Black, William Henry, 1808-1872 (antiquary)
Dates
- Existence: 1808 - 1872
Biography
William Henry Black (1808-1872), antiquary, was born at Walworth, Surrey, the eldest son of John Black of Kintore, Aberdeenshire, and Mary Langley. The catalogues of the Arundel manuscripts at the College of Arms (1829) and of Colfe's Library at Lewisham (1831) for the Leathersellers' Company were his first publications, as well as contributions to Samuel Bentley's Excerpta historica (1831) and to Sir Richard Colt Hoare's A History of Modern Wiltshire (1822-44). Black compiled the catalogue for the noted Ashmole manuscripts held in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. In 1834, he became employed with the Record Commission and stayed there until he was terminated in 1853. He belonged to various organizations and groups, including the Society of Antiquaries of London, the British Archaeological Association, and the Anglo-Biblical Institute, among others. Black was ordained as a minister in 1840 of a chapel for Seventh-Day Baptists in Mill Yard, Whitechapel. He died in 1872 in Mill Yard.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
William Black: Biographical notes on eminent seventh-day baptists, and on other observers of the seventh-day sabbath
Arranged alphabetically. Among supplementary notes on slips, guarded in, are letters to Black from (fo. 4c) 'J. E.', no date; (fo. 4e) J. H. Bransby, 31 July 1846; (fo. 11a) J. O. Halliwell, 7 July 1850; and (fo. 11i) William Courthope, 16 Sep. 1847.