Edmund Waterton

Career Antiquarian / Writer

Biography According to the accession book which gives his birth and death dates, he was the son of Charles Waterton, (1782-1865), naturalist and traveller who lived at Walton Hall, Wakefield, Yorkshire. He is listed as an honorary member of the Leeds Phil and Lit Society in the Leeds Mercury 30.10.1858. According to various entries in this journal he was obviously a prominent local Catholic. According to the same journal of 15.1.1866 he was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. According to the same source of 18.4.1866 he was '29th Lord of Walton, Knight of the Order of Christ of Rome, F.S.A. M.R.I.A'. In the Leeds Mercury of 29.4.1870 he is announced as having been declared bankrupt and residing in Ostend and 'the owner of a valuable collection of rings and other curiosities'. [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 06/03/2007]

Clubs & Societies Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society / Society of Antiquaries

County Yorkshire / Suffolk

Relationship Other Owner

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1857 - 1887

Dates active 1830-1887

Donated around 1950

English collections Keys

Oxford Uni Education Unknown

Oxford based No

English collection size 56

Connections Mr Fenton [S.G. Fenton and Company?] / Catherine E. Parsons