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English Eccentrics and Eccentricities

by John Timbs

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2English Eccentrics — Wealth and Fashion
  3. 3Alderman Beckford’s Monument Speech, in Guildhall
  4. 4Beau Brummel
  5. 5Sir Lumley Skeffington, Bart
  6. 6“Romeo” Coates
  7. 7Abraham Newland
  8. 8The Spendthrift Squire of Halston, John Mytton
  9. 9Lord Petersham
  10. 10The King and Queen of the Sandwich Islands
  11. 11Sir Edward Dering’s Luckless Courtship
  12. 12Gretna-Green Marriages
  13. 13The Agapemone, or Abode of Love
  14. 14Singular Scotch Ladies
  15. 15Mrs. Bond, of Hackney
  16. 16John Ward, the Hackney Miser
  17. 17Lord Kenyon’s Parsimony
  18. 18Mary Moser, the Flower-Painter
  19. 19The Eccentric Miss Banks
  20. 20Thomas Cooke, the Miser of Pentonville
  21. 21Thomas Cooke, the Turkey Merchant
  22. 22“Lady Lewson,” of Clerkenwell
  23. 23Profits of Dust-sifting, and Dust-heaps
  24. 24Sir John Dinely, Bart
  25. 25The Rothschilds
  26. 26A Legacy of Half a Million of Money
  27. 27Eccentricities of the Earl of Bridgewater
  28. 28The Denisons, and the Conyngham Family
  29. 29“Dog Jennings”
  30. 30Baron Ward’s Remarkable Career
  31. 31A Costly House-Warming
  32. 32Devonshire Eccentrics
  33. 33Hannah Snell, the Female Soldier
  34. 34Lady Archer
  35. 35Delusions, Impostures, and Fanatic Missions
  36. 36Jack Adams, the Astrologer
  37. 37The Woman-hating Cavendish
  38. 38Modern Astrology — “Witch Pickles”
  39. 39Hannah Green; or, “Ling Bob”
  40. 40Oddities of Lady Hester Stanhope
  41. 41Hermits and Eremitical Life
  42. 42The Recluses of Llangollen
  43. 43Snuff-taking Legacies
  44. 44Burial Bequests
  45. 45Burials on Box Hill and Leith Hill
  46. 46Jeremy Bentham’s Bequest of His Remains
  47. 47The Marquis of Anglesey’s Leg
  48. 48The Cottle Church
  49. 49Horace Walpole’s Chattels Saved by a Talisman
  50. 50Norwood Gipsies
  51. 51“Cunning Mary,” of Clerkenwell
  52. 52Jerusalem Whalley
  53. 53Father Mathew and the Temperance Movement
  54. 54Eccentric Preachers
  55. 55Irving a Millenarian
  56. 56A Trio of Fanatics
  57. 57The Spenceans
  58. 58Joanna Southcote, and the Coming of Shiloh
  59. 59The Founder of Mormonism
  60. 60Huntington, the Preacher
  61. 61Amen
  62. 62Strangely Eccentric, Yet Sane
  63. 63Strange Hallucination
  64. 64Mummy of a Manchester Lady
  65. 65Hypochondriasis
  66. 66Strange Sights and Sporting Scenes
  67. 67“The Princess Caraboo”
  68. 68Fat Folks — Lambert and Bright
  69. 69A Cure for Corpulence
  70. 70Epitaphs on Fat Folks
  71. 71Count Boruwlaski, the Polish Dwarf
  72. 72The Irish Giant
  73. 73Birth Extraordinary
  74. 74William Hutton’s “Strong Woman”
  75. 75Wildman and His Bees
  76. 76Lord Stowell’s Love of Sight-seeing
  77. 77John Day and Fairlop Fair
  78. 78A Princely Hoax
  79. 79Sir John Waters’s Escape
  80. 80Colonel Mackinnon’s Practical Joking
  81. 81A Gourmand Physician
  82. 82Dick England, the Gambler
  83. 83Brighton Races, Thirty Years Since
  84. 84Colonel Mellish
  85. 85Doncaster Eccentrics
  86. 86“Walking Stewart”
  87. 87Youthful Days of the Hon. Grantley Berkeley
  88. 88What Became of the Seven Dials
  89. 89An Old Bailey Character
  90. 90Bone and Shell Exhibition
  91. 91Eccentric Lord Coleraine
  92. 92Eccentric Travellers
  93. 93Elegy on a Geologist
  94. 94Eccentric Artists
  95. 95William Blake, Painter and Poet
  96. 96Nollekens, the Sculptor
  97. 97Theatrical Folks
  98. 98Hardham’s “No 37.”
  99. 99Rare Criticism
  100. 100The O. P. Riot
  101. 101Origin of “Paul Pry”
  102. 102Mrs. Garrick
  103. 103Mathews, a Spanish Ambassador
  104. 104Grimaldi, the Clown
  105. 105Munden’s Last Performance
  106. 106Oddities of Dowton
  107. 107Liston in Tragedy
  108. 108Boyhood of Edmund Kean
  109. 109A Mysterious Parcel
  110. 110Masquerade Incident
  111. 111Mr. T. P. Cooke in Melodrama and Pantomime
  112. 112“Romeo and Juliet” in America
  113. 113The Mulberries, a Shakspearian Club
  114. 114Colley Cibber’s Daughter
  115. 115An Eccentric Love-Passage
  116. 116True to the Text
  117. 117Men of Letters
  118. 118Porson’s Eccentricities
  119. 119Parriana: Oddities of Dr. Parr
  120. 120Oddities of John Horne Tooke
  121. 121Mr. Canning’s Humour
  122. 122Peter Pindar — Dr. Wolcot
  123. 123The Author of “Dr. Syntax”
  124. 124Mrs. Radcliffe and the Critics
  125. 125Cool Sir James Mackintosh
  126. 126Eccentricities of Cobbett
  127. 127Heber, the Book-Collector
  128. 128Sir John Soane Lampooned
  129. 129Extraordinary Calculators
  130. 130Charles Lamb’s Cottage at Islington
  131. 131Thomas Hood
  132. 132A Witty Archbishop
  133. 133Literary Madmen
  134. 134A Perpetual-Motion Seeker
  135. 135The Romantic Duchess of Newcastle
  136. 136Sources of Laughter
  137. 137Convivial Eccentricities
  138. 138Old Islington Taverns
  139. 139The Oyster and Parched-Pea Club
  140. 140A Manchester Punch-House
  141. 141“The Blue Key”
  142. 142Brandy in Tea
  143. 143A Tipsy Village
  144. 144What an Epicure Eats in His Life-Time
  145. 145Epitaph on Dr. William Maginn
  146. 146Greenwich Dinners
  147. 147Lord Pembroke’s Port Wine
  148. 148A Tremendous Bowl of Punch
  149. 149Miscellanea
  150. 150Lord Chesterfield’s Will
  151. 151An Odd Family
  152. 152An Eccentric Host
  153. 153Quackery Successful
  154. 154The Grateful Footpad
  155. 155A Notoriety of the Temple
  156. 156A Ride in a Sedan
  157. 157Mr. John Scott (Lord Eldon) in Parliament
  158. 158A Chancery Jeu-d’Esprit
  159. 159Hanging by Compact
  160. 160The Ambassador Floored
  161. 161Bad Spelling
  162. 162A “Single” Conspirator
  163. 163A Miscalculation
  164. 164An Indiscriminate Collector
  165. 165The Bishops’ Saturday Night
  166. 166Classic Soup Distribution
  167. 167Alphabet Single Rhymed
  168. 168Non Sequitur and Therefore

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