WILLICH, Charles Madinger (1792-1867) — London
Lithographer, printer and publisher; actuary. Generally trading as the ‘Lithographic Press’, he produced Gideon Algernon Mantell, Geological map of the south-eastern part of Sussex 1820; James Wyld 1, Gorran Haven 1820; Mundi antiqui tabula and other maps for ‘The pastorals of Virgil : with a course of English reading adapted for schools’, edited by Robert John Thornton 1821, the maps drawn on stone by James Wyld 1, with other plates by William Blake; George Overton, A plan and section of an intended railway or tram road from or near the Navigation House in the parish of Llanvabon to or near the White House Bridge near the town of Cardiff 1823; A plan of the proposed Clarence rail road from Sim Pasture to Haverton Hill on the river Tees 1827; A map of Colombia, exhibiting its mountains, rivers, departments, and provinces 1827, etc. Also published a number of pamphlets on the West Indies and the slave trade, and later compiled ‘Tithe commutation tables for ascertaining at sight the amount of corn-rent in bushels’ 1837; ‘Income tax tables : showing at sight the amount of duty’ 1842; ‘Popular tables for ascertaining, at sight, the value of advowsons and next presentations to livings’ 1846; ‘Popular tables arranged in a new form, giving information at sight for ascertaining according to the Carlisle table of mortality, the value of lifehold, leasehold, and church property, renewal fine, &c.’ 1852; ‘Finance. Letters on the income tax; conversion of consols; savings banks and friendly societies’ 1852; ‘The new succession and legacy duty tables’ 1854, etc.
Born in Birmingham in 1792 and baptised in full as Charles Arnold Madinger Willich on 6 Oct 1793 at St. Peter & St. Paul, Aston, the son of Anthony Florian Madinger Willich (d.1805), a physician, and his wife Margaret. The family were living in London by 1801, the year in which Willich’s father became a member of the Royal Society of Arts. An 1817 Willich letter to Joseph Banks is in the Natural History Museum. Two insurance policies dated 1819 in LMA, both recording Willich as a lithographic printer. He subsequently became an actuary and insurance agent, appointed Secretary and Actuary of the University Life Office by 1827 and serving in that capacity for the next forty years. Letters to the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 1829-1843 in UCL. Elected a member of the Royal Society of Arts in 1836. He married the widow Anna Agnetha Wilhelmine Schultze (1793?-1868), born at Cuxhaven, at St. Martin in the Fields 20 Nov 1845. His clerk Franz Wilhelm Schultze, presumably a relative of his wife, was arrested at the Royal Hotel in Leeds a few days after Christmas 1846, having stolen nearly £1,000 in high denomination banknotes and coin from Willich’s safe on Christmas Day. Passports were issued to Willich and his wife in 1851. Letters 1851-1860 in RGS, also an 1862 letter on the quadrature of the circle in the Royal Society archives. The 1861 census records him resident in Suffolk Street with his wife, a niece, and three servants. He died at home 20 Mar 1867 and was buried at Kensal Green 28 Mar 1867. His will, proved 27 Apr 1867, noted effects of under £5,000, with his widow the sole executrix. At her own death the following year, her effects were sworn at under £40,000.
9 Finch Lane, Cornhill — 1819
1 Fludyer Street, Westminster — 1819
9 Fludyer Street, Westminster — 1819
10 King Street, Westminster — 1820
6 Dartmouth Street, Westminster — 1820-1822
4 Pickett Street, Temple Bar — 1822-1823
8 Pickett Street, Temple Bar — 1823-1827
29 Bedford Street, Covent Garden — 1829
— 6 Suffolk Place (home) — 1834-1846
24 Suffolk Street, Pall Mall — 1836-1855
— and 25 Suffolk Street, Pall Mall — 1843-1865
— 2 Montpelier Square, Rutland Gate (home) — 1867
BM. BNA. Census 1851-1861. LHD. NA. OB. Todd. Twyman.