William Gosling
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| Portrayed by Tom Sturridge | |
| Full Name | William Augustus Gosling |
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| Associated Noble House(s) | Dukedom of Leighton |
| Date of Birth | August 29, 1782 |
| Father | Andrew Gosling |
| Father's Rank | Duke of Leighton |
| Mother | Sophia Gosling |
| Mother's Rank | Duchess of Leighton |
| Town Residence | Gosling House, Park Street |
| School | Eton |
| University | Oxford |
| Profession | Gentleman of Leisure |
Personality & appearance
History
Childhood
Adulthood
1811
Week of 8 April
Week of 15 April
Week of 22 April
Week of 30 April
Week of 6 May
On Tuesday Will attends the theatre and glimpses Kate Steele who is being chatted up by Nathaniel Scarborough. [1]. Wednesday finds him at Almacks with his brother. He stands up with Miss Lazenby. They trade barbs. [2]. He also, perversely, snatches Annabelle Beacham away from his brother for a set [3]. The next day, William is chuffed to receive a note from Kate Steele inviting him to join her for a game of backgammon. [4]. Naturally, he answers her summons. They finally 'play backgammon' (spawning a treasured euphamism on the board.)[5]
Week of 13 May
On Tuesday evening William and Nick (and the whole rest of London) attend the ridotto at Vauxhall. There he runs into a girl who will not give her name and then his cousin Catherine [6]. Though he was meant to dine with Lord and Lady Coke, he instead follows Catherine to greet the Duke and Duchess of Leicester, interrupting their dinner with the Mulhollands [7]. Afterwards, he gets very drunk and ends up roaring up at the bedroom window of a lover,Eliza Atwood, at 5 in the morning.
By the time they arrive at the Fitzgerald Ball, he Gosling brothers are barely on speaking terms. Will dances the first with Camille Thornton, a widow and an ex-lover, largely because he imagines it will irritate his brother [8]. He has the second dance with Jemima Palmer -- who reminds him far too much of Kate [9]. After the second dance he see and requests an introduction to the Russian Lady Avreya Voronstova. They flirt outrageously and he ends up promising to fetch her a red rose from the house's gardens, despite the rain and then asks her to meet him after the 7th dance, in the library [10]. Her chaperone having tried and failed to arrange for her to stand up with the Duke of Leighton, Lunete d'Aubin dances the third with William [11].
Relationships
Romantic entanglements
A brief history of William Gosling's more material lovers. A work in progress, naturally.
Marion Swift (summer 1808), Cassie's sister, a closely-held secret.
Cecily _____
Diana Harper
Camille Thornton (winter 1810/1811), widowed, heartbroken countess encountered at a hunting party weekend
Clare Satchwell (summer, 1811), his landlord's wife.
Eliza Atwood (summer 1811), very freshly widowed baroness, needy lover, laudanum addict.
Sarah Bainbridge (summer 1811), a debutante whose parents really ought to have chaperoned her better.
Katharine Steele (summer, 1811) another widowed countess, and a feisty one.
Reference threads
- ↑ Waiting With Wine http://www.thelondonliferpg.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1561-the-kings-theatre-haymarket-waiting-with-wine/
- ↑ 99 Problems http://www.thelondonliferpg.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1831-almacks-assembly-halls-dancing-around-the-lies-we-tell/
- ↑ Dancing Around The Lies We Tell http://www.thelondonliferpg.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1831-almacks-assembly-halls-dancing-around-the-lies-we-tell/
- ↑ Krom KS to WG http://www.thelondonliferpg.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1967-from-ks-to-wg/
- ↑ Il Connaît L'univers Et Il Ne Se Connaît Pas http://www.thelondonliferpg.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1971-steele-house-il-connaît-l’univers-et-ne-se-connaît-pas/
- ↑ ...but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?http://www.thelondonliferpg.com/forums/index.php?/topic/2449-but-who-can-tell-the-mischief-which-the-very-virtuous-do/
- ↑ Ain't this fun http://www.thelondonliferpg.com/forums/index.php?/topic/2436-aint-this-fun/
- ↑ How long within this wood intend you stay? http://www.thelondonliferpg.com/forums/index.php?/topic/2735-how-long-within-this-wood-intend-you-stay/
- ↑ We were victims of the night, the chemical, physical, kryptonite http://www.thelondonliferpg.com/forums/index.php?/topic/2804-we-were-victims-of-the-night-the-chemical-physical-kryptonite/
- ↑ To abandon themselves unblushingly to all their passions and laugh at everything else. http://www.thelondonliferpg.com/forums/index.php?/topic/2811-to-abandon-themselves-unblushingly-to-all-their-passions-and-laugh-at-everything-else/?p=38556
- ↑ I danced in the moon and the stars and the sun http://www.thelondonliferpg.com/forums/index.php?/topic/2884-i-danced-in-the-moon-and-the-stars-and-the-sun/