The people named below were born around the same time as William in the years 1757-79. Most of them lived in the lands where he lived or had property: England, France, Ireland and the United States of America. Each name has a link to further information (lord Leicester has two links). The list follows the sequence of deaths.
- Ottobah Cugoano around 1757-1791 or later
- Charlotte Corday 1768-1793
- Mary Wollstonecraft 1759-1797
- lord Edward Fitzgerald 1763-1798
- Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-1798
- Mary Robinson 1757-1800
- Horatio viscount Nelson 1758-1805
- Georgiana duchess of Devonshire 1757-1806
- Jean-Jacques Dessalines (emperor of Haiti from 1804) 1758-1806
- Tecumseh 1768-1813
- empress Joséphine 1763-1814
- Emma lady Hamilton 1765-1815
- Robert Fulton 1765-1815
- Dorothea Jordan 1761-1816
- Germaine de Staël 1766-1817
- Jane Austen 1775-1817
- Elizabeth Billington 1765-1818
- Napoléon Bonaparte (emperor of the French 1804-14/15) 1769-1821
- Caroline queen of the United Kingdom (princess of Wales from 1795) 1768-1821
- Ann Radcliffe 1764-1823
- Deborah Gannett 1760-1827
Theresa Villiers (died 1856) as a child with her brother John Parker
- William Blake 1757-1827
- Thomas Addis Emmet 1764-1827
- Helen Maria Williams 1759-1827
- Claire duchesse de Duras 1777-1828
- Edward Onslow 1758-1829
- Benjamin Constant 1767-1830
- Elizabeth Heyrick 1769-1831
- sir Walter Scott 1771-1832
- Michael Hogan 1766-1833
- sir Francis Buller Yarde Buller 1767-1833
- Marie-Joseph marquis de La Fayette 1757-1834
- Robert Wedderburn 1762-1835
- William Courtenay earl of Devon 1768-1835
- William Cobbett 1766-1835
- Antoine Reicha (Antonín Rejcha) 1770-1836
- Maria Cosway 1760-1838
- lady Hester Stanhope 1776-1839
- Richard earl of Mount Edgcumbe 1764-1839
- George Brummell 1778-1840
- Eliza Fenwick 1766-1840
- Luigi Cherubini 1760-1842
- Juliette Récamier (died 1849)
- Percy Jocelyn (bishop of Clogher 1820-22) 1764-1843
- William Beckford 1760-1844
- Elizabeth lady Holland 1771-1845
- Daniel O’Connell 1775-1847
- Mary Lamb 1764-1847
- François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand 1768-1848
- Juliette Récamier 1777-1849
- Maria Edgeworth 1768-1849
- Joanna Baillie 1762-1851
- Marie-Thérèse duchesse d’ Angoulême 1778-1851
- Thomas Moore 1779-1852
- Mary Ann Clarke 1776-1852
- Arthur duke of Wellington 1769-1852
- John Vanderlyn 1775-1852
- Mary Berry 1763-1852
- Amelia Opie 1769-1853
- George marquess Townshend (lord Leicester from 1807) 1778-1855
- Theresa Villiers 1775-1856
- Hester Maria Elphinstone viscountess Keith 1764-1857
- George Bridgetower 1778-1860
- Frances Trollope 1779-1863
Percy Jocelyn (died 1843)
William and his sisters were born in the years from 1763 to 1781 which made them close contemporaries of the children of queen Charlotte and king George III: six daughters and nine sons born from 1762 to 1783.
Images
J. Vandenberg (lithographer); Thierry frères, Paris (publisher): Antoine Reicha on his death bed. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki /File:Anton_Reicha_02.jpg
Jacques-Louis David: Madame Récamier. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David._Madame_Récamier.jpg
Joshua Reynolds: John and Theresa Parker as children (detail). (Theresa married George Villiers.) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John%26TheresaParkerAsChildrenByJoshuaReynolds.jpg
George Cruikshank: The Radical Ladder, 1821. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Radical_Ladder_(Caroline_Amelia_Elizabeth_of_Brunswick)_by_George_Cruikshank.jpg
George Cruikshank: The Arse Bishop Josclin G a Soldier, 1822. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Percy_Jocelyn_Bishop_of_Clogher_by_Cruikshank.jpg
Previous images
The image at the head of this page is changed now and again. The previous header is moved down the page to remain online for another three months. Inconveniences of a Crowded Drawing Room, the image at the head of the page from May 2018-May 2020, is now at the head of People in William’s life M-Z.
- May 2018-?? 2020 | Percy Jocelyn (died 1843)
- May 2018-August 2020 | Caroline queen of the United Kingdom (died 1821)
- May 2018- July 2020 | lord Edward Fitzgerald (died 1798)
- June 2020- | Theresa Villiers (died 1856)
- August 2020- | Caroline queen of the United Kingdom (princess of Wales from 1795) 1768-1821
Page history
- First published online 4 June 2018.
- Reviewed 1 April 2020: no changes.
- Rotation of images started 1 June 2020.
William Courtenay (1768-1835) 
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