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William Courtenay (1768-1835)

The life and times of a gay man

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  • places
  • life and times
    • Migrations 1810-1821
    • The time of his life
  • scandals and reputation
    • Beckford’s letters to Charlotte Courtenay
      1780 and 1781
    • Scandal of 1784
      texts from the time
    • William in the words of others 1
      during his lifetime
    • William in the words of others 2
      after his death
  • contemporaries
    • ‘The elegiac Muse’
      verses by Charles Lock of St. John’s college, Cambridge
    • People of his age
    • People in William’s life A-L
    • People in William’s life M-Z
  • family and household
    • Sisters
    • Nieces and nephews
    • Uncles, aunts and cousins
    • George Smith retires
      Gumeracha, South Australia, October 1861
    • George Smith’s coachcrash
      Houghton, South Australia, February 1861
    • French household | members
    • French household | records
    • Lady Honywood’s Memorial
      1812
    • Captain Gawler’s dismission
      with his account of a duel in 1807
    • Valentia v. Valentia
      William’s sister Anne and her husband in 1796
    • ‘Marie Courtenay’: a Romance
      with a new afterword: Draveil in 1870
  • homes and estates
    • Claremont
    • Draveil
    • Gazette extraordinary #1
      Tuesday 4 May 1824
    • Gazette extraordinary #2
      Wednesday 5 May 1824
    • Palazzo Courtenay
    • Powderham
    • Powderham 1755-1800
    • Powderham 1800-1835
    • Powderham 1835-1855
  • leisure and luxury
    • note | Balls, fêtes, banquets and fashionables
    • note | Carriages
    • note | Flowers and gardens
    • note | Music
    • note | Regattas
    • note | Theatre
  • patronage and peerage
    • note | Volunteer corps
    • William and the Churches
    • William in the House of Lords
  • obituaries and wills
    • William’s wills
    • Wills of other people | lists
    • Wills of other people | transcripts
    • William’s obituaries, with notices of other deaths 1
    • William’s obituaries with notices of other deaths 2
  • William, ‘The other love’ and I
    • ‘The other love’ on William
      H. Montgomery Hyde 1970
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2018: 30 May

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