Case file
Loan 96 RLF 1/1094
Mr William Boyd (calling himself Sir William Boyd)
Mr William Boyd
Applications
1 (0 successful)
Date period
27 Dec 1843-28 Dec 1870
Awards
- 27 Dec 1843 (rejected)
Other author name(s)
(aka) Sir William Boyd
Author's career
- M.D. from the University of Erlangen
- clamed to have been knighted in 1833
Author's works published
Non-Fiction : Criticism, Literary History
Also named in file
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Timeline
1843
Application Form, William Boyd – endorsed by Isaac Boyd, Jonathan Sandford and Charles Henry Storey
27 Dec 1843
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1844
William Boyd to the Committee of the Literary Fund
25 Jan 1844
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1843
Isaac Boyd to the Committee of the Literary Fund, endorsed by Jonathan Sandford and Charles Henry Storey
28 Dec 1843
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1844
Insolvent Debtors’ Court Jan 5 1840 and 17 May 1840: Abstract of Proceedings’ – handwritten note by Octavian Blewitt
Feb 1844
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Octavian Blewitt to William Boyd
14 Feb 1844
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William Boyd to Octavian Blewitt
15 Feb 1844
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1846
Press cuttings – about William Boyd’s conviction for assaulting his landlady (Morning Post, 5 May 1846), his conviction for bigamy (Morning Post, 16 Jan 1862-25 Jan 1862) and bankruptcy proceedings against his brother Isaac Boyd (Nov 1851-27 Jul 1860)
5 May 1846-25 Jan 1862
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1864
Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, to Octavian Blewitt
18 Dec 1864
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1865
A W Thorold to Octavian Blewitt
5 Jun 1865
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Octavian Blewitt to A W Thorold
7 Jun 1865
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1870
Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby, to Octavian Blewitt
8 Jul 1870
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Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby, to Octavian Blewitt
10 Jul 1870
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Francis Charles Granville Egerton, Earl of Ellesmere, to Octavian Blewitt
24 Jun 1870
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W A Greenhill to Octavian Blewitt
24 Dec 1870
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Octavian Blewitt to W A Greenhill
27 Dec 1870
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W A Greenhill to Octavian Blewitt
28 Dec 1870
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