Orlando Whistlecraft

Orlando Whistlecraft (11 November 1810 – 3 March 1893) was an early English meteorologist who was born and died in the Eastern England village of Thwaite, Suffolk.[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
  1. Orlando Whistlecraft
  2. 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)
  3. "Suffolk Artists - WHISTLECRAFT, Orlando". suffolkartists.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
  4. "Marriage of Whistlecraft and Rush". ancestry. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
  5. "Whistlecraft family". ancestry. Retrieved 2020-12-17.

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