Charles Waterton section on this website

Walton Hall section on this website

Waterton's Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States and the Antilles in the Years 1812, 1816, 1820 and 1824, With Original Instructions for the perfect preservation of Birds, Etc for Cabinets of Natural History.
by Charles Waterton, MacMillan & Co., 1880. Edited, with Biographical Introduction and Explanatory Index by the Rev. J. G. Wood.

Charles Waterton: His Home, Habits and Handiwork. Reminiscences of an Intimate and Most Confiding Personal Association for Nearly Thirty Years.
by Richard Hobson MD, 2nd Edition - "Containing a Considerable Amount of Additional Material", i.e. the good doctor expanded upon the first edition., 1867, Whittaker & Co.; Simpkin, Marshall & Co. London, H.W. Walker and John Smith, Leeds.

Essays on Natural History, by Charles Waterton, edited, with a Life of the Author, by Norman Moore, Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1871

The Letters of Charles Waterton, of Walton Hall, near Wakefield Edited with Notes by R.A. Irwin. Rockliff, London, 1955. (price then 18/- net, = 90 pence)

Social Hours With Celebrities, Being the Third and Fourth Volumes of Gossip of the Century by the Author of "Flemish Interiors", "De Omnibus Rebus", etc. (this is Mrs William Pitt Byrne, i.e. Julia Pitt Byrne, née Busk), edited by her sister Miss R.H. Busk, Ward & Downey Ltd., London, 1898
Charles Waterton the Wanderer, a long passage in Volume 2 (i.e. the 4th of the entire "Gossip" set) on Julia Pitt Byrne's visits to Walton Hall to meet the Squire and a final visit after his death. A fascinating series of encounters with Victorian celebrities.
There are also references to the Squire in Volume 1 of "Gossip".

Charles Waterton of Walton Hall, 1782 - 1865
Wakefield Historical Publications, 1981. ISBN 0 901869 11 2.

Charles Waterton 1782 - 1865, Traveller and Conservationist
by Julia Blackburn, 1989. Vintage, ISBN 0 09 973600 4. £7.99. Might be available from the Walton Library. Also in hardback: The Bodley Head.

Charles Waterton 1782 - 1865, Traveller and Naturalist. An exhibition to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Waterton - Catalogue. Wakefield Museum, Wood Street.
Exhibition researched & organised by Gordon Watson, Keeper of Social History, Wakefield Art Gallery & Museums, designed and constructed by Peter Wright, Display Officer, Wakefield Art Gallery & Museums. Catalogue by Gordon Watson. April 1982. Still available in 2001.

Charles Waterton, A Biography, by Brian Edginton, 1996. The Lutterworth Press, ISBN 07188 2924 7. £25.00

The Squire of Walton Hall, The Life of Charles Waterton, by Philip Gosse, Cassell, 1940. (price then 15/- net, = 75p)

The Strange Life of Charles Waterton 1782 - 1865, Richard Aldington, Evans Brothers, 1949. (price then 12/6 net, = 62.5p)

The Squire of Walton Hall; or Sketches and Incidents from the Life of Charles Waterton, Esq., the Adventurous Traveller and Daring Naturalist, Daniel Wise, 1874, Nelson & Phillips, New York.

Waterton's Park, Richard Bell, Willow Island Editions, 1998, ISBN 1-902467-02-7.
Visit Richard Bell's Online Nature Diary at Wild Yorkshire 2009 (http://www.wildyorkshire.co.uk/naturediary/)

Web - The Descendants of William the Conqueror - The William the Conqueror Database (http://www.william1.co.uk/w139.htm - see the section Conqueror 141 on the referenced page)

Web - Roman Catholic Encyclopedia - Charles Waterton, New Advent.

Web - St. Austin's Online (Roman Catholic Parish, Wakefield)

Web - Wakefield's Eccentric Squire - BBC - Bradford and West Yorkshire - A Sense of Place - Walton

Edmund Waterton (son of Squire Charles Waterton) - Pietas Mariana Britannica. A History of English Devotion to the Most Blessed Virgin Marye Mother of God. With a Catalogue of Shrines, Sanctuaries, Offerings, Bequests, and Other Memorials of the Piety of Our Forefathers. Published by St. Joseph's Catholic Library, London, 1879. (1st and only edition, although moderrn 'print on demand' reprints are now available on eBay and elsewhere).