Author talk:Walter William Hepworth

Attempts to identify this author
Talk:Dictionary of National_Biography, 1885-1900/List of Contributors -- billinghurst (talk) 23:35, 4 December 2008 (UTC) 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 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 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
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: View image 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
 * 1881 census

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: View image 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
 * 1861 England

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

death
Name: 	Walter Hepworth Death Age: 	44 Burial Date: 	8 Sep 1896 Burial Parish: 	Leck, Lancashire, England Reference Number: 	Pr3323/1/8
 * Lancashire Anglican Parish Registers. Preston, England: Lancashire Archives.

Probate
Name: 	Walter William Hepworth Death Date: 	5 Sep 1896 Death Place: 	Lancashire, England Probate Date: 	3 Nov 1896 Probate Registry: 	Lancashire, England
 * Calendar of the Grants ...

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