Diary

1792-1847

16 volumes 16 vols. 8vo. v.s. Original calf bindings. P. 11/12 is wanting from the last volume, and some leaves have been torn out at the end.

Purchased at Sotheby's 27/11/1918, Lot 998 (part). The last volume was purchased at the same sale, Lot 1003 (part).

William Davies DD. was Rector of Rockhampton from 1820 to his death in 1849 in his 80th year. He was the son of William Davies [1741-1817], Rector of Eastington who married Anne Jenner [ -1812], sister of Dr. Edward Jenner. These diaries, extending as they do for a period of over fifty years, give not only a remarkable insight into the life and activities of a country clergyman of the period, but also contain many biographical and other details of the Jenner family. The diarist himself married Sarah Buckle of Chepstow [1787-1816] in 1810, and her daughter, also Sarah, born in 1812, married the Rev. William Henry Bloxsome [1809-1877] in 1834. Their son was also named William Henry [1836-1889], and his signature, together with that of his mother and grandfather, appears on the inside of the covers of several of the volumes of the diary, with the date 1875.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).