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Hester Maria THRALE

Hester Maria THRALE
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Female 1764 - 1857  (92 years)


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  • Name Hester Maria THRALE 
    • The 'Queeney' nickname was given by Samuel Johnson, after Queen Esther. She also had other less frequently used nicknames including Nig. Niggy. Tit. Birdey. Hetty. Samuel Johnson sometimes also affectionately called her Sweeting.
    Nickname Queeney 
    Birth 17 Sep 1764  Anchor Brewery, Southwark, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christening Address:
    Saint Saviour's Church
    (now Southwark Cathedral) 
    • by Rev James Evans
    Gender Female 
    Note 9 Apr 1771 
    Dr. Samuel Johnson was devoted to Queeney and referred to as…

    Sweet, dear, pretty, little Miss.

     
    Note 8 Dec 1774 
    She produced a mock-solemn covenant …
    Streatham December the 8th at night, 1774;,
    I promise to work for two full hours at her Italian every day as Mr. Barretti shall instruct me. And I promise further, that, whether I am in good humour or out of humour, I will be in earnest and very attentive to my lesson, as if I were in the very best humour, nor will I look about me with a vacant and weary countenance, so that the said Mr. Barretti (alias Taskmaster) shall have no reason, no, not the least shadow of a reason to complain of my disattention, unwillin(gn)ness, and reluctance.

    signed by Hester with her full name and her seal, and witnessed by:
    Tutor Barretti left Streatham a month later. 
    Note 14 Sep 1775  Paris, Île-de-France, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    The Thrales tour of France, 14 September to 14 November 1775.
    The Thrales tour of France, 14 September to 14 November 1775.
    Henry Thrale, MP, was invited to Paris by his friend Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, who was serving as the British ambassador to France. From September to November 1775, a group embarked on a tour of France, visiting Paris, Versailles, and various monasteries and convents. The traveling party consisted of:

    1. Henry Thrale, the wealthy brewer and Member of Parliament;
    2. Hester Thrale, Henry's wife and a notable diarist;
    3. Queeney Thrale, their eldest child;
    4. Dr. Samuel Johnson, the renowned lexicographer and writer; and
    5. Giuseppe Baretti, Queeney's Italian tutor and Johnson's friend.

    The trip included:

    Physical Description 1777 - 1778 
    Hester and Queeney Thrale in 1777/8.
    Hester and Queeney Thrale in 1777/8.
    By Sir Joshua Reynolds.
    Note 26 Nov 1778 
    Fanny Burney first met the Thrales at a dinner party at her father’s house on 26 November 1778, aged 26. She became a close friend of the Thrale family. Burney wrote …

    Miss Thrale is a very fine girl, about fourteen years of age, but cold and reserved, though full of knowledge and intelligence.

     
    Fanny Burney's relationship with the Thrales
    Fanny Burney's relationship with the Thrales
    Frances (Fanny) Burney (1752-1840) was an English novelist and diarist. She was the second daughter of Dr. Charles Burney, a music historian, and his wife, Esther. She is best known for her novels, including:


    Burney first met the Thrales at a dinner party at her father’s house on 26 November 1778, aged 26. She became a close friend of the Thrales and her diary provides insight into their lives at Streatham Park.
    Note 20 Jan 1779 
    Her mother wrote of her in Thraliana …

    My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not yet be nine Years old till next May, can at this moment read a French Comedy to divert herself, and these very holy days her Amusement has been to make Sophy & sometimes Hester help her to act the two or three 1 st Scenes of Moliere)'s Bourgeouis Gentilhomme: add to this that She has a real Taste for English Poetry, and when Mr Johnson repeated some of Dryden's Musick Ode the other day, She said She had got the whole poem & Pope's too upon the same Subject by Heart for her own Amusement.—

    Her Knowledge of Arithmetick goes no farther than the four Rules, but She has worked a Map of Europe, and has a Comprehensive Knowledge of Geography that would amaze one.

     
    Note Jul 1779 
    Aged 9, her mother wrote in Thraliana …

    Susan & Sophy are fine Girls, and promise to be a Credit & Comfort to their Parents, neither do I yet see any Disposition in the Eldest that need give one pain.

     
    Note Jul 1780 
    Hester Lynch Piozzi wrote in Thraliana whilst in Brighton

    I have picked up Piozzi here, the great Italian singer. He is amazingly like my father. He shall teach Hester.

     
    Note 17 Sep 1780 
    On her 16th birthday, her mother wrote in Thraliana

    It is this day given me by God to see my first born offspring, my dear Hester,—sixteen Years old— virtuous in Heart, prudent in Behaviour, pleasing in Person, & accomplished in Knowledge.

    What more would I have! & yet I often catch myself complaining.—Oh God forgive my foolish repining Spirit; and give me Grace to be thankful for, & to enjoy the Blessings I do not deserve.

    We always have a Dance on her Birthday for the Servants, and they shall have it this Year too—in spite of past Sorrows. Mr. Johnson's Birthday is the next day to hers, & we keep them together, &. fill the Summer House with Food, Fiddles &c, today being Sunday, the Balls must be tomorrow & Tuesday.

    Sure nothing will ever happen that will keep me from rejoycing on the 17: & 18: of September, the Birthdays of my Daughter & my Friend.,—.

     
    Note 26 Jul 1781 
    Her mother wrote in Thraliana

    Doctor Johnson has undertaken to teach my eldest Daughter Latin and has actually undertaken & begun his Work. Fanny Burney, Author of Evelina is to learn with her of the same Master — Mr Thrale says it is better to teach each of them than a Thousand pounds added to their Fortune. Dear Creatures! How earnestly do I wish them Success! they love one another and will improve by studying together—what a Master they have too! Happy Rogues!—

     
    Hester Maria Thrale aged 17 (artist unknown)
    Hester Maria Thrale aged 17 (artist unknown)
    Note 17 Sep 1781 
    On her 17th birthday, her mother wrote in Thraliana

    Oh Lord accept my grateful and Heartfelt Thanks for having lived to see her attain this proximity to Womanhood, & permanent Duration. She is however still delicate in her Health I think, & mightily tormanted with Worms.

     
    Note 1 Jan 1782 
    Her mother wrote in Thraliana

    She is a prudent Child indeed, I would wish to consult her on every occasion: so much sound Judgment, so little Vanity, such proper Notions of this World, & such Aspiration after a better have I yet never seen in a Creature of her Age:

    The Marquis of Caermarthen son to the present Duke of Leeds, & elder Brother to. I this Cuckoldly Marquis, appeared to me to be the Person most resembling her for Perfections of Body & Mind:—beautiful, pious, wise and well accomplished was the late Lord Caermarthen.

    Hester is however deficient enough in the _petite morale_: not caressing, not even _attentively_polite; never appearing pleased either with herself or Companions, She will not I fancy be a sought-for Character.

     
    Residence 4 Jan 1782  Harley Street, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    After Henry Thrale’s death, Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury rented a house in Harley Street between January and March 1782, where she lived with her daughters. The house was too small to accommodate Samuel Johnson. On 4 January 1782, Hester Thrale wrote in Thraliana

    I have taken a house in harley street for these three months next ensuing, & hope to have some society–not company tho’; crouds are out of the question, but people will not come hither on short days, & ‘tis too dull to live all alone so. the world will watch me at first, & think i come o’ husband hunting for myself or my fair daughter: but when i have behaved prettily for a while, they will change their mind.

     
    Note Jul 1784 
    Cabinet from Samuel Johnson.
    Cabinet from Samuel Johnson.
    Cabinet given to Hester Maria (Queeney) Thrale by Dr. Samuel Johnson in July 1784.
    Note 28 Apr 1789 
    Thrale v. Hester Maria Thrale, 28 April 1789.
    Thrale v. Hester Maria Thrale, 28 April 1789.
    A dispute about recipient of income from Henry Thrale's estate at Crowmarsh Battle between Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury and her daughter Hester Maria (Queeney) Thrale. Thrale v. Hester Maria Thrale (1789), 1 Ves. Jun. 215. Court of Chancery.
    Note 17 Sep 1803 
    On her 39th birthday 17 September 1803, her mother wrote in Thraliana

    Here is Miss Thrale's Birthday come round again, the weather beautiful, & I hope my heart grateful for having lived to see my eldest child 39 years old—& just now not unkind at all— She has written once or twice this year, & in the last Letters some Compassion was exprss'd fo Mr Piozzi's Sufferings—They are indeed very great—Well!

    God bless her, & him.

     
    Education 21 Jun 1805 
    She told her mother in a letter that she would never have dared to learn Hebrew if she had not been told that:

    The Illeterate and Itinerant Preachers of Methodism up & down, all study Hebrew, to torment the clergy.

     
    Physical Description 1822 
    Hester Maria Thrale aged 58.
    Hester Maria Thrale aged 58.
    By George Saunders in 1822.
    Note 1832  Thrale Almshouses (1832-1930), Streatham High Road, Streatham, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    The four daughters of Henry & Hester Thrale established almshouses for poor single women of Streatham. 
    Thrale Almhouses, Streatham High Road, 1832-1930
    Thrale Almhouses, Streatham High Road, 1832-1930
    Thrale Almshouses, 27 Polworth Road
    Thrale Almshouses, 27 Polworth Road
    About 1985
    Census 30 Mar 1851  Bolsover Castle, Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    UK census 1851
    UK census 1851
    Bolsover Castle, Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
    1. Hester Maria, Viscountess Keith; Visitor; Married; 84; Peeress of England; Born: London, Stretham.
    Note Fanny Burney described Hester Maria Cotton as …

    Smart and proud, but cold and proud.

     
    Death 31 Mar 1857  Piccadilly, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Address:
    110 Picadilly 
    Burial Overton Kirkyard, Tulliallan, Fife, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Person ID I94  UK Thrale family | Fairfolds and Hammonds Thrale branch, Marshalswick Thrale branch
    Last Modified 29 Oct 2024 

    Father Henry THRALE, M.P.,   b. Between 1724 and 1730, Harrow Corner, Southwark, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Apr 1781, Grosvenor Square, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 57 years) 
    Mother Hester Lynch SALUSBURY,   b. 16 Jan 1741, Bodvel, Caernarvonshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 May 1821, Clifton, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years) 
    Note 1762  Offley, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Henry was invited to Offley Place by Hester’s uncle, Judge Sir Thomas Salusbury and was introduced to Hester Thrale who was aged 20 or 21. Henry was a solid respectable man who was kindly towards Hester and she wrote that Henry was …

    Nearly the handsomest man in England.

    However, she did not want to marry him. Hester appealed to her father upon his return. John Salusbury had no intention of marrying his daughter to Henry, as Henry's father and grandfather had lived in the cottage now being used by his brother, Sir Thomas Salusbury as a dog kennel. John Salusbury quarrelled with his brother Sir Thomas and took his wife and daughter to London. Sir Thomas proposed their marriage whilst her father was away in Ireland with George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, President of the Board of Trade. This was agreed by her mother after uncle Sir Thomas promised to make a settlement in her favour of £5,000 if Hester married Henry. 
    Note 18 Dec 1762 
    Hester's father, John Salusbury died suddenly, leaving:
    • the North Wales Bach-y-graig estate to his wife, and
    • £5,000 to his daughter Hester.

    Hester, later speculated that his death might have been hastened by irritation at her proposed marriage to Henry Thrale; and Sir Thomas’s intention to remarry, as this ultimately resulted in Hester being disinherited from Offley Place. 
    Note 28 Jun 1763 

    Letter of request for a proposal meeting

    Henry wrote to Hester and her mother asking to call on them.

    ;Mr. Thrale presents His most respectful compliments to Mrs. & Miss Salusbury & wishes to God He could of communicated His Sentiments to them last night, which is absolutely impossible for Him to do to any other person breathing; He therefore most ardently begs to see Them at any Hour this afternoon, & he will at all Events immediately enter upon this very interesting Subject, & when once begun, there is no Danger of His wandering upon any other: in short, see them, He must, for He assures them, with the greatest truth & Sincerity, that They have murder’d Peace & Happiness at Home.

    Almost two weeks later they were married. 
    Note 9 Oct 1763 

    Dowry

    Henry Thrale met Hester’s maternal grandfather, Sir Thomas Salusbury and agreed upon Hester’s dowry. It included:

    • £10,000 to Hester from Sir Thomas Salusbury;
    • £700 a year for Hester from her father’s estate;
    • legacies from her mother and aunts worth £3,000;
    • £200 a year from Henry’s Crowmarsh Battle estate. The remainder of farm income went to Henry. The farm would in future be administered by two trustees for a period of 99 years

    On Henry’s death:

    • Hester’s income from Crowmarsh Battle farm would double;
    • she would get a lump sum of £13,400; and
    • provision would be made for trust and inheritances for any children that they may have.
     
    Marriage 11 Oct 1763  Saint Anne's Church, Soho, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Note Jul 1774  Wales Find all individuals with events at this location 
    From July to September 1774, Dr. Samuel Johnson and the Thrales toured North Wales. For Hester Thrale, the journey was personally significant, revealing cultural tensions with Johnson and influencing her writing. Johnson kept a diary which has since been published.  
    Note 14 Sept 1775  Paris, Île-de-France, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    The Thrales tour of France, 14 September to 14 November 1775.
    The Thrales tour of France, 14 September to 14 November 1775.
    Henry Thrale, MP, was invited to Paris by his friend Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, who was serving as the British ambassador to France. From September to November 1775, a group embarked on a tour of France, visiting Paris, Versailles, and various monasteries and convents. The traveling party consisted of:

    1. Henry Thrale, the wealthy brewer and Member of Parliament;
    2. Hester Thrale, Henry's wife and a notable diarist;
    3. Queeney Thrale, their eldest child;
    4. Dr. Samuel Johnson, the renowned lexicographer and writer; and
    5. Giuseppe Baretti, Queeney's Italian tutor and Johnson's friend.

    The trip included:

    Note 11 Oct 1776 
    Baronet Sir William Weller Pepys (1740-1825) wrote these verses to mark their 13th wedding anniversary.

    Give me to bless Domestick Life
    With sweet Repose secure from Strife;
    (Cries every Pedant in a College)
    A Wife not over-stockt with Knowlege;
    This—every Fool who loves to quote
    What Parrot-like he learn’d by rote;
    And every Coxcomb whose Pretence
    To Wisdom marks his want of Sense,
    And all good Huswives skill’d in Darning
    Who rail with much Contempt at Larning:

    And all who place their Sovreign Good in
    The Composition of a Pudding
    Repeat with such Triumphant Air
    Such deep Sagacity—you’d swear
    That Knowledge among Woman kind
    Was deadliest Poyson to the Mind;
    A Crime—which venial if conceal’d
    Like Theft at Sparta,—if reveal’d,
    The Guilty stamps with such disgrace,
    No Culprit dares to Show her Face.

    But tell me You, who dar’d despise
    These vulgar Maxims—who from Eyes
    Which well might grace the loveliest Fair,
    Turn’d not because bright Sense beam’d there;
    But—vent’rous Deed!—in Marriage sought
    A Mind with Stores of Knowledge fraught;
    Tell me through all these thirteen Years,
    Through varying Scenes of hopes and Fears;
    Could Ignorance more faithful prove?
    Could Folly’s Self more warmly love?

    Then long may this Auspicious Morn
    At each still happier Year’s Return
    Tell—what thy Sweet Experience shews,
    That Head and Heart are friend—not Foes.

     
    Note 6 Jul 1777 
    Dr. Samuel Johnson in a letter to Hester Thrale, said …

    I know no man… who is more master of his wife and family than Thrale. If he but holds up a finger, he is obeyed.

     
    Note 10 Sept 1777 
    Hester wrote in Thraliana

    As this is Thraliana—in good Time—I will now write Mr Thrale’s Character in it: it is not because I am in good or ill Humour with him or he with me, for we are not capricious People, but have I believe the same Opinion of each other at all Places and Times. Mr Thrale’s Person is manly, his Countenance agreeable, his Eyes steady and of the deepest Blue: his Look neither soft nor severe, neither sprightly nor gloomy, but thoughtful and Intelligent: his address-is neither caressive nor repulsive, but unaffectedly civil and decorous; and his Manner more completely free from every kind of Trick or Particularity than I ever saw any person’s—he is a Man wholly as I think out of the Power of Mimickry. He loves Money & is diligent to obtain it; but he loves Liberality too, & is willing enough both to give generously & spend fashionably. His Passions either are not strong, or else he keeps them under such Command that they seldom disturb his Tranquillity or his Friends, & it must I think be something more than common which can affect him strongly either with Hope, Fear Anger Love or Joy. His regard for his Father’s Memory is remarkably great, and he has been a most exemplary Brother; though when the house of his favourite Sister was on Fire, & we were alarmed with the Account of it in the Night, I well remember that he never rose, but bidding the Servant who called us, go to her Assistance; quietly turned about & slept to his usual hour. I must give another Trait of his Tranquillity on a different Occasion; he had built great Casks holding 1000 Hogsheads each, & was much pleased with their Profit & Appearance—One Day however he came down to Streatham as usual to dinner & after hearing & talking of a hundred trifles—but I forgot says he to tell you how one of my great Casks is burst & all the Beer run out. Mr Thrale’s Sobriety, & the Decency of his Conversation being wholly free from all Oaths Ribaldry and Profaneness make him a Man exceedingly comfortable to live with, while the easiness of his Temper and slowness to take Offence add greatly to his Value as a domestic Man: Yet I think his Servants do not much love him, and I am not sure that his Children feel much Affection for him: low People almost all indeed agree to abhorr him, as he has none of that officious & cordial Manner which is universally required by them—nor any Skill to dissemble his dislike of their Coarseness—with Regard to his Wife, tho’ little tender of her Person, he is very partial to her Understanding,—but he is obliging to nobody; & confers a Favour less pleasingly than many a Man refuses to confer one. This appears to me to be as just a Character as can be given of the Man with whom I have now lived thirteen Years, and tho’ he is extremely reserved and uncommunicative, yet one must know something of him after so long Acquaintance. Johnson has a very great Degree of Kindness & Esteem for him, & says if he would talk more, his Manner would be very completely that of a perfect Gentleman.

     
    Note 13 Apr 1779 
    Hester Thrale wrote in Thraliana

    In 1779, Hester, who had also lost several children, was unhappy in the thought that she had ceased to be appreciated by her husband. She became jealous of his regard for Sophy Streatfeild of Chiddingstone (1754-1835), a rich widow's daughter. 

    Note 5 Apr 1781 
    Shortly after the death of Henry Thrale, Hester Thrale wrote…

    Streatham. I have now appointed three Days a Week to attend at the Counting house, & wish I could defecate my Mind of Borough Dirt, when I pass the Laystalls at the Stones End; but it will not be yet, it will not be– > The vile Ideas where I fly pursue: Rise in the Grove, even in the Thicket rise, Stain all my Soul, and grovel in my Eyes.

    If an Angel from Heaven had told me 20 Years ago, that the Man I knew by the Name of Dictionary Johnson should one Day become Partner with me in a great Trade, & that we should jointly or separately sign Notes Draughts &c. for 3 or 4 Thousand Pounds of a Morning, how unlikely it would have seemed ever to happen!— unlikely is no Word tho’—it would have seemed incredible: neither of us then being worth a Groat God knows, & both as immeasurably removed from Commerce, as Birth Literature & Inclination could set us. Johnson however; who desires above all other Good the Accumulation of new Ideas, is but too happy with his present Employment; & the Influence I have over him added to his own solid Judgment and Regard for Truth, will at last find it in a small degree difficult to win him from the dirty Delight of seeing his Name in a new Character flaming away at the bottom of Bonds & Leases.

     
    Note 12 Oct 1781  [5
    Hester Thrale wrote in Thraliana

    Yesterday was my Wedding Day; it was a melancholy thing to me to pass it without the Husband of my Youth.

     
    Note 11 Oct 1787  [5
    On their wedding anniversary, Hester wrote in Thraliana

    Why do the people say I never loved my first husband? ’tos a very unjust conjecture. This day on which 24 years ago I was married to him never returns without bringing with it many a tender Remembrance: though ’twas on that Evening when we retired together that I was first alone with Mr. Thrale for five minutes in my whole life. Ours was a match of mere Prudence; and common good Liking, without the smallest Pretensions to passion on either Side: I knew no more of him than any other Gentleman who came to the House, nor did he ever profess other Attachment to me, than such as Esteem of my Character, & Convenience from my Fortune produced. I really had never past five whole Minutes Tête a Tête with him in my life till the Evening of our Wedding Day,—& he himself has said so a Thousand Times. yet God who gave us to each other, knows I did love him dearly; & what honour I can ever do to his Memory shall be done, for he was very generous to me.

     
    Residence From January 1781 - March 1789  Grosvenor Square, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Note 21 Jul 1813 
    Queeney in a letter to Fanny Burney wrote …

    Do you know what my opinion is? that my mother hated my father. She loved him certainly, as everybody did, for his good qualities and his generosity; but she did not like him, nor any man in the world, well enough to desire to be alone with him.

     
    Histories
    Pets of Henry & Hester Thrale
    Pets of Henry & Hester Thrale
    The Thrales' love of animals is evident in both their writings. The Thrales' pets including dogs, cats, birds, chickens, ducks, rabbits, an aviary (including canaries, finches, and parrots) and a monkey, were an important part of their family, and they brought them a great deal of joy.
    Family ID F46  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Admiral George KEITH, Elphinstone, GCB, 1st Viscount Keith,   b. 7 Jan 1746, Elphinstone Tower, Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Mar 1823 (Age 77 years) 
    Note 1796 
    Queeney first met Viscount Admiral George Keith of Elphinstone. 
    Marriage 10 Jan 1808  Saint Marylebone, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Residence Tulliallan Castle, Kincardineshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence Piccadilly, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address:
    110 Piccadilly 
    Children 
     1. Honourable Georgina Augusta Henrietta KEITH,   b. 12 Dec 1809   d. 21 Sep 1892 (Age 82 years)
    Family ID F55  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 16 Jun 2024 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 17 Sep 1764 - Anchor Brewery, Southwark, Surrey, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsNote - 14 Sep 1775 - Paris, Île-de-France, France Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - After Henry Thrale’s death, Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury rented a house in Harley Street between January and March 1782, where she lived with her daughters. The house was too small to accommodate Samuel Johnson. On 4 January 1782, Hester Thrale wrote in Thraliana

    I have taken a house in harley street for these three months next ensuing, & hope to have some society–not company tho’; crouds are out of the question, but people will not come hither on short days, & ‘tis too dull to live all alone so. the world will watch me at first, & think i come o’ husband hunting for myself or my fair daughter: but when i have behaved prettily for a while, they will change their mind.

    - 4 Jan 1782 - Harley Street, Middlesex, England
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    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 10 Jan 1808 - Saint Marylebone, Middlesex, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsNote - The four daughters of Henry & Hester Thrale established almshouses for poor single women of Streatham. - 1832 - Thrale Almshouses (1832-1930), Streatham High Road, Streatham, Surrey, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 30 Mar 1851 - Bolsover Castle, Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - Address:
    110 Picadilly - 31 Mar 1857 - Piccadilly, Middlesex, England
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    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Overton Kirkyard, Tulliallan, Fife, Scotland Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - - Tulliallan Castle, Kincardineshire, Scotland Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Address:
    110 Piccadilly - - Piccadilly, Middlesex, England
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  • Photos
    Hester Maria Thrale aged 20 months and pet Spaniel 'Belle' by Johann Zoffany
    Hester Maria Thrale aged 20 months and pet Spaniel 'Belle' by Johann Zoffany
    Sold: 3 July 2012. London for £289,250
    Hester Maria Thrale
    Hester Maria Thrale
    Painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds
    Hester Maria Thrale (AKA Queeney) circa 1822.
    Hester Maria Thrale (AKA Queeney)
    1822
    Thrale Almhouses, Streatham High Road, 1832-1930
    Thrale Almhouses, Streatham High Road, 1832-1930
    Thrale Almshouses, 27 Polworth Road
    Thrale Almshouses, 27 Polworth Road
    About 1985
    'Brewery House', 2024.
    'Brewery House', 2024.
    21-23 Park Street Southwark, London.

    Histories
    Henry Thrale's will
    Henry Thrale's will
    Henry Thrale died on 4 April 1781 between 5 am and 6 am. The will, dated 17 March 1781, was read by the male executors on 5 April 1781. his wife, Hester, was later informed of its provisions by Samuel Johnson.

    Executors

    Henry Thrale's parliamentary career
    Henry Thrale's parliamentary career
    His political view, electoral addresses and results.
    Streatham Park library and the Streatham Worthies
    Streatham Park library and the Streatham Worthies
    According to Queeney (2001).
    According to Queeney (2001).
    According to Queeney is a ‘faction’ account of Hester Maria Thrale by Beryl Bainbridge, published in 2001. This is my contemporary account of discovering the book and the book itself.
    At no cost, we also have the TV programme According to Beryl, about Queeney, Johnson and the Thrale family and is based on the book.

    Videos
    BBC TV Arena: According to Beryl (2001).
    BBC TV Arena: According to Beryl (2001).
    On 6 October 2001, BBC Television broadcast 'According to Beryl'. Their hour-long account of the family arrangement enjoyed by Samuel Johnson and the Thrale family of Streatham seen through the eyes of Beryl Bainbridge, author of the book on the same subject, According to Queeney.
    We also have an account of the Bery Bainbridge book According to Queeney, upon which this TV programme about Queeney, Johnson and the Thrale family is based.

  • Sources 
    1. [S146] Census - UK 1851, Archive reference: HO107; Piece number: 2148; Folio: 82; Page: 16; Schedule: 77; HouseHoldID: 2691280; Record set: 1851.

    2. [S39] Mary Hyde, The Thrales of Streatham Park, (Harvard University Press 1977), page 333.

    3. [S18] GRO index (UK), Volume: 1A; Page: 113; Line number: 33. St. George Hanover Square, London, England.

    4. [S16] Gentleman's Magazine, October 1763.

    5. [S40] Editor: Katherine C Balderston, Thraliana, (Oxford University Press 1951).

    6. [S33] Pallot's Marriage Index.