[PB: Is this from Mary Tasker's dissertation? Check against the scan of the original. Harmonise the page refs. Clarify where some entries do not have page numbers. NB I have not yet followed up the names JCB provides, e.g. Barker, Holmes, Col. Wyndham. Must do so.]
"In the copy of this book which went to Hal was a letter from J.C.Buckmaster to T.Fisher Unwin (dated later 8.2.04) which explained some of the disguised names. He appears never to have sent it."
p.6, "Claywick" = Slapton *
p.3, "Oxenbridge" = Uxbridge *
p.4, "Menister" = Barker
p.19, "Shoemaker" = Holmes
p.29, "Norcot" = Northall
"Tapper"" = Dowbiggin
"Trinkwasser"" = Bridgewater
p.131, "Wiverton" = Tiverton *
p.123 — read on to 159, "Hockey" = Liphook
"Polesfield"" = Petersfield *
public house in the square "The Jolliffes"
[???] awful, Jones
"Dighurst" = Midhurst *
p.171, "Grundle" = Arkwright *
"Fogmoor" = Bognor *
"Fin" = Chichester
"Betworth" = Petworth
"Grindham" = Col. Wyndham
"Chalker" = Andover
"Barne" = Calne *
"Ramsdown" = Lansdown
"Balborough" = Marlborough
"Arlingford" = Wallingford
p.225, "Wackem" = Wickham
p.227, "Loger" = Haynes
Ch XI, "Matterson" = Patison
"Floring"" = Baring
Names identified with an * above are identified in the Caliban edition, which also identifies:
"Flatover" = Andover
"Saltbury" = Salisbury
"Finchester" = (probably) Chichester
"Detworth" = Petworth
"Chalkover" = Wendover
"Gippham" = Chippenham
"Bolborough" = Marlborough
PB: The following are my identifications- with page refs to the Caliban edition:
"Buckley" = John Buckmaster
"Two gravel diggers from the common" — they have yet to be identified, but this is of course Wandsworth Common.
p.305 "Six acres enclosed"" = within the area now called "the Scope", between Lyford Rd and Trinity Rd
p.306, "the adjacent common"" = Clapham Common
p.307, "A gentleman... I had opposed"" = Henry Peek MP
p.314, "One stupid young fellow"" = Samuel Sullings
p.321, "Wrigsby" = Digby
p.322, "Dobs? Perhaps in effect "Anyman", but could it be George Todd?
p.331-333, "A low, drunken, unprincipled lawyer" — this was TAF Reynolds — JCB he was no less opposed to ? Corsellis, for many of the same reasons, so it is possible he embraces both within the same account.
p.335, "Bishop Wilberforce", son of William Wilberforce, widely referred to as "Soapy Sam".
p.336, "The lord of the manor" = John Poyntz Spencer, 5th Earl
"the new vicar" — ? forename Erskine Clarke (1827-1920)
"The iron church"" = St Mark's, Battersea Rise
"My eldest son"" = Stanley Owen Buckmaster (1861-1934), future Lord Chancellor, and Viscount Buckmaster