The 18th to 19th Centuries
18 July 2026 - It would seem that a lot of other pages relating to the 18th and 19th centuries wrt the regining monarch and what was happening in the village have not been updated.
This was in addition to the errors on this page.
The impressions that found this page are looking for information on when the Regency Period was and/or the distiction between it and general Georgian.
Visit on 24 Feb 2026
The end of the 18th and the start of the 19th century.
There is an overlap between Belchamp Walter in the Regency into the reign of William IV and then Victoria.
Samuel Millbank suceeded to be the owner of Belchamp Hall in 1825.
17 July 2026 - This page is getting a lot of impressions but few hits. There seems to be an interest in when the Regency Period was and probably nothing to do with the village.
Simply quoting Wikipedia is not really going to cut it and that section can be moved to notes.
At this time, the end of the Regency period, the lands of the Manor or Belchamp Walter were administated by the Ruggles family (1741-1865).
The Regency era of British history is commonly described as the years between c.1795 and 1837, although the official regency for which it is named only spanned the years 1811 to 1820.
King George III first suffered debilitating illness in the late 1780s, and relapsed into his final mental illness in 1810; by the Regency Act 1811, his eldest son George, Prince of Wales, was appointed prince regent to discharge royal functions. When George III died in 1820, the Prince Regent succeeded him as George IV.
In terms of periodisation, the longer timespan is roughly the final third of the Georgian era (1714–1837), encompassing the last 25 years or so of George III's reign, including the official Regency, and the complete reigns of both George IV and his brother and successor William IV.
It ends with the accession of Queen Victoria in June 1837 and is followed by the Victorian era (1837–1901).
During the Regency period the fortunes of the Raymond family are interesting.
John Mayne St. Clere Raymond was born in 1814. He was destined to comission the Victorian "renovations"
of St, Mary's church and the "recovery" of the Belchamp Walter Estate from Thomas Ruggles in 1865.
The Regency Period - 1780's to 1837 - Final third of the Georgian era
The Regency period occured during later years of the reign of George III and then George IV on the death of his father George III.
The years that the period corresponded are the final years of the Georgian Era and directly preceeded the Victorian Era. The Regency Period covers the years 1780's to 1837 when Victoria became Queen. The reason that it is called the "Regency Period" is that George the fourth was the Prince Regent to George the third.
The Regency spanned the reigns of George IV, the Prince Regent and William IV, his younger brother.
The term "Regency" refers to the fact that George IV was defacto king as Prince Regent when his father George III was incapacitated.
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Rural England in the Regency Period
The years 1780 to 1837 saw England as pretty much an argicultural society. The Napoleanic wars were raging 1801 to 1814 but as far as the English countryside was concerned this probably wasn't an issue.
The madness of George III
...... the bizarre behavior of George III (1738–1820), the British monarch who was commonly said to have "gone mad" after losing England's North American colonies to the American Revolution. Modern medical experts now believe King George suffered from a metabolic disorder known as porphyria, and The Madness of King George deals with the political machinations that took place as the king's illness incapacitated him, both physically and mentally, for extended periods of time.
