b. 1819; d. 1901
George Shadbolt was in the wood trade, a vocation which he retained throughout his working career, but he also made a distinctive contribution to the development of photography from the early 1850s.
It is claimed that Shadbolt, an enthusiast in micro-photography, and sometime President of the Microscopic Society, made the first micro-photographs.
One of the founders of the Photographic Society, he was also editor of the Liverpool and Manchester Journal, which subsequently became the British Journal of Photography.
He put on a number of exhibitions, using the collodion process. He had an intense dislike for albumen prints, whose glossy nature he dubbed as a "vulgar glare", and preferred salted paper.
© Robert Leggat, 1999.