John Lister
| John Lister FGS Palaeontographical Society, Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society | |||||||||
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| Born | 1802 | ||||||||
| Died | 1867 | ||||||||
| Residence | 28 Porchester Terrace, Bayswater; and Shebdon [i.e. Shibden, see notes] Hall, near Halifax, Yorkshire. | ||||||||
| Occupation | medical | ||||||||
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1868.03.17 The death of Mr John Lister FGS FASL was also announced.
Notes From Elsewhere
name noted in Palaeontographical Society Monographs, Volume 16, Issues 66-71
Member of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society
Dr John Lister lived at Shibden Hall with his wife and three children. He had two boys, John and Charles and a daughter, Anne. When they moved to Shibden in 1855, John was 8, Charles was 6 and Anne only 3. Before John inherited Shibden, the family had lived at Sandown on the Isle of Wight and they continued to visit there regularly.
John was a doctor by training and was very interested in science. He was a member of many scientific societies and bought all the new technologies of the age, including telescopes and cameras. He also encouraged an interest in science in his children, buying them microscopes and books.
The boys were sent away to school, as many children were at the time, although Anne was educated at home. John went to Winchester School, which cost a substantial amount of money.
After Dr John’s death in 1867, the hall passed to his son, John. He lived at Shibden with his sister, Anne, until their deaths in 1933 and 1929 respectively. However, their brother, Charles, travelled widely, recording his journey in his writings. He died in Bolivia in 1889 and is buried there.
Louisa Ann Grant was born 16/09/1815 and married John Lister in Kensington, London, 11/04/1844. Dr John Lister (1802-1867), Louisa Ann Grant's husband, inherited Shibden Hall from Anne Lister in 1840 (who in turn had inherited it from her uncle James in 1826). No evidence found to date for suggestion that John Lister was a cotton broker in Liverpool (census occupation listed as physician (not practising) in 1851 and Lieut of the College Physicians in 1861). Anne Lister had bequeathed the house to Ann Walker as tenant for life in 1840. Dr Lister and his family only took possession following the death of Ann Walker in 1855.
Living at Brading, Isle of Wight, age 33, born West Indies, in 1851 census with her husband, two sons plus servants. At 6 Porchester Ter., Paddington, London, in 1861, age 42, with her husband, 58, eldest son John, 14, daughter Ann, 9, mother-in-law Ann, 80, sister-in-law Mary Ann, 46 plus servants. At Shibden Hall, Southowram, Yorkshire, in the censuses of 1871, 1881 (birthplace given as Dominica) and 1891 (birthplace given as St Vincent). John Lister died at Aberystwyth 06/08/1867, effects under £14,000. Louisa Ann Lister died 04/04/1892, probate in London 21/07/1892 to John Lister Esquire, resworn December 1892, £5300 1s 11d.
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[1802-1867] Son of John Lister of Swansea.
Born in London.
Around 1833, Anne Lister bequeathed the Shibden Hall estate to him and his father.
He sailed as a ship's surgeon. He was a practising doctor in Sandown, Isle of Wight.
On 11th April 1844, he married Louisa Ann Grant [1816-1892] in Kensington.
Louisa Ann was born in the West Indies [16th September 1815], the daughter of Major Charles Grant, a slave-owner at the Adelphi Estate on St Vincent in the Caribbean. Her parents divorced in 1828
Children:
John
Charles Edmond
Anne
The family lived at
· · Greece House, Woolshops where Dr Lister practised as a Surgeon [1850]
· Brading, Isle of Wight [1851]
· 6 Porchester Terrace, London [1861]
· · Shibden Hall [1871, 1881]
Around 1855, and after the death of Ann Walker, he and his family moved between Sandown and Shibden Hall which they inherited from Anne Lister.
In 1856, he sold the Northgate Hotel, Halifax to George Watkinson and Mr T Parker.
Charles Phillips was the family's coachman [1859] and gardener [1861], and several members of Charles's family – including his granddaughter, Jane – worked for the Listers.
He was a county magistrate.
He was a Fellow of the Geological Society, and a Fellow of the Zoological Society. For several years, he was curator of Zoology in the Halifax Literary & Philosophical Society
He died 6th August 1867. Probate records show that he left effects valued at under £14,000.
An obituary recorded
In private life he was a worthy descendant of a worthy race; to his peasantry he was kind, considerate, and his zeal for the welfare of his work people was shown by the establishment and maintenance and supervision of a Sunday School in Shibden Dale, for the education and religious training of their children
Louisa Ann died 4th April 1892.
Probate records show that she left effects valued at £5,300 1/11d. Probate was granted to son John
Members of the family were buried at St Anne's Church, Southowram
John Lister from the Isle of Wight inherited Shibden and it was his son John (1847 – 1933) who found Anne’s 27 hidden diaries, deciphered the coding and duly shocked by Anne Lister’s intimate revelations.
Read more at: http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/opinion/todmorden-antiquarians-the-life-of-anne-lister-of-shibden-hall-1-8431712
