A-Z of Entries

The so-called "1796 list" is at the end of Vol VII of Godwin's diary on folios 45 to 48 after the diary entry for 24.9.1796 and is transcribed on the GD website after that day. There is an earlier version of it in Abinger c 31 f 90-92 readable online in the Western Manuscripts section of the Bodleian Library website / e-Resources / All Resources, which goes nearly to the end of 1794 and probably dates from soon after 1.11.1794 (when its last name, Wharton, appeared in the diary). The version in the diary is preceded by a sort of top twenty-five list of Godwin's acquaintances on f 45v…

Mrs Thelwal 15.5.1794 Godwin calls on her / 18.5.1794 adv at Holcroft's / 15.7.1794 & 8.8.1794 Godwin calls on her / 17.9.1794 tea at Hazlitt's, 23.11.1794 dines at Foulkes'.

All these while her husband was in prison. Susan Vellum see John Thelwall DNB 1764-1834

16.6.1809 call on Theobald, bill-brokers / 20.6.1809 call on Theobald / 19.9.1809 again / 25.9.1809 again / 29.11.1809 again / 14.12.1809 again / 6.1.1810 again / 29.1.1810 again / 16.2.1810 again / 17.2.1810 again / 21.11.1810 again / 6.12.1810 again / 13.4.1811 again / 20.8.1811 again / 18.9.1811 again / 2.3.1812 call of Theobald & Lambert / 4.7.1812 call on Theobald / 1.12.1812 again / 3.5.1813 again / 26.1.1814 again / 23.8.1816 again / 8.12.1816 call on Aldis: meet Theobalds / 21.6.1819 meet Theobald jr / 13.7.1819 call on Theobald / 28.8.1820 Theobald & Monro sign / 3.10.1823…

Robinsons (Thiebault) 31.7.1804 / 24.10.1804 (contract, Thiebault)

Godwin first looked at Thiebault on 19.7.1804 and in the GD website this is coded to te 1490 unable to identify. It was clearly Dieudonne Thiebault's "Mes souvenirs de vingt ans sejour a Berlin, ou, Frederic le Grand" Paris 1804, 5 vols. It appears that on 31.7.1804 he discussed it with the Robinsons and he worked his way through the 5 volumes between 7.8.1804 and 26.12.1804, either reading it or perhaps translating it. The mention of a contract on 24.10.1804 didn't coincide with any meeting with any of the Robinsons…

23.3.1789 (mes) Thomas at Miss Williams' / miss T 31.5.1795 at Foulkes / Thomas 11.4.1796 and 15.5.1796 at Mrs Robinson's / 21.7.1796 at John Taylor's / 28.11.1796 adv at Mrs Inchbald's / 5.2.1798 at John King's / 19.7.1800 Thomas's at Lefanu's in Ireland / 3.7.1801 call on Thomas L S / 5.7.1801 again / 22.12.1802 miss Thomas's call / 4.1.1803 miss Thomas calls / 11.8.1807 call on Thomas, S T, / 11.5.1812, 7.2.1813, 30.5.1813 & 14.7.1813 all adv at Francis Place's / 2.11.1814 Thomas au soir, then none till 1831.

For the first, and female entry 23.03.1789 at miss Williams',…

31.5.1795 at Foulkes'

see Thomas

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Thomas Thompson of Piccadilly member for Evesham proposed member 24.1.1794 by John Horne Tooke 2nded John Augustus Bonney

Thomas Thompson 1767-1818 (historyofparliamentonline 1790-1820). In the list of Crown witnesses for the treason trials 1794 his address was Shrub's Hill, nr Bagshot Berks. And see my Thomson/Thompson entry in Godwin Diary dataset

The listing below convinces me that it is pointless distinguishing between Thomson and Thompson (not a Tintin joke). Godwin may have sometimes used the two spellings to distinguish two people who appeared close to each other in the diary (e.g. possibly 18.9.1815), but he clearly also used both spellings randomly for the same person, see for example the Thomson/Thompson linked to Curran in 1817 or the two spellings of Marmaduke Thompson in 1804 and 1806. As I am working through the diary I naturally have less ideas about the later entries but they are set out below waiting for answers

HCR DIARY 11.5.1826 calls on Blake, Thornton

Presumably Robert John Thornton (DNB 1768-1837). Robinson had met William Blake (DNB 1757-1827) with John Linnell (DNB 1792-1882) at the Aders. Thornton was Linnell's doctor and had met Blake through Linnell in 1818, commissioning him to make woodcuts for his edition of Virgil. Thornton nearly dismissed Blake's work but was persuaded otherwise by dining at the Aders when Thomas Lawrence (DNB 1769-1830) and James Ward (DNB 1769-1859) both expressed admiration for Blake's work.

GODWIN DIARY

31.8.1806 dine at Philips's,…

col Thornton 25.5.1800 at John King's

Probably Thomas Thornton DNB 1757-1823, generally called Col Thornton in newspapers, fond of horses, gambling and often involved in disputes, Mentioned several times in Joseph Farington's diary. A likely guest at King's

10.10.1806 sir J Throckmorton at Fox's funeral

John Courtenay Throckmorton DNB 1753-1819

call on Thurgar 2.10.1804 / 22.12.1804 again / 28.11.1805 Thurgar calls / 03.09.1816 write to Thurgar / 27.8.1817 write to Taylor, on Thurgar / 28.4.1818 write to Thurgar / 15.5.1820 Thurgar calls / 2.11.1820 call on Hasey (for Thurgar) / 5.3.1821 Payne (from Thurgar) calls

Mr & Mrs Thurgar's academy for young ladies Queen St Norwich 1796, 1802 Thomas William Thurgar bookseller, printer &c 1 Bethel St Norwich 1794, Thomas Thurgar bookseller of Norwich died 8.6.1806.  Mr Christopher Thurgar of Norwich married 15.6.1801 in London miss Charlotte King of Beccles, who died 31.10.…

mrs Thynne 16.5.1805 at Wake's

Thynne was the surname of the Marquises of Bath, and Wake had previously lived in Bath, so Mrs Thynne may have been of that family. Dr Andrew Thynne of Berners St MD LRCP was a witness in the Duke of York's case in 1809, and he delivered the child of the wife of Robert Knight (qv) in 1813. He was buried 4.12.1813 at St Mary Lambeth of St Geo Southwark (which means he may have been in Kings Bench prison) but administration of his effects was granted under £800 on 24.6.1814, he died a widower. He had married Helen Long at St Pancras 18.7.1785 and an…

call on Tice 24.9.1803 at Ware

John Tice will PCC 1818 surgeon of Ware. John Tice of Ware subscr 1795 to Winterbotham's America

See Godwin, John Jex. Thomas Tiffin bookbinder 23.2.1796, 25.7.1799, 26.12.1799, 27.8.1802.

19.12.1806 call on Till / 26.12.1806 again

Holdens directory 1811:

Richard Till esq 7 Kings Bench -walk Temple & 1, New-ct Walbrook
Richard Till, London Bridge waterworks Thames-st (his will PCC 8.1.1824) (LMA ACC 2558/LB/4/16 RT's work diary 1780-1813)
Elizabeth Till prep school for ladies Kensington Gravel Pits
Henry Till & co insurance brokers 7 Throgmorton-st (his will PCC 8.1.1828)

will PCC 16.2.1807 Charles Till gent of St Sepulchre
will PCC 15.9.1829 Sarah Till spinster of Bloomsbury
 

7.4.1810 Clerk from Tilson: call on Tilson / 5.1.1811 clerk from Tilson calls / 3.10.1811 write to Tilson / 24.10.1812 walk, w. Shelley (Tilson) / 9.7.1817 call on Longdil (on Tilson) / 23.6.1818 clerk from Tilson, w. notice to quit

Thomas Tilson solicitor 5 Chatham-pl (Holdens 1811). Will PCC 1842

22.11.1794 (alongside week ending) Times at Tooke's trial
 

30.11.1809 Tisley calls / 3.12.1809 again

A rare enough name to make it quite probable this was Samuel Tisley, master of the St Sepulchre's workhouse, Smithfield, near to Godwin at Skinner-st. He announced in the Morning Advertiser of 14.4.1806 that his wife Ann had left him and he would not be liable for her debts. He had married Ann Walker at Shoreditch in 1799, both signing with a mark; they had had a few children and lost some, and Tisley had been master of Hammersmith workhouse in the early 1800s. He married again in 1828 to Emma Sophia Mitchell who was 20 to his 53. They also…

3.1.1791 Remove to Titchfield St.

Godwin moved lodgings to 64 Titchfield St