Dorroty 26.1.1800 at John King's / 9.2.1800 Dogherty at John King's / 16.3.1800 again / 5.6.1800 again / 8.10.1800 meet Dogherty (& Goold) / 9.10.1800 meet Dogherty / 11.10.1800 again / 17.10.1800 Dogherty at theatre / 9.12.1800 meet Dogherty / 11.1.1801 again / 30.4.1801 again / 11.10.1808 Dogherty at theatre
Quite likely Hugh Doherty Esq. (often spelt Dogherty) brother of John Doherty DNB 1783-1850 son of John Doherty attorney of Dublin. Cornet in 29th Light Dragoons eloped in 1802 with 15 year old Ann Holmes daughter of Thomas Hunter formerly Holmes, a wealthy East India merchant who had tried to prevent the match but after their marriage he relented and loaned Doherty £1500. Hugh and Ann had a son Hugh Holmes Doherty. The architect Philip William Wyatt who had been friends with the Dohertys told Thomas Hunter that Doherty was mistreating his daughter and he confined Doherty for debt, and Wyatt cohabited with Ann Doherty. Doherty got a scandalous account of the affair published in "The Discovery" (1807) and Ann wrote a novel "Ronaldsha" which Doherty advertised. Her father successfully sued Doherty for libel. Doherty successfully sued Wyatt for adultery and a bill for divorce was laid before Parliament in 1813 but as far as I can tell never passed. Ann then married John Attersole and wrote more novels, moving to France and mixing with Russian royalty, her last partner being Dominique de la Piqueliere. Doherty fathered a daughter Ann Mylne Doherty in Edinburgh in 1815, attempted to launch a newspaper in 1818 and to organise charity for Irish distress in 1822. He also sold an "Anti-Cholera Tincture". When Ann died in 1832 she was allowed to leave £7000 that had been left her by her family, but the rest of her effects were considered to belong to Doherty's creditors. After her death Doherty married Ann Philippa Bennell. Doherty's son had died in India after marrying and having a son Hugh Morris Doherty, who died in London aged 6 in 1833, shortly after which Doherty died at Calais where he had been living for some years. This is a very compressed version of a long saga, but it makes sense that a lifelong debtor like Doherty would have been a regular at John King's. See Morning Post 28.5.1802, 14.6.1806, 17.10.1807, 30.1.1808, Sun 13.5.1808, Morning Post 25.5.1808, St James Chronicle 15.11.1810, Star 27.2.1811 National Register 23.2.1812, Morning Post 18.6.1813, Morning Chronicle 31.12.1817, 26.4.1821, Morning Advertiser 29.4.1822, Sun 6.5.1822, 24.5.1822, 8.6.1822, Morning Advertiser 14.5.1825
Holdens Directory 1811: Col. Dogherty 165 Sloane-st (will Patrick PCC 1837) / Hugh Doherty, Esq. 27 Bury-st, St James' (will PCC 1847) / J Doherty, Esq. 13 Westmoreland-pl, City-rd (will James PCC 1843) / 1805: Hugh Dogharty, Esq. 3 Queen Ann-st West / Mrs Teresa Elizabeth Doherty, Hampstead Heath / Wm. Doherty japanner 31 St John's-sq, Clerkenwell
Thomas Dogherty DNB d. 1805 his will PCC 1805 mentioned wife Ann and daughters Ann Hester & Catherine Frances. The DNB says he left a large family unprovided for. He might have been the Dogherty at King's but died before the last entry.