Sir Timothy

Poor Claire, who passed through much severe servitude, from which Mary would fain have spared her, as she wrote once to Mr. Trelawny that this was one of her chief reasons for wishing for independence; but "Old Time," or "Eternity," as she called Sir Timothy, who certainly had no reason to claim her affection, was long in passing; and though a small allowance before

Mrs. Shelley Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti 1868

Mary's financial problems were in large part due to the awkward and ungracious behaviour of Shelley's father, Sir Timothy Shelley, who banned Mary – on pain of losing the income he provided for Percy Florence – from publishing any of Shelley's poetry or accompanying accounts of his life during Sir Timothy's own lifetime.

Mary Shelley (1797-1851) 2008

Narcissa went one day to visit Miss Thicket, who lived with her brother within less than a mile of our house, and was persuaded to walk home in the cool of the evening, accompanied by Sir Timothy, who, having a good deal of the brute in him, was instigated to use some unbecoming familiarities with her, encouraged by the solitariness of a field through which they passed.

The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

This is, at all events, the English writer's explanation; but it was a futile as well as a foolish thing for the cunning publisher to do, for he made them all his enemies, and Sir Timothy refused to pay a farthing of the printing account.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various

Shelley might see them twelve times a year in the presence of the Humes, the Westbrooks twelve times alone, and Sir Timothy and his family when they chose.

Mrs Shelley Rossetti, Lucy M 1890

She mentions an approach to Sir Timothy, through lawyers, abortive as yet; how she detests Genoa; “Hunt does not like me.”

Mrs Shelley Rossetti, Lucy M 1890

Shelley might see them twelve times a year in the presence of the Humes, the Westbrooks twelve times alone, and Sir Timothy and his family when they chose.

Mrs. Shelley Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti 1868

Any other man than the present member must have died long ago; but Sir Timothy

Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes Samuel Lover 1832

Narcissa went one day to visit Miss Thicket, who lived with her brother within less than a mile of our house, and was persuaded to walk home in the cool of the evening, accompanied by Sir Timothy, who, having a good deal of the brute in him, was instigated to use some unbecoming familiarities with her, encouraged by the solitariness of a field through which they passed.

The Adventures of Roderick Random Tobias George Smollett 1746