Jocquim Hayward Stocqueler

J. H. Stocqueler (21 July 1801 - 14 March 1886) was a journalist, government employee, entrepreneur, and inventor in England, India, and the United States of America.

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Stocqueler traveled extensively during his life. In 1831 and 1832, he spent fifteen months traveling through Khuzistan and Persia.

In 1836, the Calcutta Public Library was established at the suggestion Stocqueler, then editor of the Englishman.

During the latter half of 1840, he traveled from Calcutta (departing 13 August 1840) up the Ganges and then up to Simla and from there down the Indus to Bombay and from there to Egypt and to England, arriving 16 January 1841. He wrote of these experiences in his Hand book for India and Egypt.

Following a separation, his wife, Jane Stocqueler and his son Edwin departed for the Victorian gold fields in Australia. Edwin was present on the Bendigo gold fields during the mid 1850s, where he painted several scenes of the diggings. He married, secondly, Eliza Wilson (19) in 1848 by whom he fathered five children, and thirdly, at the age of 67, thirty-year old Mary Agnes Cameron in London, 1870.

At intervals from 1860 to his death, Stocqueler used the name Joachim Heyward Siddons, mainly in the United States of America but at times in Britain claiming that he was the illegitimate son of George Siddons, Sarah Siddons's son.

He died on 14 March 1886 in Washington, D.C., USA, not 1885 in Bath, England, as is often seen.

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