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Description: | Frederick William Hackwood was born to Enoch and Sarah Hackwood on the 18th April 1851 at 69 High Street East, Wednesbury. Enoch Hackwood was a tailor. The Hackwood family were orginally from Stoke-on-Trent and settled in Wednesbury during the middle of the 18th century. In 1868 Frederick Hackwood was admitted to St Peter's Teachers Training College, Saltley and in 1871 he was appointed headmaster of St. Bartholomew's Church Schools at Wednesbury. In 1878 he was Headmaster of Dudley Road Board School, Birmingham and in 1888 he became Headmaster of Soho Road Board School also in Birmingham where he stayed until 1916 when he retired. In 1874 he married Sarah Phoebe Simkin and they had two children Harold and Louisa. He lived with his family at Comberford Lodge, Bridge Street, Wednesbury until a subterranean fire at a neighbouring colliery forced them to leave the house and move to Handsworth. During the course of his life Frederick Hackwood wrote 28 books about Staffordshire and the Black Country. Apart from writing on local history, he wrote books on a variety of other subjects including Natural History, Education, Church Lessons, Biography, Marriage, Sport and Food. In addition to being a teacher and an author he was also a magistrate, a town councillor, a footballer and the founder of several clubs and societies and was involved in creating open spaces like parks, allotments and re-afforestation of reclaimed colliery waste areas. The last years of his life were spent at 2 Verconica Road, Balham, London near to his son, where he died on the 4th December 1926 aged 75 years.
A portrait oil painting of Frederick Hackwood. Wearing a black jacket and a green bow tie. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Sandwell Museums | Rights holder: | SMBC | Subjects: | Fine arts | Temporal: | 1909
Edwardian (1901-1914) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | Bladon; Murrary B | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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