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Categories

There are eleven geographical categories, collected at places. There are eight themed categories, each with a drop-down menu:

contemporaries
family and household

homes and estates

leisure and luxury

life and times

obituaries and wills

patronage and peerage

scandals and reputation

Seven pages are uncategorised:

Welcome!
Menu and site guide (this page)
Posts
William, The other love and I
William in The other love
Credits and copyright with thanks
Contact.

Posts

All posts have a year date at the start of their title (1804, 1782, &c) but pages do not.

Pages

At the foot of each page is a record of any editing since publication.

Images

Information about images appears near the foot of each page and post.

Site history

The list below includes the publication date of each page and post. The list is arranged in reverse chronological order, ending at May 2018 when the site first went live. Entries in italics give the date of the most recent version of a page.

Most pages have been edited since they were first published but only two of the posts: a sentence referring to sir George Yonge was added near the end of Buffaloes, Toxophylites and Volunteers soon after the post was published, and a reference to Thomas Hudson’s group portrait of the Courtenay family added to Charlotte and the calash bonnet.

2023 May 29: William’s migrations 1811-1821 first published 2019 September 13
2023 April 10: William in the words of others | after his death first published 2019 March 26
2023 April 7: People of his age first published 2018 June 4
2023 April 7: patronage and peerage first published 2023 March 9
2023 March 30: Menu and site guide
2023 March 22: ‘The other love‘ and William
2023 March 13: William, ‘The other love‘ and I
2023 March 8: William’s life and times, first published 2018 June 1, taken offline permanently
2023 March 2: Pages grouped in Menu under new category headings

2022 November 17: William’s homes: Powderham 3
2022 November 16: William’s homes: Powderham 4
2022 November 14: Sisters first published 2018 June 26
2022 October 27: William’s homes: Powderham 2
2022 October 15: William’s homes: Powderham 1
2022 September 16: William in the words of others 2: after his death first published 2019 March 26
2022 September 13: William’s homes: Claremont
2022 July 21: 1804: Buffaloes, Toxophylites and Volunteers
2022 July 5: Uncles, aunts and cousins first published 2018 July 9
2022 June 26: Scandal of 1784: texts from the time first published 2019 April 19
2022 June 21: William’s obituaries, with notices of other deaths 1 first published 2019 August 14
2022 June 18: The time of his life first published 2018 May 30
2022 June 10: Facts of life first published 2018 May 30
2022 May 24: William in the words of others 1: during his lifetime first published 2019 March 26
2022 March 24: 1782: Charlotte and the calash bonnet
2022 March 19: George Smith’s coachcrash
2022 March 19: George Smith retires
2022 March 18: Beckford’s letters to Charlotte Courtenay
2022 March 16: Wills of other people 2: transcripts first published 2018 June 18
2022 March 12: Wills of other people 1: lists first published 2018 June 18

2021 July 23: Captain Gawler’s dismission
2021 April 8: People in William’s life A-L first published 2019 August 28

2020 November 24: People in William’s life M-Z first published 2019 June 1
2020 June 13: William’s obituaries, with notices of other deaths 2 first published 2019 August 14
2020 April 10: William’s French household 1: people first published 2019 August 23

2019 September 13: William’s migrations 1811-1821
2019 August 28: People in William’s life (divided 2020 June 1 into two parts, A-L and M-Z)
2019 August 23: William’s French household 1: people
2019 August 23: William’s French household 2: records
2019 August 14: William’s obituaries, with notices of other deaths (divided 2020 June 12 into two parts, 1 and 2)
2019 July 19: Lady Honywood’s Memorial
2019 April 19: Scandal of 1784: texts from the time
2019 March 26: William in the words of others 2: after his death
2019 March 26: William in the words of others 1: during his lifetime

2018 July 10: Valentia v. Valentia
2018 July 9: Uncles, aunts and cousins
2018 June 26: Sisters
2018 June 4: People of his age
2018 June 1: William’s life and times
2018 June 1: Wills of other people [divided 2020 June 3 into two parts, 1: lists and 2: transcripts]
2018 June 1: William’s wills
2018 June 1: 1814: A house by the Hudson
2018 June 1: 1811: A noble lord absconds
2018 May 31: ‘Marie Courtenay’: a Romance, with a new Afterword
2018 May 30: Facts of life
2018 May 30: The time of his life
2018 May 30: Contact
2018 May 30: Welcome!
2018 May 30: Credits & copyright
2018 May 30: 1783: Isabella Courtenay and her niece
2018 May 30: untitled post marking the launch of the site.

Images from the top

Thomas Rowlandson: Dr. Syntax losing his way, Wikimedia Commons
James Gillray: The plumb-pudding in danger, or, state epicures taking un petit souper, 1805. Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Bewick: winged horse, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1882-0311-1443 © The Trustees of the British Museum

Page history

2023 March 30: first published online

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