Joseph Dandridge (January 1665 Winslow, Buckinghamshire - 23 December 1747 London^[1]), was an English silk-pattern designer of Huguenot descent ^[2], a natural history illustrator, an amateur naturalist specialising in entomology, and a leading figure in the Society of Aurelians of which he was a founder member. Winslow is a small Market town and also a Civil parish designated as a Town council within Aylesbury Vale district in north Buckinghamshire Events 962 - Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city Year 1747 ( MDCCXLVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France (or French Calvinists) from the sixteenth to the eighteenth Aurelian is an archaic word for Lepidopterist, one who is interested in butterflies ^[3]

Despite having left no published works, and not being part of the close-knit collectors of the Royal Society, Dandridge is credited by numerous entomologists of his time with having provided invaluable assistance and access to his extensive collections of specimens, and even near the end of his life remaining 'affable and communicative'^[4]. The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as The Royal Society, is a Learned society for science that was founded in 1660 The collections spanned, besides insects and arachnids, shells, fossils, birds' eggs and skins, flowering plants, lichens, mosses and fungi. A volume of 119 water-colours by Dandridge dating from before 1710 of the arachnids, accompanied by meticulous notes, is in the Sloane Collection of the British Museum and is designated Sloane MS 3999. The British Museum is a Museum of human history and culture in London. W. S. Bristowe discovered that this work had been used without acknowledgement by Eleazar Albin in his Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects of 1736. William Syer Bristowe (1901-1979 who wrote under the name W S Eleazar Albin (known from 1708 - c1742 was an English naturalist and watercolourist Illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books ^[5]

Large numbers of Huguenot silk weavers moved to the Spitalfields area at the end of the 1600s. Spitalfields is an area in the borough of Tower Hamlets, in the East End of London, near to Liverpool Street station and Brick One of the most noted silk producers was James Leman (1688-1745), who was both designer and manufacturer and made use of other designers such as Christopher Baudouin and Joseph Dandridge. ^[6] A number of Dandridge's silk designs dating from 1717 to 1722 have found their way to the Victoria & Albert Museum and may be seen in the Prints & Drawings Study Room. The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design housing a permanent collection ^[7]

Dandridge lived at Moorfields near Bedlam, close to his friend James Petiver, and for a while at Stoke Newington, which at that time was in the country. In London, the Moorfields were one of the last pieces of open land in the City of London, near the Moorgate. The Bethlem Royal Hospital of London, which has been variously known as St James Petiver (1663-1718 was a London Apothecary, a Fellow of the Royal Society as well as London's informal Temple Coffee House Botany Club famous for his study Note For an area with a similar name see Newington, in the London Borough of Southwark. He became acquainted with the leading workers in the fields of his interests, such as John Ray, Adam Buddle, Benjamin Wilkes, Eleanor Glanville^[8] and William Sherard, and instructed Eleazar Albin^[9], the watercolourist, in natural history. John Ray ( November 29, 1627 &ndash January 17, 1705) was an English naturalist, sometimes referred to as the Adam Buddle (1662 - 1715 was an English Cleric and Botanist. Born at Deeping St James, a small village near Peterborough, he was educated at Benjamin Wilkes (birth and death dates unknown was an eighteenth-century Artist and naturalist in London. Lady Eleanor Glanville (c1654&ndash1709 was a 17th century English Entomologist from Lincolnshire. William Sherard ( 27 February 1659 - 11 August 1728) was an English Botanist. ^[10]

According to Mendes de Costa, Dandridge 'had two daughters who were single women'.

Commemorated by Dandridgia dysderoides White 1849. Francis Buchanan White ( 20 March, 1842, Perth - 3 December, 1894, Perth was a Scottish Entomologist and botanist ^[11]

References

Bibliography

• Rothstein, Natalie. Joseph Dandridge : Naturalist and Silk Designer. East London Papers, 9 (1966), 101-18.
• Rothstein, Natalie. Silk Designs of the Eighteenth Century from the Collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum Thames & Hudson ISBN 0500 235899 (1990)
• Salmon, Michael A. The Aurelian Legacy:British Butterflies and their Collectors. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-22963-0 (2000)
• Stewart, Larry and Weindling, Paul. Philosophical Threads: Natural Philosophy and Public Experiment among the Weavers of Spitalfields. The British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 28, No. 1, Science Lecturing in the Eighteenth Century (Mar. , 1995), pp. 37-62. Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of The British Society for the History of Science

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