Case file
Loan 96 RLF 1/1274
Mr Alexander Somerville (pseudonym: ‘one who has whistled at the plough’)
Mr Alexander Somerville
Applications
4 (4 successful)
Date period
Oct 1850-11 Jan 1859
Awards
- 10 Jun 1851 (£50)
- 10 Jul 1854 (£40)
- 4 Nov 1856 (£30)
- 12 Oct 1858 (£20)
Other author name(s)
(pseudonym) one who has whistled at the plough
Author's career
- Wood Sawer
- Colour-Sergeant in the British Legion in Spain
- member of the Anti-Corn Law League
Author's works published
Various : Journalism, Non-Fiction, Autobiography, Politics, History, Fiction
Also named in file
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More information
Timeline
1851
Application Form, Alexander Somerville – endorsed by Alexander Ireland and Robert Walker
10 Jun 1851
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Alexander Somerville to Octavian Blewitt
Jun 1851
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1850
‘Feargus O’Connor’s Land Scheme and Alexander Somerville’ – pamphlet attacking the scheme
Oct 1850
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1851
Charles Pelham Villiers to Octavian Blewitt
Jun 1851
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Robert Walker to the Committee of the Literary Fund
8 Jun 1851
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Alexander Ireland to the Committee of the Literary Fund
9 Jun 1851
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1850
Leaves from Eliza Cook’s Journal containing a biographical sketch of Alexander Somerville
1851?
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1851
Receipt, signed Alexander Somerville
10 Jul 1851
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Octavian Blewitt to Alexander Somerville
22 Sep 1851
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Robert Walker to Octavian Blewitt
16 Oct 1851
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Alexander Somerville to the Committee of the Literary Fund
10 Nov 1851
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1854
Application Form, Alexander Somerville – endorsed by Thomas Ballantyne and Henry Campkin
10 Jul 1854
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Alexander Somerville to the Committee of the Literary Fund
10 Jul 1854
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Thomas Ballantyne to Octavian Blewitt
10 Jul 1854
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Henry Campkin to Octavian Blewitt
10 Jul 1854
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Receipt, signed Alexander Somerville
13 Jul 1854
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Alexander Somerville to the Committee of the Literary Fund
25 Jul 1854
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1855
Press cuttings from The Times and the Morning Chronicle regarding court appearances by Alexander Somerville and accounts of his financial difficulties, including two letters from George William Fox Kinnaird, Lord Kinnaird, to The Times
3 Dec 1855-Sep 1856
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1856
Application Form, Alexander Somerville – endorsed by John Ryan and Thomas Perronet Thompson
4 Nov 1856
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Alexander Somerville to the Committee of the Literary Fund
5 Nov 1856
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George William Fox Kinnaird, Lord Kinnaird, to Octavian Blewitt
4 Nov 1856
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George William Fox Kinnaird, Lord Kinnaird, to Octavian Blewitt
8 Nov 1856
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Thomas Perronet Thompson to the Secretary of the Literary Fund
8 Nov 1856
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[H ?] Downing Bruce to the [com](Committee of the Literary Fund)
8 Nov 1856
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Alexander Somerville to the Committee of the Literary Fund
14 Nov 1856
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Alexander Somerville to Octavian Blewitt
14 Nov 1856
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George William Fox Kinnaird, Lord Kinnaird, to Octavian Blewitt
15 Nov 1856
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1858
Application Form, Alexander Somerville – with endorsement from A Buchanan
12 Oct 1858
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Alexander Somerville to the Committee of the Literary Fund
12 Oct 1858
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T E Fitzpatrick, assistant to T S Fitzpatrick, to the Committee of the Literary Fund – medical certificate
12 Oct 1858
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1859
Coutts & Co to the Committee of the Literary Fund
11 Jan 1859
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1858
Alexander Somerville to the Committee of the Literary Fund
8 Dec 1858
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Press cutting of a letter from Alexander Somerville to the editor of the Morning Chronicle and one to Edward Bulwer Lytton entitled ‘Californian-Australian Revolutionary Societies’
14 Oct 1858-15 Oct 1858
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