Derby Museums' Friend, Maxwell Craven has written extensively on architecture and antiques. Pull up a comfy chair and delve into his books… both of which will be exclusively signed just for you!

 

JOHN WHITEHURST, INNNOVATOR. SCIENTIST, GEOLOGIST AND CLOCKMAKER

By Maxwell Craven

Fonthill Media, Stroud, 2015, Quarto 288 pp with index, illustrated.

 

John Whitehurst FRS (1713-1788) was one of the founders of the celebrated Lunar Society, yet his reputation has been overshadowed by later colleagues: Although a clockmaker by calling, Whitehurst, based for most of his life in Derby, was an important pioneer of modern geological science, of factory design, meteorology and domestic appliances. This book, a major rewrite of the author’s 1996 biography, places Whitehurst firmly back where he belongs, at the core of the English Enlightenment. 

 

 

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DERBEIANS OF DISTINCTION

By Maxwell Craven

Breedon Books Derby 1998, Quarto 234 pp. with index, illustrated

 

A biographical dictionary of more than two hundred people either born, worked or descended from Derby people all of more than city-wide fame, or so deserving. It disinters the reputation of several long-forgotten figures and puts the record straight on many others. Every walk of life is represented; a valuable work of reference supported by the sources cited.

 

Kindly donated by Maxwell Craven