peter - Stephen Peter Rigaud (1774-1839), historian of mathematics RIGNOLLE D'uguenne - D'uguenne Rignolle, of Calais RILEY Edward - Edward Riley, laboratory of the Dowlais Iron Works RITCHIE W - W Ritchie, solicitor for Poole & Carpmael, London RIVIERE Robert - Robert Riviere (1808-1882), London bookbinder ROACH Edwin Osmond - Edwin Osmond Roach (1828-1876), Irish-born Vicar at St Cyriac's, Lacock, 1870-1876; Asst Provincial Grand Chaplain, Freemason ROBBINS, J & Co - J Robbins & Co, chemists, London ROBERTON John David - John David Roberton (d 1843), Asst Sec, Royal Society ROBERTSON John - John Robertson, Hon Comm Sec, Charing Cross Hospital, London ROBINS William - William Robins, London solicitor ROBINSON Joseph Barlow - Joseph Barlow Robinson (d. 1893), sculptor, Derby ROCHETTE Désiré Raoul - Désiré-Raoul-Rochette, commonly known as Raoul-Rochette (1789-1854), French archaeologist & Secrétaire Perpétuel of the Académie des Beaux-Arts ROCK Daniel - Rev Dr Daniel Rock (1799-1871), antiquary, ecclesiologist, textiles expert & Chaplain to the Earl of Shrewsbury RODWELL John - John Rodwell, bookseller, 46 New Bond St, London RODWELL John Medows - Rev John Medows Rodwell (1808-1900), orientalist ROE [?] George - George Roe ? solicitor? of Devonshire ROGERS James - James Rogers, of Bath ROGERS Robert - Robert Rogers, Curate of St Cyriac's, Lacock, in 1830 ROGET Peter Mark - Dr Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869), scientific writer ROOKE Frederick William - Capt Frederick William Rooke (1782-1855), of Bath and Lackham, Wilts ROSE Hugh James - Rev Hugh James Rose (1795-1838), theologian, author & Principal of King's College, London ROSLING Alfred - Alfred Rosling (1802-1882), Quaker timber merchant; founder member of the Photographic Society and later their treasurer ROSS & THOMSON - James Ross & John Thomson, Edinburgh photographers ROSS Andrew - Andrew Ross (1798-1859), London optician & author ROSS Horatio - Horatio Ross (1801-1886), MP, crack shot & Scottish photographer ROSS James Clark - Sir (1800-1862), Arctic & Antarctic navigator ROST Reinhold - Reinhold Rost (1822-1896), German orientalist ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY - London ROYAL INSTITUTION - London ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE - London ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON - (usually to/from The Council) RUSSELL Henry - Sir Henry Russell (1783-1852), diplomat RUSSELL J - J Russell, carriage builder, Chippenham RUSSELL John - Lord John Russell (1792-1878), statesman RUSSELL John Scott - Prof John Scott Russell (1808-1882), Scottish engineer; Secretary, Royal Commission of 1851 RUTHVEN Mary Elizabeth Thornton Hore - Mary Elizabeth Thornton Hore Ruthven, 8th Baroness Ruthven (1784-1864) RYAN John - Prof Dr John Ryan (1810-1876), chemist at the Royal Polytechnic Institution, London RYDER Dudley - Sir Dudley Ryder, Earl of Harrowby & Viscount Sandon (1762-1847) SABINE Joseph - Joseph Sabine (1770-1837), botanist, Sec, Royal Horticultural Society & lawyer SAINT JOHN-MILDMAY Jane, née Mildmay - Jane St John-Mildmay, née Mildmay (1765-1857) SAINT PRIEST Ange - Le Compte Agne Saint Priest, French author & editor SALTER James - James Salter, Nurseryman, Seedsman, and Florist - Bath SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE & RIVINGTON Co - London publishers SANDFORD Erskine Douglas - Erskine Douglas Sandford, Edinburgh advocate & landlord SARL & Company - London SARL William - William Sarl, Champion Iron Works, Seend SARVIS John - John Sarvis, pianoforte tuner, London SAUNDERS Charles Alexander - Charles Alexander Saunders (1796-1874), Secretary, Great Western Railway SAUNDERS Thomas Hosier - Thomas Hosier Saunders (1778-1859), JP, woolen manufacturer & solicitor, of Great Bradford (Bradford upon Avon) SAUTTER Maurice - Maurice Sautter, patent agent, Paris SAYCE Archibald Henry - Archibald Henry Sayce (1845-1933), Egyptologist & Orientalist SCHAFHÄUTL Karl Emil von - Dr Karl Emil von Schafhäutl (1803-1890), photographer, music theorist & geologist SCHERER Adrien de - Col Adrien de Scherer, French amateur astronomer, St Gallen SCHMIDT Johan Henrik Gamst Valdemar - Prof Johan Henrik Gamst Valdemar Schmidt (1836-1925), Danish Egyptologist SCHOENBEIN Christian Friedrich - Christian Friedrich Schoenbein (1799-1868), German-Swiss chemist, inventor of gun-cotton SCHRADER Eberhard - Dr Eberhard Schrader (1836-1908), German orientalist & theologian SCHUK Carl - Carl Schuk, Vienna galvanographic printer SCOTT Robert Anthony Edward - Capt Robert Anthony Edward Scott (1817-1903), ret RN during 1850s (subsequently re-commissioned); elected to founding Council of The Photographic Society of London; Pres, Devon & Cornwall Photographic Society SCROPE George Julius Duncombe Poulett - George Julius Duncombe Poulett Scrope (1797-1876), geologist, magistrate & MP SEALY John - John Sealy, ironmonger & blacksmith, Tetbury SELWYN Townshend - Rev Townshend Selwyn (1783-1853), botanist, Curate of Kilmington, Somerset, and Canon of Gloucester SENHOUSE Joseph Pocklington - Joseph Pocklington Senhouse (1804-1874), of Netherhall, Maryport, Cumberland SEYMER Harriet Ker, née Beckford - Lady Harriet Ker Seymer, née Beckford (1779-1853), wife of Henry Ker Seymer (1782-1834), JP, MP & High Sheriff of Dorset SHADBOLT George - George Shadbolt (1830?-1901), editor; founding member of the Photographic Society of London SHAKESPEAR Henrietta - Henrietta Shakespear SHARP Thomas - Thomas Sharp (1819-1873), London photographer & bootmaker SHARP W H - W H Sharp, botanical traveller to Corfu SHAW George - Prof George Shaw (1818-1904), Prof of chemistry, patent agent, author and early photographer, Birmingham SHEEPSHANKS Richard - Richard Sheepshanks (1794-1855), astronomer SHEFFIELD Julia Brigida, née Newbolt - Lady Julia Brigida Sheffield, née Newbolt (d. 1875) SHELDON H G - H G Sheldon, Society of Biblical Archaeology SHERADESSA [?] Comte de - Comte de Sheradessa[?], Royal Secretary to the Grand Duke of Tuscany SHERLOCK William - William Sherlock (1813-1889), London and Devon calotypist SHIRLEY Eliza, née Stanhope - Eliza Shirley, née Stanhope (d. 1859) SHORT William - Rev William Short, Vicar of Chippenham SIMMS & SON BOOKSELLERS - Bath SIMPKINSON John Nassau - Rev John Nassau Simpkinson (1817-1894), author; CH Talbot's tutor at Harrow SMALLFIELD J - J Smallfield, of J E Taylor, printers, London SMARTT A W - A W Smartt, of Murray & Heath, instrument makers, London SMITH & SON - London SMITH Barnett - Barnett Smith, of Northwold Villa, Cheltenham SMITH Charles - Charles Smith, warehouseman SMITH Daniel - Daniel Smith (1804- before Feb 1872), Gloucestershire-born weaver of gold lace; self-taught Assyriologist, later a schoolmaster in Melbourne, Australia SMITH ELDER & Company - printers & publishers, London SMITH George (1) - George Smith, student at Rottingdean SMITH George (2) - George Smith (1840-1876), bank-note engraver, Assyriologist SMITH J - J Smith, photographer, London SMITH James Edward - Sir James Edward Smith, MD (1759-1828), botanist SMYTH Charles Piazzi - Prof Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900), photographer & Astronomer Royal for Scotland SMYTH W - W Smyth, German daguerreotypist SMYTH William Henry - Adm William Henry Smyth (1788-1865), scientific writer SNEYD Maria - Mrs Maria Sneyd, of Blackheath SOCIETE FRANCAISE DE STATISTIQUE - Paris SOCIETY OF ARTS - later, Royal Society of Arts, London SOLLY Edward - Edward Solly (1819-1886), chemist, antiquary & Sec, Society of Arts SOMERVILLE Mary, née Fairfax - Mary Sommerville, née Fairfax(1780-1872), writer on science SOMMERFELDT Thomas - Thomas Sommerfeldt, German-born servant of WHFT, resident at Bow SOTHEBY Samuel Leigh - Samuel Leigh Sotheby (1805-1861), auctioneer and patron of science & arts SOULIER Charles - Charles Soulier (1840-1875), photographer, Paris, of Clouzard & Soulier SOWERBY George Brettingham - George Brettingham Sowerby (1788-1854), naturalist SPEDDING Jane - Jane Spedding, London-based property owner in Greta Bank; cousin of Thomas Storey Spedding SPEDDING John James - John James Spedding (1834-1909), JP, property manager at Greta Bank; nephew of Thomas Story Spedding SPEDDING Thomas Story - Thomas Story Spedding (1800-1870), friend of Thomas Carlyle; owner of Greta Bank SPENCER Henry - Dr Henry Spencer (1805-1842), surgeon in Chippenham. SPENCER John Charles - John Charles Spencer, Viscount Althorp, 3rd Earl of Spencer (1782-1845), politician SPILLER John - John Spiller (1833-1921), chemist & photographer SPRING-RICE Thomas - Thomas Spring-Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle (1790-1866), statesman ST CLARE William - E_R_R_O_R STEEL Thomas Henry - Rev Thomas Henry Steel (1806-1881), tutor to Charles Henry Talbot STEELE E - E Steele, commentator on etymology STEINMAN George Steinman - George Steinman Steinman (1811-1893), author & antiquary STEUDEL Ernst Gottlieb - Dr Ernst Gottlieb Steudel (1783-1856), Swiss physician & botanist STEVENS Samuel - Samuel Stevens, agent for the Natural History Agency, London STEWARD Ambrose Harbord - Ambrose Harbord Steward (1770-1837), Yarmouth merchant; of Stoke Park, Suffolk; Prize Agent, admired by Lord Nelson STEWART Constance, née Gilchrist-Clark - Constance Stewart, née Gilchrist-Clark, 'Connie' (b. 1863), WHFT's Scottish granddaughter STEWART James - James Stewart (sometimes Steuart), WS, of J & C Stewart, lawyers, Edinburgh STILWELL & Co - Stilwell & Company, navy agents, London - attorneys who specialised in representing the financial affairs of current and former navy officers STILWELL John G - John G Stilwell, navy agent, London STILWELL Thomas - Thomas Stilwell, navy agent, London STONE W H - W H Stone, thief at Lacock & subsequent resident of the Devizes House of Correction STORY-MASKELYNE Mervyn Herbert Nevil - Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne (1823-1911), photographer, politician & scientist STRANGWAYS Caroline Leonora Fox, née Murray - Caroline Leonora Fox Strangways, née Murray, Countess of Ilchester (1788-1819) STRANGWAYS Henry Stephen Fox - Henry Stephen Fox Strangways, 'Harry', 3rd Earl of Ilchester (21 Feb 1787 - 3 Jan 1858); WHFT's uncle STRANGWAYS John George Charles Fox - John George Charles Fox Strangways (6 Feb 1803 - 8 Sep 1859), MP; Brickworth House, Wiltshire STRANGWAYS Juliana Maria, née Digby - Juliana Maria Strangways, née Digby, Countess of Ilchester (d. 23 Sep 1842), 2nd wife of Henry Thomas Fox Strangways, 2nd Earl of Ilchester (1747-1802); WHFT's grandmother; 'Grand Mam', 'Granny' STRANGWAYS William Thomas Horner Fox - William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester (17 May 1795 - 10 Jan 1865), botanist, art collector; diplomat; WHFT's favourite uncle; m 21 Jul 1857 Lady Sophia Penelope, née Sheffield (1822-1882), Countess of Ilchester STRATFORD William Samuel - Lt William Samuel Stratford (22 May 1790 - 29 Mar 1853), RN, astronomer; Sec, Royal Astronomical Society STUART Dudley Coutts - Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart (11 Jan 1803 - 17 Nov 1854), Whig, then Liberal politician; advocate of Polish independence; m Princess Christine Bonaparte (1798-1847); d in Stockholm STUART John - John Stuart (Nov 1813 - 19 Jul 1877), geneaologist; Sec of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland STUART-WORTLEY John - John Stuart-Wortley, 2nd Baron Wharncliffe (20 Apr 1801 - 22 Oct 1855), FRS; Tory MP; photographer SUGGETT M - M Suggett, amateur calotypist, Manchester SULLIVANT Joseph - Joseph Sullivant (1809-1884), American scientist & author SUTTON Thomas - Thomas Sutton (1819 - 19 Mar 1875), editor, photographer & chemist SWAN Joseph Wilson - Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (31 Oct 1828 - 27 May 1914), physicist, chemist & electrical inventor SWANSON John - Lt John Swanson, Edinburgh Police SWARBRECK Samuel Dukinfield - Samuel Dukinfield Swarbreck (1799-1865), solicitor and artist, on behalf of his wife Delia Caroline Swarbreck, author, Richmond, Yorkshire SWAYNE John - John Swayne, Clerk of the Peace for Wiltshire SYLVESTER James Joseph - Prof James Joseph Sylvester (3 Sep 1814 - 15 Mar 1897), English mathematician, active in America SYMOND Arthur - Arthur Symond, Registrar of Metropolitan Buildings, London TAIT Peter Guthrie - Prof Peter Guthrie Tait (28 Apr 1831 - 4 Jul 1901), FRSE; Scottish mathematician TALBOT Charles Henry - Charles Henry Talbot, (2 Feb 1842 - 26 Dec 1916), 'Charlie'; 'Tally'; antiquary & WHFT's only son TALBOT Christopher Rice Mansel - Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, 'Kit' (10 May 1803 - 17 Jan 1890), Liberal MP; landowner; 'The Wealthiest Commoner'; WHFT's Welsh cousin TALBOT Constance, née Mundy - Constance Talbot, née Mundy (30 Jan 1811 - 9 Sep 1880), m. WHFT 20 Dec 1832 TALBOT Ela Theresa - Ela Theresa Talbot (25 Apr 1835 - 25 Apr 1893), WHFT's 1st daughter TALBOT Ellinore Sybilla - Ellinore Sybilla Talbot, 'Ronille' (1801-1810), WHFT's Welsh Cousin TALBOT Henry John Chetwynd - Henry John Chetwynd Talbot, 18th Earl Shrewsbury, 5th Baron Talbot (8Nov 1803 - 4 Jun 1868); naval commander; Conservative MP TALBOT John - John Talbot, 16th Earl Shrewsbury (1791-1852) TALBOT Mary Thereza - Mary Thereza Talbot (1795- 8 Feb 1861), WHFT's cousin TALBOT Rosamond Constance - Rosamond Constance Talbot (16 Mar 1837 - 7 May 1906), 'Rose'; 'Monie'; artist & WHFT's 2nd daughter; died & buried at San Remo, Italy, with a memorial at Lacock; TALBOT Theodore Mansel - Theodore Mansel Talbot (1839-1876), WHFT's Welsh nephew TALBOT William Henry Fox - William Henry Fox Talbot (11 Feb 1800 - 17 Sep 1877) TARDIEU Jacques Leon - Jacques Leon Tardieu, photographer & inventor, Paris TARRANT Alfred - Alfred Tarrant, London bookbinder TATE James - James Tate (1771-1843), schoolmaster & author TAYLOR Brook - Sir Brook Taylor (1776-1846), diplomat TAYLOR John Traill - John Traill Taylor (1827-1895), Scottish watchmaker, photographer & editor of The British Journal of Photography TAYLOR Josiah - Josiah Taylor - Joshua Taylor, London-based marine artist TAYLOR Richard (1) - Richard Taylor (1781-1858), publisher & naturalist TAYLOR Richard (2) - Dr Richard Taylor (1770-1860), MD & amateur scientist, of Bath TELFER Tobias S - Tobias S Telfer, asst in Henneman's Regent St, London, establishment TENORE Michele - Michele Tenore (1780-1861), Italian botanist & traveller THACKERAY Francis - Rev Francis Thackeray (1793-1842), clergyman & author THACKERAY Mary Anne, née Shakespear - Mary Anne Thackeray, née Shakespear (1793-1850); WHFT's cousin THIRLWALL Newell Connop - Newell Connop Thirlwall, Bishop of St Davids (1797-1875), author THOMAS Francis Lewis & John William - Francis Lewis & John William Thomas, goldsmiths & jewelers, London THOMAS Robert W - Robert W Thomas (d. 1881), London chemist & early member of London Photographic Society THOMPSON Charles Thurston - Charles Thurston Thompson (1816-1868), engraver & photographer THOMPSON Edward Healy - Rev Edward Healy Thompson (d. 1891), curate at Calne, author & convert to Catholicism THOMPSON Paul Beilby Lawley - Paul Beilby Lawley Thompson, Baron Wenlock (1794-1852), MP THOMPSON Stephen - Stephen Thompson (1831-1892), London photographer; traveller and photographer for the British Museum; author; lecturer and art critic THOMPSON William - William Thompson, calotypist, Ipswich THOMSON David - Prof David Thomson (1817-1880), Natural Philosophy, Glasgow University; Scottish scientist THORNTHWAITE William Henry Emelien - Dr William Henry Emelien Thornthwaite (1819-1894), optician & author THORP Thomas - Thomas Thorp (1797-1877), Fellow of Trinity Coll, Cambridge; Archdeacon of Bristol THORPE Thomas - Thomas Thorpe (1791- 17 Feb 1851); bookseller, 178 Piccadilly, London THRUPP George Athelstane - Thrupp, George Athelstane (1822-1905), coachbuilder, London TOMKINS Henry George - Rev Henry George Tomkins, of Weston Super Mare TORRE Nicholas Lee - Nicholas Lee Torre (b. 1795), classical scholar & author TRAHERNE Charlotte Louisa Mansel, née Talbot - Charlotte Louisa Mansel Traherne, née Talbot, 'Charry' (1800-1880) wife of Rev John Montgomerie Traherne; WHFT's cousin TRAHERNE John Montgomerie - Rev John Montgomerie Traherne (1788-1860), JP, antiquary & author TREBILCOCK James - James Trebilcock, Cornish photographer TREFFRY H W - H W Treffry, engineer, London; daguerreotypist, Glasgow TRELAWNY Edward John - Edward John Trelawny (13 Nov 1792 - 13 Aug 1881), novelist, adventurer; friend of poets Shelley and Byron. TRELOAR Thomas - Thomas Treloar, coach agent, Bath TREUTTEL & WURTZ - booksellers, Paris TREVELYAN Walter Calverley - Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, 6th Baronet (1797 - 23 Mar 1879), naturalist & antiquary; friend of WHFT since childhood TRICKET J B - J B Tricket, accountant for Henneman's Talbotype Rooms, London TRIMNELL Elizabeth - Elizabeth Trimnell, executrice, of Bath TRUBNER & Company - agents, Berlin TRUBNER C - C Trubner, agent to the Berlin International Photographic Exhibition TRUFFAUT & SAUTTER - patent agents, Paris TRUFFAUT Louis Henri Joseph - Louis Henri Joseph Truffaut, patent agent, Paris TRUSTEES OF THE MARRIAGE SETTLEMENT - TURNER Charles W - Charles W Turner, of Exeter TURNER Dawson - Dawson Turner (18 Aug 1775 - 21 Jun 1858), banker, botanist & antiquary TURNER William - William Turner (1792-1867), diplomat, traveller & Egyptologist TWOPENY William - William Twopeny (1797-1873), barrister, antiquary & accomplished amateur artist, London UNIDENTIFIED - Please help! UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL - London UTZSCHNEIDER Joseph von - Joseph von Utzschneider (2 Mar 1763 - 31 Jan 1840), Munich, instrument maker VAJLATI Charles - Charles Vajlati, courier to the Marquis of Lansdowne VALLOTTON Theodore James - Theodore James Vallotton (1826-1909), Solicitor, London VARDON Alfred Thomas - Alfred Thomas Vardon (1811 - 8 Jan 1892), artist & teacher, Grasmere, later Bath VAUGHAN Charles John - Charles John Vaughan (16 Aug 1816 - 15 Oct 1897), Dean of Llandaff, headmaster VAUX William Sandys Wright - William Sandys Wright Vaux (1818-1885), antiquary VEITCH James jnr - James Veitch, jnr (1815-1869), nurseryman & botanist; Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, London VEITCH William - William Veitch, of the Edinburgh Evening Courant VELTEN Johann - Johann Velten - Jean Velten, publisher, Carlsruhe [Karlsruhe] & St Petersburg VENN J et Fils - J Venn et Fils, notaries & translators, London VEZEY R & E - R & E Vezey, Coach & Harness Makers, Bath VICARS Hedley - Hedley Vicars (b. 1797?), of Newcastle VICKERY Elizabeth - Elizabeth Vickery (1776- 25 Sep 1835), 'Betty', WHFT's governess VIGORS Nicholas Aylward - Capt Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785 - 26 Oct 1840), Irish MP; zoologist VIVIAN George - George Vivian (1800 - 5 Jan 1873), Claverton Manor, Bath; architectural historian; Commissioner for Rebuilding Houses of Parliament; Commissioner for Promoting the Fine Arts VIVIAN William - William Vivian (16 Jun 1796 - 6 Sep 1870), iron founder, Tucking Mill, Cornwall VIVIANI Domenico - Prof Domenico Viviani (29 Jul 1772 - 15 Feb 1840), Italian botanist; established the Orto Botanico dell'Université di Genova VOGEL Friedrich Carl - Friedrich Carl Vogel (1806-1865), also Fritz Vogel and, erroneously, Carl Friedrich Vogel; Frankfurt lithographer who took up Daguerreotypy in 1839 and later turned to the Calotype; bankrupted in 1843, he opened a Talbotype studio in Milan in 1850 VOGEL Hermann Wilhelm - Dr Hermann Wilhelm Vogel (26 Mar 1834 - 13 Dec 1898), discover of dye sensitisation; President of the Berlin Photographic Society WADE James - James Wade, Clerk, Office of the Exhibition of 1851 WAKEFIELD Edward Jerningham - Edward Jerningham Wakefield (25 Jun 1820 - 3 Mar 1879), author, coloniser and politician in New Zealand WALDRON Clement - Clement Waldron, attorney, Cardiff WALKER George Townshend - Lt Gen Sir George Townshend Walker (25 May 1764 - 14 Nov 1842), soldier, Governor of Granada WALKER H G & Company - H G Walker & Co, chemists, Bath WALKER William - William Walker (1791 - 7 Sep 1867), engraver, miniature painter & photographer, London WALLACE Alfred Russel - Alfred Russel Wallace (8 Jan 1823 - 7 Nov 1913), FRS, surveyor, naturalist; independent discover of theory of evolution through natural selection WALTERS Melmoth - Melmoth Walters (b. 1794), Barrister at Law, of Batheaston WANKLYN William - William Wanklyn (1824-1885), cotton spinner, property owner, of Greenbank, Bury, Lancs WARD F O - F O Ward, of Hood's Magazine WARD J G - J G Ward, clergy WARD John William - John William Ward, 1st Earl Dudley, 4th Viscount Dudley & Ward (9 Aug 1788 - 6 Mar 1833), FRS, politician, Foreign Secretary WARD Richard James - Richard James Ward, of Bath WARD Theophilus Frederick - Dr Theophilus Frederick Ward (1836-1875), engraver, photographer, formerly of the Photogalvanographic Co, London WARINGTON Robert - Robert Warington (1807-1867), chemist and advocate for chemistry. WATERS P - P Waters, servant to the Feildings WATKINS & HILL - instrument makers, London WATKINS Francis - Francis Watkins, of Watkins & Hill, instrument makers, London WATSON John - John Watson (1814-1865), London photographer; one time assistant to Nicolaas Henneman WAYLEN James - James Waylen (1810-1894) author & historian of Devizes WEBBER Alex & Company - Alex Webber & Co, wine merchants, London WELD Charles Richard - Charles Richard Weld (1818 - 15 Jan 1869), Asst Sec & Librarian, Royal Society; historian of the Society WELLS Thomas Spencer - Sir Thomas Spencer Wells (3 Feb 1818 - 21 Jan 1897), surgeon to Queen Victoria; friend of Rev George Bridges WEMYSS Margaret, née Campbell - Lady Margaret Wemyss, née Campbell (d. 21 Jan 1850), wife of Francis Charteris, 8th Earl of Wemyss (1772-1853) WERDINSKY Adolphe de - Count Adolphe de Werdinsky; Dr Adolphe de Werdinsky (1803 - 22 Sep 1856), Polish born exile? sometime resident of Hull, inventor, promotor, charlatan & man of mystery WEST Benjamin - Benjamin West, of Blackburn, calotypist WEST J A - J A West, writing from Paris WEST William - William West (1801-1860), artist, based in the Clifton Observatory & Camera Obscura WETHERED Joseph - Joseph Wethered; of Wethered, Cossham and Wethered Colliery, Bristol WHEATSTONE Charles - Sir Charles Wheatstone (6 Feb 1802 - 19 Oct 1875), scientist & inventor WHEELER George - George Wheeler, of the Warminster Nursery WHEWELL William - Rev William Whewell (24 May 1794 - 6 Mar 1866), Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Professor and natural philosopher; historian of science WHITE & VEITCHE - stovemakers, London WHITE Franklin - Franklin White (1813-1870), Daguerreotypist & calotypist, of Springfield, Massachusetts WHITE Walter - Walter White (1811-1893), Asst Sec & Librarian, Royal Society, London WHITLOCK Joseph - Joseph Whitlock (1806-1857), first Daguerreotypist in Birmingham WICKS William Heaven - William Heaven Wicks (1784-1838), Gentleman's Boarding School, Chippenham WILKINS George - George Wilkins (b. 1814), gardener at Lacock WILKINSON Henry M - Henry M Wilkinson, Essex naturalist, resident in London; amateur Hebraist WILKINSON Thomas Boston - Rev Thomas Boston Wilkinson (1798 - 15 Oct 1888), Rector of East Harling, Norfolk, friend of the Montgomerie family WILLATS Thomas & Richard - Thomas & Richard Willats, London opticians & photographic suppliers WILLEMENT Thomas - Thomas Willement (18 Jul 1786 - 10 Mar 1871), stained glass artist, London; the 'Father of Victorian Stained Glass' WILLIAMS & NORGATE - London booksellers WILLIAMS Emma L - Emma L Williams (b 1828), wife of Rev James Augustus Williams, Ashworth Vicarage WILLIAMS James Augustus - Rev James Augustus Williams (1820-1869), Dummer House, Basingstoke, Hampshire; tutor to Charles Henry Talbot WILLIAMS John - John Williams (1811-1862); author; Asst Sec, Philological Society, London WILLIAMS Sherburne Hodgkinson - Gen Sherburne Hodgkinson Williams (1788 - 9 Feb 1874), Royal Engineers & engineer to Hallette's Atmospheric Railway WILLIAMSON John William - John William Williamson, barrister, London WILLOUGHBY Clementina Sarah, née Drummond - Clementina Sarah Willoughby, née Drummond, Baroness Willoughby de Eresby (1786 - 26 Jan 1865), wife of Peter Robert Drummond-Burrell, 21st Baron Willoughby de Eresby WILMOT Thomas - Thomas Wilmot, auctioneer, London WILMOT William, jnr - William Wilmot, jnr, solicitor, Chippenham WILSON John - John Wilson, of the Royal Panopticon of Science & Art, London WINSOR & NEWTON - watercolour manufacturers, London WINSOR William - William Winsor (1804-1865), chemist; artists' colour manufacturer & Sacred Harmonic Society member WINWOOD Henry Hoyte - Rev Henry Hoyte Winwood (1830 - 25 Dec 1920); amateur geologist; Hon Sec, Bath Natural History & Antiquarian Field Club WOOD Charles - Sir Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax (20 Dec 1800 - 8 Aug 1885); Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, 1834; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1846-1852 WOOD W - W Wood, of the Wilts, Somerset & Weymouth Railway WOODS Thomas - Dr Thomas Woods (1815-1905), Irish physician, photographer, inventor & friend of Lord Rosse WORDSWORTH Christopher [the younger] - Christopher Wordsworth, the younger (30 Oct 1807 - 20 Mar 1885), Headmaster of Harrow & Bishop of London WORSLEY Thomas - Rev Thomas Worsley (1797-1885), theologian & Master of Downing College, Cambridge WRIGHT Charles - Charles Wright, employee of Payne & Foss, London booksellers WRIGHT James - James Wright, footman to the Talbots & Constable for Lacock WRIGHT Thomas - Thomas Wright, servant at Lacock WYATT Matthew Digby - Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt (28 Jul 1820 - 21 May 1877), architect, art historian; Sec of the Great Exhibition of 1851 WYATT Thomas - Thomas Wyatt (1799-1859), Manchester & Birmingham; portrait painter & photographer WYNDHAM-QUIN Windham Henry - Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (1782-1850). WYTTENBACH Jacob Samuel - Jacob Samuel Wyttenbach (1748-1830), Swiss theologian & botanist YOUNG Thomas - Dr Thomas Young (13 Jun 1773 - 10 May 1829), physicist, musicologist, linguist noted for his decipherment of the Rosetta Stone ZACH Franz Xaver von - Franz Xaver von Zach (13 Jun 1754 - 2 Sep 1832), Hungarian astronomer; editor of scientific journals ZUCCARINI Joseph Gerhard - Dr Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (10 Aug 1797 - 18 Feb 1848), Prof Botany Univ of Munich
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