Orlando Whistlecraft (11 November 1810 – 3 March 1893) was an early English meteorologist who was born and died in the village of Thwaite, Suffolk in the East of England.
[2] He was most notable for Whistlecraft's Weather Almanac published annually from 1856 to 1884 and for The Climate of England (1840) and Rural Gleanings (1851).
Then Mr J M Burton of Ipswich – a bookseller and stationer in a large way of business there – came and said to me “why shouldn’t you and I publish and almanac?”.
[3]He is referenced in "Rats", a short story by M. R. James: "so fine was the April of that year—which I have reason to believe was that which Orlando Whistlecraft chronicles in his weather record as the "Charming Year".
[4] Whistlecraft married Elizabeth Rush, who was born in Stonham Parva, at St George's parish church Thwaite on 28 Mar 1834.