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Cecil Shadbolt
Cecil Shadbolt
	Cecil Shadbolt (left) and 'Captain' William Dale (right) posed in the basket of a gas balloon. Shadbolt's camera can be seen, attached to the side of the basket.
Born	1859
Died	8 July 1892 (aged 33)
Occupation	Photographer
Parent(s)	George Shadbolt ;

Cecil Victor Shadbolt (1859 – 8 July 1892) was a British photographer, who pioneered aerial photography from flying balloons.

Life

Shadbolt was born in 1859, the son of the mahogany dealer and photographer George Shadbolt.^[1]^[2]

He showed photographs of Welsh landscapes at the 1877 Photographic Society exhibition.^[2]

His first balloon ascent was in May 1882, at Alexandra Palace.^[1] He made his own device for attaching a camera to the basket below a balloon, allowing him to take pictures looking directly downwards.^[1] One of his images, taken from 2,000 feet (610 m) over Stamford Hill, is the earliest extant aerial photograph taken in the British Isles.^[1] A print of the same image, An Instantaneous Map Photograph taken from the Car of a Balloon, 2,000 feet high, was shown at the 1882 Photographic Society exhibition.^[2]

Shadbolt gave public lectures, using magic lantern slides, with the title Balloons and Ballooning, Upward and Onwards.^[3]

He was secretary of the West Kent Sunday School Union from 1886.^[2]

Death

On 29 June 1892, he took a flight in a gas balloon owned by (or which he co-owned with; sources vary) his friend 'Captain' William D. Dale, at Crystal Palace.^[1] The balloon ripped during the initial ascent, at around 600 feet (180 m),^[2] and though those aboard dropped ballast, the basket crashed to the ground, immediately killing Dale.^[1] Shadbolt and the other passengers were taken to Norwood Cottage Hospital,^[2] but Shadbolt died on 8 July,^[3] aged 33.^[1] He was buried, alongside members of his family, in grave 1,932, square 113, at West Norwood Cemetery.^[2] His father was later buried in the adjacent plot.^[2]

An inquest at the hospital, on 12 July 1892, under coroner, Mr Jackson, returned verdicts of accidental death.^[2]

Shadbolt Collection

The Shadbolt Collection of 76 glass lantern slides taken between 1882 and 1892 is held by Historic England,^[1] The slides were found at a car boot sale and subsequently purchased at auction by Historic England in 2015.^[1]^[4]

Publications

Harper, Henry Andrew (1888). Walks in Palestine. Religious Tract Society. – includes 24 photogravures by Shadbolt^[2]^[5]
- An 1894 edition was subtitled "With a Portrait and Brief Memoir of the Late Cecil V. Shadbolt".

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ "The Shadbolt Collection". Retrieved 27 April 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Colin, Fenn (2016). "George & Cecil Shadbolt – Pioneer Photographers" (PDF). Friends of West Norwood. Newsletter (86): 6–8.
^ ^a ^b "Cecil Shadbolt (left) and 'Captain' William Dale (right)..." Historic England. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
^ "'Earliest' aerial photos auctioned". BBC News. BBC News. 8 October 2015. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
^ "Henry Andrew Harper (1835–1900) – Walks in Palestine". Royal Collection Trust. Retrieved 27 April 2020.

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Cecil Shadbolt

Life

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Shadbolt Collection

Publications

References

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