Horne Tooke sounds like a chap who belongs here:
Horne was confined in the king's bench prison, where he contracted gaol fever and started drinking claret as a cure, although he later attributed the gout from which he suffered for the rest of his life to the alcohol he consumed in prison. He was permitted to pay for decent accommodation outside the prison walls but 'within the rules', and was frequently visited by friends and dined on a weekly basis at the Dog and Duck public house in St George's Fields. During his imprisonment Horne wrote A Letter to Mr Dunning on the English Particle (1778), in which he devotes much attention to the etymologies of words and grammatical standards concerning prepositions and conjunctions. The letter was originally conceived as a means of arguing that his conviction was wrong on account of some grammatical infelicities in the indictment. In time the Letter formed an integral part of Horne's major work, Diversions of Purley.
(Oxford Dictionary of Biography)
