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English Eccentrics and Eccentricities
by John Timbs
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Published in 1866, "English Eccentrics and Eccentricities" by John Timbs is a biographical collection that examines notable individuals from Britain during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The work encompasses a variety of figures, including celebrities, recluses, religious leaders, astrologers, authors, and tragedians. Timbs documents their unusual lifestyles, peculiar habits, and distinctive characteristics, highlighting how eccentricity often coexists with admirable qualities such as kindness or wit. The book aims to portray these individuals within their social and historical contexts, emphasising their oddities as reflections of human diversity and societal norms of the period.
The two-volume work offers detailed anecdotes and accounts, providing insights into the personal lives and eccentric behaviour of its subjects. It combines elements of biography and social commentary, illustrating how individual idiosyncrasies can offer lessons in humour, thrift, and resilience. The collection serves as a record of notable oddities from a specific period in British history, presenting a broad spectrum of eccentric personalities.
The two-volume work offers detailed anecdotes and accounts, providing insights into the personal lives and eccentric behaviour of its subjects. It combines elements of biography and social commentary, illustrating how individual idiosyncrasies can offer lessons in humour, thrift, and resilience. The collection serves as a record of notable oddities from a specific period in British history, presenting a broad spectrum of eccentric personalities.
From the opening pages
has been to render the book truthful as well as entertaining. John Timbs. CONTENTS. WEALTH AND FASHION. PAGE The Beckfords and Fonthill 1 Alderman Beckford's Monument Speech in Guildhall 19 Beau Brummel 22 Sir Lumley Skeffington, Bart 36 "Romeo" Coates 41 Abraham Newland 44 The Spendthrift Squire of Halston, John Mytton 48 Lord Petersham 55 The King and Queen of the Sandwich Islands 57 Sir Edward Dering's Luckless Courtship 59 Gretna-Green Marriages 63 The Agapemone, or Abode of Love 68 Singular Scotch Ladies 70 Mrs. Bond, of Hackney 72 John Ward, the Hackney Miser 74 " Poor Man of Mutton " 76 Lord Kenyon's Parsimony 77 Mary Moser, the Flower-Painter 78 The Eccentric Miss Banks 80 Thomas Cooke, the Miser of Pentonville 82 Thomas Cooke, the Turkey Merchant 87 "Lady Lewson," of Clerkenwell 89 Profits of Dust-sifting and Dust-heaps 92 Sir John Dinely, Bart. 95 The Rothschilds 96 A Legacy of Half-a-Million of Money 99 Eccentricities of the Earl of Bridgewater 103 The Denisons, and the Conyngham Family 105 " Dog Jennings " 107 Baron Ward's Remarkable Career 109 A Costly House-Warming 112 Devonshire Eccentrics 113 Hannah Snell, the Female Soldier 116 Lady Archer 122 DELUSIONS, IMPOSTURES, AND FANATIC MISSIONS. Modern Alchemists 124 Jack Adams, the Astrologer 130 The Woman-hating Cavendish 132 " Modern Astrology.—"Witch Pickles" " 136 Hannah Green; or, "Ling Bob" 139 Oddities of Lady Hester Stanhope 141 Hermits and Eremitical Life 145 The Recluses of Llangollen 155 Snuff-taking Legacies 158 Burial Bequests 159 Burials on Box Hill and Leith Hill 163 Jeremy Bentham's Bequest of his Remains 166 " The Marquis of Anglesey's Leg " 169 The Cottle Church 171 Horace Walpole's Chattels saved by a Talisman 174 Norwood Gipsies 177 " Cunning Mary," of Clerkenwell 179 " Jerusalem Whalley " 181 Father Mathew and the Temperance Movement 182 Eccentric Preachers 184 Irving a Millenarian 187 A Trio of Fanatics 189 The Spenceans 197 Joanna Southcote, and the Coming of Shiloh 198 The Founder of Mormonism 210 Huntington, the Preacher 219 Amen—Peter Isnell 231 Strangely Eccentric, yet Sane 232 Strange Hallucination 236 " Corner Memory Thompson " 238 Mummy of a Manchester Lady 239 Hypochondriasis 240 STRANGE SIGHTS AND SPORTING SCENES. " The Wonder of all the Wonders that the World 243 ever Wondered at " " The Princess Caraboo " 246 Fat Folks.—Lambert and Bright 249 A Cure for Corpulence 256 Epitaphs on Fat Folks 257…
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