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Ireland, and in 1875 Stocqueler returned again to the United States, settling in Washington DC where found clerical work as a civil servant and gained some reputation as a Shakespearean scholar. Stocqueler, known at the time as Professor J H Siddons, died at
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Leaving Bombay hurriedly in a small Arab boat bound for the
Persian Gulf, Stocqueler embarked on a perilous journey during 1831 and 1832. Plans to investigate an overland route from the river Euphrates to Europe via Baghdad were foiled by war and plague and he was obliged to travel via the hazardous
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Stocqueler purchased his discharge from the army in 1824; he had obtained a clerical job with the Chief
Secretary to the Bombay Government but his increasingly radical views and interest in the press made him unpopular. He made a visit to England returning to Bombay in 1827 with printing materials.
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Stocqueler met aspiring actress Mary Agnes Cameron, nearly forty years his junior. They performed together, giving readings in Canada and New England, where he pretended she was his niece. They sailed together to England in 1864 and their son was born later that year. Two
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in New York was interrupted by the onset of the Civil War but
Siddons (as he was now known) offered some military instruction to Unionist recruits. He then lectured in Canada and New England, before going back to England to recruit artisans who would emigrate and take up manufacturing work in the
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was born in the following year. A second son born in
Calcutta died in infancy. Following a long separation from her husband, and time in England, Jane Stocqueler and Edwin departed for the Victorian gold fields in Australia. Edwin, an artist, was present on the Bendigo gold fields during the
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Stocqueler was frequently in financial difficulties. He used family money (including all the assets of a wealthy maiden aunt) and faced bankruptcy on several occasions, even once using sequestration under Scottish law to evade further
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Buctarian mountains in Persia, apparently never before crossed by a white man. He survived sickness and attack and eventually reached the Black Sea and a ship to Odessa, where he was quarantined. He then journeyed across Europe encountering the exiled Polish general
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Stocqueler also fathered three children, between 1852 and 1857, in an adulterous affair with Mrs Louise
Wardroper. Two children, Arthur and Marion Stocqueler Wardroper, survived. Arthur became a clergyman and Marion was the mother of the songwriter and film actor
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Hayward Stocqueler was born 21 July 1801 in Abchurch Lane, City of London and baptized 25 August 1801 at the Portuguese Embassy Chapel in London. His father was Joachim Christian Stocqueler, son of the Italian opera singer
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for several years. He tutored candidates for military colleges and was involved with the short-lived Cavalry College in Richmond. His reputation was not helped by suggestions of involvement in the illegal sale of army commissions.
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The Military Encyclopædia; A Technical, Biographical, and Historical Dictionary, referring exclusively to the Military Sciences, the Memoirs of Distinguished Soldiers, and the Narratives of Remarkable Battles
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At intervals from 1860 to his death, Stocqueler used the surname Siddons, mainly in the United States of America and, at times in Britain, claiming that he was the illegitimate son of George Siddons, son of
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The Wellington Manual, being a compilation from the dispatches of ... the Duke of Wellington, embracing his sentiments on various points relating to military discipline and administration, &c
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imprisonment in London. Then sensationally, in 1859 he ran away during a court hearing in Maidstone, Kent and escaped, under the pseudonym of Siddons, to New York.
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the actress. Although apparently believed by some of his family, this claim was vehemently disputed by Sarah Siddons’s true great-grand-daughter, the actress
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daughters followed and then in London, when he was almost 69 and Jane Stocqueler had died in Bombay, Stocqueler married Mary Cameron at Holy Trinity,
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India: its history, climate, productions, and field sports; with notices of European life and manners, and of the various travelling routes
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mid-1850s, where he painted several scenes of the diggings. Jane Stocqueler died in Bombay in 1870, and Edwin in London in 1895.
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A Familiar History of the United States of America from the date of the earliest settlements down to the present time
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in 1843, bound for Suez. He travelled via Egypt and Italy to London, which he made his home for the next 16 years.
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The Canadian Volunteers' hand-book : a compendium of military facts and suggestions adapted to field service
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and, as its editor, gave it a liberal focus but at times annoyed local residents. Stocqueler also published the
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The Emigrant's Friend; a true guide to the emigrant proceeding to New York, Boston, Philadelphia or the Canadas
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The Oriental Interpreter and Treasury of East India Knowledge : companion to The Handbook of British India
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on 19 July 1870. In 1875, the family settled in the United States. The most famous of the three children was
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The British Soldier: an anecdotal history of the British Army from its earliest formation to the present time
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Fifteen Months Pilgrimage through Untrodden Tracts in Khuzistan and Persia... in the Years 1831 and 1832
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Carpenter, Audrey T. (April 11, 2016). "Which Is the Pseudonym: J. H. Stocqueler or J. H. Siddons?".
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The Handbook of India, A guide to the Stranger and the Traveller, and a Companion to the Resident
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in south London. He was a charismatic lecturer and provided the commentary for dioramas at the
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was established at his suggestion. He was involved with theatrical performances in fashionable
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by Anthony Walshe, revised and enlarged by J H Stocqueler. London: W. Thacker & Co., 1855.
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A Familiar History of the British army, from the Restoration in 1660 to the Present Time
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The Old Field Officer; or, the military and sporting adventures of Major Worthington
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Westminster, London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1935
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In 1844 Joachim Hayward Stocqueler was married. by the Rev. Charles Wesley at
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553:. Two volumes. London: Ingram, Cooke, and Company, 1853; Philadelphia: 1855.
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The Overland Companion: being a guide for the traveller to India via Egypt
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home at 2006 13th Street NW, Washington, DC on 14 March 1886, not 1885 in
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Fifteen Months Pilgrimage through Untrodden Tracts in Khuzistan and Persia
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Yankeeland in her Trouble: An Englishman's Correspondence during the War
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The British Officer, His Position, Duties and Emoluments and Privileges
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London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938
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Norton’s Hand-book to Europe: or, How to Travel in the Old World
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In North America he continued to write and lecture; a post at
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Military Catechism and Handbook of Regimental Standing Orders
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Stocqueler married Jane Spencer in Bombay in 1828; their son
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Memorials of Affghanistan... between the Years 1838 and 1842
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FIBIS: The Journal of the Families in British India Society
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A Resouceful Rogue: Joachim Hayward Stocqueler (1801-1886)
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A Resouceful Rogue: Joachim Hayward Stocqueler (1801-1886)
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Stevenson, Richard, ‘The Cavalry College at Richmond’,
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562:. 2 vols. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1854.
808:La Belle France and the Maid of Orleans. 1868
790:The Camp of Silesia; or the Gypsy Queen. 1847
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445:and as the grandfather-in-law of the writer
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697:Polkamania: an apropos bagatelle in one act
678:The Language and Literature of Shakespeare
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514:. London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1850.
319:As a journalist Stocqueler observed the
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472:. Calcutta: W. Rushton & Co., 1840.
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544:. London: G. Routledge and Co., 1853.
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506:A Catechism of Field Fortifications
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594:The War in Italy, and all about it
300:East India United Services Journal
273:Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge
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646:The Memoirs of a Journalist
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745:Emigration, the Remedy
703:The Three Fra Diavolos
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338:The Battle of The Alma
321:First Anglo-Afghan War
269:Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki
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715:An Object of Interest
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994:Bygone Days in India
844:Calcutta (1833–1842)
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