Author: Bristow, Whiston
Biography:
BRISTOW, Whiston (1791-1860: ancestry.co.uk)
He was the third son of Hayes Robert Bristow (1744-1836), a customs house officer, and his second wife Martha Busby (1760-1843), who had married in 1800 but had had four children in the 1790s. In the Census return of 1851, he gave his place of birth as Pentonville [1791] but no baptism has been traced. His sister Maria Sarah born in 1798, was baptised in 1803 after the marriage. Nothing is known about his education. His brothers Alfred John and Charles Busby Bristow became ship brokers and in 1816 were trading at 22 St. Dunstan’s Hill, Tower Street, London. Charles married the daughter of the Pall Mall printseller Anthony Molteno in 1811 and several members of the Molteno family subscribed to Poems (1811). Whiston Bristow married Judith McClery, the daughter of a Jamaican plantation owner, on 25 June 1823 at St. John’s, Croydon, and they went on to have six children. (He is sometimes confused with his son, the Rev. Whiston Timothy Bristow [1826-74]). He subsequently became a schoolmaster, establishing a boarding school in Hitchin, Herts., from about 1825 and later the Diocesan school at Minehead, Somerset, in 1846. He died on 25 Feb. 1860 at Froxfield, near Hungerford, leaving an estate of around £1500. (ancestry.co.uk 2 Jan. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 2 Jan. 2022; LBS (McClery); Hertford Mercury 7 Jul. 1835, 25 Apr. 1846; Taunton Courier 25 Mar. 1846, 7 Mar. 1860) AA