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'Catherine Caufield has shown us that eccentrics are fascinating characters ... they add to the gaiety of nations and it would be sad to see them fade away' Patrick Moore, Daily Express'A hilarious compilation ... not to be missed' Good Book Guide'Mad dogs and Englishmen, laid out for public gaze' Fortean TimesUntil he ate a bluebottle, William Buckland had always maintained that the taste of mole was the most repulsive he knew. But that was before he ate the embalmed heart of Louis XVI. William, and a hundred other colourful characters populate the pages of this amusing survey of those strange British people through the ages.

Catherine Caufield is a writer and environmentalist. She has written for the New Scientist, the London Review of Books, the New Yorker and the Guardian, and lives in West Marin, California.

Acknowledgments

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Introduction

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Alington, John

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B

Badger, Harry

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Bagenal, Beauchamp

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Baring, Maurice

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Barrett, John

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Barrett-Lennard, Sir Thomas

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Beauclerk, Osborne de fere, 12th Duke of St Albans

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Beckford, William

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Bentinck-Scott, William John Cavendish, 5th Duke of Portland

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Beswick, Hannah

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Bigg, John, 'The Dinton Hermit'

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Birch, Thomas

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Blackhurst, Ivy Mabel

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Bowles, Thomas Gibson

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Britton, Thomas

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Brudenell, Adeline, Countess of Cardigan

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Buckland, Francis Trevelyan

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Buckland, William

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Burnett, James, Lord Monboddo

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Capper, Joseph

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Cavendish, Hon. Henry

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Champion, de Crespigny Sir Claude

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Christie, John

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Coates, Robert

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Cope, Henry

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Curtis, James

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Cussans, William

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Dancer, Daniel

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Day, Thomas

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Densham, F.W.

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Dering, George Edward

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Digweed, Ernest

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Dinely-Goodere, Sir John

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Douglas, Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton

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Douglas, Catherine, Duchess of Queensberry

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Duff, Jamie

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Egerton, Francis Henry, 8th Earl of Bridgewater

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Ellerton, Simeon

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Elwes, John

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Eyre, Edward

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Fitzgerald, John

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Fordyce, George

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Fuller, John

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Gainsborough, Jack

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Galion, Sir Francis

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Graham, James

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Halstead, John

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Hamilton, Charles

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Hamilton, John James, Marquess of Abercorn

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Hamilton, Robert

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Hanger, George, Baron Coleraine

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Hardy, Godfrey Harold

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Hawker, Robert

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Hirst, Jemmy

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James, Venetia

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Jennings, Henry Constantine

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Jones, Morgan

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Kirwan, Richard

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Kitchiner, William

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Kolkhurst, George Alfred

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Langford, Mr

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Lole, William

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Lowther, Sir James, Earl of Lonsdale

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Lucas, James

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McGonagall, William

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Maguire, Brian

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Mathew, George

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Matthewson, R.N.

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Maturin, Charles Robert

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Mytton, John

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Neild, James Camden

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Noailles, Helena Comtesse de

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Norton, Joshua

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Ogden, Charles Kay

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Pockrich, Richard

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Porson, Richard

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Pottesman, Solomon

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Robertson, James

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Robinson, Matthew, 2nd Baron Rokeby

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Ros, Amanda McKettrick

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Sackville-West, Victoria-Josefa, Baroness Sackville

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Seymour, Charles, 6th Duke of Somerset

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Sitwell, Sir George Reresby

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Skeffington, Clotworthy; 2nd Earl of Masserene

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Spence, Thomas

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Spencer, Herbert

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Stanhope, Charles, Lord Petersham, 4th Earl of Harrington

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Stewart, John

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Strachey, William

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Stratford, Benjamin O'Neale II, 6th Earl of Aldborough

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Sykes, Sir Tatton

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Thompson, Margaret

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Tyrrell, Lady Margaret-Ann

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Tyrwhitt-Wilson, Gerald Hugh, 14th Baron Berners

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Urquhart, Sir Thomas

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Van Butchell, Martin

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Ward, John 4th Visconnt Dudley and Ward and 1st Earl of Dudley

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Waring, Francis

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Warner, Henry Lee

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Waterton, Charles

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Wilkie, William

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Wilson, George

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Wingate, Orde

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Wintle, Alfred Daniel

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Eccentric Bibliography

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List of Dates

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