Wordsworth Donisthorpe

Donisthorpe filmed London's Trafalgar Square traffic in 1890; these are the surviving 10 frames__NOTOC__Wordsworth Donisthorpe (24 March 1847 – 30 January 1914) was an English barrister, individualist anarchist and inventor, pioneer of cinematography and chess enthusiast.

Life and work Donisthorpe was born in Leeds, on 24 March 1847. His father was George E. Donisthorpe, also an inventor; his brother, Horace Donisthorpe, was a myrmecologist. He studied at Leeds Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was associated with the Liberty and Property Defence League and edited their Jus journal until his split from the League in 1888.

In 1876, Donisthorpe filed for a film camera patent that he named a "kinesigraph".

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.

In 1893, Donisthorpe was one of the founding members and President of the children's rights and free love advocacy organisation the Legitimation League; he left the organization in 1897.

In his last book Uropa (1913), he proposed a philosophical language derived from Latin roots. An example is the phrase , "Charles has given me a refrigerator".

On 30 January 1914, Donisthorpe died of heart failure at Shottermill, Surrey.

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