Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Wordsworth Donisthorpe

Anarchist and inventor

Date of Birth: 24-Mar-1847

Place of Birth: Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 30-Jan-1914

Profession: photographer, inventor, cinematographer, chess player

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Wordsworth Donisthorpe (Leeds, 24 March 1847 – Shottermill, 30 January 1914) was an English barrister, individualist anarchist and inventor, pioneer of cinematography and chess enthusiast.
His father was George E.
Donisthorpe, also an inventor; his brother, Horace Donisthorpe, was a myrmecologist. Donisthorpe spoke on anarchism at a conference organised by the Fabian Society in 1886.
He was associated with the Liberty and Property Defence League and edited their Jus journal until his split from the League in 1888.In 1885, Donisthorpe was co-founder of the British Chess Association and the British Chess Club.Donisthorpe filed for a patent in 1876, for a film camera, which he named a "kinesigraph." The object of the invention was to: According to Donisthorpe, he produced a model of this camera around the late 1870s.
In 1890 he also produced, together with his cousin W.
C.
Crofts, a moving picture of London's Trafalgar Square.
The camera that produced this moving picture was patented in 1889 along with the projector necessary to show the motion frames.