Wordsworth Donisthorpe was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 individualist anarchist

Individualist anarchism

Individualist anarchism refers to several traditions of thought within the anarchist movement that emphasize the individual and his or her will over external determinants such as groups, society, traditions, and ideological systems. Individualist anarchism is not a single philosophy but refers to a...

 and inventor, pioneer of cinematography

Cinematography

Cinematography is the making of lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for cinema. It is closely related to the art of still photography...

 and chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 enthusiast. His father was George E. Donisthorpe, an inventor as well, his brother, Horace Donisthorpe

Horace Donisthorpe

Horace St. John Kelly Donisthorpe was an eccentric British myrmecologist and coleopterist, memorable in part for his enthusiastic championing of the renaming of the genus Lasius after him as Donisthorpea, and for his many claims of discovering new species of beetles and ants.He is often considered...

, was a myrmecologist

Myrmecology

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.

In 1885 Donisthorpe was co-founder of the British Chess Association and the British Chess Club.

Donisthorpe filed for a patent in 1876, for a film camera, which he named a "kinesigraph." The object of the invention was to:

Although unsuccessfully at first, in 1890 he produced, together with his cousin W. C. Crofts, a moving picture of London

London

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's Trafalgar Square

Trafalgar Square

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. In 1889 they already patented this camera, and the projector necessary to show the motion frames.

Works online

• Individualism: A System of Politics (1889).
• "The Woes of an Anarchist", Liberty (January 25, 1890). Reprinted in Benjamin Tucker
  Benjamin Tucker
  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker was a proponent of American individualist anarchism in the 19th century, and editor and publisher of the individualist anarchist periodical Liberty.-Summary:Tucker says that he became an anarchist at the age of 18...
  
  , Instead of a Book (1897).
• "L'État Est Mort; Vive L'État!", Liberty (May 23, 1890). Reprinted in Benjamin Tucker
  Benjamin Tucker
  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker was a proponent of American individualist anarchism in the 19th century, and editor and publisher of the individualist anarchist periodical Liberty.-Summary:Tucker says that he became an anarchist at the age of 18...
  
  , Instead of a Book (1897).
• Law in a Free State (1895).

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