The Damnation of John Donellan (43 page)

Westminster Magazine
258
n
7

Weymouth
81

Wheeler, Mr (lawyer)
125
–7

Wheler, sir William
80
,
97
,
153
,
160
,
209
,
240
,
246

TB's guardian
12
,
15
,
17
,
24
,
88
,
189

and Anna Maria's will
84
,
85

slow response to TB's death
15
–7,
121
,
123
–4,
190

sends for Powell
16
,
17
,
169
,
206
,
242

Rattray's and Wilmer's conclusions
21

and TB's funeral
20
,
25
,
124
,
190

told of Bucknill's offer
24

and TB's autopsy
17
–9,
24
–5,
147
,
148
,
164
,
164
–5

meeting with Rattray
26
,
163
,
165
,
171

letters discussed in trial
121
–3,
147
–8,
159
,
204
–5,
206

attends Rattray's animal experiments
169
,
170
,
190
,
232

testifies at trial
189
–90

motivation issue
244

Wheler family
105

White, Mr, of Holborn
80

White, Taffy
101

Wilberforce, William
221

Wildgoose, Mr (of Daventry)
150

Williams, Richard
35

Wilmer, Dr, of Coventry
17
,
20
,
232

medical qualifications
19

declines to open the body after examining it
21
–3,
90
,
122
,
124
,
160
,
163
–4

excuses himself from returning to Lawford
25
–6

attends autopsy
90

testifies at inquest
90
,
91
–2

rumour about his having been to see Donellan
103

testifies at trial
169
–71,
202

and animal experiments
169
–70,
232

Windmill Place, London
71

Wollstonecraft, Mary
51

A Vindication of the Rights of Women
51
–2

Wren, Christopher
259
n
2

Wright, Lucy
99

Wrottesley, Elizabeth
69

Wyatt, James
73

Wyatt, John
73

Wyatt, Samuel
73

Wyatt, William
73

Y

Yateman, John
5
,
146
–7,
186
–7,
237

Z

Zanerini, Giovanna
70

1.
Believed to be the original Boughton family vault in the churchyard of St Botolph's, Newbold-on-Avon. It stands opposite the ‘Long Lawford entrance'. The tomb bears a faint coat-of-arms. On the opposite side of the church is an elaborate pink memorial to later generations.

2.
The Rysbrack memorial to William Boughton and Catherine Shukburgh in St Botolph's, Newbold-on-Avon.

3.
The only known image of Lawford Hall; the anonymous engraving clearly shows the curving wall described as being close to the river. Though reputedly a building of great merit, the Hall was demolished in the last decade of the eighteenth century, probably on the instruction of Edward Boughton.

4.
The exterior of Little Lawford Hall, thought to be the original stable block of Lawford Hall itself.

5.
Boughton family armour of great age in Newbold-on-Avon church: the chevron-patterned bird – the crest on the helmet – holds a serpent in its mouth.

6.
Believed to be a painting of Theodosius's parents, Edward Boughton (1719–72) and Anna Maria Beauchamp.

7.
William Boughton (1663–1716), the Fourth Baronet. William was the patriarch of two family lines descending from his two wives.

8.
Shukburgh Boughton (1703–63), the adored son of William and his second wife Catherine Shukburgh. In a court case, Catherine was accused of plying her stepson with alcohol so that Shukburgh would inherit the title. Shukburgh's son, Edward, did eventually come into the baronetcy when Theodosius died.

9.
The only known image – and probably not a very accurate one – of Theodosius, published in the
Hibernian Magazine
at the time of Donellan's court case. It seems hardly representative of the dissolute, wayward baronet.