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By 1819 he was living in [[Oxford]], where he ran the Oxford Drawing Academy in [[Oriel Street]], teaching ladies on Tuesdays and Thursdays and gentlemen on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays for two hours, charging a guinea every three months. He also had a Painting Room next to the Angel Hotel in the [[High Street, Oxford|High Street]].<ref>Advertisement inserted by him in ''Jackson’s Oxford Journal'', 24 December 1819</ref> In 1823 he moved out of his house and shop in the High Street, and the premises were auctioned on 19 June that year.<ref>Advertisement by the auctioneer W. Fisher in ''Jackson’s Oxford Journal'', 7 June 1823</ref> He moved to [[St Clement's, Oxford|St Clement’s]], a suburb of Oxford.<ref>Inquest into the death of Elizabeth Kirby, “servant of Mr. Whittock, engraver, in the parish of St. Clement’s” reported in ''Jackson’s Oxford Journal'' of 1 June 1825</ref> The Oxford Baths were in St Clement’s, and on 6 May 1826 his book ''A Description of the Oxford Baths and School of Natation'' was published.<ref>''Jackson’s Oxford Journal'', 6 May 1826</ref> In 1824–1829 he appears as "Teacher of Drawing and Perspective, and Lithographist to the [[University of Oxford]]", and worked for the University's [[Ashmolean Museum]] and scientific community.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=4cYeAQAAMAAJ ''The Ashmolean, Issues 15-27''], Ashmolean Museum, 1989</ref> By October 1827 he had left Oxford, and the contents of his St Clement’s house were sold by auction.<ref>''Jackson’s Oxford Journal'', 3 November 1827</ref>

In 1830 and 1831 he was at 24 Garnault Place, [[Spa Fields]], [[Islington]], London. The 1841 census shows him living at 34 Richard Street in Islington with his young nephew Henry Hyde at 34 Richard Street, Islington: both were described as engravers. In 1851 he was still at the same address with his wife Ann Whitlock, nee Hyde, his nephew and alsobusiness withpartner AnnHenry WhittockHyde, (described asand his wife)niece Caroline Hyde.

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