Born Edward James Muggeridge, also known as Muggridge, Maygridge, Muygridge, Eduardo Santiago Muybridge. He was a photographer, inventor, and lecturer. One of the most influential and colourful photographers of the nineteenth century, Muybridge's achievements span three distinct categories: landscape photography, motion photography, and early cinema. The motion photographs, in particular, are among the most easily recognized photographs of the nineteenth century, comprised of grids of instantaneous photographs of humans and animals performing various behaviours and taken in rapid succession. Although he was born in, and retired to, the London suburb of Kingston, his entire photographic career was spent in the United States. Muybridge was one of four sons born to Susannah and John Muggeridge, Kingston merchants recorded as selling coal and later grain. After attending Queen Elizabeth's Free Grammar School, Eadweard moved to London, apparently to receive vocational training. He may have…