John Walter Whitehead Junior
Born 1876
Active: 1901
Country of birth and death: England
Undertaker, possibly also marble merchant and manager of funerary monument business
Born in Westminster, London. He was the younger son of John Whitehead (c.1845-1904) who ran a successful firm combining undertaking, funerary monuments, sculpture and a stone and marble yard. His older brother Joseph (1868-1951) was the principal sculptor for the family business. John Junior worked for J. Whitehead and Son around 1901 and may have managed one of the branches of the business after his father's death in 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
1901 (Circa)
Institutional and Business Connections
May be connected to John Whitehead
Traded as J. Whitehead and Sons Ltd.
1901 (Circa)
Personal and Professional Connections
Brother/sibling of Joseph James Whitehead
Daughter/son/child of John Whitehead Senior
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Undertaker' worker and his father John Whitehead Senior 'Granite and Marble Merchant' employer
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
'Scholar'
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, 1891
2004
RG number: RG12
Piece: 445 Folio: 107 Page: 30
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2001
RG number: RG13
Piece: 481 Folio: 136 Page: 6
Public Sculpture of the City of London Public Sculpture of Britain Volume Five
2003
p. 484
Citing this record
'John Walter Whitehead Junior', 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_1324148365, accessed 01 Apr 2023]
