Thomas Wilson

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Standard Name: Wilson, Thomas,, 1703 - 1784

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Dedications Catharine Macaulay
The dedicatee of the work was Thomas Wilson , whose fulsome birthday praise of her had drawn public mockery the previous year.
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
107
This book, which covers the years until 1733, was intended to be...
Family and Intimate relationships Catharine Macaulay
The Rev. Thomas Wilson formally adopted CM 's daughter, Catherine Sophia, before five or six witnesses, in a ceremony borrowed from ancient Roman law.
qtd. in
Hill, Bridget. “Daughter and Mother: Some new light on Catharine Macaulay and her family”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
22
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 1999, pp. 35-49.
37
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
80
Family and Intimate relationships Catharine Macaulay
The Rev. Thomas Wilson 's Six Odes for CM 's birthday were read aloud (a fact recorded on their title-page).
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
95-6
Family and Intimate relationships Catharine Macaulay
The Rev. Thomas Wilson , whose home CM shared for some time, was a widower, an ambitious churchman, and a book-collector. He was absentee rector of St Stephen Walbrook in London. He had been...
Family and Intimate relationships Catharine Macaulay
Thomas Wilson was outraged by CM 's second marriage. He sacked the servants she had helped him choose, removed her statue from his church, revoked his legacy and claimed that she owed him huge sums...
Literary responses Lady Mary Walker
The Monthly claims to find in the answering pamphlet sufficient internal evidence to identify the author, and that she stands ready to take up the anti-Burke stance recently maintained by Catharine Macaulay . It identifies...
Literary responses Catharine Macaulay
Thomas Wilson arranged the publication by Cadell of Six Odes, presented to . . . Mrs. Catharine Macaulay , on her Birth-Day.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
43 (1777): 389
Literary responses Catharine Macaulay
The Westminster Magazine printed a satirical account of CM as Queen Catharine, now deposed from her throne in Thomas Wilson 's Alfred House in Bath.
Pitcher, Edward W. The Literary Prose of "Westminster Magazine" (1773-1785). Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.
178
Material Conditions of Writing Catharine Macaulay
She was apparently well advanced with volume 6 in October 1773, before she moved to Bath, though it did not reach the public till 1781. It and its companion volume, on the reign of...
Material Conditions of Writing Catharine Macaulay
In an uncharacteristic apology, she explained that she was writing in haste, in sickness, and separated by more than a hundred miles from the relevant sources (which were in London). Only Wilson 's encouragement had...
Textual Production Catharine Macaulay
CM 's Bath printer, Cruttwell , was said (by John Wilkes ) to be printing her personal letters to Thomas Wilson and William Graham ; Wilkes and Wilson meant these to ruin her reputation.
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
112

Timeline

20 February 1769: The Bill of Rights Society was founded at...

National or international item

20 February 1769

The Bill of Rights Society was founded at the London Tavern by John Horne (later John Horne Tooke ), John Sawbridge , Thomas Wilson , and others, to support Wilkes and to defend the legal...

Texts

Wilson, Thomas, 1703 - 1784. Six Odes, presented to that justly-celebrated Historian, Mrs. Catharine Macaulay, on her Birth-Day. R. Cruttwell, 1777.