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Derbyshire
Photographers' Profiles
by Brett Payne, of Tauranga, New Zealand Rupert Stearn of Buxton & Bakewell |
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| Rupert Stearn
was born in about 1868 at Cambridge, one of five sons of the noted
Cambridge photographer Thomas Stearn, who headed the firm of Thomas
Stearn & Sons, still in business in 1957. Thomas
Stearn (born
c. 1825 Bloomsbury, London) established a photographic studio at 72
Bridge Street, Cambridge around 1866. His wife Eliza (born c. 1829,
Poplar, London) was also a photographer and in the 1881 Census gave her
occupation as "photographist". Thomas and Eliza A. Stearn produced a
number of children who became photographers in adult life - Henry C.
Stearn (born c. 1860 Cambridge), Walter James Stearn (born c. 1864
Cambridge & died February 1929) and Rupert Stearn.
By April 1891 Rupert and his older brother Walter James (c1865-1929) were working as photographers at St Andrew's. Rupert married Alice Bowden (born c. 1866 at Great Warford, Cheshire) at Macclesfield, Cheshire in 1894, and shortly afterwards set up studio in Buxton or Bakewell, Derbyshire, apparently serving both villages. |
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Portrait
of two
unidentified women,
by Rupert Stearn of Buxton & Bakewell, Date unknown, but c. 1900 Format: Cabinet Card Image © & courtesy of David Simkin Nothing further is known about this photo |
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Portrait
of unknown
young man,
by Rupert Stearn of Buxton & Bakewell, Undated Format: Carte de visite Image © & courtesy of John Bradley Nothing further is known about this photo |
| References
Image & information kindly provided by John Bradley and David Simkin 1881 UK Census - online from the LDS church 1891 UK Census - online from Ancestry.com 1901 UK Census index - online from the PRO FreeBMD |
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