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Ann Thwaytes
Ann Thwaytes (2 October 1789 – April 1866), known to contemporaries as Mrs Thwaytes, was the wealthy and eccentric English widow of grocer William Thwaytes, owner of Davison, Newman & Co.. She became the benefactress to many causes and funded the construction of the Clock Tower, Herne Bay.〔
==Youth and marriage==
Mrs Thwaytes's mother (d.1803) called herself Mrs Hook, but had no husband.〔 Ann Hook and her sister Sarah were born in London of humble origins either in Islington or near Balls Pond Road, Hackney: Sarah in 1788 and Ann on 2 October 1789.〔 When their mother died, they were obliged, at ages fifteen and fourteen respectively, to take employment.〔 In due course Sarah became housekeeper to William Thwaytes, who was by then the sole owner of Davison, Newman & Co. and a wealthy grocer and tea merchant.〔〔Alexander, John K. Samuel Adams: America's Revolutionary Politician. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. ISBN 0-7425-2115-X. This company's tea was one of the brands thrown overboard at the Boston Tea Party〕〔Mike Bundock, ''Victorian Herne Bay'' (Herne Bay, Kent, Pierhead Publications Ltd, 1 February 2011), p.18, ISBN 9781904661160.〕
On 19 May 1816 Sarah Hook married Alfred Tebbitt, Thwaytes's chief clerk, at St Martin's in the Fields, Westminster. In 1817 at the age of 28 years Ann married William Thwaytes (1749–1834) who was aged 67.〔 During her marriage, Ann accused her husband of attempting to poison her with mercury. In 1832, during her husband's last illness, Ann developed a mental disorder which began with "low fever" (a 19th-century term for murine typhus) and a subsequent nervous state in which she remained for ten weeks facing the wall whilst believing she was blind.〔(Rudy's list of archaic medical terms )〕 She recovered from the fever, but nevertheless declared that she was "immortal and part of the Trinity," and that she and the couple's family doctor John Simm Smith (1793–1877) had "important work to do."〔Pearson, Rosemary. "(Ann Thwaytes )". Friends of Broadwater and Worthing Cemetery: ''Broadsheet'', Issue 10, Spring 2011. Note: Pearson credits ''The Times'' online archive as a source, however a proportion of the text reflects Mike Bundock (2000): see Bibliography.〕〔(London Gazette 23 November 1877: Executor's notice re the death of John Simm Smith, died 7 October 1877 )〕〔Death cert: Dec 1877, Smith, John Simm, 84, Croydon, 2a/107〕 At Guy's Hospital Simm Smith had studied alongside John Keats and had known him well, and was to be the grandfather of Gerard Manley Hopkins.〔
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