Regency Personalities Series-Peter Pond

Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of the many period notables.

Peter Pond
January 18, 1739 – 1807

Peter Pond by Illona Campbell

Pond began his fur trading career with his father out of Detroit Michigan. He traded throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin. Through his business he became acquainted with Alexander Henry the younger, Simon McTavish and the brothers Thomas, Benjamin and Joseph Frobisher. They formed the North West Company which developed a fierce rivalry with the Hudson’s Bay Company.

In search of new fur resources Pond explored west of the Great Lakes. In 1776–1778 he wintered at the junction of the Sturgeon River and North Saskatchewan River near present day Prince Albert.

In 1783, Pond’s explorations led him to the Athabasca, a region stretching from Lac Île-à-la-Crosse to the Peace River. He explored waterways around Lake Athabasca and determined the approximate locations of Great Slave Lake and Great Bear Lake from First Nations peoples of the area.

Peter Pond drew a map showing rivers and lakes of the Athabasca region, including what was known of the whole area from Hudson Bay to the Rocky Mountains and interpolating his information to the Arctic Ocean or Northwest Passage.

In 1785, one copy of Pond’s map, was submitted to the United States Congress and a second to the Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, Henry Hamilton. Pond needed financial support to carry his explorations to the limits of North America’s northwest. The British government was not forthcoming.

As a partner in the North West Company, he was in charge of the company business in the Athabasca and Peace River areas. An ambitious man with a reputation for a violent temper, he was implicated in two murders: Although acquitted on the murder charges, the company replaced him with Alexander Mackenzie.

Peter Pond had contributed to the mapping of Canada by drawing the general outline of the river basin that Mackenzie recorded in 1789. The maps that Peter Pond subsequently drew, based on his explorations and on the information provided to him by First Nations peoples, ultimately gained international recognition for Pond at the end of the 18th century.

In 1790, Pond sold his shares in the North West Company to William McGillivray. He returned to Milford, Connecticut, where he died in 1807.

Pond left for Canada after wounding a man in a duel. He led the first Europeans who entered the Athabaska country, used the Methye Portage and saw the Athabasca oil sands. He founded Fort Chipewyan, Alberta.

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Regency Personalities Series-Henry Thornton

Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of the many period notables.

Henry Thornton
March 10 1760-January 16 1815

Henry Thornton

Henry was the son of John Thornton of Clapham, who had been one of the early patrons of the evangelical movement. At the age of five, Henry attended the school of Mr Davis at Wandsworth Common, and later with Mr Roberts at Point Pleasant. From 1778 he was employed in the counting house of his cousin Godfrey Thornton, two years later joining his father’s company, where he later became a partner.

In 1784 Thornton joined the banking firm of Down and Free of London, later becoming a partner which became known as Down, Thornton and Free. It was under his direction that this became one of the largest banking firms in London, with regional offices in other British cities.

In 1782 Henry Thornton had been urged to seek a seat in Parliament, and applied to contest one of the two seats for Hull. He withdrew when he learned that it was custom to pay each voter two guineas to secure their vote. Thornton was then elected as member for Southwark, London. He became respected as a man of morals and integrity.

As an independent MP, Thornton sided with the Pittites. In 1783 voted for peace with America. In general he tended to support Pitt, Addington and the Whig administration of Grenville and Fox. He seldom spoke in the House of Commons. His contribution was in various parliamentary committees on which he sat. In 1795 he became the treasurer of the committee responsible for the publication of the Cheap Repository Tracts.

He served on committees to examine the public debt (1798), the Irish exchange (1804), public expenditure (1807) and the bullion committee (1810). The report of the bullion committee, was written by Thornton. It argued for the resumption of gold payments in exchange for notes and deposits, which the Bank of England (which his elder brother, Samuel Thornton, was a director) had suspended in 1797. The recommendation was not well received at the time, and gold redemption on demand was not restored until 1821. In the next few years he continued to press for these measures to be implemented, publishing two reports in 1811.

This period 1797–1810 was a time of major change and great confusion in the British banking system, and the currency crisis of 1797 led to Thornton’s greatest contribution as an economist, for which he is most remembered today. In 1802 he wrote An Enquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain, in which he set out to correct common misconceptions, such as the view that the increase in paper credit was the principal cause of the economic ills of the day. (DWW-such careful thought and then explanation would be invaluable.) This was a work of great importance, and gave a detailed account of the British monetary system. It also provided detailed examination of ways in which the Bank of England could counteract fluctuations of the pound.

Henry Thornton was one of the founders of the Clapham Sect of evangelical reformers and a foremost campaigner for the abolition of the slave trade. A close friend and cousin of William Wilberforce, he is credited with being the financial brain behind their many campaigns for social reform and philanthropic causes which the group supported.

For some years Thornton and Wilberforce shared a house called Battersea Rise which Thornton had bought in 1792. The cousins spent much time here co-ordinating their activities and entertaining their friends. After their marriages in 1796–7 they continued to live and work in close proximity for another decade.

In 1791 Thornton played a major part in the establishment of the Sierra Leone Company, which took over the failed attempt by Granville Sharp to create a colony for the settlement for freed slaves in Africa. As the company’s foremost director, he virtually administered the colony as chairman of the company until responsibility was transferred to the Crown in 1808. It was at this time that he became a friend of Zachary Macaulay, who was governor of the colony 1794–99.

In 1802 Thornton was one of the founders of the Christian Observer, the Clapham Sect’s journal edited by Zachary Macaulay, to which he contributed many articles. He was also involved in supporting the spread of Christian missionary work, including the founding of the Society for Missions to Africa and the East (later the Church Missionary Society) in 1799, and the British and Foreign Bible Society (now the Bible Society) in 1804, of which he became the first treasurer. A friend of Hannah More, he assisted in the writing and publication of her Cheap Repository tracts. In 1806, Thornton served as Manager of the newly formed London Institution.

In 1796 Thornton married Marianne Sykes, daughter of Joseph Sykes. Henry and Marianne died in 1815 and their children were adopted by a family friend, Sir Robert Inglis. The eldest child, Marianne Thornton, was a bluestocking who lived in Clapham for most of her long life. She was the subject of a biography by her cousin, E.M. Forster, the novelist, who was one of Henry Thornton’s great-grandchildren.

The oldest son, Henry Sykes Thornton, succeeded his father in the banking business, but the firm was merged into Williams Deacon’s Bank following the financial crisis of 1825–6. One of the younger daughters, Sophia Thornton, married John Leslie-Melville, 9th Earl of Leven. Another daughter, Isabella, married the clergyman Benjamin Harrison who became a Canon of Canterbury and Archdeacon of Maidstone.

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Two Peas in A Pod, A Regency Romance

TWO PEAS IN A POD

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TWO PEAS IN A POD

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Love is something that can not be fostered by deceit even should one’s eyes betray one’s heart.

Two brothers that are so close in appearance that only a handful have ever been able to tell them apart. The Earl of Kent, Percival Francis Michael Coldwell is only older than his brother, Peregrine Maxim Frederick Coldwell by 17 minutes. They may have looked as each other, but that masked how they were truthfully quite opposite to one another.

For Percy, his personality was one that he was quite comfortable with and more than happy to let Perry be of a serious nature. At least until he met Veronica Hamilton, the daughter of Baron Hamilton of Leith. She was only interested in a man who was serious.

Once more, Peregrine is obliged to help his older brother by taking his place, that the Earl may woo the young lady who has captured his heart. That is, until there is one who captures Peregrine’s heart as well.

There is a visual guide to Two Peas in a Pod as well at Pinterest and a blog post here.

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Regency Personalities Series-James Paull

Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of the many period notables.

James Paull
1770 – 15 April 1808

James Gillray’s High Flying Candidate, James Paull is the man being flung by Admiral Hood and Richard Sheridan

Born at Perth, Scotland, he was the son of a tailor and clothier. Educated at the University of St Andrews. When 18 he went to India, in the ship of Sir Home Popham. In 1790 he settled at Lucknow. Paull was involved in a duel with Michael George Prendergast in 1795; he was wounded, and in later life lost the use of his right arm. In 1801 he left Lucknow and came to England for a time, but returned again to India.

Prominent in commerce life at Lucknow, Paull was sent to Lord Wellesley as a delegate of its traders. For a time they were on good terms, but they quarrelled.

In the latter part of 1804 Paull returned to England. He was elected Member of Parliament for Newtown in 1805. He had many friends, among whom was William Windham, and William Cobbett. Paull supported the Whigs and Prince George; but when the Ministry of All the Talents was formed, it was impossible for the new government, which included Lord Grenville, to support him in his opposition to Wellesley. The Prince of Wales asked him, through John McMahon to desist from any further proceedings.

Paull instead spent the session of 1806 in moving for additional papers and in formulating his charges against the viceroy Wellesley. He supported the parallel campaign against Wellesley by Charles Maclean. The friends of Lord Wellesley tried in July 1806 to force his hand, but, through the interposition of Sir Samuel Romilly, were prevented from carrying out their purpose. Paull widened his parliamentary interests, and succeeded to a limited extent in getting extra-parliamentary support from the direction of the East India Company. But he also touched on other areas, and began to associate with troublemaker MPs, Thomas Jones and Richard Bateman-Robson. A dissolution of parliament then intervened.

Paull, now was disappointed in his obtaining a seat for one of Prince George’ boroughs, stood for Westminster against Sheridan and Sir Samuel Hood. Sir Francis Burdett had met him at Cobbett’s, and had introduced him to John Horne Tooke. Burdett had himself been asked to stand for Westminster, but declined in favour of Paull, supporting him with all his influence and subscribing £1,000 towards the expenses of the campaign.

The poll lasted fifteen days, when Hood and Sheridan were elected. On one occasion, when the candidates were on the hustings, a stage was brought from Drury Lane, with four tailors seated at work, a live goose, and several cabbages.

The defeated candidate, who polled 4,481 votes, petitioned against the return, and the matter came before the House of Commons in 1807, when the allegations were voted “false and scandalous”.
Paull stood again for Westminster at the election in 1807 with even less success. Horne Tooke was now estranged. Cobbett was still his friend and praised him in his Political Register, for his beliefs; but finally changed his mind thinking Paull wanted to be rich rather than a true representative.
Paull had a falling out with Burdett, and a duel ensued at Coombe Wood. On the second exchange of shots, both were badly wounded.

As a consequence of the duel, Burdett got much support. At the close of the election Burdett and Lord Cochrane had 5,134 and 3,708 votes respectively, while Paull obtained only 269.

Paull neglected his wounds, and suffered for three months. His election expenses had exhausted his resources. For some weeks he showed signs of mental derangement. He lost over 1,600 guineas at a gaming-house in Pall Mall on the night of 14 April 1808.

On the following day Paull deliberately attempted suicide, by piercing his right arm, and then by cutting his throat. He died at his house on 15 April 1808.

(DWW-The life of Paull seems to be tied up in trying to implicate Wellesley which did not come to fruition, and in duels. I believe that were you to see such a person in any literature you would cast him as a comic tragic figure.)

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Regency Personalities Series-Edwin Henry Landseer

Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of the many period notables.

Edwin Henry Landseer
7 March 1802 – 1 October 1873

Edwin Landseer

Landseer was born in London, the son of the engraver John Landseer. He was something of a prodigy whose artistic talents were recognised early on. He studied under several artists, including his father, and Benjamin Robert Haydon. Landseer’s life was entwined with the Royal Academy. At the age of just 13 he exhibited works there. He was elected an Associate at the age of 24, and an Academician five years later in 1831. He was knighted in 1850, and although elected President in 1866 he declined the invitation.

In his late 30s Landseer suffered nervous breakdown, and for the rest of his life was troubled by recurring bouts of melancholy, hypochondria, and depression, aggravated by alcohol and drug use. The last few years of his life Landseer’s mental stability was problematic. He was declared insane in July 1872.

Landseer was a notable figure in art, and his works can be found in Tate Britain, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Kenwood House and the Wallace Collection in London. He also collaborated with fellow painter Frederick Richard Lee.

Landseer’s reputation as an animal painter was unrivalled. Much of his fame was generated by the publication of engravings of his work, many of them by his brother Thomas.

Reproductions of Landseer’s works were common in middle-class homes, while he was popular with the aristocracy. Queen Victoria commissioned numerous pictures from the artists. Initially asked to paint various royal pets, he then moved on to portraits of ghillies and gamekeepers. Then Victoria commissioned a portrait of herself, as a present for Prince Albert.

Landseer taught both Victora and Albert to etch, and made portraits of Victoria’s children as babies, usually in the company of a dog. He also made two portraits of Victoria and Albert dressed for costume balls, at which he was a guest himself. One of his last paintings was a life-size equestrian portrait of the Queen, shown at the Royal Academy in 1873, made from earlier sketches.

Landseer was associated with Scotland, and the Highlands in particular. The Hunting of Chevy Chase (1825–6) and An Illicit Whiskey Still in the Highlands (1826–9), and his more mature achievements such as the majestic stag study Monarch of the Glen (1851) and Rent Day in the Wilderness (1855–68). In 1828 he was commissioned to produce illustrations for the Waverley Edition of Sir Walter Scott’s novels.

The Hunting of Chevy Chase

An Illicit Whiskey Still in the Highlands

Monarch of the Glen

Rent Day in the Wilderness

The name Landseer came to be the official name for the variety of Newfoundland dog that features a mix of both black and white; it was this variety Landseer popularised in his paintings celebrating Newfoundlands as water rescue dogs. Off to the Rescue (1827), A Distinguished Member of the Humane Society (1838), and Saved (1856).

Off to the Rescue

A Distinguished Member of the Humane Society

Saved

Laying Down The Law (1840) satirises the legal profession through anthropomorphism. It shows a group of dogs, with a poodle symbolising the Lord Chancellor.

Laying Down the Law

The Shrew Tamed, entered at the 1861 Royal Academy Exhibition, caused controversy because of its subject matter. It showed a powerful horse on its knees among straw in a stable while a lovely young woman lies with her head pillowed on its flanks. Equestrienne, Ann Gilbert, applying the taming techniques of the famous ‘horse whisperer’ John Solomon Rarey. Some concluded Landseer was referencing the famous courtesan Catherine Walters, then at the height of her fame.

The Shrew Tamed

In 1858 the government commissioned Landseer to make four bronze lions for the base of Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square.There was a delay when he asked to be supplied with copies of casts of a real lion he knew were in the possession of the academy at Turin. The casts did not arrive until the summer of 1860. The lions were made at the Kensington studio of Carlo Marochetti. Work was slowed by Landseer’s ill health. The sculptures were installed in 1867.

Landseer’s death on 1 October 1873 was widely marked in England: shops and houses lowered their blinds, flags flew at half-staff, his bronze lions at the base of Nelson’s column were hung with wreaths, and large crowds lined the streets to watch his funeral cortege pass.

Landseer was rumoured to be able to paint with both hands at the same time, for example, paint a horse’s head with the right and its tail with the left, simultaneously. He was also known to be able to paint extremely quickly—when the mood struck him. He could also procrastinate, sometimes for years, over certain commissions.

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A Jane Austen Sequel: Colonel Fitzwilliam’s Correspondence

Colonel Fitzwilliam’s Correspondence
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Witnessing his cousin marry for love and not money, as he felt destined to do, Colonel Fitzwilliam refused to himself to be jealous. He did not expect his acquaintance with the Bennet Clan to change that.

   Catherine Bennet, often called Kitty, had not given a great deal of thought to how her life might change with her sisters Elizabeth and Jane becoming wed to rich and connected men. Certainly meeting Darcy’s handsome cousin, a Colonel, did not affect her.

   But one had to admit that the connections of the Bingleys and Darcys were quite advantageous. All sorts of men desired introductions now that she had such wealthy new brothers.

   Kitty knew that Lydia may have thought herself fortunate when she had married Wickham, the first Bennet daughter to wed. Kitty, though, knew that true fortune had come to her. She just wasn’t sure how best to apply herself.

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Regency Personalities Series-Richard Keppel Craven

Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of the many period notables.

Richard Keppel Craven
1 June 1779 – 24 June 1851

Richard Keppel Craven

Keppel Craven was the third son of William Craven, 6th Baron Craven and Lady Elizabeth Berkeley, daughter of the 4th Earl of Berkeley. Lady Elizabeth divorced Craven (DWW-a very rare occurrence) when Keppel was three and moved to France with him. There was a promise to return Keppel to his father when he was eight. This condition was not fulfilled.

They returned to England in 1791 to send Keppel to school at Harrow under an assumed name. He was soon recognised by his likeness to Lady Elizabeth, and henceforth was called by his family name.

His father died in 1791 and his mother then married Christian Frederick Charles Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach. Craven accepted the marriage and after the margrave’s death in 1805 he went to live with his mother in Naples.

In 1814 he accepted the post of one of the Chamberlains to Princess Caroline of Wales, without receiving any emolument; but this occupation lasted for a short time only, until the princess departed for Geneva. Six years afterwards he was called on to give evidence at her trial. Keppel stated that he never saw any impropriety in her conduct either at Milan or Naples.

He published in 1821 A Tour through the Southern Provinces of the Kingdom of Naples, and in 1838 Excursions in the Abruzzi and Northern Provinces of Naples, in 2 vols. The former of these two works is embellished with views from his own sketches.

Having received a considerable addition to his fortune, in 1834 he purchased a convent in the mountains near Salerno and received his visitors there. He was for many years the intimate friend and inseparable companion of Sir William Gell. (DWW-I suspect they were an item.)

Another of his highly esteemed acquaintances was Lady Blessington. He died in 1851, aged 72, being the last of a triumvirate of British literati, scholars, and gentlemen who resided in Naples for many years.

Besides the two works already mentioned, there was published in London in 1825 a book entitled Italian Scenes: a Series of interesting Delineations of Remarkable Views and of Celebrated Remains of Antiquity. Chiefly sketched by the Hon. K. Craven.

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Regency Personalities Series-Samuel Bagster the Elder

Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of the many period notables.

Samuel Bagster the Elder
26 December 1772-28 March 1851

Samuel Bagster was born the second son of George and Mary Bagster, of St. Pancras. He was educated at Northampton under the Rev. John Ryland, and, after serving an apprenticeship with William Otridge, commenced business as a general bookseller in 1794 in the Strand, where he remained until 1816.

A few years before he left, the rarity and consequent costliness of all polyglot bibles gave him the idea of supplying the want of a handy and inexpensive edition. He first brought out a Hebrew Bible, which was followed by the Septuagint, both in foolscap octavo.

The production of English bibles was a monopoly in the United Kingdom, confined in England to the king’s printer and the two great universities, in Scotland to Sir D. H. Blair and John Bruce, and in Ireland to Mr. Grierson. It had been decided, however, that the patent did not apply to bibles printed with notes.

In 1816 Bagster published ‘The English version of the polyglot bible’, containing a selection of over 60,000 parallel references, mainly selected and verified by himself. The book was extremely successful.

In 1816 he moved to 15 Paternoster Row. The first issue of the ‘Biblia Sacra Polyglotta Bagsteriana’ appeared between 1817 and 1828, four volumes containing, the prolegomena of Dr. Samuel Lee, the Hebrew Old Testament with points, the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Septuagint Greek version of the Old Testament, the Latin Vulgate, the authorised English version, the Greek Textus Receptus of the New Testament, and the Peshito or ancient Syriac version.

A folio edition of the polyglot was published in 1828, repeated in 1831, and subsequently, presenting eight languages at the opening of the volume, and including all the ancient and modern versions above mentioned. Copies of the different texts and translations were brought out separately, and in various combinations. Although best known for publishing religious works, other books were sometimes issued, including ‘A Synoptical Compend of British Botany, Arranged After the Linnean System’ by John Galpine.

In consequence of the arbitrary regulations of the excise authorities, paper could only be had of certain sizes. It was partially owing to Bagster’s exertions that the rules were modified. Two other forms of the English bible were issued, and, all of them harmonising page for page, began what is known as the ‘Facsimile Series.’

In 1822 Bagster made the acquaintance of the self-taught Orientalist, William Greenfield, of whose life he wrote an interesting account in the ‘Imperial Magazine’. Greenfield had suggested a lexicon to the polyglot edition of the Hebrew Bible, which caused him to be engaged as a proof-reader to the various learned publications Bagster was then bringing out.

In 1824 Bagster circulated the prospectus of a polyglot grammar in twenty or thirty languages upon the principles of comparative philology. Greenfield in 1827 edited for the publisher his ‘Comprehensive Bible,’ with 4,000 illustrative notes, 500,000 marginal references, a general introduction, and a variety of other useful information.

Bagster’s Syriac New Testament (1828–29) Hebrew New Testament (1830), Polymicrian Greek Lexicon (1829), Schmidt’s Greek Concordance (1829), and, in fact, all the small and beautifully printed Polymicrian series, were also edited by Greenfield.

‘The English Hexapla,’ giving the six most important versions in our tongue of the New Testament, being those of Wyclif (1380), Tyndale (1534), Cranmer (1539), the Genevan (1557), the Anglo-Rhemish (1582), and the authorised (1611), together with the Greek text after Scholz, and a valuable historical account of the English translations.

Another noteworthy publication was the ‘Bible of every land,’ supplying specimens of over 270 different languages and versions.

Bagster married in 1797 Miss Eunice Birch, who survived him twenty-six years, dying on the eve of her 99th birthday.

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Regency Personalities Series-Edward St. Maur 11th Duke of Somerset

Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of the many period notables.

Edward St. Maur 11th Duke of Somerset
24 February 1775 – 15 August 1855

Known as Seymour, he was born at Monkton Farleigh, the son of Webb Seymour, 10th Duke of Somerset, and Mary Bonnell, daughter of John Bonnell. He was baptized with the name of Edward Adolphus Seymour, but changed it to Edward Adolphus St. Maur. He succeeded his father in the dukedom in 1793.

In 1795 Somerset undertook a tour through England, Wales and Scotland, the journal of which was published in 1845. The tour took him as far as the isles of Staffa and Iona in the Hebrides. He was a gifted mathematician and served as President of the Linnean Society of London from 1834 to 1837 and as President of the Royal Institution from 1826 to 1842. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1837 he was made a Knight of the Garter.

Somerset married, firstly, Lady Charlotte Douglas-Hamilton, daughter of Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton. They had seven children:

• Lady Charlotte Jane Seymour married William Blount, of Orelton
• Edward Seymour, 12th Duke of Somerset
• Lady Jane Wilhelmina Seymour
• Lady Anna Maria Jane Seymour married William Tollemache
• Lady Henrietta Seymour
• Archibald Seymour, 13th Duke of Somerset
• Algernon St. Maur, 14th Duke of Somerset

After his first wife’s death in 1827 he married, secondly, Margaret Shaw-Stewart, daughter of Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart, of Blackhall, Renfrewshire, 5th Baronet. There were no children from this marriage.

In 1808, Somerset bought a house in Park Lane to act as his town house which became known as Somerset House. In 1829 he bought Stover House in Devon, the Stover Canal and the Haytor quarries and Granite Tramway from George Templer.

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Regency Personalities Series-Past Entries and Upcoming Entries

Regency Personalities Series

In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of the many period notables. The list of Previous Notables and Upcoming Entries has grown so long that I will post this once a week on Saturdays now.

Previous Notables (Click to see the Blog):

George III	George IV	Georgiana Cavendish
William IV	Lady Hester Stanhope	Lady Caroline Lamb
Princess Charlotte	Queen Charlotte	Charles James Fox
Queen Adelaide	Dorothea Jordan	Jane Austen
Maria Fitzherbert	Lord Byron	John Keats
Princess Caroline	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Cassandra Austen
Edmund Kean	Thomas Clarkson	Sir John Moore
John Burgoyne	William Wilberforce	Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sarah Siddons	Josiah Wedgwood	Emma Hamilton
Hannah More	John Phillip Kemble	John Jervis, Earl St. Vincent
Ann Hatton	Stephen Kemble	Mary Robinson
Harriet Mellon	Zachary Macaulay	George Elphinstone
Thomas Babington	George Romney	Mary Moser
Ozias Humphry	William Hayley	Daniel Mendoza
Edward Pellew	Angelica Kauffman	Sir William Hamilton
David Garrick	Pownoll Bastard Pellew	Charles Arbuthnot
William Upcott	William Huskisson	Dominic Serres
Sir George Barlow	Scrope Davies	Charles Francis Greville
George Stubbs	Fanny Kemble	Thomas Warton
William Mason	Thomas Troubridge	Charles Stanhope
Robert Fulke Greville	Gentleman John Jackson	Ann Radcliffe
Edward ‘Golden Ball’ Hughes	John Opie	Adam Walker
John Ireland	Henry Pierrepoint	Robert Stephenson
Mary Shelley	Sir Joshua Reynolds	Francis Place
Richard Harding Evans	Lord Thomas Foley	Francis Burdett
John Gale Jones	George Parker Bidder	Sir George Warren
Edward Eliot	William Beechey	Eva Marie Veigel
Hugh Percy-Northumberland	Charles Philip Yorke	Lord Palmerston
Samuel Romilly	John Petty 2nd Marquess Lansdowne	Henry Herbert Southey
Stapleton Cotton	Colin Macaulay	Amelia Opie
Sir James Hall	Henry Thomas Colebrooke	Maria Foote
Sir David Baird	Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville	Dr. Robert Gooch
William Baillie	James Northcote	Horatio Nelson
Henry Fuseli	Home Riggs Popham	John Playfair
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice 3rd Marquess Lansdowne	Thomas Douglas 5th Earl of Selkirk	Frederick Gerald “Poodle” Byng
Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort	John Wolcot (Peter Pindar)	Joseph John Gurney
Edward John Eliot	Henry Perronet Briggs	George Lionel Dawson-Damer
Thomas Foley	Mark Robinson	Charles Culling Smith
Francis Charles Seymour-Ingram, 3rd Marquess of Hertford	Thomas Fowell Buxton	Tyrone Power
Richard Cumberland	William Philip Molyneux, 2nd Earl of Sefton	Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough
Jeffry Wyattville	Henry Mildmay	Nicholas Wood
Hester Thrale	Catherine Hughes, Baroness de Calabrella	Admiral Israel Pellew
William Wellesley Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington	Henry Moyes	Charles Fitzroy
Lord Granville Somerset	Lumley St. George Skeffington	William Playfair
John Lade	Astley Cooper	Matthew Gregory Lewis
Edward Pease	Thomas Coutts	John Urpeth Rastrick
Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond	Captain William Baillie	John Pitt Kennedy
Henry Cline	Sarah Clementina Drummond-Burrell	Samuel Wyatt
Lord George Lennox	George Bussy Villiers	Henry FitzRoy 5th Duke of Grafton
John Bell (Surgeon)	Robert Smirke (Painter)	John Kennedy (Manufacturer)
John Gell	Dugald Stewart	Louisa Gurney Hoare
William Nicol (Surgeon)	William Nicol (Geologist)	Edward Hall Alderson
Thomas Hope	Richard Cosway	Jonathan Backhouse
Lady Sarah Lennox	John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington	Harriette Wilson
Andrew Plimer	George Henry Borrow	Charles Lamb
Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort	Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst	Skeffington Lutwidge
George Colman the Elder	William Hotham	Jacob Bell
Charles Heathcote Tatham	William Allen (Quaker)	John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
John Henry Manners, 5th Duke of Rutland	William Gell	Richard Barry, 7th Earl Barrymore
Samuel Bagster the Younger	Lady Anne (Wesley) Fitzroy	Samuel Gurney
John Liston	Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond	Luke Howard
Alexander MacKenzie (Explorer)	John Pasco	Joseph Black
Sir Robert Calder	Benjamin Travers	John Walker (Cricketer)
John (Johnnie) Walker	Joseph Fox the Younger	Bishop Beilby Porteus
Sir William Knighton	George Rose

There will be many other notables coming, a full and changing list can be found here on the blog as I keep adding to it. The list so far is:

• Granville Sharp
• Sir Charles Middleton
• Henry Thornton
• David Livingstone
• Charles Kemble
• Elizabeth (Gurney) Fry
• Daniel Gurney
• Adam Ferguson of Raith
• Humphry Repton
• Nevil Maskelyne
• James Playfair
• William Henry Playfair
• William Ludlam
• James Hutton
• John Boydell
• Benjamin Tucker
• Viscount Robert Castlereagh
• Sir George Henry Rose
• George Rose (Barrister)
• George Canning
• Henry Blackwood
• Eliab Harvey
• Alexander Ball
• William Beatty
• Sir Sidney Smith
• Geroge Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer
• John Thomas Duckworth
• Admiral Adam Duncan
• Edward Berry
• Robert Linzee
• David Dundas
• Sir Hyde Parker
• Sir Thomas Hardy
• Charles Stuart (British Army Officer)
• William Locker
• Sir Peter Parker
• William Parker
• Major General John Dalling
• William Cornwallis
• William Baillie (artist)
• Sir Ralph Abercromby
• Sir Hector Munro
• James Kenney
• Elizabeth Inchbald
• George Colman the Younger
• Thomas Morton
• Colonel William Berkeley
• Barry Proctor
• William Henry West Betty
• Sir George Colebrooke
• James Hutton
• Robert Emmet
• William Taylor of Norwich
• John Romilly
• Sir John Herschel
• John Horne Tooke
• James Mill
• Robert Owen
• Jeremy Bentham
• Joseph Hume
• Sir Walter Scott
• John Stuart Mill
• Thomas Cochrane
• Edward Jenner
• James Paull
• Claire Clairmont
• William Lovett
• Sir John Vaughan
• Fanny Imlay
• William Godwin
• Mary Wollstonecraft
• William Stewart Rose
• General Sir Robert Arbuthnot
• Harriet Fane Arbuthnot
• Joseph Antonio Emidy
• James Edwards (Bookseller)
• William Gifford
• Sir Joseph Banks
• Richard Porson
• Edward Gibbon
• James Smithson
• William Cowper
• Jacob Phillipp Hackert
• John Thomas Serres
• Wellington (the Military man)
• William Vincent
• Cuthbert Collingwood
• Admiral Sir Graham Moore
• Admiral Sir William Sydney Smith
• Admiral Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke
• Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville
• William Howe
• Richard Howe
• Viscount Samuel Hood
• Thomas Hope
• Thomas Babington Macaulay
• Harriet Martineau
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Sir Edward Michael Pakenham
• General Banastre Tarleton
• Henry Paget
• Francis Leggatt Chantrey
• Sir Charles Grey
• Thomas Picton
• John Constable
• Thomas Lawrence
• Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
• George Cruikshank
• Thomas Gainsborough
• James Gillray
• George Stubbs
• Joseph Priestley
• Horace Walpole
• John Thomas ‘Antiquity’ Smith
• Angela Burdett-Coutts
• Sir Anthony Carlisle
• Thomas Rowlandson
• William Blake
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel
• Sir Marc Brunel
• Marquis of Stafford Granville Leveson-Gower
• Marquis of Stafford George Leveson-Gower
• George Stephenson
• Thomas Telford
• Joseph Locke
• Paul III Anton, Prince Esterházy
• Thomas Egerton, 2nd Earl of Wilton
• John Nash
• John Soane
• Robert Smirke (architect)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Robert Southey
• Henry Holland
• Sir Walter Scott
• Lord Elgin
• William Windham
• Madame de Stael
• John Walker (inventor)(Natural Historian)(Grocer)(Lexicographer
• James Boswell
• Edward James Eliot
• George Combe
• William Harrison Ainsworth
• Sir Harry Smith
• Thomas Cochrane
• Warren Hastings
• Edmund Burke
• William Petty
• Juana Maria de Los Dolores de Leon (Lady Smith)
• Lord Bedford, Francis Russell (1765-1802)
• Colonel George Hanger (c.1751-1824)
• Lord Hertford, Francis Seymour-Ingram (1743-1822)
• Louis Philippe Joseph, Duc de Chartres, acceded 1785 as Duc d’ Orleans (1747-1793)
• Louis Philippe, Duc de Chartres, acceded 1793 as Duc d’ Orleans (1773-1850)
• Captain John (Jack) Willett Payne (1752-1803)
• Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour (1759-1801)
• John Bell
• Charles Fitzroy, Baron Southampton
• Richard Wellesley
• Henry Wellesley
• Mary Alcock
• James Wyatt
• John Blaquiere, 1st Baron de Blaquiere
• William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley
• Sir Charles Bagot
• Lord FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan
• John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland
• Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington
• Andrew Meikle
• James Watt
• Henry Thrale
• John Hunter
• Joseph Pease
• Richard Trevithick
• James Foster
• Emily Lennox
• Louisa Lennox
• Thomas Baillie (Royal Navy officer)
• Charles James Napier
• John Thelwall
• Sir William Hotham
• Beaumont Hotham
• Matthew Boulton
• Sir Charles Bell
• James Gregory
• Archibald Alison
• Edward Maltby
• Joseph Chitty
• Ricahrd Barnewell
• Charles James Blomfield
• William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford
• Maria Hadfield
• John Byng 1st Earl of Strafford
• George Byng 6th Viscount Torrington
• John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
• Nathaniel Plimer
• Edwin Henry Landseer
• James Spencer-Bell
• George Brydges Rodney
• Samuel Pepys Cockerell
• John Linnell
• Charles Catton the Younger
• Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle
• Samuel Bagster the Elder
• Benjamin Robert Haydon
• John Dalton
• William Hasledine Pepys
• William Babington
• Joseph Lancaster
• Samuel Whitbread
• Humphry Davy
• George Shillibeer
• Stephen Grellet
• Samuel Hoare Jr.
• Thomas Moore
• Keppel Richard Craven
• John Auldjo
• Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
• William Drummond of Logiealmond
• Edward Dodwell
• Henry Dundas Trotter
• William Allen (Royal Navy Officer)
• Archibald Norman McLeod
• Peter Pond
• George Vancouver
• Sir George Simpson
• William Morgan (actuary)
• Tom Walker
• Harry Walker
• Alexander Walker
• Thomas Bradley

The Dukes

•         Duke of Richmond, Charles Gordon Lennox 5th Duke (1791-1860)
•         Duke of Devonshire, William Cavendish (1748-1811)
•         Duke of Norfolk, Charles Howard (1746-1815)
•         Duke of Norfolk, Bernard Edward Howard (1765-1842)
•         Duke of Norfolk, Henry Charles Howard (1791-1856)
•         Duke of Somerset, Edward St. Maur (1775-1855)
•         Duke of Somerset, Edward Adolphus Seymour (1804-1885)
•         Duke of Argyll, George William Campbell (1766-1839)
•         Duke of Queensberry, William Douglas (1724-1810)
•         Duke of York , Frederick Augustus Hanover (1763-1827)
•         Duke of St. Albans,William Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk 9th Duke
•         Duke of Grafton, Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke 1735-1811
•         Duke of Grafton, George FitzRoy, 4th Duke 1760-1844

The Dandy Club

•         Beau Brummell
•         William Arden, 2nd Baron Alvanley

Patronesses of Almacks

•         Emily Lamb, Lady Cowper
•         Amelia Stewart, Viscountess Castlereagh
•         Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey
•         Maria Molyneux, Countess of Sefton
•         Dorothea Lieven, Countess de Lieven, wife of the Russian Ambassador
•         Countess Esterhazy, wife of the Austrian Ambassador

If there are any requests for personalities to be added to the list, just let us know in the comments section

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