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Case file

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Reverend William Henry Maxwell, and Mrs Mary Dobbin Maxwell, his widow

Reverend William Henry Maxwell

Applications

3 (1 successful)

Date period

13 May 1847-20 Feb 1851

Awards

  • 21 May 1847 (eventual result was rejection - Committee overruled by Council)
  • Dec 1847 (rejected)
  • 3 Feb 1851 (£50 - to Mary Dobbin Maxwell)

Other author name(s)

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Author's career

  • Prebendiary of Balla
  • Justice of the Peace

Author's works published

Fiction : also Journalism, Non-Fiction, Sport, History

Also named in file

Mrs Mary Dobbin Maxwell (dependent)

Timeline

1847

Application Form, William Henry Maxwell – endorsed by Francis Higginson, J H Haddon and William Harrison Ainsworth

21 May 1847
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William Henry Maxwell to Octavian Blewitt

1 Jun 1847
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Francis Higginson to Octavian Blewitt

13 May 1847
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William Henry Maxwell to Octavian Blewitt, with Blewitt’s reply

12 Jun 1847
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Octavian Blewitt to William Henry Maxwell

14 Jun 1847
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William Henry Maxwell to Octavian Blewitt

17 Jun 1847
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Press cuttings from The Times, the Morning Chronicle and the Daily News about Debtors’ Court proceedings involving William Henry Maxwell, including details of his literary earnings

13 May 1847-28 Jan 1848
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William Henry Maxwell to Octavian Blewitt

Dec 1847
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Octavian Blewitt to William Henry Maxwell, with clipping an obituary for Maxwell from The Times on reverse

9 Dec 1847-15 Jan 1851
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1851

Application Form, Mary Dobbin Maxwell – endorsed by John Dodds, William Robertson, John D Campbell and George Robertson, with note by Octavian Blewitt on reverse confirming valid marriage certificate was produced

3 Feb 1851
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Copy of a burial certificate for William Henry Maxwell

25 Jan 1851
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Mary Dobbin Maxwell to Octavian Blewitt

3 Feb 1851
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John D Campbell to Octavian Blewitt

1 Feb 1851
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Henry Sanderson to the Committee of the Literary Fund – medical certificate

1 Feb 1851
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Richard Bentley to the Committee of the Literary Fund

1 Feb 1851
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George Robertson to Octavian Blewitt

3 Feb 1851
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William Robertson to Octavian Blewitt

3 Feb 1851
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Robert Story to Octavian Blewitt

3 Feb 1851
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Mary Dobbin Maxwell to the Committee of the Literary Fund

20 Feb 1851
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