‘TB’ indicates Theodosius Boughton
A
Ackerman, Thomas: Microcosm of London 74
Adam, Robert 74
Addison, Joseph 60
Adstone, Northamptonshire 108
Alebone, John 104
All Year Round magazine 75
American Jurist and Law Magazine 246
American War of Independence (1775–83) 227
Amigoni, Jacopo 39
Amos, Catharine 182
the Boughton family’s cook 4
Donellan’s comment to her 9, 185
testimony of 156–7
gardener 5
Donellan orders dead pigeons 9, 184
Donellan’s alleged remark about being master 14
testimony in trial 183–4, 186, 232, 239
Ancaster, Duke of 64
Anscombe, Dr Allen 247–8
apoplexy (stroke) 172–3, 177, 194, 196, 197, 199, 200, 202, 248
Archenholz, Johann Wilhelm Von 58, 73–4, 258n5
Arlington Street, Piccadilly, London 67
arsenic 4, 89, 95–6, 118, 119, 149–50, 167, 178, 243
Arthur, Mr (first husband of Anne Broughton née Brydges) 36
Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice 77
B
Babington Plot (1586) 31
Baddeley, Sophia 64, 65, 68, 74, 251
Balguy, Mr (prosecuting counsel) 146, 159, 169, 180
Ballycrenan Castle, Ireland 73
Banks, Joseph 193
Bate, Sir Henry 68
Bath 44, 48, 52, 68, 75, 76, 81, 83, 148, 150, 206, 224–7
Bath Journal 52
Beauchamp, Elizabeth (née Shipton) 41
Beauchamp, John 41
Beauchamp, John Boughton (son of John and Theodosia) 2, 83, 102, 103, 222, 227, 228, 234, 253
Beauchamp, Maria Boughton (daughter of John and Theodosia) 2, 83, 222, 227–8, 253
Beauchamp, Theodosia (died 1732) 41
Beauchamp, Theodosia (died 1733) 41
Beauchamp family 45
Bell, John 215
Bentham, William: The Baronetage of England 250
Bicêtre asylum, Paris 247
Biddulph, Thomas 259n2
Bilton parish, Warwickshire 30
Birching Tower, Rugby School 45
Birmingham General Hospital 172
Black Dog tavern 26, 163, 164, 165, 171
Blackburne, Archbishop 59
Bloxam, M.H. 100–1
Rugby 44
Blue Posts inn 71
Blundell, Sarah 133, 159, 185–6, 215
the Boughtons’ maid 5
at TB’s bedside 8
removal of medicine bottles 8, 9, 95, 121, 142–43
treatment of 146, 147, 180, 181
and revenge motive 236–7
Boddington, Edward 104
Boughton, Ann (daughter of Jane Coningsby) 30
Boughton, Lady Anna Maria (née Beauchamp TB’s mother) marries the 6th Baronet 39
an heiress in her own right ix, 41, 44, 189
and TB’s mistress 43
widow of the sixth Baronet ix, 2, 44, 86, 125
role of ix
her suite of bedrooms 5
and TB’s venereal disease 6, 22, 48, 123, 148, 149, 206
employs a tutor for TB 48
care of her daughter 50, 53, 77
opposes Theodosia’s wedding 79–80
reconciled to Theodosia’s marriage 82
defers to Donellan in household matters 84
Newnham Wells 13, 92, 137, 138, 181
administers medicine smelling of bitter almonds to TB ix, 6–7, 92, 119, 135–36, 139, 140, 157, 170, 172, 173, 204, 231–2, 233, 238, 239
calls for apothecary as TB froths at the mouth 7–8, 136–7
and Donellan’s cleaning and removal of medicine bottles 8, 12–13, 24, 89, 93, 94, 95, 97–8, 104–5, 120, 139–45, 152, 153, 154, 186, 187, 203, 232, 238, 240
calm response to TB’s death 152–4
refuses to pay Rattray’s and Wilmer’s fees 22, 24, 214
apparently not suspicious of Donellan 18, 154, 240
attends the autopsy on TB ix, 239
testifies at inquest 89–90, 94–5, 97–8, 120, 141–2, 187
files charges against Donellan 98
tension between her and Anna Maria 104
alleged poisoning of pack of hounds 105, 106, 107, 239
illness 106–8
a religious woman 107
TB’s case rests on her account 112
testimony at the trial 130–55, 204, 221–2
treatment of Sarah Blundell 146
alleged attempt at blackmailing Donellan 154–5
given laurel water by Donellan 217
preservation of her line 229
motive issue 238–42
Boughton, Anne (daughter of Mary Ramsey) 32, 33
Boughton, Anne (Edward Boughton, 8th Baronet’s sister) 222–3, 260n3
Boughton, Anne (née Brydges, then Arthur) 34–7, 38–9
Boughton, Caroline 260–1n6
Boughton, Catherine (née Shukburgh d. c1725) (TB’s step-great-grandmother) ix, 29–37, 44, 87, 223
Boughton, Charles 32
Boughton, Sir Edward, 5th Baronet (1689–1722) 30, 33–6, 43, 49, 85–6, 177, 253
Boughton, Sir Edward, 6th Baronet (1719–2) (TB’s father) and One-Handed Boughton 28, 29
first wife (Anne Brydges) 34–7, 38–9
looks for a second bride 37
interests 38
household expenses 38–41
marries Anna Maria 39
‘My Estate’ 39–40
will 41–2
his mistress, and Anna Maria’s misery 42, 43, 49
and Grace Shukburgh’s land rights 85–6
death 2, 3, 43, 105, 177, 189, 219
and Theodosia’s marriage 80
Boughton, Sir Edward, 6th Baronet (1719–72) (TB’s father) ix
Boughton, Sir Edward, 8th Baronet (1742–94)
lives at Poston Hall 87
the family black sheep 87
lives with his serving maid 87, 223
appearance 87
in debt to his brother 87–8
delighted at TB’s death 88, 223, 236
and Donellan’s trial 111, 208, 223
Anna Maria asks if his sister will be her companion 222–3
financial incentive for killing TB 236
death 223
Boughton, Edward (sixteenth century) 1
Boughton, Eliza 260–1n6
Boughton, Elizabeth (née de Allesley) 32
Boughton, Elizabeth (née Willington) 1
Boughton, Francis 34
Boughton, Humphrey 30
Boughton, Jane (née Coningsby) 30–1
Boughton, Katherine 32–3
Boughton, Lucy 260–1n6
Boughton, Mary (née Greville) 37, 42, 88, 99, 224
Boughton, Mary (née Ramsey) 29, 32, 33, 223
Boughton, Mary (wife of Rt. Rev. John Egerton, Bishop of Durham) 260n3
Boughton, one-Handed 28–9, 31, 43
Boughton, Shukburgh 32, 33, 34, 37, 42, 87, 223
Boughton, Theodosia Anna Maria Ramsay (d. 1758) 41
Boughton, Sir Theodosius Edward Allesley, 7th Baronet (1760–80) birth 41
venereal disease 6, 10, 12, 46, 49, 123, 128, 158, 159, 176–7, 239
Donellan rescues him from harm 10, 150–1, 190, 191
personality viii, 10, 22, 48, 49, 234, 243, 253
and his mother’s will 84–5
suite of bedrooms 5
surviving documents by 85–6
his intended inheritance 86, 238–9
Occuli indicus berries 88–9
fishing trip the night before his death viii, 3, 4, 9, 119, 121, 132–3, 134, 185, 203, 230
arsenic for killing rats 4, 89, 95–6, 149–50, 178
not well before taking the medicine 5–6, 48, 128–9, 206–7, 215
Anna Maria administers medicine smelling of bitter almonds ix, 6–7, 92, 119, 135, 139, 140, 170, 172, 173, 233, 238, 239
visible effects of the medicine 7, 8, 119–20, 128, 136–7, 143, 144, 195–6, 253
death (30 August 1780) vii, ix, 10, 11, 184, 185
rumours that he was poisoned vii, 15–8, 21, 164, 244
Rattray and Wilmer examine his body 21–3, 90
funeral 20, 23, 27, 88, 97, 152–3, 165, 174, 219, 235
belated autopsy on vii–ix, 88, 90, 160–3, 202–3, 253
coroner’s inquest 88–98
his fortune 130
appearance 177
possible suicide or accidental dose 243–4
modern methods of investigation 246–9
Boughton, Theodosius Willington (d. 1761) 41
Boughton, Thomas 32
Boughton, Sir William, 1st Baronet 43
Boughton, Sir William, 4th Baronet (c1663–1716) (TB’s great-grandfather) ix, 29, 30, 32, 33, 43, 44, 253
Boughton, William (grandfather of the first baronet) 30, 31
Boughton, William (son of Catherine) 32
Boughton, William (son of Grace) 34
creation of the Boughton baronetcy (1641) 29
tombs at Newbold-on-Avon church vii, ix
enviable position in Warwickshire society 1
and the Denbighs 16
high-profile figures at Court 30
loyalty to the Crown 31
coat of arms 32
a family of dramatic opposites 49
Donellan’s Defence 110
Boughton-Leigh, sir Charles 131
Boultby, Joseph 259n2
Bowes, Mary 68
Boyne, John 64
Bree, Robert 225–6
Bretford, Warwickshire 34
Brighton 81–2
Brookswell 21
Brownsover Hall 40, 42, 45, 50, 227, 229, 261n7, 261n8
Brudenall, Eliza (née Boughton) 32–3, 256n10
Brydges, James 53
Bucknill, Samuel 165, 221, 235
sells Hewitt Occuli indicus berries 88, 91, 178
failed attempts to do an autopsy on TB 22–7, 124, 174–5, 191–2, 207
tells Wheler of his offer 23, 24
belated autopsy on TB vii–viii, 91, 195, 202–3
testimony at the trial 174–6, 219
Buller, Sir Justice Francis 136, 151–2, 221, 233
convinced of Donellan’s guilt before the trial 116
aggressively punitive reputation 116
illustrious career 116
nickname (Justice Thumb) 116
appearance 116
background 116–7
personality 117
meeting with Cradock 117–8
and types of poison 167–8
and Hunter’s testimony 197–8, 199–200, 202, 222, 249
sentencing 209–10
criticism of 244–5
death 117
Buller, Susanna (née yarde) 116
Bunbury, Lady Sarah 77
Burke, Edmund 244
Burke, Peter: Celebrated Trials Connected with the Aristocracy 118
Burton (a carpenter) 235
Burwell, Lincolnshire 36
C
Cadogan, Earl 53
Caldecott, James 35, 88, 100, 108, 145, 146, 170, 188, 213, 224–5, 262n25
Carlisle House, Soho Square, London 61, 63, 66, 72
Carr, Mr 123
Carrickfergus garrison 226
Cave, William 104
Cavendish Place, London 227
celery 184
Chaplin, Arnold 174
Charles, Joseph 259n2
Charles II, King 59
Chartres, Mr 150–1
Chesterfield, Lord 113
Letters to his Son: On the Fine Art of becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 51, 59–60
Christ’s Hospital boarding school 46, 116
Clandestine Marriage Act (1753) 78, 79
Clapton, Northamptonshire 14
Clayton, Thomas 46–7
Cleland, John 72
Clunes, Mary, of Coventry 19
Colburn, Henry 113
Coleraine, Lord 64
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 46
Combe, William 256n5
‘coming out’ into society 51
Coningsby, Thomas 30
Cornelys, Teresa 61, 66, 68, 72, 73–4
Cornish, William 104
Cornwall, HMS 2
Cornwall Record Office 117
coroner’s jury 103–4
Covent Garden Journal 67
Covent Garden Theatre and Royal Opera House, London 72
Coventry Mercury 43, 98, 103, 235
Crofts, William 104, 187, 219–20
Cruwys, Mrs 59
Cumberland, Duke of 70
D
Dallington, near Northampton 228
Davis, Salome (‘sally’) 87, 223
de Burgo, Sir Joseph 226
death sentences 114–5
Defoe, Daniel 51
Denbigh, Basil Feilding, Earl of 16, 18, 92, 93–5, 118, 163, 190, 204, 241, 244, 245, 246
Denbigh, Countess of 16
Derbyshire, John 102, 103, 124, 154, 187–9, 242
Derrick, samuel: Harris’s List 258n9
Devonshire, Duchess of 53
Devonshire Place, London 52
Dickens, Charles 75
Digby, Mr (counsel for the Crown) 119, 158, 181
Donellan, Captain John birth (1737) 57
family background 57
reputation for bravery and fortune-hunting 53
former Indian Army officer 53, 54, 76, 77
invents and re-invents himself 55
‘Diamond Donellan’ nickname 61, 250
and the Pantheon 63, 64, 65, 72, 73, 76, 250–1
his lover ‘Mrs H’ 65–71, 212, 213–4, 238
marriage to Theodosia Boughton 2, 68, 77–82
eventually welcomed into the family fold 82
lives at Lawford Hall with his wife and children 2, 83, 86, 130, 251
tries to look after TB 83
rescues TB from harm 10, 150–1, 190, 191
complains of TB’s difficult character 22, 123
escapade on Newbold church 49, 151
Newnham Wells 13–14, 92, 137–40, 181
and TB’s poor health 6, 10, 131, 148, 215
orders pigeons as old wives’ remedy 9, 184
emptying of the medicine bottles 8, 12–3, 24, 89, 92–5, 97–8, 104–5, 120–1, 139–42, 144, 153, 154, 186, 187, 192, 203, 232, 238, 240
removal of medicine bottles 8, 9, 95, 121, 143, 145
tells Powell of TB’s death 10, 11
present at Powell’s examination of TB’s body 11
and Rattray’s and Wilmer’s examination of the body 20, 21, 22
rejects Bucknill’s services 23, 26–7, 174–5
uneasy position since TB’s death 24
still for distilling rose and lavender water 24, 111, 120, 143–4, 156, 157, 170, 182–3, 184, 207, 217, 232, 235, 238
favours an autopsy 18, 148, 191
and TB’s funeral 23, 25, 124, 190, 235
on TB’s use of arsenic 95–6
arrested, charged with TB’s murder and gaoled 98, 100–2
Roe intercepts his letters from Warwick Gaol 104–5, 106
apparent fears for his wife’s safety 105–6
possible double bluff by 107
trial date set 109
poison issue 188
judge questions his conduct in his summing up 207
found guilty 208
fortitude during the trial 208–9, 210
sentenced to death by hanging 209–10
confesses to distilling laurel water 217
motive issue 233–4
means of committing murder 234–5
Defence 13, 20, 22, 25, 46, 92, 93, 102, 104, 106, 107, 110, 130, 132, 133, 134, 145, 152, 154, 155, 157–60, 164, 167, 170, 183, 184, 185, 187, 203, 214, 216, 220, 235, 252
Donellan, Colonel Nehemiah 57, 226–7
Donellan, theodocia king (daughter of Theodosia) 83
Donellan, James 57
Downes House, Crediton, Devon 116
Drew, Tomkyns 73
Dublin University Magazine 245, 250
Dunchurch parish, Warwickshire 30
Dunning, Mr (attorney) 109, 110, 236
Durham, Bishop of (Rt Rev John Egerton) 260n3
E
East India Company 54–7, 65, 250, 252
Eden, William: Principles of Penal Punishment 114
Edgehill, battle of (1642) 31
Edgeworth, Richard Lovell 233
Edinburgh University 19
Egremont, Earl 66
E.H. Cornelius Library, Royal College of Surgeons 19
Ellice, Margaretta Maria 61, 72
elopement 77
English Civil War 29
epilepsy 170–3, 184, 196, 197, 199, 245, 248–9
Eton College 22, 45–8, 50, 83, 86, 189
TB contracts venereal disease 6, 12, 46, 123, 158, 239
‘Pop’ 46
F
Falmouth, Lord 64
Family Physician, The 49
Fielding, Henry: Joseph Andrews 45
Fleet Prison 68
Fonnereau, Anne 14
Fonnereau, Charles William 14
Fonnereau, Claude William (a friend of TB’s) 4, 14, 119, 131, 132
Fonnereau, Harriet 14
Fonnereau, Mary-Anne 14
Fonnereau, William 14
Fontenoy, battle of (1745) 57
Forde, Lieutenant-Colonel Francis 55, 56, 57, 252
Foss, Edward: Biographica Juridica 244–5
Fox, Robert 88
Frost, Samuel 145
fetches medicine for TB 2, 10, 134, 182, 237
fishes with TB the night before his death 4, 132–3, 203
declares that TB was well before taking the medicine 6, 92, 149
testimony at trial 181–2
Frost, William 181–2
the family coachman 3
sent to fetch the apothecary 8, 9, 126, 138, 139, 153
testifies at inquest 90
testifies at trial 181, 203–4, 220
G
General Infirmary, Northampton 226
George III, King 53, 69, 71, 81, 193
George IV, King (as Prince of Wales) 53, 64, 70, 81, 82
Gibbet Hill, near Rugby 217, 218
Gibbon, Edward 46
Gillray, Thomas 116
Gloucester, Duke of 60
Goodwin, Timothy 259n2
Gordon, Lord William 77
Grafton, Duke of 69–70
Great Harborough, Warwickshire 130, 262n18
Great Hurricane (1780) 2
Greathead, Bertie 259n2
Greenaway, Edward 104
Gretna Green, Scotland 229
Greville, Charles 73
Grieve, John 259n2
Griffiths, Arthur and Howard, John: Mysteries of Police and Crime 75–6
Grosvenor, Earl 66
Grosvenor, Lady Henrietta 62
H
Halifax, John 259n2
Hall, Reverend 43
Hamilton, Catherine (née Barlow) 73
Hamilton, Emma (née Lyon, then Hart) 73
Hamilton, Sir William 72–3
Hamilton, William 72
‘Harleian Miscellany’ 60
Harley, Lady 60
Harrington, Earl of 61–2, 258n7
Harrington, Lady (the ‘Stable yard Messalina’) 62, 66
Harris, George (solicitor) 85, 105, 263n27
Harrison, John (Jack Harris) 258n9
Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies 66–7
Hartley, Elizabeth 67–9, 70, 72
Haywood, Eliza: The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless 51
Hellfire Club 73
Henry and Nan 69
Hewitt, Thomas 88, 89, 91, 96, 133, 178, 179, 203, 243
Hewitt, The Hon. W. William 259n2
Hilliard, Nicholas 30
Hoare, Clothilda 73
Hoare, Edward, 2nd Baronet 73
Hogarth, William 58
Home Office 246
Horton, Anne (Nancy; née Parsons) 69–71
Horton, Anne (née Lutrell; later wife of Duke of Cumberland) 70–1
Horton, Captain 69
Horton, Christopher 70
Hotwells, near Bristol 228
Houghton, Sir Henry 256n9
Houghton, Mary (née Boughton) 32, 33, 256n9
Howarth, Mr (counsel for the Crown) 119–25, 130–3, 147, 149, 172, 197, 237
Hull Packet newspaper 46
Hunter, Sir John 19, 174, 202, 222, 232–3, 248, 249
Hyderabad, the Nizam of 55
I
illegitimacy 59–60
impotence 184
Indian Army 54
Inge and Webb 106, 214, 220, 235
Innes, lieutenant-Colonel
Donellan (attrib.) 2586N64
The History of the Bengal European Regiment 258n4
Ireland, Robert 73
J
Jackson, Polly 67
Johnson, R.A. 259n2
Justices of the Peace 114, 118, 245
K
Keate, John 45
Kelly, Mrs (a bawd) 67
Keppell, Miss 77
Killaloe, County Clare 226
King, Hannah 108
King’s Place, near St James’s Park, London 61
Kipwell, Thomas 35
Knightly, t.W. 259n2
Knole House 70
L
Lady’s Magazine 50–51
laurel water 24, 111–2, 119, 120, 126, 127, 133–4, 135, 143, 157, 158, 162–3, 168, 169, 170, 172, 173, 177–8, 179, 190, 194, 198, 217, 231–5, 238, 242
Lawford Hall, near Newbold-on-Avon, Warwickshire 2, 28, 43, 86, 88, 218, 254
Boughton family’s extensive estates ix
TB returns from Rugby 93–4
one-Handed Boughton’s locked bedroom 29
period of seemingly slow decline 44
lack of entertainments 45
Anna Maria lives alone 81
Theodosia and family move in 2, 83, 130, 251
Donellan in charge of arrangements since TB’s death 23–4
Donellan arrested 100
mortgage on the estate 130
gardener testifies about laurel 157, 184, 232
Caldecott’s investigation 170
Wheler’s involvement 189
Theodosia’s visits 223–4
Edward Boughton disposes of the house 224
auction 224–5
Leamington, Warwickshire (now Royal Leamington spa) 12
Leamington Hastings estate, Warwickshire 12, 241
Leicester, Lady, of Holkham 45
Leigh, Egerton (born 1795) 227
Leigh, Peter 227
Leigh, Theodosia Carolina 227
Leigh, Theodosia Egerton 227
Lewis Walpole Library, yale University 58, 74
Liddell, Anne 69
Liggins, William 104
Lime water 157–8
Line, Robert 104
Lister, Charlotte 256n13, 259n5
Lister, Grace (née shukburgh, then Boughton TB’s grandmother) 33, 34, 36, 85, 86, 257n18
Lister, John (d. 1741) 256n13, 259n5
Lister, John Shukburgh (d. 1743) 256n13, 259n5
Little Harborough, Warwickshire 34
Little Harborough Hall, Warwickshire 227
Little Lawford, Warwickshire 34
Little St James Street, Haymarket, London 67
Little theatre, Haymarket, London 64
Littleton, P.S. 259n2
Locke, John 51
Loggie (a witness) 190
London 44, 52–3, 54, 58–9, 77, 86
London, Bishop of 59
Long Lawford parish, Warwickshire 30, 41, 100
Lowes, Mrs 66
Lugg River 30
Lynne, Mary 182–3
M
Madras, Siege of 55
Magdalen College, Oxford 83
Mallor, John 259n2
Marlborough, Duke of 53
Marriott, William 43
Mary Queen of scots 31
masquerades 61–3
battle of (1759) 55
Matthews (carpenter) 133, 182, 203, 215
Maynard, Charles, 2nd Viscount 70
Medical Act (1858) 19
medical profession 19–20
Medical Registers 203
Melbourne, lord 64
mercury 46, 47, 48, 82, 89, 128, 129, 149, 158, 159, 177, 178, 207, 215, 243, 247
Millbanke, Admiral 77
Miller (a witness) 190
Mirror of Literature, Amuseument and Instruction, The 173
Montagu, lady Mary Wortley 51
Monthly Magazine 73
Monthly Review 250
Moore, Thomas 73
Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser 115
Morning Post 68
Mortimer, Dr: Flora 217
Murphy, Captain (attrib.): The Life of Captain Donellan 93, 110, 212, 213–4, 255n2
Musson, Reverend 217
N
New Herbal 184
Newbold Hall 29
Newbold parish, Warwickshire 30, 130
Newbold parish register 182
Newbold-on-Avon, Warwickshire 1, 34, 262n18
Newbold-on-Avon church and churchyard, Warwickshire vii, ix, 1–2, 27, 32, 37, 41, 49, 96, 108, 151, 160, 228, 230
Newnham, Mr (defence counsel) 123, 128, 133, 137, 142, 143, 144, 148–52, 159, 163, 165, 167, 168, 173, 177, 184, 194, 195, 196, 198, 199, 219–20, 244
Newnham Paddox, Monks Kirby, Warwickshire 16
Newnham Wells, Warwickshire 13–4, 92, 137, 138, 139, 140, 181
Newsam, Mrs 96
Newsam, Reverend Piers 6, 16, 47, 92, 95, 158–9, 163, 204, 207, 214, 215, 241, 244
Nixon, Sarah 187
Nobbins, J., Jnr 259n2
Norman, John 104
Norman, William 104
Northampton 31, 40, 108, 131, 213, 224, 226, 227, 238
Northampton Hospital 158
Northampton Mercury viii, ix, 43, 46, 47, 48, 80, 86, 109, 180, 219, 220
Northamptonshire, jurors in 114
Nottinghamshire Gazette 61, 65, 70, 77–8, 80, 81, 102, 112, 210, 211–2, 217
Nunn, Baptist 114
O
Occuli indicus berries (Cocculus indicus) 88–9, 91, 178, 243
O’Connor Donellan estate papers 57
‘Old Stories Re-Told. An old Rugby story. the Little Bottle of laurel Water’ (anonymous article) 75
O’Meara, Theodosia Beauchamp (née Boughton, then Donellan and leigh TB’s sister) 76
baptised 1757 41
education 50
and the 6th Baronet’s legacy 42
marriage to John Donellan 2, 68, 77–82, 189
lives at lawford Hall with her husband and children 2, 83, 86, 130
appearance 77
visits John in Warwick Gaol 102
tension between her and Anna Maria 104
moves out of lawford Hall 108, 146, 228
Donellan’s final letter to her 212–3
will 226
marries Egerton leigh 227
marries Barry O’Meara 230
death (1830) 230
Onely, Robert 104
Oxford University 34, 83, 169, 172, 174
P
Pace, Samuel 104
Packwood, C.P. 259n2
Pallas, Edward 259n2
Pantheon Assembly Rooms, Oxford street, London 53, 58, 61, 63–6, 67, 71–4, 76, 77, 78, 250–1
pardons 216
Parker, John 88
Pearson, Mr (a surgeon) 46
Pell, Albert 45
Pell, Richard 104
Pepys, Edmund 73
Phillips, Charles: Materia Medica and Therapeutics 178
Phillips, S.M.: Famous Cases of Circumstantial Evidence 112, 231
Pickman, Benjamin 208–9
Pipewell Abbey, Northamptonshire 1
Pitt, William, the Elder 69
Place, Francis 60
Polwhele, Richard 250
Portland street, London 52
Poston Hall (later Poston House), Herefordshire 37, 87, 100, 223
Powell, Harriet 62
Powell, Mr Thomas (apothecary) 40, 44, 232
TB’s list of medicines prescribed by him 86
prescribes a new physic for TB 2, 10, 119
William Frost sent to fetch him on the fateful day 8, 9, 126, 138, 139, 153
arrives to treat TB 9–10, 126, 127
told of TB’s death 10
examines TB’s body with Donellan present 11
Wheler sends for him 16, 17, 169, 206, 242
attends Rattray’s and Wilmer’s examination of TB’s body 19, 20, 22, 164
testifies at inquest 90
and Wilmer’s testimony about his medicine for TB 90
first witness at the trial 125–8, 206
not asked about laurel water 178
possible motive for murder 242
Prendergast, Mrs (brothel keeper) 61–2
Prospect Place, London 72
prussic acid 119, 231, 242, 247, 248
Q
Queen Street, Haymarket, London 67
R
Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford 174
Ranelagh Gardens, London 63, 72
Rathbone, Captain 71
Rathbone Place, London 65, 66, 70, 71, 72
medical qualifications 19
declines to open the body after examining it 21–3, 90–1, 122, 124, 163–4
fails to return to Lawford 25
meeting with Wheler 26, 163, 165, 171
attends autopsy on TB viii, 91, 159, 160–3, 167, 232
testifies at trial 159–69, 202, 205
animal experiments 162, 163, 169, 170, 190, 221, 232
Hunter dismisses his conclusions 193–4
Ravensworth, 1st Baron 69
Reade, Theodosius 260n3
Resolution, HMS 2
Reynolds, Sir Joshua 67, 69, 73, 193
Richardson, Joseph 104
Richmond, Duke of 66
Robbins, William 104
Roberts, Mrs (lodging house keeper) 46
Rochester, Earl of 149
Romney, George 67
Rouen, Siege of (1591) 30
Rouse-Boughton, Catherine (née Hall) 262
Rouse-Boughton, Sir Charles (9th Baronet lawford and 1st Baronet Rouse-Boughton) 83, 87–8, 99, 100, 228–9, 260n6, 262n23
Rouse-Boughton, Sir William St Andrew 260n5
Rouse-Boughton family 52, 262n26
Royal Marriages Act (1772) 71
Rugby, Warwickshire 1, 100, 126, 150, 152, 227
Rugby School 42–3, 44, 45, 83, 100–1, 242
Russell, Richard 81
‘A Dissertation on the Use of Sea Water’ 81–2
Rye, Hannah 108–9
Rye, William Beauchamp 84
Rysbrack memorial, Newbold-on-Avon church, Warwickshire 32, 49
S
Sadlier, Miller 259n2
St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London 19
St George’s Hospital, London 193
St Giles district, London 58
St Michael’s Church, Coventry 187
St Orlebar, Frederica 261n8
Salisbury, Countess of 53
Santa sophia church, istanbul 74
Savile, Gertrude 49–50
Sawbridge, Mrs 64
Scots Magazine 25–6, 93, 100, 208
Shakespeare, William: Henry IV Part II 30
Sheriff, Lawrence 45
Shipton, Elizabeth 84
Shipton family 52
Shire Hall, Warwick 101
Shore, Jane 67
Shropshire Archives 260n3, 262n26
Shukburgh, Abigail 30, 33, 39, 255–6n3:3
Shukburgh family 30, 34–5, 52, 99, 105, 108
Simmons’ Medical Registers 1779–83 for Rugby 44
Sitwell, Mrs 12
Smallage 184
Smith, John Gordon 233
Smith, Mr (attorney) 153
Smith, William 260n3
Smith, William (actor) 68
Smollett, Tobias 52
Snow, Bernard Geary , of Southam 17, 22, 24–7, 91, 124, 165, 174–6, 189–90, 192, 207, 235, 242–3
Society of Dilettanti (later Hellfire Club) 72–3
Soho Square, London (N0.36) 70
Southampton, Lord 77
Sparrow, Susannah (sukey) 5, 102–3, 146, 215, 234
Spectator magazine 69
Spencer, Hon. Charlotte 62
Stanhope, Philip 51, 59–60, 113
Steane, Sarah 90
Stephen, James 109, 174, 175–6, 220–2, 231, 233, 240
Stephen, James Fitzjames 109, 220, 222, 237, 249–50
Stoney, Andrew Robinson 68
stroke see apoplexy
Stubbs, Townly 64
syphilis, stages of 247
T
Templeton, Lord Clotworthy Upton, 1st Baron 260n3
Three Tuns Inn 235
Tilman, Mr 77
‘Toasts’ 60
Town and Country magazine 64, 65–6
Townsend, Miss 66
Townsend, William 104
The Lives of Twelve Eminent Judges 112, 117
Townshend, G. 259n2
Trial
start of (30 March 1781) 113
Donellan accompanied to the court by friend Walsh 113–4
The judge 116–8
indictment 118
Donellan’s plea 118
Powell as the first witness 125–8
Anna Maria’s testimony 130–55
Catharine Amos’s testimony 156–7
Newsam’s testimony 158–9
medical testimony 169–76
questions missed in the examination of the ‘Faculty’ 176–8
servants’ testimony 180–7
Wheler’s testimony 189–90
Donellan’s statement for his defence 190–2
Hunter as the final witness 192–200
Donellan found guilty of murder 208
sentencing 209–10
Donellan’s conviction as thoroughly unsound 253
Turner, Abraham 42, 43, 262n25
Turner, Merice 262n25
Turst, Philip Elias 61, 63, 71–4
U
Universal British Directory for Coventry 19
Upton, Elizabeth (née Boughton) 260n3
V
Vanbrugh, sir John 51
Vauxhall Gardens, London 68
Verney, Diana 30
W
Waldegrave, Lord 60
Walford, Edward: Old and New London 71
Wallis, Albany 72
Walpole, sir Edward 60
Walpole, Horace 59, 69–70, 73, 74
Walpole, sir Robert 53
Walsh, William 113–14
Waltham Black Act (1723) 114
War of the Austrian Succession (1740–8) 57
Ward-Boughton family 47
Ward-Boughton-Leigh, Edward Allesley Boughton (TB’s grandson) 58, 77, 83, 130–1, 261n8
Ward-Boughton-Leigh, John 229
Ward-Boughton-Leigh, Theodosia de Malsburg (née Boughton, then Donellan TB’s sister) 227, 229, 237–8, 262n
Ward-Boughton-Leigh, Theodosius Egerton Boughton 263n28
Warwick, Countess of 60
Warwick County Assizes 100, 113
Warwick Crown Court 259n1
Warwick Gaol 83, 98, 101–4, 154, 187, 211, 217, 218, 236, 238, 243
Warwickshire, Parliamentarian 31
Webb (Donellan’s barrister) 103, 215
Webb, John 259n2
Webb, Richard 104
Wenmans (publishers) 215
Westminster Abbey, London 30
Westminster Magazine 258n7
Weymouth 81
Wheeler, Mr (lawyer) 125–7
Wheler, sir William 80, 97, 153, 160, 209, 240, 246
TB’s guardian 12, 15, 17, 24, 88, 189
slow response to TB’s death 15–7, 121, 123–4, 190
sends for Powell 16, 17, 169, 206, 242
Rattray’s and Wilmer’s conclusions 21
and TB’s funeral 20, 25, 124, 190
told of Bucknill’s offer 24
and TB’s autopsy 17–9, 24–5, 147, 148, 164, 164–5
meeting with Rattray 26, 163, 165, 171
letters discussed in trial 121–3, 147–8, 159, 204–5, 206
attends Rattray’s animal experiments 169, 170, 190, 232
testifies at trial 189–90
motivation issue 244
Wheler family 105
White, Mr, of Holborn 80
White, Taffy 101
Wilberforce, William 221
Wildgoose, Mr (of Daventry) 150
Williams, Richard 35
Wilmer, Dr, of Coventry 17, 20, 232
medical qualifications 19
declines to open the body after examining it 21–3, 90, 122, 124, 160, 163–4
excuses himself from returning to Lawford 25–6
attends autopsy 90
rumour about his having been to see Donellan 103
testifies at trial 169–71, 202
and animal experiments 169–70, 232
Windmill Place, London 71
Wollstonecraft, Mary 51
A Vindication of the Rights of Women 51–2
Wren, Christopher 259n2
Wright, Lucy 99
Wrottesley, Elizabeth 69
Wyatt, James 73
Wyatt, John 73
Wyatt, Samuel 73
Wyatt, William 73
Y
Yateman, John 5, 146–7, 186–7, 237
Z
Zanerini, Giovanna 70