{"id":154,"date":"2014-10-02T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/bardsandauthors\/2014\/10\/02\/william-watkins\/"},"modified":"2014-10-02T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T20:43:00","slug":"william-watkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/bardsandauthors\/2014\/10\/02\/william-watkins\/","title":{"rendered":"William Watkins"},"content":{"rendered":"

William Watkins <\/b>was in Whitby 1755. He was a friend and contemporary of Francis Gibson<\/b> (on this) whose fellow pupil he was with Lionel Charlton<\/b>. George Markham Tweddell<\/b> proposed to cover William Watkins <\/b>(or at least The Watkinses<\/i>) in a proposed 2nd or 3rd volume of Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham 1972.<\/i> Tweddell covered Lionel Charlton<\/b> in the first and only volume and so would be familiar with William.. The 2nd or 3rd volumes never came out but earlier in 1867 Rev Gideon Smales<\/b> covered William Watson<\/b> in Whitby Authors and their Publications<\/i>. John Watkins<\/b><\/a>, the Chartist writer was William’s uncle. (Source<\/p>\n

\nILLUSTRATIONS OF THE LITERARY HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.<\/a><\/h1>\n

 <\/span>By JOHN NICHOLS<\/span><\/a>
\nHis publications were –
\nAlthelgiva – A Legendary Tale<\/b> 1777
\nThe Sailor – A Poetical Epistle to a Friend<\/b> 1782
\nThe Apology<\/b> 1782 – A disguised satire on the people of the Town
\nCoucy and Adelaide<\/b> 1784
\nThe Whitby Spy<\/b> – 30 periodical essays in imitation of the Spectator. 1784
\nAnomolice<\/b> – 1797
\nOriginal Sonnets and Miscellaneous pieces<\/b>
\nThe Fall of Carthage<\/b>
\nPoetical Remains<\/b><\/p>\n

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William Watkins was in Whitby 1755. He was a friend and contemporary of Francis Gibson (on this) whose fellow pupil he was with Lionel Charlton. George Markham Tweddell proposed to cover William Watkins (or at least The Watkinses) in a proposed 2nd or 3rd volume of Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham 1972. Tweddell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/bardsandauthors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/bardsandauthors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/bardsandauthors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/bardsandauthors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/bardsandauthors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/bardsandauthors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/bardsandauthors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/bardsandauthors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/bardsandauthors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}