Orlando Whistlecraft
Orlando Whistlecraft (11 November 1810 – 3 March 1893) was an early English meteorologist who was born and died in the village of Thwaite, Suffolk in the East of England.[1]
He was the son of James Whistlecraft, a farmer, and Susan Brooke.[2] He attended school first in Stowmarket then aged 10 at Robert Burcham Clamp’s school in St Nicholas Street, Ipswich. Whistlecraft returned to Thwaite in 1829 to run a school. In 1843 he turned to shopkeeping in order to devote more time to his passion of meteorology.[3]
He was most notable for Whistlecraft's Weather Almanac published annually from 1856 to 1884 and for The Climate of England (1840) and Rural Gleanings (1851). The National Meteorological Archive in Exeter contains his weather diaries for Thwaite from 1827 to 1892.
Personal life[]
Whistlecraft married Elizabeth Rush, who was born in Stonham Parva, at St George's parish church Thwaite on 28 Mar 1834.[4] They had six children; Diana (1834), Julia (1836), Orlando (1837), Caroline (1839), Arthur (1840), Amelia (1852).[5]
References[]
- ^ Orlando Whistlecraft
- ^ www.findmypast.co.uk https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBPRS/SUFFOLK/FHS/MAR/035398/2. Retrieved 2019-10-11. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ^ "Suffolk Artists - WHISTLECRAFT, Orlando". suffolkartists.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
- ^ "Marriage of Whistlecraft and Rush". ancestry. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
- ^ "Whistlecraft family". ancestry. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
Further reading[]
- "Orlando Whistlecraft, Weather Prophet of Thwaite". Suffolk Archives. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
- "The Prophet & Poet" (PDF). East Anglian Daily Times. Suffolk. Jan 2017.
- Simons, Paul (2013-01-03). "Weather Eye: Whistlecraft's almanacs". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
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