A-Z of Entries

1.4.1794 at Jennings' / 2.4.1794 in Newgate with Gerrald & many / 18.6.1795 at Parkinson's with Thelwall & Beaumont / 11.3.1800 theatre adv Stevenson & sharer / 19.8.1801 Despard & Stevenson call / 10.7.1802 theatre adv Stevenson / 14.9.1805 meet / 23.7.1806 at Joseph Johnson's / 28.1.1807 at Lauderdale's with Maitland / 8.5.1810 Godwin calls on / 10.5.1810, 17.5.1810, 31.5.1810, 17.6.1810, 15.7.1810, 20.9.1810, 24.9.1810 & 26.9.1810 Stevenson calls / 31.7.1811 call on Stevenson (King St) / 27.8.1814 Stevenson beggar calls / 1.10.1814 C(harles) C(lairmont) from…

5.2.1795 dr Stevenson adv at King's / Stevenson 18.3.1795 adv at King's /  4.4.1796 Stevenson at King's / 26.4.1798 again / 7.11.1798 again / 16.1.1799 again

James Stevenson son of Hugh Stevenson surgeon of Egham, Surrey (will PCC 1792). Morning Chronicle 17.11.1788 a dispute concerning Sir Joseph Mawbey and a game of whist at Staines. Sun 20.2.1795 defendant in case brought by Ross, wine merchant. From 1802-7 involved in Chancery disputes with John King's stepson Augustus Butler Danvers. The Morning Chronicle 2.2.1811 described him as surgeon to John King. The Hampshire Telegraph…

walking Stuart 12.2.1792 at Holcroft's / 28.5.1793 Stuart calls / 12.2.1798 Stewart at Fordyce's / 31.1.1800 Stewart calls / 19.2.1800 meet Stewart / 26.3.1800 Stewart col at King's / 5.6.1800 meet Stewart / 9.9.1800 Stewart at Taggart's / 16.10.1800 meet W Stewart / 21.1.1802 W Stewart calls / 8.8.1805 W Stuart calls / 2.1.1806 W Stewart calls / 2.12.1806 W Stewart calls / 6.5.1807 W Stewart calls (not seen) / 18.5.1807 Stewart calls / 26.6.1807 W Stuart calls / 4.7.1807 W Stuart calls / 12.3.1808 J Stewart calls / 30.12.1808 Stewart calls

John "Walking" Stewart DNB 1747-1822.…

col Stewart 26.3.1800 at John King's

Lots of Colonel Stewarts in Army Lists. Col James Stewart of Cooks Town Ireland subscr 1798 to D R O'Conor pro-Catholic work

26.9.1809 call on Stewart, C House

Coded in GD website to John 'Walking' Stewart DNB 1747-1822, but should be Rev John Stewart of Charterhouse. Wife Eliza, dau Louisa married Francis Eccles Barker of Admiralty Office (Cornish Archives TF/2649)

Stirley calls 26.10.1797

20.11.1809 call on Stockdales

John Stockdale 1749-1814 bookseller 180 (or 108?) Piccadilly, or his son John Joseph Stockdale bookseller at 41 Pall Mall

Stodart, G S at H(olcrof)ts 13.5.1798 / 19.7.1802 miss Stodart at Nicholson's

William Stodart of Golden Square. member Socy for Encouragement of Arts Manuf Commerce 1798-1800 / Mrs & Wm Stodart Land Tax 1798 Golden Square East / Holdens 1811 M & W Stodart grand piano manufacturers 1 Golden Sq / will PCC 1841 William Stodart 3 Avenue Rd Regents Park piano manufacturer mentioned son Matthew dau Marian wife of Charles Gurneys, exec Geo Stodart of 11 Russell Sq Bloomsbury / Robert Stodart pianoforte maker 99 Wardour st Soho 1789 / Mathew Stodart bapt 5.11.1783 St Ann Manchester…

6.4.1796 breakfast at Sts / 21.4.1796 J St at Tobin's / 24.7.1796 call on S (adv Tobin)

In Godwin's 1796 list for 1796 (crossed out) but this is not coded to his person record on GD website. The three entries above should also be added to John Stoddart on GD website

theatre, Stoke; School for Scandal & Catharine 8.8.1797

On GD website this entry is event tagged but the link is empty. This visit is covered in Godwin's letter to Mary Wollstonecraft (Abinger c40 f74-5). The "company of strollers" was based at Newcastle-under-Lyme. Catharine was David Garrick's adaptation of William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew

10.3.1809 dine at Johnson's, w. Dr Stokes &c

Maybe Jonathan Stokes DNB 1755?-1831, or his son Jonathan Richard Stokes (d.1818), or maybe Whitley Stokes DNB 1763-1845

tea, Stone 6.6.1797

Clearly the place Stone in Staffordshire

Stone 31.1.1795 at King's / 15.3.1795 again.

The William Stone who was acquitted of treason in January 1796 seems to have been arrested in May 1794 and kept in Newgate till his trial. He had been a member of the Society of Constitional Informaqtion and was a coal merchant at Rutland Place, Thames Street with his brothers John Hurford and Henry. A (presumably different) William Stone spoke in early July 1795 at a meeting of merchants at London Tavern, perhaps he was the William Stone wine merchant of 2, Northumberland Street, Strand in 1791. There was also Francis Stone DNB 1738-1813…

6.8.1793 Stone, taylor (in small writing).

Perhaps John Stone tailor of 79 Leather Lane (1800) and of 24 King St Holborn (1806 Sun Fire Insurance).

see Poland Street 1 to 9 & 49 to 62 in London Addresses dataset

William Stone, taylor of Poland Street sat on a Westminster coroners jury (London Lives 1781) and paid rates at 3 Poland St 1780-1782. William Stone tailor of Church St (St Anne Soho) voted Fox 1780. William Stone bach = St Marylebone 14.4.1787 Esther Jones sp botp by banns / William Stone buried St James 3.1.1790 / William Robert s of William & Esther…

Storch 16.3.1803 at Joseph Johnson's

A close look at the original confirms the GD website has mistranscribed this, should be Sturch (see Sturch, William)

Stavin 26.5.1789 at Timothy Hollis' & Stovin 18.5.1790, 13..1790,, 24.8.1790, 7.9.1790 there.

The first Stavin looks like an error for Stovin given the similar context. Stavin is also a very rare name though there was one John Sparrow Stavin. Best candidate for Stovin is George Stovin appr to Henry Atkinson attorney of Ripon Yorks 1777; 9.5.1788 George Stovin Esq of Newark, Notts bach marr Diana Sabine sp otp by lic at St Marylebone, wits Anna Maria Lawes, H Michell, John Wylde; 1792 Charles Beckett & John A Baumbach appr to George Stovin attorney of Thornhaugh St, Bedford…

Stow 30.11.1793 at Wrights

Mr James Stow Navy Office subscr 1788 to Bell's Shakspere / James Stow line engraver appr William Sharp. of 1 Park Row Knightsbridge voted Fox & Gardner 1796  / John Stow gent Exeter St Covent Garden voted Tooke 1796 greengrocer Exeter St voted Graham 1802

Stracy 12.3.1795 at King's.

Farington diary p4254 (18.11.1812) bankers Marsh Sibbald Stracey Fauntleroy & Stewart of Berners St

King of The Swindlers: Stracy a military officer said to have been swindled by Deane & Co, supposedly run by John King, back in 1783

Asks of R C; talks of Strafford & Leland 30.7.1800 at Grattan's

From the entry of the night before, these subjectless verbs probably referred to Grattan. R C is uncoded (neither identified nor unidentified) on GD website. At a reasonable guess it may have referred to John Philpot Curran's eldest son Richard, whom Godwin may have seen more recently than Grattan had (see Curran, Richard). Leland probably referred to Thomas Leland DNB 1722-1785 whose History of Ireland Godwin had looked at on 27.7.1800 and was to read further in the next few days, and Strafford to Thomas Wentworth…

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Thomas George Street of 4, Cowley St, Westminster proposed member 4.11.1792 by Joseph Gerrald 2nded Joseph Jennings

GODWIN DIARY: 25.11.1794 at Parr's / 26.11.1794 at Mackintosh's / 5.3.1796 at Parr's / 19.4.1800 again / 31.10.1801 at D Stuart's (wrongly transcribed as Sheet in GD website).

Editor of the Courier. His poem Aura the Slave was published 1788 and the first volume of his History of the Reign of Lewis the Sixteenth, dedicated to Samuel Parr, in 1794. The other two projected volumes never appeared and according to Parr this…