Samuel Loxton

Samuel Loxton
Born(1857-01-06)6 January 1857
Clifton, Bristol
Died5 February 1922(1922-02-05) (aged 65)
Bristol
EmployerWestern Daily Press
Known forIllustrator and artist

Samuel Joseph Loxton (6 January 1857 – 5 February 1922)[1][2] was an English illustrator and artist who worked primarily in Bristol and the west of England for regional newspapers.

Life

A 1919 Loxton illustration of Hotwells Halt railway station.

Loxton began his career as a draughtsman for the Ordnance Survey Department but from c.1890 he contributed black and white drawings to the Bristol Observer, The Western Daily Press and the Bristol Evening News. He was best known for his architectural drawings.[3] He worked closely with the Bristol journalist and editor of the Daily Press, George Frederick Stone, with whom he produced a popular series of historical articles for the Observer.[4]

Loxton died on 5 February 1922 following a period of ill health and was buried in Canford Cemetery, Westbury-on-Trym, leaving a widow and two grown up daughters.[3]

Illustrations

Many of Loxton's illustrations of Bristol were republished in a contemporary history of the city, published in 1909 with George F. Stone.[5] Eighty of his illustrations of Edwardian Bristol were republished in print form in 1992.[6]

About 2,000 of Loxton's original drawings were left to Bristol Central Library.[7] The library have scanned these and made copies of them available on its Flickr site,[8] at resolutions ranging up to c. 200 KB. The Bristol Record Society produced higher-resolution scans of some of the images (up to 6 MB), taken from Stone's volume.[5] These have been uploaded to Wikimedia. Many of these images are included below in the gallery: 'Loxton's images of Bristol'.

References

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  1. ↑ "Loxton's Legacy". Bristol Past. Retrieved 2011-05-21.
  2. ↑ "The Loxton Collection". From the Bristol Room. 12 October 2022.
  3. 1 2 "Death of Mr S. J. Loxton. A well-known black and white artist". Western Daily Press: 5. 6 February 1922 – via British Library Newspapers.
  4. ↑ "Mr. G. F. Stone Dead: A Notable Bristol Journalist". Western Daily Press: 7. 10 December 1928 – via British Library Newspapers.
  5. 1 2 Stone, George Frederick (1909). Bristol: as it was and as it is. A record of fifty years' progress. Bristol: Walter Reid.
  6. ↑ Loxton, Samuel (1992). Loxton's Bristol: The City's Edwardian Years in Black-and-white. Bristol: Redcliffe Press. pp. 95 pp.
  7. ↑ "Drawings: Samuel Loxton Shelf mark: LOCAL Staff Library : 31 drawers. MF1 : microf". Libraries West.
  8. ↑ "Bristol Libraries". Flickr. Retrieved 12 February 2025.


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