Dossetter, Edward William^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20]}

1843 - 1919  (75 years)

• Name	Dossetter, Edward William
  	VARIANT NAME: Dosseter, Edward; Dossetter, William E.; Dossiter, Edward.
  Birth	5 Dec 1843	Bloomsbury, London, Eng., UK   [21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27]
  	He gave his age as 35 and birthplace as New Zealand in the 1881 England and Wales census while a passenger aboard HMS Rocket. A correspondent suggested the New Zealand birthplace may have simply been a reference to Dossetter having recently been a resident in the country. The 1891 and 1911 England censuses give his birthplace as St. Pancras, London.
  Christening	24 Dec 1843	Bloomsbury, London, Eng., UK   [21]
  Gender	Male
  Business Address/Year	1881-1884?	Victoria, BC
  	Address undetermined but possibly View Street
  Business Address/Year	1877	Christchurch, New Zealand
  Business Address/Year	1878-1879	Christchurch, New Zealand   [28, 29]
  	Address: Chester Street corner of Colombo Street Crystal Palace Buildings opposite post office Christchurch New Zealand
  Home Address/Year	1880	Christchurch, New Zealand   [31]
  	Address: Chester Street Christchurch New Zealand
  	While he is listed in the 1880-1881 and 1881-1882 electoral rolls for Christchurch, he was already in Victoria, BC, by Jun 1881 when he sailed on HMS Rocket. [30]
  Business Address/Year	1880-1881	Christchurch, New Zealand   [32]
  	Address: Chester Street left hand side from East Town Belt Dossetter and Company (Edward Dossetter) Christchurch New Zealand
  	Studio situated between Oxford Terrace and Colombo Street. He may have sailed for British Columbia over the winter of 1880-1881.
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1881	Northwest Coast, BC
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1882	Vancouver, BC
  	This is based on a single print in an album at the City of Victoria Archives.
  Business Address/Year	1883-1884	Christchurch, New Zealand   [33]
  	Address: Chester Street left hand side from East Town Belt Dossetter and Company (Edward Dossetter) Christchurch New Zealand
  	Based on a Christchurch business directory listing for these years, the studio situated between Oxford Terrace and Colombo Street. Dossetter had already left New Zealand, at the latest by the winter of 1880-1881.
  Home Address/Year	1881-1884?	Victoria, BC
  	Address: View St. Victoria, BC Canada
  Home Address/Year	Feb 1877-1880?	Christchurch, New Zealand   [28, 32, 34]
  Home Address/Year	May 1886	London, Eng., UK   [35]
  	Address: 157 Great Portland St. London England, UK
  Home Address/Year	1885-1889	London, Eng., UK   [36]
  	Address varies
  Marriage	17 Apr 1889	Bethnal Green, London, Middlesex, Eng., UK   [37]
  	Bride: Mary Ann Tombleson
  Home Address/Year	17 Apr 1889-1893	Acton, London, Eng., UK   [38, 39]
  	Address: 5 Chaucer Road Acton London England
  Home Address/Year	1894-1902	Acton, London, Eng., UK   [40, 41, 42, 43, 44]
  	Address: 66 Mill Hill Road Acton London England
  Home Address/Year	1911	Melcombe Regis, Dorset, Eng., UK   [45, 46]
  	Address: 94 Spa Road ("Strathcona") Radipole, Weymouth Melcombe Regis, Dorset England
  	In the 1911 jury list he is listed as a "gentleman". Each juror was assessed twice, once at the "poor rate" and once as the inhabitant of a house. In Dossetter's case it was the same amount of 27 pounds.
  Home Address/Year	1913-Feb 1916	Broadstairs, Kent, Eng., UK   [47]
  	Address: Edge End Road ("The Tryst") Broadstairs, Kent England
  	He is listed at the Broadstairs address in the 1913 Kelly's directory (p. 815) on Ancestry.ca.
  Home Address/Year	Jun 1919	Ramsgate, Kent, Eng., UK   [48]
  	Address: 58 Queen Bertha Road Ramsgate, Kent England
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	Eng., UK	1871-1872   [14]
  Death	9 Jun 1919	Ramsgate, Kent, Eng., UK   [49]
  Person ID	I281	Camera Workers | D, vol. 1, 1858-1900
  Last Modified	25 Jan 2024

  
  

• Documents » Slide Show		Edward Dossetter's ad in Christchurch The Globe, 21 Sep 1878, p. 4. This ad appears to have first been published in The Globe on 17 Aug 1878, p. 1. The Crystal Palace Buildings was at the corner of Chester and Colombo streets in Christchurch. There may have been more than one photographer renting premises in the building at the same time as Dossetter.
  		Edward Dossetter's ad in Christchurch The Globe, 23 Jan 1879, p. 4. The top line is slightly different than his Sep 1878 ad.
  		Edward Dossetter's signature, 17 Apr 1889. From his marriage registration record.
  		Edward Dossetter's signature, 1911. From the 1911 England and Wales census.

  
  

• Notes

  STATUS: Commercial. BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: According to information originally supplied in Nov 1985 by Pamela Haas, author of an unpublished book on Dossetter, biographical information on Dossetter is virtually non-existent. He is not even mentioned by name in the American Museum of Natural History's archival records pertaining to his 1881 trip aboard HMS Rocket along the Northwest coast of BC. With the assistance of a 2020 email correspondent, along with email correspondence from 2010, some additional basic biographical information has been gathered through a more complete picture of his life emerged. In the 1851 England and Wales census, as well as in some other records, he is listed by his full name, Edward William Dossetter. In the 1861 England and Wales census he appears under the name William E. Dossetter, living with his widowed mother, two older brothers, their sister Sarah Ann Dossetter, and working as a "cutlers shopman". He was photographing in England in 1871-1872 and was hired by the photographer Joseph Cundall to photograph the entire Bayeux Tapestry in situ for the South Kensington Museum (today's Victoria and Albert Museum). Dossetter produced over 180 glass negatives between Sep and Dec 1872 while in France. According to the 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1910-1911), "The best coloured reproduction is that by C.A. Stothard in 1818, published in the sixth volume of Vetusta Monumenta; but in 1871-1872 the 'tapestry' was photographed for the English education authorities by E. Dossetter." A brief description of some of the technical challenges he had to overcome are found in Frank Rede Fowke's book The Bayeux Tapestry (1875; URL [accessed 17 Aug 2020]: https://archive.org/details/bayeuxtapestry00fowk/page/10/mode/2up). Because of the typesetting conventions for the book his name appears as though spelled Doffetter. A V&A Blog entry, "Photographing Bayeux" by Ella Ravilious, contains some additional information about Dossetter's work photographing the Bayeux Tapestry (URL [accessed 17 Aug 2020]: https://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/caring-for-our-collections/photographing-bayeux). For reasons unknown but likely economic ones, Dossetter departed London for New Zealand on 25 Aug 1876 (Wellington Evening Post, 21 Oct 1876, p. 2: "English Shipping"). He arrived in Wellington on the Ocean Mail as a second-class passenger on 12 Dec 1876 (Wellington Evening Post, 13 Dec 1876, p. 2: "Arrival of the Ship Ocean Mail, from London"). He departed on the Taiaroa on 7 Feb 1877 for the port of Lyttelton near Christchurch on the South Island (Wellington Evening Post, 7 Feb 1877, p. 2: "Shipping, Port of Wellington...Departures"). Following a delay by a storm, the Taiaroa arrived at Lyttelton on 9 Feb 1877 (Christchurch The Globe, 9 Feb 1877, p. 2: "Shipping"); his name was spelled Dossiter. Dossetter's photographic work appears to have first been noticed in a newspaper article in Sep 1878. He was first listed as a Christchurch photographer in 1879. The Lyttelton Times reported that in a property assessment court session the value of his studio was reduced from 120 to 68 pounds (3 Mar 1879, p. 3: "Assessment Court"). His most important photograph from New Zealand was of a Moriori man from the Chatham Islands named Timoti Tara (he also went by Karaka or Pawa Ngamunga Kahuki). Most of the Moriori had been enslaved or killed by Maori raiding parties. Beginning in 1880 and until the 1883-1884 Christchurch directory, Dossetter operated under his own name and that of Edward Dossetter and Company. The backs of his cartes-de-visite indicate he had won prize medals. He likely sold his share or left the company to be managed by an employee or partner before moving to Victoria, BC, possibly over the winter of 1880-1881. Between 15 Jun and 10 Aug 1881 he accompanied Dr. I.W. Powell on an inspection tour through Indigenous territories along the Northwest coast as far as Wrangell, Alaska. From Wrangell he travelled up the Stikine River to Telegraph Creek via the Gertrude sternwheeler. Dossetter took many outstanding and invaluable landscape views and portraits, most of which were groups gathered for Dr. Powell's visit. Dossetter's name is recorded in the England census as a passenger aboard HMS Rocket on 3 Aug 1881 while the vessel was anchored at Skidegate, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands). Other than the census record, Dossetter is not mentioned by name or occupation in newspaper accounts of the trip or in the Rocket's logbook. Dosetter transferred 64 of his wet-plate glass negatives to Powell who then sent them to the American Museum Natural History; Dossetter charged Powell $270.00 for the negatives. The Victoria City Archives has an 1882 photo of Granville (Vancouver) credited to Dossetter. Though this may have been a different person, the BC Public Accounts for 1882-1883 note that he was paid for three days service as either a juror or a witness in the criminal case Regina vs T. Eaton (available through UBC Library's Open Collections, BC Sessional Papers; URL [accessed 18 Aug 2020]: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcsessional/). Curiously, a federal Department of Indian Affairs annual report notes the presence of an E. Dossetter (also spelled Dosetter) on a survey party in 1884-1885 as head chainman and payment of his transport from Victoria to New Westminster (Canada, Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs for the Year Ended 31st December, 1885, p. 131-132). Dossetter returned to England before May 1885 where he married in 1889 and continued to practice photography as late as 1899. Between May 1885 and May 1890 he appears to have worked for the Woodbury Permanent Photographic Printing Company as an employee and possibly under contract to the renowned English taxidermy firm Rowland Ward and Company, as three sets of several photographs were registered for copyright by the taxidermy firm listing Edward Dossetter as the photographer. He is not listed as a photographer in The Post Office London Directory for 1895 (Part 4: Trades and Professional Directory; digital facsimile available through the University of Leicester Special Collections Online). One of his most important private commissions was photographing the home of Lord Ronald Gower in the summer of 1886, the results of which were reproduced as Woodburytypes in Gower's book "Bric À Brac" (1888). A British Museum online catalogue description about him states "A Mr E Dossetter of 66 Mill Hill Road, Acton, was employed to make photographs of early prints in the BM in 1894-9, which were exchanged with German scholars." That Dossetter had an on-going relationship with the British Museum is evidenced by J. Horton Ryley, author of Ralph Fitch, England's Pioneer to India and Burma... (1899), who thanks Dossetter for his photographs of engravings in the British Museum (URL [accessed 19 Aug 2020]: https://books.google.ca/books?id=1RkoAAAAYAAJ). The British Museum also purchased from him in 1894 a photograph of an etching titled "Descriptive sketch of the three prints of the storming of Seringapatam" (British Museum, "Edward Dossetter", URL [accessed 18 Aug 2020]: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG191235). The British Museum also owns at least one of the 1881 Northwest Coast voyage photographs. By 1911 he and his wife (they never had children) were living in Melcombe Regis, part of Weymouth, in Dorset county. The 1911 England census gives his "personal occupation" as "private means". His wife predeceased him on 22 Feb 1916 while they were living at "The Tryst" on Edge End Road, Broadstairs, Kent. After Dossetter's death, his estate was auctioned off on 3 May 1922 in Broadstairs. IDENTIFYING MARKS: Print surface of 1881 photos usually signed "E. Dossetter, Photo." in lower right front corner. Most views from his 1881 trip with Dr. I.W. Powell are captioned in lower left front corner. Carte-de-visite backs are illustrated on the Early New Zealand Photographers and Their Successors Web site.

  
  

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  [S54] COLLECTION: AMNH. Glass negatives and ca. 80 collodion wet-plate negatives [S46] COLLECTION: BVIPA. Prints in the "Dossetter album" (MS-3429, accession no. 198604-012); digital facsimile URL (accessed 9 Dec 2020): https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/photograph-album-9 Prints in the "Indian Commission album" (MS-3433, 198904-001); digital facsimile URL (accessed 9 Dec 2020): https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/indian-commission-album Prints in the Arthur Vipond accession (no. 198005-002) [S139] COLLECTION: BVICA. Dossetter print in album 97801-02-776 [S140] COLLECTION: BVIPM. Copy prints from AMNH [S1100] COLLECTION: NLNZ. Cartes-de-visite album and print(s?) [S1209] COLLECTION: UKBM. One print. [S924] Ancestry.ca (Web site), 32. England and Wales Census, 1851, H.O. 107/1513, County of Middlesex, Within the limits of the Parliamentary Boundary of the Borough of Finsbury, Superintendent Registrar's District Holborn 14, Registrar's District 1 St George the Martyr and St Andrew Western? [Holborn], Number of Enumeration District 4D, No. of Householder's Schedule 118. Enumerated as "Edward William Dosseter", age 7, scholar [student], born in London; his 38 year old father's occupation is given as "smith & bellhanger" and he appeared to have employed three men and two apprentices. The other individuals in the household were Sarah Lightfoot Dossetter, John Dossetter's wife, age 40 (the father's age is 38), born in Essex Chelmsford, their other two sons Henry, 11, and John Albert, 10, their daughter Sarah Ann, 6, and John's widowed mother Sarah Dossetter, 74, born in "Beds Barford". They also had a 17-year-old female servant and two lodgers living with them. [S17] WIL82, (Victoria, B.C.: R.T. Williams, 1882), 36. Victoria: Dossetter Edward photographer res View st [S19] Woltz, William, comp., WIL85, (Victoria, B.C.: R.T. Williams, 1885), 33. Victoria: "Dosseter Edward, photographer, res. Victoria" [S339] Voters List, (Victoria, B.C.: Province of British Columbia, 1874-), 1 Sep 1882, Victoria City Electoral District, Ref. NW 324.1 B862. "Dosseter, Edward, View street, Photographer" [S339] Voters List, (Victoria, B.C.: Province of British Columbia, 1874-), 1 Sep 1885, Victoria City Electoral District, Ref. NW 324.1 B862. "Dosseter, Edward, View street, Photographer" [S339] Voters List, (Victoria, B.C.: Province of British Columbia, 1874-), 30 Apr 1890, Victoria City Electoral District, Ref. NW 324.1 B862. "Dosseter, Edward, View street, Photographer" [S339] Voters List, (Victoria, B.C.: Province of British Columbia, 1874-), 31 Dec 1893, Victoria City Electoral District, Ref. NW 324.1 B862. "Dosseter, Edward, View street, Photographer" His name was dropped from this voters list on 30 Apr 1894 (Colonist, 6 May 1894, p. 6: "Registration of Voters: Victoria City Electoral District") [S398] John Physick, Physick (1975), (London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1975), 15-16. An E. Dossetter is credited in plate 22 with photographing the Bayeux Tapestry for the British government's Department of Science and Art under the direction of Joseph Cundall in 1872. The negatives are in the Victoria and Albert Museum's collections. [S429] Richard J. Huyda, Huyda (1983), (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1983). [S588] David Mattison, Mattison (1986b), (Vancouver, B.C.: City of Vancouver Archives, 1986), 25. [S595] David Mattison and Daniel Savard, Mattison and Savard (1992), (History of Photography 16, no. 3 (Autumn 1992):1-20). [S692] Correspondence, David Mattison. P. Haas to Mattison, 1985 11 19 [S1097] Early New Zealand Photographers (Web site). "Dossetter & Co Christchurch" URL (accessed 16 Aug 2020): https://canterburyphotography.blogspot.com/2011/01/dossetter.html [S1125] David Mattison, Mattison (2021), (Photographic Canadiana, vol. 47, no. 1 (May-Jun 2021): 4-14). [S924] Ancestry.ca (Web site), 223. Child's Christian Name: Edward Parent's Name Christian: John and Sarah Lightfoot Parent's Name Surname: Dossetter Abode: Theobalds Road Quality, Trade, or Profession: Ironmonger By whom the Ceremony was performed: R.S. Tabor England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1917: Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Saint George, Bloomsbury, in the County of Middlesex, in the Year 1843 Born Dec 5 [1843] [S918] England and Wales Census, 1861, 17. RG 9/182, Parish of St. George the Martyr [Holborn], Municipal Borough of Finsbury, Parliamentary Borough of Finsbury, Eccleiastical District of St. George the Martyr, No. of Schedule 123, Enumeration District 3, 26 Gloucester St. His birthplace is given as Bloomsbury, Middlesex, Eng. He is listed as "William E. Dossetter" and living with his widowed mother, along with his siblings Henry, John Albert and Sarah Ann. [S967] England and Wales Census, 1871, 14. RG 10/218, Superintendent Registrar's District Pancras, Enumeration District no. 13, Registrar's Sub-district Grays Inn Lane, Civil Parish (or Township) of St Pancras, City of London, Parliamentary Borough of Marylebone, Town of London, Local Board, or [Improvement Commissioners District] of St Pancras, Ecclesiastical District of St Bartholomew, No. of Schedule 99 The Ancestry.ca 1871 Census search form retrieves an Edward W. Dossetter, born in Bloomsbury, London, age 27, a photographer, who resided in the census administrative area of Pancras, Gray's Inn Lane, London. His sister, Sarah Ann Dossetter, age 26, is a "photograph mounter". Their widowed mother Sarah, age 62, is the head of household. [S1095] England and Wales Census, 1881, 3 Aug 1881, 5. RG11/5641, England and Wales Census, 1881--Royal Navy, Enumeration Book for Her Majesty's Ship "Rocket", p. 5, line 5: "Edward Dosseter [sic] Photographer Single 35 [Where Born] New Zealand". The ship was positioned at Skidegate, Queen Charlotte Island[s] [Haida Gwaii]. [S1024] England and Wales Census, 1891, 37. RG12/1036, Registration District Brentford, Registration Sub-district Acton, Enumeration District no. 7, Administrative County of Middlesex, Civil Parish of Acton, Urban Sanitary District of Acton, Town or Village or Hamlet of Acton, Parliamentary Borough or Division of Ealing, Ecclesiastical Parish or District of St Mary's, No. of Schedule 232 The 1891 census search form retrieves an Edward Dossetter, age 47, a photographer, born in St. Pancras, London, who resided at 5 Chaucer Road in the Acton, Brentford, census administrative area. He was married to 32 year old Mary. [S93] 1901 Census (UK), (National Archives (UK)), 15. RG 13/1201, Administrative Count Middlesex, Civil Parish of Acton (part of), Ecclesiastical Parish of Acton St Mary's (part of), Urban District of Acton (part of), Ward Urban District of West Ward (part of) of Acton (part of), Parliamentary Division of Ealing (part of), Town of Acton (part of), No. of Schedule 99 In the 1901 census his name looks like "Dorsetter" but it is Dossetter; he is 56, a "Photographer (Artist) Own Account" and born in Bloomsbury, London. His wife Mary Dossetter is 42 and was born in Dorking, Surrey. They are living at 66 Mill Hill Road. [S1096] England and Wales Census, 1911. RG14/12340; Schedule Number: 243; Registration District Number: 263; Registration District: Weymouth; Sub-registration district: Weymouth [S1097] Early New Zealand Photographers (Web site). [S1098] Papers Past (Web site), (Wellington and Auckland: National Library of New Zealand). Ad, The Globe, 21 Sep 1878, p. 4 Ad, The Globe, 23 Jan 1879, p. 4. [S924] Ancestry.ca (Web site), 8. No. 437 Dossiter Edward residential Chester street photographer Electoral Roll, Provincial District of Canterbury, Christchurch North, 1881-1882 [S924] Ancestry.ca (Web site), 21. No. 1259 Dossiter, Edward residential Chester street photographer Electoral Roll, Provincial District of Canterbury, City of Christchurch District, 1880-1881 [S924] Ancestry.ca (Web site), 58. Grime, Charles, surgeon Dossetter & Co. (Edward Dossetter), photographers Wise´s New Zealand Post Office Directory, 1880-1881. Chester Street from East Town Belt between Oxford Terrace and Colombo Street. [S924] Ancestry.ca (Web site), 69. Heath, William B., bank manager Dossetter & Co. (Edward Dossetter), photographers Wise´s New Zealand Post Office Directory, 1883-1884 [S1098] Papers Past (Web site), (Wellington and Auckland: National Library of New Zealand). [S1099] Points to the Past (Web site), (Burnaby, BC: BC Electronic Library Network). Just below his name as the author of the work, c/o Woodbury Coy is struck through Gale Primary Sources: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Records of the Copyright Office of the Stationers' Company: Photographs, [set 2] 1886 Apr-Jun [S1099] Points to the Past (Web site), (Burnaby, BC: BC Electronic Library Network). Gale Primary Sources: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Records of the Copyright Office of the Stationers' Company: Photographs, [set 1] 1885 Apr-Jun; [set 2] 1886 Apr-Jun; [set 3] 1890 Apr-Jun [S924] Ancestry.ca (Web site), 134. "Marriage solemnized at S. John's Church in the parish of Bethnal Green in the County of Middlesex" Groom: Edward Dossetter 45 Bachelor Photographer [residence] 5 Chaucer road Acton [father] John Dossetter (deceased) [profession] Smith Bride: Mary Ann Tombleson 30 Spinster 36 [?] Road [father] Matthew Tombleson [profession] Signal fitter Witnesses were William Jarvis Pittman and Annie Dossetter [the groom's sister]. 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Petty Sessional Division of Dorchester. The Return of the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Melcombe Regis (North) In the Petty Sessional Division of Dorchester, in the said County, of Men Qualified to Serve on Juries. Dorset, England, Jury Lists, 1825-1921: County of Dorset, Division of Dorchester, the Return of the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish at Melbury Sampford in the Petty Sessional Division of Dorchester, in the said County, of Men Qualified to Serve on Juries, 1911. [S924] Ancestry.ca (Web site). Name: Mary Ann Dossetter Death Date: 22 Feb 1916 Death Place: Kent, England Probate Date: 13 May 1916 Probate Registry: London, England England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 [S924] Ancestry.ca (Web site). Name: Edward William Dossetter Death Date: 9 Jun 1919 Death Place: Ramsgate, Kent, England Probate Date: 7 Aug 1919 Probate Registry: London, England England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 [S924] Ancestry.ca (Web site). Name: Edward William Dossetter Death Date: 9 Jun 1919 Death Place: Ramsgate, Kent, England Probate Date: 7 Aug 1919 Probate Registry: London, England England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995. Original data: Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England.