SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Mudd of 11 Church St, Soho proposed 9.11.1792 by John Rae 2nded John Richter REJECTED
Mudd and Schieffer were both proposed by John Rae on 9.11.1792 and both rejected, only five other proposed members were ever rejected, (Agar, Gillespy. Ryland, Shelley and Favell who was later accepted). Rae was a new member (proposed on 19.10.1792 by Charles Sinclair) and withdrew on 14.12.1792 after William Sturch put a motion to expel him. Richter was a delegate from the London Corresponding Society and never became a member of the SCI so perhaps didn't have the right to second Mudd, but Schieffer was seconded by George Watts, a member, and was also rejected. Mudd had gone bankrupt the previous year but had obtained his certificate of conformity.
Mudd's father Richard Mudd married 1.7.1762 at Felsham, Suffolk, Reachel Hammond, they baptised 11 children between 1763 and 1786, Richard Mudd bapt 17.2.1763 at Felsham was the oldest. Their first child baptised at Gedding (next to Felsham) was in 1774. The Medical Register of 1779 listed Richard Mudd of Gedding, surgeon & apothecary. Gedding was 5 miles south east of Bury St Edmunds. 24.6.1783 deposition of Richard Mudd junior surgeon re: attempted assault at Cockfield, 5 miles south of Bury (Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich HD 1538/43/107). Mr Richard Mudd surgeon subscribed 1787 to Robert Hamilton's Duties of a Regimental Surgeon. Richard Mudd of St Pancras married at St James Piccy 1.7.1790 by lic Catharine Wheeler otp. This marriage occasioned a witty verse ascribed to one Agland "Lot's wife, we read, in days of old, for one rebellious halt, was chang'd, as we are plainly told, into a lump of salt! The same propensity to change, still runs in female blood; for here we find a case as strange, a maiden turn'd to Mudd".(This verse was reused probably spuriously in the Royal Cornwall Gazette of 13.10.1837 for the supposed marriage of Miss Mary Mayden to Richard Mudd, surgeon of Shepton Mallett). London Gazette 17.5.1791 Richard Mudd late of Tottenham Court Rd apothecary bankrupt, 12.11.1791 certificate. Richard Mudd Church St Soho ratebooks 1791, 1792. Morning Chronicle 12.1.1793 lease for sale of 9 Frith St, Soho, occ. Richard Mudd, Esq. Francis Pullin son of Richard & Catherine Mudd born 8.10.1793 bapt 16.1.1794 St Anne Soho. Maria Eleanor dau of Richard & Catherine Mudd born 16.10.1797 bapt 22.5.1798 St James Piccy. Catherine Mudd (adult) bur 18.12.1799 St James Piccy. Richard's brother Hammond was announced bankrupt as a linendraper of Ipswich (trading as Hammond, Mudd & C0) in the London Gazette of 23.1.1793, but Charles Wheeler and Hammond Mudd of 2, King St, Westminster grocers were insured SunFire 1796. Richard Mudd senior was buried at Gedding, Suffolk 7.7.1796 age 60. Dr Richard Mudd of Bridlington Quay was listed in Holden's 1811 directory. York Herald 13.7.1811 Richard Mudd of Bridlington Quay MD to appear to answer in £100 on 16.7.1811 at Beverley Quarter Sessions. Ipswich Journal 24.8.1811 died a few days ago at Bridlington, Yorks, Richard Mudd, MD, formerly of Bury. Bury & Norwich Post 2.5.1821 died on 26.4.1821 at Thorpe Morieux in her 78th year Rachel relict of Mr Richard Mudd, surgeon of Gedding Mudd's son Francis Pullin Mudd, a militia Lieutenant, died in 1860 near Sheffield. In the 1881 census Maria Mudd age 82 unmarried Family Nurse born London was a visitor at Earl Manvers' household at Thoresby Hall