WIlbert Bridgemington Shasterbury

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Wilbert Bridgemington Shasterbury, 6th Lord of Shropshire (1816-1904) was an English patron and conservative, known for his strict adherence to Victorian values.

Born in Camdentown, he was home-schooled until the age of 18 when he began his college career at Christ Church College. He became famous for a thesis he published which analyzed the Anglo-Saxon superstition of "touching wood." In 1850, he appeared in one of the first photographs taken which used the collodion wet plate process developed by Frederick Scott Archer earlier in the year. The portrait of Shasterbury standing next to a delapidated cabin was the first photograph to used as evidence in a trial. The famous property dispute (later to be notated as Price v. Kibbe) was dramatically decided in favor of the plaintiff. The photograph was presented as an exibit which proved Shasterbury's connection with the property and thus, a connection to the Kibbe litigants who were cousins of the photographed subject.

References

Conancher, J. B. "Peel and the Peelites, 1846-1850." The English Historical Review. Vol. 73, No. 288 (Jul., 1958), 431-452. Farnborough, T. E. May (1st Baron). Constitutional History of England since the Accession of George the Third. 11th ed. Longmans, Green, 1896.

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