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William Seward (anecdotist)
William Seward (January 1747 – 24 April 1799) was an English man of letters, known for his collections of anecdotes.
==Life==
Seward was the only son of William Seward, a partner in the major London brewery Calvert & Seward. He was born in London in January 1747. Having started school near Cripplegate, he moved in 1757 to Harrow School, but also attended Charterhouse School for a while before matriculating at Oriel College, Oxford in 1764.
After university, Seward travelled widely in Italy and elsewhere in Europe. He had considerable wealth, but no taste for business, and sold his interest in the brewery when his father died. However, his cultivation and conversational talents soon gained him a place in London literary circles, notably that of the Thrales in Streatham, also a brewing family. There he met Samuel Johnson. The two became intimate and Seward became a member of the Essex Head Club that Johnson had founded. Johnson also provided him with a recommendation to James Boswell when he visited Edinburgh and the Highlands in 1777. He made a western tour of England in August 1781, indulging his hypochondria liberally by consulting "a doctor, apothecary or chemist" in every town where he stopped, according to Fanny Burney.〔''The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay'', Ed. W. C. Ward, 1 (London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1892), I, 219.〕 Two years later he was in Paris, and then in Flanders studying the pictures of Claude Lorrain. Meanwhile he had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1779.
When Johnson died in 1784, Seward helped the classical scholar Samuel Parr to compose his epitaph.〔ODNB entry: (Retrieved 27 June 2011. Subscription required. )〕 In 1788, Seward was thought to be suffering from mental illness and was confined to a straitjacket for a time. Four years earlier, Mrs Thrale had recorded being "plagued… with a Visit from Seward, who I think is going out of his Senses by the oddity of his Behaviour."〔''Thraliana: the diary of Mrs. Hester Lynch Thrale (later Mrs. Piozzi), 1776–1809''. Ed. K. C. Balderston, 2nd e., 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951). Quoted in ODNB entry.〕 She also recorded a proposal of marriage from him after she was widowed in 1781.
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