Author talk:Walter William Hepworth

Attempts to identify this author

Talk:Dictionary of National_Biography, 1885-1900/List of Contributors#Walter Hepworth -- billinghurst (talk) 23:35, 4 December 2008 (UTC) @Charles Matthews: The time of disappearance aligns with death, and all evident to the artist. I think that this is about all we are going to get. There may be some directories and/or electoral rolls, maybe some news articles, though not seeing anything overt in the Times.

Walter Hepworth researches

No publications found for Author:Walter Hepworth, nothing evident through Google. Quick search finds three articles written, all B surnames and all about art. There is an artist of that name in 1881 census. Walter Hepworth, b.1852 in Leicester. Cannot find in later census to confirm details. Found in 1861 census, son of James and Susanna. Parked -- billinghurst (talk) 00:06, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

According to Fenwick's Contributor's Index, Hepworth was responsible for 9 articles, all B surnames: Henry John Boddington (1811-1865), Daniel Bond (1725-1803), Jacob Bonneau (d. 1786), Samuel Bough (1822-1878), Thomas William Bowler (d. 1869), Wiliam Bowness (1809-1867), Robert Bowyer (1758-1834), Edmund Bristow (1787-1876), and Beau Brummell (1778-1840).

A Walter Hepworth, Commissioner of the Council of Education, Science and Art Department, South Kensington was apparently author of the Encyc. Brit. (9th ed. 1878 and some subsequent eds) article on fairies. Dsp13 (talk) 20:37, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

that would make sense as it is w:Science and Art Department. That said, I cannot find anything further for this person. Are we happy that we are with the right person? -- billinghurst (talk) 14:44, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

From another source, I find this
Name: Walter Hepworth
Source Citation:

• The Dictionary of Victorian Painters. Second edition. By Christopher Wood. Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors' Club, 1978. (DcVicP 2)

“	HEPWORTH, WALTER fl. 1885-1886 .Exhib. two works, a watercolour entitled 'A Sunny Afternoon' and 'Ready' at SS o 1885-86 and 1886-87. Also exhib. a work entitled 'A Suffolk Common' at the RA in 1885. London address.	”
—The Dictionary of Victorian Painters. Second edition

The articles are all about painters, with the exception of the one on Beau Brummell. So I'm happy to say it is the painter from Wood, who exhibited at the Royal Academy around 1885. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:56, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Will also be the "Examiner in Art" and correspondent of Robert Louis Stevenson mentioned here as W. H. Hepworth. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:01, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Census

• 1881 census

Name: Walter Hepworth
Age: 28
Relationship to Head: Lodger
Gender: Male
Where born: Leicestershire, England
Civil Parish: Chelsea
County/Island: London
Country: England
Street address: 16 Sydney Street
Education:
Employment status:
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Occupation: Artist
Registration district: Chelsea
Sub registration district: Chelsea, North-West
ED, institution, or vessel: 8
Neighbors:
Piece: 82
Folio: 13
Page Number: 20
Household Members:
Name Age
Joseph Knapp 52
Maria A. Knapp 48
William E. Knapp 18
Emily E. Knapp 16
Joseph E. Knapp 13
John A. Knapp 10
Maria J. Knapp 7
Henry W. Monk 56
Walter Hepworth 28
Margaret Jervis 68
Annie G. F. Jervis 24

• 1861 England

Name: Walter Wm Hepworth
Age: 8
Relation: Son
Father's name: James Hepworth, teacher of public school
Mother's name: Susanna Hepworth
Gender: Male
Where born: Leicestershire, England
Civil Parish: Leicester St Margaret
Ecclesiastical parish: St George
Town: Leicester
County/Island: Leicestershire
Country: England
Street address:
Occupation:
Condition as to marriage:
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Registration district: Leicester
Sub-registration district: East Leicester
ED, institution, or vessel: 12
Neighbors:
Household schedule number: 64
Piece: 2284
Folio: 72
Page Number: 11
Household Members:
Name Age
James Hepworth 38
Susanna Hepworth 32
Ellen Jane Hepworth 10
Walter Wm Hepworth 8
Arther E S Hepworth 4
Alfred James Hepworth 1
Mary Hunt 16

birth

• FreeBMD

Births Dec Q. 1852
Hepworth Walter William Leicester 7a 167

death

• Lancashire Anglican Parish Registers. Preston, England: Lancashire Archives.

Name: Walter Hepworth
Death Age: 44
Burial Date: 8 Sep 1896
Burial Parish: Leck, Lancashire, England
Reference Number: Pr3323/1/8

Probate

• Calendar of the Grants ...

Name: Walter William Hepworth
Death Date: 5 Sep 1896
Death Place: Lancashire, England
Probate Date: 3 Nov 1896
Probate Registry: Lancashire, England

of Cowan bridge Leck near Kirkby Lonsdale, to George Sinclair Tatham solicitor and Henry Thomas Welch esquire £55 14s. 4d.