J. P. Earwaker

John Parsons Earwaker (1847-1895) was an English antiquarian. The son of John Warwaker, he was born in Cheatham Hill, Manchester, on April 22, 1847; his father was a Hampshire merchant and a close friend of Richard Cobden. Educated at a private school in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, and then at a school in Germany, he continued to study at Owens College, Manchester, where he received prizes in the field of natural sciences. He moved to Pembroke College in Cambridge, but received a scholarship to Merton College in Oxford, he entered there in November 1868 and received a bachelor's degree. in 1872 and M.A. in 1876. He entered the Middle Temple, but was never called to the bar. Workker remained at Oxford until 1874, and there were several students there. He became interested in history and the study of antiques, and also studied Old English manuscripts. He was elected honorary secretary of the Oxford Archaeological Society and served as deputy curator of the Ashmola Museum in 1873-4 during the residence of curator John Henry Parker in Rome. In January 1873, he was elected a member of the Society of Antiquaries of London. After his marriage in 1875, Warwaker lived in Wington, near Manchester, and then in 1881 moved to Pensarn, near Abergele, North Wales. He wrote and participated in local affairs. Warbucker died on January 29, 1895 in Pensarn and was buried on an old churchyard in Abergel.