A-Z of Entries

HCR diary 4.1.1833 Loevenhagen "went to another attorney Richardson in Golden Square" "we all drove to Mr Richardson's with whom after a time all was arranged"

                 29.4.1833 "I attended for thee first time in Warwick St, Aders, Lemmé, Loevenhagen, Richardson and Upton, and there accepted the trusteeship with L: of Aders' pictures"

               21.10.1833 "Aders called for me to go to Richardson and sign the deed of trust which I did"

Born 7.2.1796 bapt 21.3.1796 at St Paul Covent Garden, son of Charles Richardson and Mary née Cottney, who were married by…

HCR diary 30.4.1822  "to Aders - it being Ellen's birthday. The Cardons were there and Mr & Mrs Reece and some young men"

                    19.5.1822 to Aders "only the Reeces there and a little musick"

                  31.10.1822 "to Aders. I found the Reeces and a small party there"

letter from S T Coleridge to Mrs Aders 23.3.1833 "That Mr R. is Your's & Mr Aders' Friend had been enough; but besides this I should feel gratified by any oportunity in my power of proving my sense of Mr Rees' own Merits, and of thanking him for the high & unusual delight,…

HCR diary 7.4.1834  call on Aders "Miss Reilly there and from Norwich"

                 26.6.1834 call at Aders "I found the Reileys with Mr A: (Mrs A: being from home). These are seemingly a great comfort to the A: and Miss R: is a very sweet girl"

                 11.7.1834 at the Opera House "where in the Concert Room was the performance - There came into Mrs Jaffray's box Mrs Masquerier and Mrs Aders and Miss Riley - 2 friends of Mrs J's were there"  "I accompanied Mrs Aders and Miss Riley home"

                 18.3.1835 call at Aders "I found them in trouble -…

HCR diary 11.7.1836 at Mrs Aders' blue stocking party "Miss Robarts, an authoress"

Very likely Emma Roberts (DNB 1791-1840) who was in India from 1828 to 1832, in London from 1832 to 1839, then returned to India and died at Poona 17.9.1840. Lived with Letitia Elizabeth Landon (DNB 1802-1838) at 22 Hans Place, half boarding house, half boarding school (Landon lived there from 1826). Her sister Laura, Mrs Macnaghten. Blackburn Standard 25.11.1840 (from the Britannia)

HCR diary 9.4.1839 at Mrs Robson's "Lady Pocock I had seen at the Aders"

HCR diary 20.3.1828 "young Rolfe son of Lucy Rolfe mt cousin formerly Lucy Crabb"

                    24.6.1828 "dined with Rolfe - no one there but Mrs Dalton and Collier"

Thomas Rolfe = Lucy Crabb, bapt 1776 dau of Zachariah Crabb, brother of Henry Crabb Robinson's mother Jemima, and Elizabeth (née Jolly). Thomas Rolfe will PCC 1841 of Rayne, Essex

HCR diary 8.4.1826 "to Aders where I heard melancholy news - poor Sieveking has failed - an excellent man and his family must be grievously afflicted by the blow - A: spoke of the uncertainty of the times as of an overwhelming evil and of Rothschild as a sort of general prop intimating that had not R: taken this paper of his own house they could not have gone on"

Nathan Meyer Rothschild (DNB 1777-1836). The DNB article refers to Rothschild's substantial deposits of bullion over a prolonged period in 1825 which averted a stoppage of payments by the Bank of England. For Sieveking (QV…

HCR diary 1.8.1824 see Raymond (QV*)

                 15.4.1828 shorthand passage Masquerier Rough

                 26.4.1828 to Masqueriers "where were Rough and his daughters"

               29.11.1828 call on Mrs Kay "a chat about Rough - she seemed to have no recollection of what had passed between her father and me on Rough's leaving England"

                 17.1.1829 Rough going to Tobago

                 7.10.1836 letter to Mrs Masquerier about "Rough's not being Chief Justice"

                 2.11.1836 with Masquerier "we talked about…

HCR diary 24.4.1823 Kelly, Mrs Aders first husband fined for drunkenness outside Aders' house "I spoke with the sitting magistrate Mr Rowe - or Roe" "R: said he was going to talk about family matters but I would not listen to him. Mr A's servant has since told me that Mr Cameron whispered to Mr R: that it was a family matter"

See Cameron (QV*). Sir Frederick Adair Roe born 19.3.1789 created baronet 1836 died 20.4.1866 when baronetcy expired see Burke's Peerage & Baronetage between 1837 and 1866. Will proved effects under £120,000

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: John Towill Rutt Esq of 239 Thames St proposed member 11.5.1792 by John Farnell Tuffin 2nded William Sharpe (probably WS of Leadenhall St but perhaps WS of Charles St engraver)

John Towill Rutt DNB 1760-1841

HCR diary 8.12.1824 at Aders "Jameson, Salomon and a Mr Faber there"

HCR diary 22.4.1828 at Mrs Thornton's "Elias & Sophia Fordham were there - also Scargil and Jno:"

                    24.4.1828 "Scargil, Dr Heusler and Beldam breakfasted with me"

                    29.5.1828 Robinson read Scargil's "Penelope"

William Pitt Scargill (DNB 1787-1836) dissenting minister at Bury St Edmunds 1812-1832, wrote novels

HCR diary 8.6.1826 at Aders "A Prussian, Beuthe a finance minister, who has the air of a superior man - Schenkel the architect to the King of Prussia - also apparently a very superior man and a Col Dunkelman - insignificant - and German (Meyer) from Frankfurt"

Karl Friedrich Schinkel (DNB 1781-1841). See Schinkel's English Journey ed. Bindman & Riemann 1993. 8.6.1826 "Drive to Herr Aders's party, very good supper, in the evening excellent music, the little Schulz brothers from Vienna, virtuosi on the piano, guitar and harmonium, with their father. - A French lady sang Rossini…

HCR diary 20.6.1818 musical party at Aders "The Schunks, Platts, Mrs Fazy, Miss Lewis were my acquaintances"

                    14.2.1819 at Aders "Mr        Schunk of Manchester"

                    3.11.1819 at Aders "Mr Martin Schunk and his wife formerly Nanny Aldebert"

                    13.2.1827 "At Schunk's I offered to pay some advancements made by Schunk to Mrs Brown in consequence of my having improperly invested all the dividends of Ald's property in the purchase of stock"

                  10.10.1831 "I met in the road Mrs Schunk and accompanied…

HCR diary 22.2.1829 at Athenaeum, Sir John Seebright "said to be a very worthy man but the most dangerous talker of the club"

John Saunders Sebright (DNB 1767-1846)

HCR diary 22.3.1838 "I had this morning a letter from Spring Rice directing me to make a formal offer of Aders' pictures to the National Gallery thro' Mr Sequier" "I have some hope of obtaining through L'Evesque an introduction to Seguire but I have a difficulty in negotiating with him - he is accused but perhaps wrongfully of having a personal feeling in all negotiations about the purchase of pictures by the government - nous verrons"

                      4.4.1838 Aders "suggested my putting these pictures into the hands of Sequier to dispose of for me"

William Seguier (DNB…

HCR diary 18.2.1823 "at Flaxman's - no one there but the Aders and some of the Denmans and Miss Sharp and it was rather a dull evening"

                    19.6.1824 "I took Sutton Sharpe to Aders whom I introduced there"

                    12.5.1826 Robinson's supper guests Flaxmans, Masqueriers, a Miss Forbes, Blake, Sutton Sharpe

                    20.5.1826 "at Miss Sharpe's - a small but agreeable party - the Flaxmans, Aikins, Benjers &c &c "

                      5.6.1826 literary party at Miss Benjer's (Miss Sharpe there)

HCR diary 5.7.1823 "a Mr Southern whom B: Montague introduced to me and his friend Captain Siborn breakfasted with me" "Southern is a learned - Sib: apparently a very pleasant man"

Marquardt II p 92 26.8.1823 Crabb Robinson met Captain Syborn at Augsburg, Germany

William Siborne (DNB 1797-1849). Not mentioned in DNB article was his part in the Milan Commission, he went to Karlsruhe in connection with Barbara Kress, a witness in the trial of Queen Caroline (Nat Arch TS 11/98, TS 11/113)

HCR diary 18.2.1821 "called on the Sievekings - the commencement of an acquaintance which I promise myself pleasure from. They are sensible people - he a quicker man than Aders tho' without so much attention to the arts & literature of germany - she certainly not to be compared with mrs Aders but both full of love of German literature and therefore objects of interest to me"

                      1.7.1821 "dined at Sieveking's met Dr jenckel physician"

                  22.11.1821 "went to Sievekibg - an ageeable chat with them - they want an introduction to Aders for…

HCR diary 29.9.1827 at the Flaxmans' "Mrs Sinclair (?) a queer sort of person - a familiar old lady who did not much please me"

                   16.4.1834 "called late on Miss Denman where were the Aders, the Sinclairs etc"

not yet identified. possibly found in Flaxman papers at British Library?