LIST OF PERSONS COMPOSING THE KEATS CIRCLE, WITH DATES OF BIRTH AND DEATH.' JOHN KEATS, born 31 October 1795, died 23 February 1821. Thomas Keats, father of the poet, died 16 April 1804. Frances Keats, born Jennings, mother of the poet, died 1807. George Keats, brother of the poet, born Spring of 1797, died 1842. Thomas Keats, brother of the poet, born 18 November 1798, died December 1818. Fanny Keats, sister of the poet, born 3 June 1803. Frances (or Fanny) Brawne, born 9 August 1800, died, Mrs. Lindon, 1865. 'The Family Bible in which were recorded the births and deaths of the Keats family was, among other books belonging to Keats's sister, seized by the Custom House officers in Spain many years ago, and never restored. Mrs. Llanos thinks the intervals between the births of her three brothers covered a space of three years, and that Thomas was nearly six years older than herself. Her own birth is recorded in the register of baptisms at the church of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, where I have also had the good fortune to find an entry of the birth of the poet, though not of the births of his brothers. As we know the day of Thomas Keats's birth, the other data leave no doubt, I think, as to the year; and George's birth must have been about midway between John's and Thomas's -April or May probably, as he had lately come of age when he went to America in June 1818. Charles Cowden Clarke, born 1787, died 13 March 1877. James Henry Leigh Hunt, born 19 October 1784, died 28 August 1859. Benjamin Robert Haydon, born 26 January 1786, died 22 June 1846. John Hamilton Reynolds, born 9 September 1796, died 15 November 1852. Charlotte Reynolds, mother of the last-named, born 15 November 1761, died 13 May 1848. Jane Reynolds, daughter of the last-named, born 6 November 1794, died, Mrs. Hood, 4 December 1846. Mariane Reynolds, sister of the last-named, born 23 February 1793, died, Mrs. Green, 7 January 1874. Charlotte Reynolds, sister of the last-named, born 12 May 1802. 1797 י' Charles Wells, born 1802, died 17 February 1879. Charles Wentworth Dilke of Chichester, born 25 November 1742, died 25 March 1826. Charles Wentworth Dilke, Keats's friend, son of the lastnamed, born 8 December 1789, died 10 August 1864. Charles Wentworth Dilke, afterwards first Baronet of the name, son of Keats's friend, born 18 February 1810, died 11 May 1869. William Dilke, younger brother of Keats's friend, born. 16 August 1796. John Snook, born 7 October 1780, died 29 January 1863. Lætitia Snook, wife of John Snook, born Dilke 4 April 1784, died 9 March 1865. John Taylor, born 31 July 1781, died 5 July 1864. Benjamin Bailey, born about 1794, died 1852. |