Walter Bentley Woodbury
1834–85
Photographer and inventer of the woodburytype process. Pupil of a civil engineer in a Manchester Patent Office, 1849. Photographer in Melbourne, Australia, 1854–7. Owned a photography studio in Java, 1857–8 and 1860–4. Returned to England in 1864; filed more than thirty patents for photomechanical printing and for optical and photographical apparatus, 1863–85.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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