William Frederick Wakeman (1822 – 15 October 1900) was an Irisharchaeologist, initially producing works as an artist and then as an author.
Life
W. F. Wakeman was born in Dublin, 1822. His father was a publisher. A student of George Petrie, Wakeman produced pen and pencil sketches of land features and antiquities while employed as a draughtsman by the Ordnance Survey of Ireland. The works of this period are held by the Royal Irish Academy.[1]
Former District National Model School in Enniskillen, where Wakeman taught in later life.
After the closing of the topographical department of the Survey, he took teaching roles at St. Columba's College in County Meath[1] and the Portora Royal and District National Model schools in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.[2] He eventually abandoned art to pursue his interest in archaeology.[1]
Wakeman, W.F. (1848), Archaeologica Hibernica: A Hand-book of Irish Antiquities
Archaeologica Hibernica: A Hand-book of Irish Antiquities (2nd ed.), 1891
Cooke, John, ed. (1903), Wakeman's Handbook of Irish Antiquities (3rd ed.), Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co, pp. iii–viii
Wakeman, W.F. (1852), Three Days On the Shannon: From Limerick to Lough Key
Wakeman, W.F. (1853), Dublin: what's to be seen and how to see it, hdl:2027/uiug.30112037321723
Wakeman, W.F. (1865), Tourists' guide through Dublin and its interesting suburbs : specially suited to the visitors of the international exhibition, 1865
Wakeman, W.F. (1870), Lough Erne, Enniskillen, Belleek, Ballyshannon, and Bundoran : with routes from Dublin to Enniskillen and Bundoran.
Wakeman, W.F. (1887), The tourist's guide to Ireland
Wakeman, W.F. (1893), A survey of the antiquarian remains on the island of Inismurray
Wakeman, W.F. (1886), Graves and monuments of illustrious Irishmen
As illustrator only
O'Rorke, T. (1878), History Antiquities, and Present State of the Parishes of Ballysodare and Kilvarnet in the County of Sligo
O'Connor, D. (1879), Lough Derg and its Pilgrimages
Wood-Martin, W.G. (1886), The Lake Dwellings of Ireland : or Lacustrine Habitations of Erin, commonly called Crannogs, Hodges, Figgsis, & Co. : Dublin; Longmans, Green, & Co. : London
References
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^ a b c d"William Frederick Wakeman". Changing Libraries Initiative – reading-room. An Chomhairle Leabharlanna. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
