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Name
  
William Wakeman


Role
  
Author

William Frederick Wakeman

Died
  
1900, Coleraine, United Kingdom

Books
  
Archaeologica Hibernica: A Hand-book of Irish Antiquities, Pagan and Christian: Especially of Such as are Easy of Access from the Irish Metropolis

William Frederick Wakeman (1822 – 15 October 1900) was an Irish archaeologist, initially producing works as an artist and then as an author.

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Life

W. F. Wakeman was born in Dublin, 1822. His father was a publisher. A student of George Petrie, Wakeman produced pen and pencil sketches of land features and antiquities while employed as a draughtsman by the Ordnance Survey of Ireland. The works of this period are held by the Royal Irish Academy.

After the closing of the topographical department of the Survey, he took teaching roles at St. Columba's College in County Meath and the Portora Royal and District National Model schools in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. He eventually abandoned art to pursue his interest in archaeology.

Wakeman died on 15 October 1900, in Coleraine, County Londonderry.

Works

Wakeman's works include:

  • Archaeologica Hibernica: A Hand-book of Irish Antiquities (1848). A third edition was produced in 1903 by John Cooke
  • Three Days on the Shannon
  • Guide to Lough Erne, or Lough Erne, Enniskillen, Belleek, Ballyshannon and Bundoran, with routes from Dublin to Enniskillen and Bundoran, by rail or steamboat
  • Guide to Dublin
  • Account on the Island of Inishmurray
  • Articles and correspondence in archaeological journals and the Dublin Evening Telegraph

    • As illustrator only:

  • Parishes of Ballysodare and Kilvarnet, Archdeacon O'Rorke
  • Irish Lake Dwellings, Colonel Wood Martin
  • St. Patrick's Purgatory, Lough Derg (1879), D. Canon O'Connor

    • References

    William Frederick Wakeman Wikipedia
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