William Henry Whitworth was an English poet.
Life[]
His poetry was included in Sonnets of This Century and A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895, where the only information given on him was that he was the headmaster of a large public school.[1]
He appears identical with Rev. William Whitworth, the father of mathematician William Allen Whitworth (1840-1905). Rev. Whitworth was variously headmaster at Runcorn, Cheshire, and the incumbent of Little Leigh, Cheshire, and of Widnes, Lancashire. He was married to Susanna, the daughter of George Coyne of Kilbeggan, co. Westmeath, and a first cousin to Joseph Stirling Coyne. The couple had 4 sons and 2 daughters, William Allen Whitwoth being the eldest son.[2]
A.E. Housman was an admirer of his sonnets.[3]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ Edmund Clarence Stedman, Wells-Woolner, Biographical Notes, A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895, Boston & New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1895, 742. Internet Archive, Web, Mar. 9, 2017.
- ↑ D.J. Owen, "Whitworth, William Allen", Dictionary of National Biography 1912 supplement (edited by Sidney Lee), Volume 3. London: Smith, Elder, 1912, 655. Web, Mar. 12 2017.
- ↑ William Sharp, Sonnets of This Century, London: Walter Scott, 1886. 331. Gooble Books, Web, Mar. 9, 2017.
External links[]
- Poems
- "Time and Death" in A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895
- Whitworth in The Book of the Sonnet, 1867: "The Pyramids," "Nipped Buds Better Than Late Disappointments"