author
William Finch-Crisp
b. 1840
A nineteenth-century local historian and practical writer, he turned his adopted home of Great Yarmouth into the subject of a richly detailed chronicle. His books also explored printing, punctuation, angling, and railway travel.
1 Audiobook
Chronological Retrospect of the History of Yarmouth and Neighbourhood from A.D. 46 to 1884
by William Finch-Crisp
About the author
Born in Hackney on January 30, 1840, William Finch-Crisp lived in Erith, Kent, for eleven years before moving to Great Yarmouth at the end of 1854. He married Mary Ann Crisp, daughter of Robert Boyce Crisp, on June 25, 1870.
Finch-Crisp worked as a printer and became closely associated with Great Yarmouth’s civic and literary life. His best-known work, Chronological Retrospect of the History of Yarmouth and Neighbourhood, traces local events from A.D. 46 through the nineteenth century and includes an alphabetical list of mayors.
He also wrote practical and popular works including The Printers’ Business Guide, The Printer’s Book of Reference, Punctuation Simplified, Handbook to Angling, and The Railway Train. Contemporary reviews praised the energy, research, and careful arrangement behind his Yarmouth history.