A-Z of Entries

30.8.1797 Blenkinsop. Birth of Mary / 3.9.1797 Blenkinsop / 4.9.1797 Blenkinsop, puppies

Midwife

2.4.1810 dine at Tipper's, Cumberland, Bligh, Dr & mr Davis,  H Robinson, Crowe & J Richter / 18.4.1810 Curran, Cumberland, Wolcot, Bligh & T(homas) T(urner) dine

Bligh may have been Richard Bligh DNB 1780-1838 equity draftsman (24 Old-buildings Lincolns-inn 1811 Holdens) & legal reporter, about whom the DNB says very little. Richard Cumberland's London Review was published by Samuel Tipper and four quarterly issues of it appeared in 1809. Henry Crabb Robinson and G W Crowe who were also present at Tipper's wrote for it. However in one advert for the Review Bligh was…

22.7.1796 water party at B Gurney's, Wroxham

see Cabble.

Blogg & Son, limeburners & bricklayers, Wymer St Norwich, Bailey's 1784 / William Blogg bricklayer Norwich will 1788 / Samuel Blogg bricklayer Norwich Common Councillor &c 1788-1808

Joshua Blogg 1795 baker of Corpusty, Norfolk.

18.7.1796 Weybourn camp officers Blomfield

There were two officers in the Royal Artillery at the time, Thomas Blomefield DNB 1744-1822 Lt Col 5.12.1793, Col 26.1.1797 and Benjamin Bloomfield Captain 9.9.1794 will PCC 1846 Rt Hon Benjamin Baron Bloomfield. Since the camp was small and temporary and Major Judson was its commander (see Judgson, Thomas) Capt Benjamin B was perhaps more likely to have been the one Godwin met

4.10.1796 meet Allen, Stoddart, Bloxam / 6.11.1796 Allen, Bloxam call / 12.11.1796 Allen, Bloxam at Hayes's / 16.12.1796 at theatre / 22.11.1800 at Carlisle's / 31.3.1801 again / 4.8.1801 again / 6.2.1805 adv at Carlisle's / 6.5.1805 again / 26.8.1805 again / 10.12.1814 C(harles) C(lairmont) from Bloxam

The proximity to Allen three times in a row suggests they may have been friends. Robert Allen was a surgeon and Richard Bloxam surgeon and apothecary of Alcester Warwicks will PCC 1825 his sons Richard Rouse Bloxam master of Rugby School will PCC 1840, Samuel Anthony Bloxam 1st regt…

1.11.1795 dine at B P with Foulkes / 20.11.1806 dine Blue Posts / 15.7.1807 dine Blue Posts

May well be Blue Posts, Haymarket, a tavern much favoured by actors. Eight of the subscribers to George Parker's Life's Painter of Variegated Characters gave their address there

23.3.1809 Boardman calls

Only once in Godwin's diary.

Joseph Boardman gent of Kingsland, Mx will PCC 1817 dau Cicely Garnons widow of Rev John Garnons curate of All Hallows Barking & lecturer of All Hallows London Wall will PCC 1790, son Joseph Boardman of the Bank, gent; SunFire 1793 glazier of 19 Stewart-st Spitalfields & 63 Kingsland, 1803 at Mr Pace's Old-st; buried 2.12.1817 Bunhill Fields age 84 from Dalston / Thomas Holloway Boardman painter & cooper St Botolph Aldgate will PCC 1818. Several victuallers in London, and plenty of this name in Lancashire and…

Samuel Boddington proposed Socy for Const Info by Richard Price 19.3.1790 2nded Thomas Brand Hollis. West India merchant History of Parliament 1766-1843. See Godwin Diary website entry which I haven't examined though there is some uncertainty about distinguishing between Samuel and John Boddington. SB of Enfield subscr 1786 to Peacock's 6 Princesses, SB Hackney 1790 subscr to Hazlitt's Discourses, SB of 17 Mark Lane subscr 1791 to Socy for Prmoting Religious Knowledge among the Poor, SB = 24.2.1792 Grace dau of William Ashburner of Surat, honeymoon in Paris, SB Southgate subscr 1795 to…

Boisgelin 29.12.1799 at Lanesborough's / 5.1.1800 at John King's / 19.1.1800 at Lanesborough's / 21.1.1800 at John King's / 26.1.1800 again / 9.2.1800 again / 16.3.1800

Boisgelin has been identified on 17.11.1799 on the GD website but all the above subsequent entries have not been coded to him

Bolton 25.4.1804 at Carlisle's / 3.11.1807 call on Bolton (then Pickering) / 4.12.1807 call on Pickering adv Bolton / 3.5.1812 Boltons at John Poole's

Possible : Boyle's 1800, Holdens 1811 John Bolton 11 Greek St Soho surgeon to St Anne's parish voted Hood 1788 & 1790, Paull 1806, Burdett & Romilly 1818 his will PCC 1821

SOCY for CONST INFO : George Bond Esq of the Temple proposed 7.2.1783 Alured Shove 2nded Samuel Shore. In 1792 he was a signatory to the Friends of the People and to the Friends of the Liberty of the Press. DNB 1750-1796. See Ride, Ann in Greater Soho dataset for more on his personal life.

GODWIN DIARY:  Bond 8.12.1790 at Holcroft's, with Fenwick and Bishop. May be George Bond as above, or the singer below if Bishop (QV) was the musician

Nicholas B Esq Boyle's 1792 44 Sloane St / John B singer Worcester & London (Highfill, Burnim & Langhans)  / Oliver B (Trials…

14.9.1810 Bond (on sir R Corbett) calls

Sir Richard Corbett will PCC 1815 claimed to be the heir to Sir Richard Corbett 4th baronet will PCC 1774 but the books of baronetcy say the 4th baronet died unmarried and the baronetcy became extinct with him. The claimant was a son of Charles Corbett, a bookseller who went bankrupt and was therefore excluded from the estate in the 4th baronet's 7th codicil.. Public Ledger 14.3.1810 reported the claimant's Chancery case against Archdeacon Corbett formerly Joseph Plymley, and the case by archdeacon Corbett that the claimant should not be…

31.1.1795 at Powel's / 16.10.1801 calls / 11.8.1802 call with M(ary) J(ane)on E Bone / Godwin calls on 27.9.1809 / adv at Place's 14.7.1813.

John Bone, bookseller and muslin cleaner, member of London Corresp Socy, went bankrupt with William Hone in 1810. Bone & Hone booksellers &c 331 Strand. At 180 Fleet St (Holden's 1802) which was the address of J S Jordan, who published 1808 Bone's weekly journal The Reasoner. The Making of the Modern World database has no.13 online, the Bodleian have a copy, not seen by me, See work notes below

Elizabeth d c1830 wife of Henry…

GODWIN DIARY 4.1.1795 &c

John Augustus Bonney of Percy Street, Rathbone Place proposed 8,4.1791 by John Frost 2nded Joseph Adams. Born 1763 youngest son of Thomas Bonney rector of Ockham, Surrey 1710-1764 (son of Charles Bonney d.1744 woolstapler of Reading and his wife Elizabeth nee Armington d.1756) and Grace d.1776 dau of Chrstopher Key, receiver-general. Apprenticed 31.3.1779 to John Frost (DNB 1750-1842) attorney of St Pancras for 5 yrs premium £200. Married 23.9.1787 St Pancras Mary Johnson widow, wits Charles Tomkins, Tom Hague. She was probably born Mary Hague about 1762…

3 Bonnors 7.3.1802 at Perry's

Two people of this name in DNB either could have been at Perry's. Charles Bonnor DNB d1829? actor & civil servant and Thomas Bonnor DNB 1743-1807x12 draughtsman & engraver. Other Bonnors Thomas B paymaster of 15th foot will PCC 1801 mentioned Marianna B spinster of Gloster, John B of GPO London, Thos B of Pentonville engraver, William Gillies of Throckmorton St corn merchant and his wife Charlotte Hester / PCC 1823 Thomas Bonnor late of Spring Gardens Westminster and now of Lindsay Pl Chelsea / PCC 1833 Jane B wife of John B of Doughty St, St…

In Godwin's 1796 list for 1796 but not coded to his person record in GD website

4.8.1807 dine at Johnson's, w. Bonnycastle & son, &c / 29.12.1808 Hommey, & misses Bonnycastle & Yeates call / 7.1.1809 Knowles & miss Bonnycastle dine / 20.1.1809 dine at Johnson's, w. Bonnycastle & fille, &c

Charlotte born 1788 Lewisham = 1813 Henry Gritten, Lt. Royal Marine, wits. M F Hommey, W Hommey. Bonnycastle's only daughter, he had three sons Richard Henry, Capt. Royal Engineers, Humphrey born 1795, Charles b. 1796. Bonnycastle's wife was Bridget Newell (not…

5.2.1810 call on Bonsor / 9.2.1810 again / 2.11.1813 again / 1.8.1823 again / 18.8.1823 seek Bonsor / 10.8.1823 again / 22.8.1823 call on Bonsor / 2.10.1823 again / 28.10.1823 again / 5.4.1825 Guildhall; Bonsor &c / 25.5.1825 call on Bonsor

Joseph Bonsor printer & stationer 132 Salisbury-sq, Fleet-st (1768-1835 bbti)

27.9.1809 call on Boosey / 17.11.1809 again

Thomas Boosey bookseller 4 Old Broad-st

Boot's Atherston nr Stratford 5.6.1797

In GD website Atherston is wrongly transcribed Albertson. In a letter to Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin described Boot as a country farmer. John Boote gamekeeper and yeoman of Atherston from 1774, subscribed (along with Samuel Parr and many of his local friends) to History & Antiquities of Stratford upon Avon 1806, Jackson's Oxford Journal 22.3.1823 J Boote of Cricklade Wilts formerly of Atherston upon Stour died age 75. There were other Bootes in the vicinity, Mr Boote of Lapworth also subsribed in 1806 to the same work, and JOJ recorded on 8.…

20.9.1795 Booths at Holcroft's / 29.8.1797 walk to Booth's, with Wollstonecraft, read, en famille, Werter p127. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1795, Booth crossed out after Dudley and inserted above before Dudley (which probably referred to 23.9.1795)