GODWIN DIARY see his person record in GD website. Godwin first met him in 1807 presumably in his professional capacity as an attorney.. HCR diary 25.4.1818 "Longdale has an almost Jewish face - is a confident talker, high in his politics & manners - and yet a friend of Shelley"
CRABB ROBINSON DIARY Longdill or Longdale 24.2.1818 / 25.4.1818 / 14.2.1819 / 28.6.1819 / 4.9.1819 / 18.12.1820 (Mrs Montagu's comments re Mrs Longdill) / 22.7.1821 news of Mrs Longdill's death / 25.2.1822 (Mrs Aders' dream of Mrs Longdill) / 26.1.1823 news of Mr Longdill's madness / 23.5.1823 news of Mr Longdill's death / 27.6.1823 / 9.11.1823 / 23.2.1824 / Mary Longdill 15.1833 / P W Longdill junior 31.3.1836 (travelling for Aders) / 9.11.1836 / 11.8.1837 / 29.1.1840 / 12.10.1841 / 6.6.1842 / Selina Longdill junior 8.8.1842 / Reminiscences 19.10.1857
For most of this story see my Background Article 3 Wives, 3 Husbands Living (paragraphs 27 to 30)
Gazetteer 3.5.1774 "Last Sunday arrived at her moorings in the river the Joseph, Proud Longdill, from Amsterdam". Benjamin Prowde Longdill son of Prowde & Margery bapt 24.8.1776 St Andrew Holborn. SunFire 1777 Proud Longdill, master mariner, Old Gravel Lane, Ratcliff. Proude Longdill of Whitby, Yorks bach = St Andrew Holborn 14.5.1779 Margery Wilmot sp otp. Pynson Wilmot Longdill son of Prowde & Margery bapt 10.1.1780 St George in the East, Stepney. Sun Fire 1782 Proud Longdill, master mariner, Essex St, Strand.
Paeson Woodforde's Diary 17 March 1794: (thanks to Carole Child for this information. The location is in Norfolk)
Mr and Mrs Carbould, Miss Carbould and a little boy by name of Longdale, a relation of Mr Carboulds made us a morning Visit – I was in my Garden – They stayed with us about an hour, took a walk round my Garden being pleasant Weather, eat a dryed Apple apiece, and then walked back to Hungate-Lodge – They were very neatly dressed -
He was 14 at the time and is briefly mentioned, usually simply as accompanying the Carboulds on social visits, as John Carbould was then serving as Woodforde's curate. He ran messages, was seen in church and on one occasion borrowed Woodforde's old mare Jenny to go hare coursing. The last time he is mentioned was on 7 May 1797 by which time John Corbould had decided to resign his curacy of Weston Longville and had missed taking services which caused strained relations with Woodforde.
SunFire 1810 Pynson Wilmot Longdill 1, Sidmouth Place, Grays Inn lane. Holdens directory 1811 PWL & William Beckett solicitors, 1, Holborn Court, Grays Inn. Longdill & Butterfield, Grays Inn from 1813. Pynson Wilmot Longdill married 16.12.1809 at St Marylebone Selina daughter of John Raphael Smith, witnesses Thomas & Eliza Jackson. Their children:
1) Selina born 9.11.1810 bapt 10.1.1811 St Pancras, 8.8.1842 called on Crabb Robinson to enquire about Mary Hays, 1851 census at 5 Cambridge Terrace, Paddington unmarried governess age 40 visitor of boarding house keeper Ann Chick widow age 43, Crabb Robinson Reminiscences 19.10.1857 "single odd in her ways with eccentric talent", she died 27.3.1876 age 66 at 36 Belgrave Rd, St John's Wood.
2) Emma buried 2.1.1814 St Pancras age 1 month.
3) Pynson Wilmot born 3.9.1812 bapt 27.2.1816 St Pancras, married 26.6.1852 Harriet dau of George Blackiston Robinson. PWL Merchant 117 Fenchurch St 1855, 1861 residence 6 Ampthill Pl, Vassal Rd, North Brixton. Died 16.5.1875 age 63 Auckland New Zealand
4) Mary Adelle born 31.12.1815 bapt 27.2.1816 St Pancras, married at Exeter 16.6.1836 Frederic Pfeffel, merchant of Frankfurt, 8 children, living in 1876
5) Emily born 13.3.1818 married at Frankfurt 12.5.1851 Martin Krippner (see Dictionary of New Zealand Biography) and died 15.12.1890.
6) Fanny born 26.4.1820 bapt 13.5.1820 St Pancras probably died soon after.
7) Edward Benjamin Proude born 2.7.1821 bapt 28.3.1828 St Pancras, Madras Army records born 30.6.1821 died 14.6.1849 unmarried.
Their mother Selina died before 22.7.1821 buried 30.7.1821 St Pancras. Their father Pynson Wilmot died 21.5.1823 buried 28.5.1823 St Pancras age 43 from Sidmouth St. His will dated 17.8.1819 proved PCC 7.6.1823. Benjamin Proude Longdill married his cousin Elizabeth Charlotte Wilmot 25.12.1824 Lichfield Cathedral. His will dated 8.6.1829 surgeon in East India Company service of Exeter execs Ralph Smith of Inner Temple, Charles Aders & Walter Butterfield proved 30.7.1829, he was buried 18.6.1829 at St Sidwell's, Exeter. His widow died at Uxbridge 1852 age 74. His mother Margery died at Exeter 1829. See also Nat Arch C 124/874/1 for Shelley's proposal that the Longdills should be guardians of his children by his first wife Harriet, and the following C 13 records: 1485/65, 1739/8, 1772/5, 2183/24, 2190/29, 2198/18, 2617/10, & 2594/20 for Chancery cases involving PWL senior (not seen these)