Author: WHITEHEAD, John Crawford
Biography:
WHITEHEAD, John Crawford (b 1798: ancestry.co.uk)
He was a younger son of Daniel Whitehead and his wife Martha Crawford who had married at St. John's, Hackney, London, on 11 Nov. 1792. His elder brother was James Crawford Whitehead (q.v.), who also became a medical doctor. He was born on 12 Jan. 1798 but not baptised until 10 Apr. 1805 at St. Mary's, Islington, after his father's death in 1803. Likely he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. His King James the Second draws on his own extensive study of the period; the preface expresses his anti-Catholic sentiments. Advertisements for the play record him as the author of Considerations Upon the State of Medical Practice but this has not been identified. A last sighting of him is on a boat travelling to Charleston SC in May 1831; there he published Five Pieces, Viz.: Modern Mythology (1831). Nothing more is known. He and his brother James are often confused in library catalogues and on WorldCat. (ancestry.co.uk 20 Mar. 2025; findmypast.co.uk 20 Mar. 2025; Daily Chronicle [Pennsylvania] 31 May 1831) SR