Joseph Whitaker (other)
Joseph Whitaker may refer to: *Joseph Whitaker (industrialist) (1789–1870), American iron master and landowner *Joseph Whitaker (naturalist) (1850–1932), English naturalist *Joseph Whitaker (ornithologist) (1850–1936), Sicilian-English ornithologist, archaeologist and sportsman *Joseph Whitaker (publisher) (1820–1895), English publisher who founded ''Whitaker's Almanack'' See also *Joseph Whitaker School, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom, named after Joseph Whitaker (naturalist) *Joseph Whittaker Joseph Whittaker (1813 – 2 March 1894) was a British botanist who visited South Australia in 1839. Whittaker has 300 plants from that trip in Kew Gardens and a large collection of pressed British plants in Derby Museum and Art Gallery. Biogr ...

Joseph Whitaker (industrialist)
Joseph Whitaker (29 March 1789 – 30 November 1870) was a noted American industrialist, landowner, and legislator in the Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, Phoenixville and Mont Clare, Pennsylvania, Mont Clare area of Pennsylvania, during the 19th century. He was a member of the Whitaker iron family. Until 1846, Whitaker was the ironmaster and an owner of the Phoenix Iron Works (Phoenixville, Pennsylvania), Phoenix Iron Works, the major industry in Phoenixville. He was elected by the Whigs to the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1843, where he served one term. He was responsible for having the first Mont Clare Bridge constructed in 1844. His 1846 estate was named ''Mont Clare'', and eventually lent its name to the village of Mont Clare. In 1836 Joseph, his brother George Price Whitaker, and some partners purchased the Principio Furnace in Maryland and revived ironmaking there. Before the Civil War the Whitakers divided their holdings geographically, with Joseph receiving the Pennsylvania ...
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Joseph Whitaker (naturalist)
Joseph Whitaker, Esq., (12 July 1850 – 27 May 1932) was an English naturalist who lived for most of his life at Rainworth, in Nottinghamshire, England. He was also a keen sportsman, botanist, fisherman and collected curios. He wrote several books, and some of his collection passed to the Mansfield Museum. Personal life Whitaker was born at Ramsdale Farm, Arnold near Nottingham on 12 July 1850, the oldest son of another Joseph Whitaker. He received his education at Uppingham School, and loved the outdoors, a trait he learned from his father. For most of his life he lived at Rainworth Lodge, on Blidworth Lane at Rainworth. He married Mary Edison at Blidworth church on 16 April 1872, and they had five children. The first, Ethel Mary, died in infancy, while the fifth, Vera, married Sir Harold Bowden, 2nd Baronet, in 1908, but the marriage was short lived and they divorced in 1919. Among Whitaker's unusual traits was his habit of always walking on the road, and never on the pave ...
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Joseph Whitaker (ornithologist)
Joseph Isaac Spadafora Whitaker (19 March 1850 in Palermo – 3 November 1936 in Rome) was a Sicilian-English ornithologist, archaeologist and sportsman. He was a member of the Whitaker family. He is mainly known for his work on the birds of Tunisia, and for being involved in the foundation of the Sicilian football club US Città di Palermo. He was married to the author and hostess Tina Scalia Whitaker. Biography Whitaker's family came from Huddersfield in west Yorkshire. He inherited the Ingham Marsala wine business through his paternal grandmother, Mary Ingham, whose brother Benjamin (1784-1861) went into business in Palermo. The Inghams were from Ossett in Yorkshire - there is an Ossett website which gives a detailed biography of the Ingham Marsala Wine co. He and his brother William Ingham Whitaker (Pylewell Park) inherited vast vineyards and his great grandfather Ingham's banking empire. Their story is told in Raleigh Trevelyan's 1972 ''Princes Under the Volcano: Two Hun ...
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Joseph Whitaker (publisher)
Joseph Whitaker (4 May 1820 – 15 May 1895) was a publisher who founded ''Whitaker's Almanack''. Early life Joseph Whitaker was born in London, and apprenticed to a bookseller at the age of fourteen. Career After years of experience at various bookselling firms, he undertook his own business as a publisher of theological works. In January 1858 he launched ''The Bookseller'' and in 1869 published the first issue of ''Whitaker's Almanack'', a reference annual, which met with immediate (and lasting) success. In 1874 he published the first edition of the ''Reference Catalogue of Current Literature'', of which several editions have since appeared. He was the father of fifteen children; the eldest, Joseph Vernon Whitaker was editor of the '' American Literary Gazette'', and later returned to England to become editor of the ''Bookseller'' and the ''Reference Catalogue''. Cuthbert Whitaker, the twelfth child, succeeded his father as editor of the ''Almanack''. A descendant, David ...
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Joseph Whitaker School
Joseph Whitaker School is a secondary school with academy status in Rainworth near Mansfield, Nottinghamshire in England. The school takes its name from Joseph Whitaker, a naturalist who lived in Rainworth at Rainworth Lodge. The school is part of the East Midlands Educational Trust (EMET) which it joined in September 2016.Village school delighted with academy move. ''Chad'', 7 September 2016, p.12. Accessed 9 January 2022 The headteacher is Carey Ayres, who took over from David Bell in 2020. The school has its own sixth form college for post-16 A-Level The A-Level (Advanced Level) is a subject-based qualification conferred as part of the General Certificate of Education, as well as a school leaving qualification offered by the educational bodies in the United Kingdom and the educational aut ... studies. In November 2012, the school's flagship £1,000,000 sixth form centre opened. It contains teaching rooms, a media suite, various study areas and a café. All post-16 s ...
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