W. T. (William Thomas) Vincent

Born in 1835 and generally identified in print as W. T. Vincent, William Thomas Vincent was an English writer and antiquarian whose work centered on local history, memorials, and the rich detail of everyday places. His best-known book, In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious (1896), invites readers to look closely at churchyards and monuments not just as burial places, but as records of art, language, and community memory.

Vincent was also closely tied to Woolwich and its surrounding district. Contemporary editions of his work describe him as president of the Woolwich District Antiquarian Society, and his books include The Records of the Woolwich District, Warlike Woolwich, and Seventy Years' Recollections of Woolwich and District, 1837–1907. Taken together, they show a writer deeply interested in preserving local history before it disappeared from living memory.

He also wrote about the performer Fred Leslie, which suggests a range extending beyond antiquarian research into biography and cultural history. A clear portrait image could not be confirmed from the sources reviewed, so no profile image is included.