The Wonders of Wordsworth Donisthorpe: Cinematic Pioneer and Victorian Renaissance Man
What a fascinating specimen was Wordsworth Donisthorpe (1847-1914). He was a man of too many parts to name. We'll naturally lead with talk of his work as a pioneer of cinema, but he was also a barrister, political philosopher, explorer, author, and co-founder of the British Chess Association among other things. His father George Edmund […]