[4] Donisthorpe married Ann Maria Anderson on 17 December 1873; whom he had four children.

[9] In 1890 he also produced, together with his cousin W. C. Crofts, a moving picture of London's Trafalgar Square.

[10] The camera that produced this moving picture was patented in 1889 along with the projector necessary to show the motion frames.

[11] In 1893, Donisthorpe was one of the founding members and President of the children's rights and free love advocacy organisation the Legitimation League; he left the organization in 1897.

[12] In his last book Uropa (1913), he proposed a philosophical language derived from Latin roots.