Arthur Jewitt (1772–1852) was an English topographer.
Life
Jewitt was the eldest son of Arthur and Mary Jewitt. His mother was the daughter of Jonathan Priestley of
Dronfield
Dronfield is a town in North East Derbyshire, England, which includes Dronfield Woodhouse and Coal Aston. It lies in the valley of the River Drone between Chesterfield and Sheffield. The Peak District National Park is to the west. The nam ...
and she gave birth to Arthur in
Sheffield
Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it. The city serves as the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire a ...
on 7 March 1772. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to his father, a cutler. At the end of his apprenticeship on his twenty-first birthday, 7 March 1793, he married Martha Sheldon of Crooke's Moor, Sheffield.
Jewitt had read largely from youth, and now opened a private school. In 1794 he became master of a school at Chesterfield, and after several removals and changes was master of the Kimberworth school from 1814 to 1818, when he retired from educational work and removed to
Duffield near Derby. There he remained until 1838, when he joined some of his family at Headington, near Oxford. He died at Headington on his birthday, 7 March 1852. His wife died at Duffield in November 1835. Two of his seven sons were
Llewellyn Jewitt
Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt (or Llewellyn) (24 November 1816 – 5 June 1886) was a British illustrator, engraver, natural scientist and author of ''The Ceramic Art of Great Britain'' (1878). His output was prodigious and covered a l ...
(1816–1886) and
Orlando Jewitt
Thomas Orlando Sheldon Jewitt (1799 – 30 May 1869) was a British architectural wood-engraver.
Biography
Thomas Orlando Sheldon Jewitt was born in Buxton, Derbyshire, the son of Arthur Jewitt and brother of Llewellyn Jewitt.
Before the introd ...
(1799–1869).
Works
Jewitt was known by his topographical works. ''The History of Lincolnshire'' appeared in 1810, and ''The History of Buxton'' in 1811. In July 1817 he commenced ''The Northern Star, or Yorkshire Magazine,'' a monthly register of arts, biography, statistics, manufactures, &c., which ran to three volumes, 1817–18. On 1 January 1818 he brought out the first number of ''The Sylph, or Lady's Magazine for Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and the adjoining Counties.'' ''The Lincoln and Lincolnshire Cabinet and Annual Intelligencer'' appeared at Lincoln during 1827–9. His ''Matlock Companion,'' 1835, and ''Derbyshire Gems'' were very popular. His ''Handbook of Practical Perspective,'' 1840, and his ''Handbook of Geometry,'' 1842, were adopted by the committee of council on education.
He contributed mathematical papers to the ''British Diary'' and to the ''Lady's'' and the ''Gentleman's'' diaries, and was a writer for the ''Penny Magazine,'' and for Britton and Brayley's ''Graphic and Historical Illustrator.''
He also wrote Peak Rhapsody a moving tribute to the land where the purple heather the thyme & bilberry grow together.
[Ballads and Songs of Derbyshire-1867]
References
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1772 births
1852 deaths
Heads of schools in Yorkshire
English topographers
Jewitt family