William Shipp
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| Born | 1807 | ||||||||
| Died | 1873 | ||||||||
| Residence | Blandford, Dorset | ||||||||
| Occupation |
book seller printer | ||||||||
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proposed 1866.08.01
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Roman Heritage at Tarrant Hinton ... One look at the growing crop suggested to William Shipp that something of great significance lay beneath the field. ... What Mr Shipp was looking at that day in 1845 were concealed foundations of one of Dorset’s major Romano-British settlements, agriculturally etched into the failure of the turnip crop. He was later to remark that remains of Roman origin were to be found in every part of this field and it was evident that for many years numerous finds of Roman pottery and coins had been turning up for antiquarians to collect
Note: William Shipp was a bookseller trading from Market Place, Blandford Forum. He was baptised on the 28th of March 1807 at Blandford and was the son of John Shipp and Ann Simmonds who were married at Blandford on the 8th of May 1797.
In the first half of 1839 William Shipp married Emily Spooner. Their children were: Amelia (1842); Mary (1844); William (1845); Henry (1847). William died late in 1873, his widow moved to East Street, Blandford Forum.
The 1830 edition of Pigots trade directory has a John Shipp trading as a bookseller from premises in Market Place, Blandford Forum, so it would appear William continued his father’s business.
In the 1850s William Shipp, a Blandford bookseller, stationer, bookbinder and printer, embarked on a third edition with James Whitworth Hodson. There is even less of the original Hutchins material in this edition, which was published in 1873; but the name of Hutchins is always associated with this, the most indispensable of all Dorset books
William Shipp, the first Palaeontographical Society local secretary, found this horse molar near Blandford in the late 1800s. He excavated reptile material from the Swanage Purbeck Beds, and fish from Lyme Regis.
The editor of the 3rd edition of Hutchins’ the History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, William Shipp, was a resident of Blandford and a collection of his papers on the town was published posthumously following his death in 1873 (Shipp 1923).
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Dorset County Museum, Dorchester: horse tooth found by him (possibly more)
Blandford Town Museum: papers collected by him (on history)
