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John Timbs. English Eccentrics and Eccentricities
English Eccentrics and Eccentricities
Table of Contents
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PREFACE
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ENGLISH ECCENTRICS
The Beckfords and Fonthill
Alderman Beckford's Monument Speech, in Guildhall
Beau Brummel
Sir Lumley Skeffington, Bart
"Romeo" Coates
Abraham Newland
The Spendthrift Squire of Halston, John Mytton
Lord Petersham
The King and Queen of the Sandwich Islands
Sir Edward Dering's Luckless Courtship
Gretna-Green Marriages
The Agapemone, or Abode of Love
Singular Scotch Ladies
Mrs. Bond, of Hackney
John Ward, the Hackney Miser
"Poor Man of Mutton."
Lord Kenyon's Parsimony
Mary Moser, the Flower-Painter
The Eccentric Miss Banks
Thomas Cooke, the Miser of Pentonville
Thomas Cooke, the Turkey Merchant
"Lady Lewson," of Clerkenwell
Profits of Dust-sifting, and Dust-heaps
Sir John Dinely, Bart
The Rothschilds
A Legacy of Half a Million of Money
Eccentricities of the Earl of Bridgewater
The Denisons, and the Conyngham Family
"Dog Jennings."
Baron Ward's Remarkable Career
A Costly House-Warming
Devonshire Eccentrics
Hannah Snell, the Female Soldier
Lady Archer
DELUSIONS, IMPOSTURES, and FANATIC. MISSIONS
Modern Alchemists
Jack Adams, the Astrologer
The Woman-hating Cavendish
Modern Astrology.—"Witch Pickles."
Hannah Green; or, "Ling Bob."
Oddities of Lady Hester Stanhope
Hermits and Eremitical Life
The Recluses of Llangollen
Snuff-taking Legacies
Burial Bequests
Burials on Box Hill and Leith Hill
Jeremy Bentham's Bequest of his Remains
The Marquis of Anglesey's Leg
The Cottle Church
Horace Walpole's Chattels saved by a Talisman
Norwood Gipsies
"Cunning Mary," of Clerkenwell
Jerusalem Whalley
Father Mathew and the Temperance Movement
Eccentric Preachers
Irving a Millenarian
A Trio of Fanatics
The Spenceans
Joanna Southcote, and the Coming of Shiloh
The Founder of Mormonism
Huntington, the Preacher
Amen
Strangely Eccentric, yet Sane
Strange Hallucination
"Corner Memory Thompson."
Mummy of a Manchester Lady
Hypochondriasis
STRANGE SIGHTS and SPORTING SCENES
"The Wonder of all the Wonders that the. World ever Wondered at."
"The Princess Caraboo."
Fat Folks.—Lambert and Bright
A Cure for Corpulence
Epitaphs on Fat Folks
Count Boruwlaski, the Polish Dwarf
The Irish Giant
Birth Extraordinary
William Hutton's "Strong Woman."
Wildman and His Bees
Lord Stowell's love of Sight-seeing
John Day and Fairlop Fair
A Princely Hoax
Sir John Waters's Escape
Colonel Mackinnon's Practical Joking
A Gourmand Physician
Dick England, the Gambler
Brighton Races, Thirty Years Since
Colonel Mellish
Doncaster Eccentrics
"Walking Stewart."
Youthful Days of the Hon. Grantley Berkeley.[33]
What Became of the Seven Dials
An Old Bailey Character
Bone and Shell Exhibition
"Quid Rides?"
"Bolton Trotters."
Eccentric Lord Coleraine
Eccentric Travellers
Elegy on a Geologist
ECCENTRIC ARTISTS
Gilray and his Caricatures
William Blake, Painter and Poet
Nollekens, the Sculptor
THEATRICAL FOLKS
The Young Roscius
Hardham's "No 37."
Rare Criticism
The O. P. Riot
Origin of "Paul Pry."[39]
Mrs. Garrick
Mathews, a Spanish Ambassador
Grimaldi, the Clown
Munden's Last Performance
Oddities of Dowton
Liston in Tragedy
Boyhood of Edmund Kean
A Mysterious Parcel
Masquerade Incident
Mr. T. P. Cooke in Melodrama and Pantomime
"Romeo and Juliet" in America
The Mulberries, a Shakspearian Club
Colley Cibber's Daughter
An Eccentric Love-Passage
True to the Text
MEN OF LETTERS
Monk Lewis
Porson's Eccentricities
Parriana: Oddities of Dr. Parr
Oddities of John Horne Tooke
Mr. Canning's Humour
Peter Pindar.—Dr. Wolcot
The Author of "Dr. Syntax."
Mrs. Radcliffe and the Critics
Cool Sir James Mackintosh
Eccentricities of Cobbett
Heber, the Book-Collector
Sir John Soane Lampooned
Extraordinary Calculators
Charles Lamb's Cottage at Islington
Thomas Hood
A Witty Archbishop
Literary Madmen
A Perpetual-Motion Seeker
The Romantic Duchess of Newcastle
Sources of Laughter
CONVIVIAL ECCENTRICITIES
Busby's Folly and Bull Feather Hall
Old Islington Taverns
The Oyster and Parched-Pea Club
A Manchester Punch-House
"The Blue Key."
Brandy in Tea
"The Wooden Spoon."
A Tipsy Village
What an Epicure Eats in his Life-Time
Epitaph on Dr. William Maginn
Greenwich Dinners
Lord Pembroke's Port Wine
A tremendous Bowl of Punch
MISCELLANEA
Long Sir Thomas Robinson
Lord Chesterfield's Will
An Odd Family
An Eccentric Host
Quackery Successful
The Grateful Footpad
A Notoriety of the Temple
A Ride in a Sedan
Mr. John Scott (Lord Eldon) in Parliament
A Chancery Jeu-d'Esprit
Hanging by Compact
The Ambassador Floored
"The Dutch Mail."
Bad Spelling.[46]
A "Single" Conspirator
A Miscalculation
An Indiscriminate Collector
The Bishops' Saturday Night
"Rather Than Otherwise."
Classic Soup Distribution
Alphabet Single Rhymed
Non Sequitur and Therefore
INDEX
