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Loan 96 RLF 1/1197
Mr Charles Rowcroft, and Mrs Rebecca Charlotte Rowcroft, his widow

Mr Charles Rowcroft

Applications

5 (5 successful)

Date period

27 May 1848-14 Nov 1856

Awards

  • 27 May 1848 (£50)
  • 24 Dec 1849 (£25)
  • 1 May 1851 (£50)
  • 25 May 1852 (£40)
  • 5 Nov 1856 (£50 - to Rebecca Charlotte Rowcroft)

Other author name(s)

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Author's career

  • Her Majesty's Consul in Cincinnati 1852-1856 (afterwards poisoned)

Author's works published

Fiction : Novels

Also named in file

Mrs Rebecca Charlotte Rowcroft (dependent)

More information

Timeline

1848

Application Form, Charles Rowcroft – endorsed by Samuel Richards and Andrew Spottiswoode

27 May 1848
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Charles Rowcroft to the Committee of the Literary Fund

3 Jun 1848
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Samuel Richards to the Committee of the Literary Fund

6 Jun 1848
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Andrew Spottiswoode to the Committee of the Literary Fund

12 Jun 1848
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Receipt, signed Charles Rowcroft

15 Jun 1848
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Charles Rowcroft to the Committee of the Literary Fund

17 Jun 1848
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1849

Application Form, Charles Rowcroft – endorsed by John A D Cox, Andrew Spottiswoode, Thomas Loftus and Samuel Richards

24 Dec 1849
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Charles Rowcroft to the Committee of the Literary Fund

31 Dec 1849
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1850

Samuel Richards to the Committee of the Literary Fund

1 Jan 1850
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Receipt, signed Charles Rowcroft

10 Jan 1850
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Charles Rowcroft to the Committee of the Literary Fund

11 Jan 1850
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1851

Application Form, Charles Rowcroft – endorsed by Samuel Richards John T Briggs, Henry Burgess, Thomas Loftus and Andrew Spottiswoode

1 May 1851
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Charles Rowcroft to the Committee of the Literary Fund

15 May 1851
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Henry Burgess to the Committee of the Literary Fund

10 May 1851
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Samuel Richards to the Committee of the Literary Fund

19 May 1851
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Andrew Spottiswoode to the Committee of the Literary Fund

20 May 1851
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Receipt, signed Charles Rowcroft

22 May 1851
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Charles Rowcroft to the Committee of the Literary Fund

24 May 1851
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1852

Application Form, Charles Rowcroft – endorsed by Samuel Richards, John T Briggs, Thomas Loftus, Andrew Spottiswoode and Sylvain Van de Weyer

25 May 1852
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Charles Rowcroft to the Committee of the Literary Fund

4 Jun 1852
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Andrew Spottiswoode to Octavian Blewitt

4 Jun 1852
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John T Briggs to the Committee of the Literary Fund

4 Jun 1852
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Receipt, signed Charles Rowcroft

10 Jun 1852
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Charles Rowcroft to the Committee of the Literary Fund

12 Jun 1852
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1853

Press cutting from the Cincinnati Daily Times of a report on a complimentary dinner to Charles Rowcroft

11 Apr 1853
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1848

Press cuttings on bankruptcy proceedings against Charles Rowcroft in Apr 1848 and from The Times and Mitchell’s Maritime Register on his suspicious death on 23 Aug 1856

Apr 1848-11 Oct 1856
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1856

Application Form, Rebecca Charlotte Rowcroft – endorsed by Sylvain Van de Weyer, Samuel Richards and Stephen Watson Fullom, with note by Octavian Blewitt on reverse confirming valid marriage certificate was produced

5 Nov 1856
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Rebecca Charlotte Rowcroft to the Committee of the Literary Fund

5 Nov 1856
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Stephen Watson Fullom to Octavian Blewitt

31 Oct 1856
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Rebecca Charlotte Rowcroft to the Committee of the Literary Fund

13 Nov 1856
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Receipt, signed Samuel Richards for Rebecca Charlotte Rowcroft

14 Nov 1856
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