John Whitehead Senior
Born 1845 (Circa)
Died 20 April 1904
Active: 1849 - 1904
Country of birth and death: England
Undertaker, stone and marble merchant, manager of monumental sculpture business
Born in Westminster, London. He was the owner of a multi-generational firm of funerary sculptors, undertakers and marble merchants based in London and with branches in Aberdeen, Carrara and possibly Manchester. John Whitehead senior was primarily an undertaker and marble merchant. His oldest son Joseph James Whitehead was the principal sculptor associated with the firm from the late 1880s. John Whitehead Junior was also employed by the firm c.1901 and may have continued to be involved after his father's death in 1904 at 'Kentfield', Upper Richmond Row, Surrey.
Wealth at death: £5,015 19s. 10d.
Probate date: 28 May 1904
Locations
Address 74 Rochester Row and Vincent Square Studios London | View on map
1881 (Circa)
Living at 74 Rochester Row
Address 38 Upper Richmond Road Wandsworth London | View on map
1891 (Circa) - 1901 (Circa)
Personal and Professional Connections
Mother/father/parent of Joseph James Whitehead
Mother/father/parent of John Walter Whitehead Junior
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
'Undertaker'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Granite and Marble Merchant' employer and his son John Whitehead Junior 'Undertaker' worker
Sources
A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851
2009
p. 1375
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
RG number: RG11 Piece: 113 Folio: 55
Page: 10
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
RG number: RG13
Piece: 481 Folio: 136 Page: 6
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name:
John Whitehead
Probate Date:
28 May 1904
Death Date:
20 Apr 1904
Death Place:
Middlesex, England
Registry:
London
Public Sculpture of the City of London Public Sculpture of Britain Volume Five
2003
p. 484
Citing this record
'John Whitehead Senior', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=ann_1324145585, accessed 01 Oct 2023]
