‘Account of the House-Martin, or Martlet’ (essay), 138
Addison, Thomas, 53
animals: 18th-century attitudes to, 83–5, 210
Arthos, John, 188
Auden, W.H., 6
Augustinian Priory, Selborne, 26–8
Baker, Harriot (Anne’s cousin), 88, 91
Baker’s Hill, Selborne, 52, 56
ballooning, 194–6
Banks, Sir Joseph: and Pennant, 107, 112; GW invites to Selborne, 112; voyage, 115, 134, 196
Barker, Anne (née White; GW’s sister): marriage, 20; GW visits at Lyndon, 79; and GW’s dislike of winter, 154; at Ringmer, 157; visits Selborne, 174, 189
Barker, Becky (Benjamin White’s daughter), 174
Barker, Elizabeth (Anne’s daughter), 189
Barker, Jenny (Benjamin White’s daughter), 174
Barker, Mary (Anne’s daughter), 157, 189
Barker, Sally (Anne’s daughter), 157
Barker, Sam (Anne’s son): letter from GW on monks, 27; correspondence with GW, 131; and Jack White’s letter on landslip, 148; at Ringmer, 157; GW recommends poetry to, 188; and Selborne shortages, 197; transcribes part of Natural History, 203; and death of Henry White, 207
Barker, Thomas (Anne’s husband), 20, 44
Barrington, Daines: presents Naturalist’s Journal to GW, 109–10, 112, 119; suggests GW write book, 119, 122, 124, 127; character and beliefs, 119–22; correspondence with GW, 121, 127, 134–5, 138, 146, 172, 183, 199, 203–4; Lamb on, 121; and bird hibernation, 144; and Hawkley landslip, 149; and tortoise, 177; ‘false letters’ in Natural History, 203; Miscellanies, 121
Basingstoke (Hampshire), 34
Battie, Anne (William’s daughter), 88, 92, 94
Battie, Catharine (Kitty; William’s daughter), 88–94
Battie, Philadelphia (William’s daughter), 88, 92, 94
Battie, William, 88
beech trees, 24
bees, 199
Bentham, Edward, 36
Bentham, Jeremy, 85
Berger, Alexander: Calendar, 110
Berriman, John, 61
Bin’s Pond, Woolmer Forest, 25
birds: shooting of, 86–7; procured for G.W., 111, 118, 183, 200–1; song and sounds, 116, 132; migration, 116–18, 126; Barrington on altitude of, 120; preservation of specimens, 125; flight movement, 173; see also individual species
bitterns, 147
Black Acts, 182
Black Spring (1771), 126
black-winged stilts, 183
Blackburn (Lancashire), 130, 133
Blake, William, 85
Blanchard, Jean, 193–4
Blunden, Edmund, 10
Blyth, Edward, 18
Blythe, Ronald, 115
Bostal (Hangar path), 179–80
botany: GW develops interest in, 98–102
Bradley (Hampshire), 88
Bradley, Richard: The Gentleman and Gardener’s Kalendar, 55
Breckhurst, John, 56
Bristol, 68
Bunyan, John, 5
Burbey, John, 175, 178, 182, 193, 200, 204, 215
Burbey, Mary, 216
Burney, Charlotte Anne, 41
Burroughs, John, 8
Butcher (attorney), 46
Butler, Richard, 200
Calendar of Flora, A see Garden Kalendar, The
candles, 199–200
Cane, Rev. Basil (Dorothea’s husband), 19, 74, 89–90
Cane, Dorothea (née White; GW’s aunt), 19
carder beetle, 129
Carpenter, John and Mrs, 57
Carpenter, Thomas, 182
Carter, Bob, 36
Cavendish, Margaret, 85
Chandler, Richard, 162, 174, 189, 215
Chapone, Hester (‘Hecky’; née Mulso; John’s sister): friendship with GW, 41–3, 66; dispute with Samuel Richardson, 43; marriage, 79; and Mulso, 97; books published, 153–4; GW defends, 153–4
chiff-chaff, 214
Cholderton (Wiltshire), 113
Churton, Rev. Ralph, 189, 204, 215
Clanricarde, John Smith, 11th Earl of, 167
Cobbold, William, 218
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 6
Constable, John, 7
Cowper, William, 85–6
crickets (insects), 81–3, 87, 151, 186
Croke, Mrs, 65
Cromhall (Gloucestershire), 104
Cullum, Sir John: The History and Antiquities of Hawsted, 202
Curtis, William, 56
Darwin, Charles, 6
Derham, William: ‘Physico-theology’, 11–12, 38, 87, 131, 134
De Rozier, Pilâtre, 194
dolphin beetles, 129
Dorton (common), 24; grazing rights, 30, 181
downy woundwort, 102
Driver, Abraham and Williams, 30
droughts, 99, 174–5; see also weather
Durley (Hampshire), 68
earthquake, 129
East Allington (Devon), 47
Edward I, King, 27
Ely, Isle of, 45
Emden, Cecil, 10
‘Epistle to Burlington’ (Pope), 55
Etty, Rev. Andrew, 88, 180, 192
Etty, Mrs Andrew, 151, 180, 192
Farringdon (Hampshire): Hales at, 38, 84, 87: GW’s curacy at, 76, 96, 111, 133, 190
Fisher (attorney), 213
Fisher, James, 8
Fisher, Archdeacon John, 7
flooding, 147; see also weather
Flora Selborniensis (notebook), 101
flower-growing, 56
flycatchers, 215
fossils, 120
France: war with, 174–5
French revolution (1789), 212–13
fruit trees, 80
fungus phalloides, 102
Fyfield (Hampshire), 111, 143, 151, 198
Garden Kalendar, The (later entitled A Calendar of Flora). GW records in, 55–6, 59, 61, 68, 81, 92, 94–5, 110; prose style, 82; and botany, 99–100; descriptive writing in, 99; title change, 99
gardens, gardening: GW’s interest in, 52–61, 68, 78–81, 96; Pope and, 53–5
General Evening Post, 225n7
Gentleman’s Magazine, 37, 159, 207
Gilpin, William: Northern Tour, 158
gladdon (plant), 100
goatsuckers see nightjar
Goodwood (Sussex), 112
Green, Charles, 115
Grimm, Hieronymus, 156, 158, 165–7, 170
Hales, John, 182
Hales, Rev. Steven, 38, 84–5; Vegetable Staticks, 85
Hanger (Selborne): survival, 4; paths (zig-zags), 4, 64, 69, 96, 166, 180; described, 24; grazing rights, 30, 181; beeches, 30; new hermitage, 166; new path (Bostal), 179–81; firewood cutting, 213; see also Selborne Hanger (poem)
harvest mouse, 108
hawfinch, 201
Hawkley: hanger, 32, 148, 166; landslip, 147–50
Henley, Sir Robert, 88
hibernation: of swallows and related birds, 13, 105, 144, 185, 187, 210–11, 216; of tortoise, 130; of snails, 155; see also migration
Hill, John: Herbal, 99
hirundines see martins; swallows
Hoar, Thomas: assists GW, 57; keeps Journal for GW, 112; nurses Jack White, 131; in flood, 147; records low temperatures, 165; saves Timothy, 178
Hodges, Dr Walter, 71
Holt, Rev. Thomas and Mrs, 45, 158, 165
Holt, Thomas (son of Rev. Thomas), 45
honey-buzzards, 182
hoopoes, 108
Hudson, William: Flora Anglica, 100
Hutton, James, 136
indexing, 205
insects, 155
instinct, 13
‘Invitation to Selborne, The’ (poem), 48–9
Iping, near Midhurst, 176
Isaac, Mary (GW’s aunt), 20
jackdaws, 206–7
Jacobinism, 213
Johnson, Samuel, 5; A Journey to the Western Isles, 153
Kemp, George, 171
Kent, William, 68
Lamb, Charles, 121
landscaping, 68
lanes (sunken), 18, 25–6, 32, 100–1, 218
Langland, William: The Vision of Piers the Plowman, 27
Leeds Abbey, 39
lesser whitethroat, 186
Lever, Ashton, 142
Lewes (Sussex), 134
Lightfoot, John, 134
Linnaeus, Carl, 102
London: GW visits, 44, 94, 104, 165
Longworth, Jethro, 29
Lort, Michael, 158
Lunardi, Vincenzo, 194
Lythes (Selborne), 21
Magdalen College, Oxford: archives, 10; as Lords of Manor of Selborne, 16, 28, 181; fells trees, 24, 198; interest and influence in Selborne, 28–30
Mareland (Surrey), 215
Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of, 46
marsh harriers, 111
Marshall, Goody (nurse), 43
Marsham, Robert, 84, 209–12, 215–16
Martin, Edward, 9
martins: GW’s affection for, 13, 115, 140, 172, 183–4, 211; arrival and departure dates, 78, 108, 126, 140, 151, 216; migration, 116, 124, 211; GW’s studies and paper on, 138–41, 172, 184; at Wakes, 171; colonies in Selborne, 183, 215; roosting and hibernation, 185, 229n24; nests, 201; see also swallows
Massingham, H.J., 10
mayflies, 186
Mead, Chris, 229n24
melons: GW cultivates, 57–61, 68, 79, 151; Mulso grows, 97
migration (Bird): and navigation, 13, 144; GW on, 116–18, 123, 172, 216; Barrington on, 120; John White’s observations on, 123, 162; see also martins; swallows; swifts
Miller, Philip: The Gardener’s Kalendar, 55, 57, 61
Mitford, John, 217
Montagu, George, 208
Moreton Pinkney (Northamptonshire), 71–3
Mudie, James, 18
Mulso, Edward (Ned; John’s brother), 89–93
Mulso, George (John’s son), 97
Mulso, Hecky (John’s daughter), 178
Mulso, Hester (John’s sister) see Chapone, Hester
Mulso, Jenny (née Young; John’s wife), 42, 61, 70, 97; death, 208
Mulso, John: friendship and correspondence with GW, 10, 40, 47–8, 67, 82, 97–8; at Oriel with GW, 36–7; describes Leeds Abbey, 39; character and hypochondria, 40, 67; belief in GW, 40–1, 48, 138; engagement, 41, 61; on women of Canterbury, 41; and sister, 41–3; and Mander, 44; and GW’s coach sickness, 47; on GW’s gardening, 53, 87; at Sunbury, 61; on GW’s Oxford proctorship, 62–3; visits GW in Oxford, 64; ill-health, 66–7, 128; on GW’s landscaping, 69; marriage, 70; and GW’s career and college fellowship, 71, 74–5, 88, 104; children, 79, 94, 97; move to Yorkshire, 79; and GW’s entertaining of Battie girls, 90, 93; and GW’s despondency, 94–5; GW visits London home, 94; family life, 97, 113; GW fails to visit in Yorkshire, 97–8, 114; and GW’s botanizing, 102; moves to Witney, 102; GW invites to Selborne, 113; and GW’s proposed book, 128, 145; visits Selborne with family, 128; on John White at Selborne, 130; inoculated, 131; and GW’s Farringdon curacy, 133; GW describes illness to, 148; approves of plans to extend Wakes, 171; on sister’s book, 153; on GW’s dislike of snow, 156; praises GW’s Natural History of Selborne, 156; and Grimm’s illustrations, 167; and publication of GW’s Natural History, 170, 190, 202, 206; son runs away, 171; and war with France, 174; and GW’s ageing and health, 190; on jackdaws, 206; death, 208
Mulso, Thomas (John’s brother), 79, 88, 91, 101, 158
Natural History of Selborne: status and reputation, 2–3, 6–8; organization and tone, 5; conception, 12; Blyth edits, 18; incorporates letters to Pennant, 104–5; GW plans, 127, 145, 156; on hirundines, 139; delays in publication, 145–6, 157, 190; on Hawkley landslip, 149; ‘false letters’, 149, 202–4; illustrations, 156, 165–7; humans in, 176, 198–201; style, 186, 191; on unnatural 1783 summer, 191; and collective village experience, 201; local language in, 202; printing, 202, 204–6; form and structure, 202–4; indexing of, 205; publication and distribution, 206–7; later editions, 217
Naturalist’s Journal, The: GW uses, 4, 79, 109–11, 126, 129, 138; style in, 101–2, 170, 185–8; as workbook, 186–7, 190; continues after Natural History, 208; published (as A Naturalist’s Calendar), 217
navigation (bird), 13
Neal, John, 200
Newbery, Samson, 144–5
Newhaven (Sussex), 127
Newland, John, 218
New Monthly Magazine, The, 7, 217
Night Poaching Act, 1770, 182
nightjar (goatsucker; fern-owl), 3, 12, 116–17, 208, 215; GW’s monograph on, 212
nuthatch, 116
Oakhanger (pool), 25
Oriel College, Oxford: GW attends, 34–8; GW becomes Fellow, 39, 134; and junior proctorship, 62: GW seeks provostship, 71; disagreement over GW’s Fellowship and inheritance, 73–6, 78; livings, 96
Oxford: GW visits, 52, 134, 149; Botanic Garden, 61, 63; GW seeks post in, 71
Oxford University: condition in 18th century, 35–6; GW as Junior Proctor, 62; see also Oriel College
‘Park, the’ (Selborne), 52
Pennant, Thomas: letters from GW, 22, 104–5, 108, 112, 115, 119, 122, 127, 145–6, 203–4, 209; GW meets, 104–5; position and reputation, 106–7; encourages local studies, 107; GW invites to Selborne, 112; GW declines invitation to visit in Flintshire, 113–14; GW corrects, 116–17, 138; suggests new periodical, 118; GW reads proofs for, 122–3; receives John White’s Gibraltar specimens, 125; and GW’s proposed book, 127; and Newbery, 145; ‘false letters’ to, in Natural History, 203; letter on ladies’ masculine dress, 225n7; British Zoology, 106; 2nd ed., 107, 116; 138, 145, 170; The Literary Life of Thomas Pennant, 106; Tour of Scotland, 106
Philosophical Transactions (Royal Society), 138
‘Physico-theology’, 11
Pope, Alexander: GW meets and receives Iliad from, 38; on Duchess of Marlborough, 46; on gardening, 53–5, 68; and Hales’ animal experiments, 85–6
Ray, John, 135, 139; Synopsis methodica, 100; The Wisdom of God, 11–12, 135
redstart, 151
Richardson, Samuel, 43
ring dove, 201
Ringmer (Sussex): GW visits aunt in, 44, 134, 157, 174; and GW’s botany, 101; and GW’s notes, 111; late swallows in, 127; tortoise at, 129–30; and war with France, 174
Rochford (Essex), 45
Roman, Dr, 133
rooks, 155
Rudge, Jack, 40
rushlights, 199–200
salad burnet, 99
Scopoli, Giovanni Antonio, 124
Scrope, John, 36, 39; ‘Metamorphosis’, 58
sea-kale, 56
sedge warbler, 132
Selborne: as subject, 2; unchanged nature, 3–4; GW makes home in, 16; vicarage, 16–17; location, 17–18, 30; lanes, 18, 25–6, 32, 100–1, 218; distinctive landscape, 21–5, 32, 175; perambulation (beating the bounds), 22–3, 182; place names, 26, 157; medieval, 26; and Magdalen College, 28–9; common rights, 29–30, 181–2, 213–14; land ownership, 29–30; land and population surveys, 30–2; poor in, 31–2; in GW’s poetry, 48–9; GW’s curacy, 61, 71; GW’s commitment to, 78–9, 104, 113–14; gossip from, 175; severe weather in, 192–3, 197–8; GW becomes curate-in-charge, 197; local roads improved, 197, 218; celebrations, 198; people and neighbours, 198–201; and ‘Captain Swing’ unrest, 217
Selborne Common, 24
Selborne Hanger: A Winter Piece (poem), 95–6
Sidney, Sir Philip, 85
Skaptar-jökull (Iceland), 191
Skinner, Richard, 113, 118, 133–4
Smart, Christopher, 85
snails, 155
Snooke, Rebecca (GW’s aunt): GW visits at Ringmer, 44, 134, 157; visits GW at Selborne, 88, 94; tortoise (Timothy), 130, 134, 157, 176; death and will, 176
Solander, Daniel Charles, 115
South Downs, 134–5
sparrowhawks, 141
Stephens, Dafydd, 142n
Stillingfleet, Benjamin: Tracts (calendar of flora), 110
stinking hellebore, 182
stone curlew, 205
Stonehenge, 68
storms see weather
Stuart, Sir Simeon, 128, 181, 214
Sturt, George, 201
swallows: hibernation question, 13, 105, 116, 172, 187, 210–11, 216, departure and arrival dates, 78, 110, 126–7, 192; GW’s affection for, 115, 138, 183, 187, 192, 210; migration, 116, 216; Barrington and, 138; GW’s studies and observations of, 138–9, 141, 162; John White on, 146; at Ringmer, 157; in Selborne, 183; congregate, 187; Marsham on numbers, 210; see also martins; swifts
swifts: GW’s affection for, 13; Pennant uses GW’s information on, 116; arrival and departure dates, 126, 143, 172, 193; GW’s studies and observations on, 138, 143–4, 185; GW’s paper on, 142–3; migration, 144, 172; late young, 185
Tanner, Will, 56
Taylor, Rev. C., 196
Thomas, Edward, 7–8
Thomson, James: The Seasons, 34, 37, 91
Thomey (Cambridgeshire), 46–7
Thornhill (Yorkshire), 97
Timothy (tortoise), 57, 129–30, 134, 157, 176–9, 187, 199
Tomkyns, Rev. Richard, 40
Topographer (journal), 207
Tortworth (Gloucestershire), 96
Townson, Thomas: Discourse on the Gospels, 204
Tryon, Thomas, 85
Turner, Tim, 200
Ufton Nervet (Berkshire), 113
Vancouver, Charles, 31
Vauxhall Gardens, London, 54
vegetable-growing, 56, 68, 82, 96; see also gardens
Voltaire: Candide, 174
Wakes (house, Selborne): as White family home, 19; name, 19n; GW improves garden, 52–3, 80–1; Ha-ha, 68, 80; Charles White inherits, 75; GW inherits, 87; GW entertains at, 88–91; John White stays at with family, 130, 133; White family visit, 151, 174, 189, 207, 215; extension and improvements, 151, 166, 171, 173–4; Barbara White at, 189
Warner, Sylvia Townsend: The Portrait of a Tortoise, 229n14
Warton, Joseph, 34, 37, 39–40, 188, 207
Warton, Rev. Thomas, 34
Warton, Thomas (son of above; the poet), 34, 36–8, 40; The Companion to the Guide, and a Guide to the Companion, 36, 38
Waynflete, William, Bishop of Winchester, 28
weather: extreme and unusual, 99, 126, 154–5, 164–5, 191–4, 197–8, 208, 216
Webb, Dr (of Alton), 216
Wells, Peter, 147
West Dean (near Salisbury, Wiltshire), 68, 71
White, Anne (née Holt; GW’s mother), 181–9; death, 35
White, Anne (‘Nanny’; née Yalden; Benjamin’s wife), 64 & n
White, Anne (GW’s sister); see Barker, Anne
White, Barbara (née Freeman; brother John’s wife), 70, 130, 188
White, Becky (Benjamin’s daughter), 174
White, Benjamin (GW’s brother): life and career, 19; GW visits in London, 44, 104; visits GW in Oxford, 64; marriages, 64n; and GW’s college Fellowship, 74; and Pennant, 105–6; publishing, 105; gives Naturalist’s Journal to GW, 109; and brother John’s book, 153, 160–1, 163; and Grimm, 158; son, 170; GW visits at Mareland, 215; death, 217
White, Benjamin (son of above), 204–5, 215
White, Benjamin (son of Ben junior and Molly), 204–5
White, Charles (GW’s uncle), 19, 34, 76, 87–8
White, Dick (Benjamin’s son), 170
White, Edmund (GW’s nephew), 194, 215
White, Mrs Edmund, 208
White, Elizabeth (GW’s aunt), 19, 75, 88
White, Elizabeth (Jack’s second wife), 217
White, Francis (GW’s brother), 19
White, Georgiana (brother Benjamin’s granddaughter), 200
White, Rev. Gilbert (GW’s grandfather), 16–19, 23, 29, 76
White, Gilbert: as Adam, 2, 7; grave, 3; character, 3, 6–7, 9; manuscripts preserved, 9; records of life, 9–10; intellectual background, 12; family background, 16; birth, 19; childhood, 20; landowning, 29; survey of Selborne, 31; schooling, 34; at Oxford, 34–9; shooting, 37, 44, 83, 86–7; degree, 38; Oriel Fellowship, 39, 73–5; bachelorhood, 41, 70, 79, 98; and women, 41; and Hecky Mulso (Chapone), 42–3; pastimes, 43; keeps accounts, 43, 65; travels and roaming, 44–5, 66; as executor of Holt estate, 45–7; coach sickness, 47, 66, 98, 114; poetry, 48–9, 92–3, 95–6, 206; curacy at Swarraton and ordination, 52, 61; gardening, 52–61, 68, 78–81, 96; smallpox, 58; temporary curacy at Selborne, 61; junior proctorship at Oxford, 62–4, 66; life-style, 63; and Jenny Croke, 65–6; gout, 66, 154, 179, 189, 215; scattered curacies, 67–8, 71–3, 87, 96, 133; landscaping, 68; and Mulso’s marriage, 70; loses proctorship, 71–2; and father’s death, 73, 78; disagreement over Oriel post and inheritance, 73–6, 78; income, 76; 1759/60 absence from Selborne, 78–9; field studies and observations, 81–2, 108–11, 116–17; prose, 82–3, 96, 188; attitude to animals’ rights, 82–7; inherits Wakes, 87–8; entertains at Wakes, 88–91; despondency, 94–5; fails to visit Mulso, 97–8; interest in botany, 98–102; keeps Naturalist’s Journal, 109–11; attachment to Selborne, 104, 113–14; meets Pennant, 104–5, 107; isolation as naturalist, 107–8; Barrington suggests book to, 119, 122, 124; expanding correspondence, 123–4; advice to brother John in Gibraltar, 123–4; plans for Natural History, 127–8; relations with young people, 131; ear trouble and deafness, 142, 189; sees letters as basis for publication, 145–7; delays over publication of book, 146; influenza, 148–9; ageing and declining health, 154, 170, 179, 215–16; inheritance from aunt, 176; becomes curate-in-charge at Selborne, 196; village collaborators, 199–200; political views, 213; death, 216; burial, 217
White, Henry (‘Harry’; GW’s brother): birth and career, 20; in Oxford, 64; meets Kitty Battie at Selborne, 89–90; nature notes, 110, 191; extends Fyfield home, 143, 151; and brother John’s book, 162; and hermitage, 166; depicted in Natural History, 166; in severe winter, 191; receives copy of Natural History, 206; death, 207
White, Jack (GW’s brother John’s son; ‘Gibraltar Jack’): in Gibraltar, 70; returns to England, 130; schooling, 130–1, 152; relations with GW, 131–2, 134–5, 148; accompanies GW to Sussex, 134–5; describes Hawkley landslip, 148; career, 151; and cousin Molly, 152; returns to father, 154; as surgeon, 157, 189; transcribes part of Natural History, 204; marriages and death, 216
White, James (Benjamin’s son), 213
White, Jenny (GW’s niece), 88, 174
White, John (GW’s father): life and career, 18; character, 19; family, 19–20; letter to Butcher, 46; at Wakes, 52; death, 73, 78; inheritance, 75–6
White, John (GW’s brother): life and career, 19, 64, 69–70; and Hanger zig-zag, 64; debts, 69; exile in Gibraltar, 69–70, 123; interest in natural history, 70; correspondence with GW, 123–4; sends specimens from Gibraltar, 124–5; and GW’s proposed book, 127, 145–6, 157; return to England, 130–3; natural history in England, 132, 142; GW declines invitation to visit in Lancashire, 132–4, 153; and swallows, 142, 162; unpublished book (Fauna Calpensis), 152–3, 157, 160–4, 170; illness, 161–3; death, 163, 188; and Grimm’s sketches, 167; and nephew Dick, 171; poem on hermitages, 223n20
White, Mary (Benjamin’s second wife), 64n
White, Molly (Thomas’s daughter): visits Selborne, 151, 174, 215; and Timothy, 177; and new zig-zag, 180; and extreme weather, 192; on rushlights, 199; and publication of Natural History, 204; marriage and children, 204–5, 208–9; death, 216
White, Rebekah (née Luckin; GW’s grandmother), 17–19, 75
White, Sir Samson (GW’s great-grandfather), 16
White, Thomas (GW’s brother): life and career, 19–20, 158; GW visits in London, 44, 104; inheritance, 45, 158, 165; visits GW in Oxford, 64; marriage, 64n; and crickets, 81; and John White’s Gibraltar specimens, 125; daughter, 151; and Jack White’s career, 152; and Grimm, 158; proposes writing book on Hampshire, 158–60, 164; later writing, 159; and brother John’s book, 161; finances Bostal, 179; nails up scallop shells, 186; at Wakes, 189; arrives by coach, 197; reviews Natural History, 207; death, 217
White, Mrs Thomas, 94
White, Tom (Molly’s second son), 209
whitethroat, 204
Wilkins, John, Bishop of Chester: Natural Religion, 34
Williamson & Co., Kensington (nurseryman), 61
Willughby, Francis: Ornithology, 10
Witney (Oxfordshire), 102
Woodhouse Farm, Harting, 76
Woods, Henry (Rebecca’s husband), 19
Woods, Rebecca (née White; GW’s sister), 19, 64, 79, 88
Woolmer Forest: open heath landscape, 22; described, 24–5, and Priory, 27; common rights in, 30, 182; Cobbett in, 32; marsh harriers in, 111
Woolmer Ponds, 25
Wykeham, William of, 27–8
Yalden, Edmund, 68
Yalden, Richard, 166, 180, 192
Yalden, William, 64
yew tree (Selborne), 4