A-Z of Entries

8.4.1795 at Gerrald's / 22.5.1807 call on / 23.5.1807 call on / 5.6. 1807 call on Capt Binney (deaf)

Possibles: Charles Binny esq 39 Howland-st (Holdens directory 1811 court). Morn Post 6.2.1822 Sat 21st inst (presumably meant 2ist ult i.e. January)  at Howland-st died C Binny Esq late secretary to H H the Nabob of the Carnatic age 75. His will PCC 23.2.1822 mentioned his friend Capt Thomas Binny of Mawlesden, Forfarshire. Capt Thomas Binny commanded a troop at the battle of Waterloo 1815. Capt Binny of Mawlesden was still alive in 1830. Hampshire Telegraph 5.7.1807 Success galley,…

24.12.1792 at Brand Hollis' / 21.4.1794 at Thelwall's. Not necessarily same person as the two hosts seldom kept the same company (Frend and Dyer the only exceptions)

John Birch surgeon DNB 174?-1815 will PCC 1815

James Birch Muggletonian DNB -1800

Samuel Birch dramatist DNB 1751-1841 loyalist sympathies

William Russell Birch enamel painter DNB 1755-1834 emigrated to USA 1794

Boyle's 1792 George B Esq 25 Essex St; B Esq 52 Dean St Soho

see Newman Street 1 to 9 in London Addresses dataset

William Birch Land Tax 1 Newman St 1783-4 / William son of John Birch yeoman of Chesham, Bucks deceased appr 17.4.1735 to Daniel Cogdell of Coachmakers Company / William son of William Birch citizen and coachmaker born 1752 after father's admission on 6.4.1749 / William Birch bach = St Gregory by St Paul 25.7.1749 Hester Butler sp both of St Andrew Holborn / William son of William & Esther Birch of Leather lane bapt 4.12.1752 Holborn / William Birch bach of St Marylebone = St Bride Fleet St 27.10.1774 Henrietta Roberts otp sp…

8.10.1794 dine at Bird's  / 15.1.1795 call on Wilb Bird / (and perhaps) 26.2.1799 Bird at Mary Robinson's. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1794 as W Bird, and in 1794 version as Wilberforce Bird.

Wilberforce Bird 1758-1836 (History of Parliamnent) silk merchant of Little Park St Coventry & The Spring, Kenilworth, MP for Coventry 1796-1802, bankrupt 1804. Parr reminded Godwin of Bird's having paid part of his coach hire back to London in a letter dated 9th Jan (Abinger c.15 f.60 - year must be 1795) and Godwin called on him at Wood St Cheapside a few days later.

see Francis Place's Autobiography ed. Mary Thale p 42. (rival school to Place's schoolmaster John Bowis)

John Rule will PCC 22.11.1775 Stepney

William Bird schoolmaster 59 Fetter Lane & James Fergusson & Thomas Swanson Tower St, Wapping, executors of John Rule, SunFire 1779, 1780, 1786

William Bird Fetter Lane broker Wakefields directory 1790
William Bird 3 Bond Stables, Fetter Lane, academy Holdens directory 1790

John Birdekin of Isleworth

Land Tax Isleworth 1791-1804, in 1802 £10 pa prop Mrs Nettlefold / Mary d of John Birdekin & Jane bapt 15.5.1791 Isleworth / Jane Birdekin bur 8.5.1803 Isleworth (not infant)

6.1.1808 write to Birket

This the only mention of this name in Godwin's diary. A common enough name in London 1808 and apparently in Cumberland and the north west of England. It's clutching at straws to note Godwin wrote a letter to his by then estranged sister Hannah (see my entry for Godwin, Hannah) directly after Birket, but there was a Richard Birkett corn factor, partner with Fothergill at Fen Court (very near to Hannah Godwin at Cullum Street) in 1788 and 1794, and a bit further away at Great Tower Hill in 1808 and 1811. Richard Birkett was from Westmorland, his will PCC 1829…

Birminghams 8.8.1800 at Grattan's

HCR diary 11.5.1826 (called on) "Bischoff who acquits Hatton Stansfeld of dishonesty but attributes to him monstrous fatuity"

Probably James Bischoff (DNB 1775-1845). Hatton Hamer Stansfeld stuff manufacturer of King St, Cheapside was declared bankrupt in the London Gazette of 6.5.1826. Bischoff was, like Hatton Stansfeld, a Leeds merchant living in London, and had married Stansfeld's older sister Margaret. Stansfeld's older brother Thomas had been declared bankrupt earlier in 1826.

Bish's 5.7.1801 at Perry's, Merton / 13.12.1809 call on [R Sharp] [Bish] Chater / 16.12.1809 call on R Sharp, Bish

Thomas Bish stockbroker & lottery office keeper 4 Cornhill & 9 Charing Cross (Holdens 1811) will PCC 1815. Two of his daughters married Mr Hughes of Finsbury Sq 1807 and Geo Webb of Ludgate St 1812 (Irish marriages). Will PCC 1823 Elizabeth Bish widow of Brunswick Square

13.12.1809 call on [R Sharp] [Bish} / 16.12.1809 call on R Sharp, Bish

Thomas Bish stockbroker & lottery office, 4 Cornhill & 9 Charing-cross. The only Bish in Holdens directory 1811. His will PCC 1815

2.1.1790 hear Bishop at Holcroft's / 7.7.1791 again. Given Holcroft's many musical guests and the phrase 'hear Bishop' this may have been Henry Bishop, dancing master and violinist (see below) rather than listening to a bishop's sermon as suggested by the event tag (although Godwin earlier noted 'see bishop Newton' and 'hear bishop Horsley' both times he used a small b). Aickin the actor and Otley who was often at Holcroft's musical gatherings were perhaps less likely to go hear a sermon - and the second 'hear Bishop' was with Clementi, Shield & Bossy, all musicians. There was also a…

call on E Bishop 5.7.1800 / 9.7.1800 call on E B / 11.7.1800 call on E B; adv EB & Everina at Delane's / 15.7.1800 call on EB / 19.7.1800 E B & Everina at Lefanu's / 23.7.1800 EB & Everina dine / 24.7.1800 sup at E B's / 31.7.1800 call on E B / 9.8.1800 again (all in Ireland)

The GD website has only coded the first entry above to Eliza Bishop, but all the E B entries in Dublin were quite clearly her

2.8.1810 M(ary) J(ane) for Bishopsgate, w. F(anny) / 6.8.1810 M(ary) J(ane) & F(anny) from Bishopsgate

The event tag on both above dates on GD website says Mary Jane Godwin visited Bishopsgate in the East End of London for four days. Given that Bishopsgate in London was hardly more than a mile from Skinner-st and that Godwin had been to Bishopsgate Heath in Windsor Forest on 1.7.1810, where apparently the Boinvilles or the Newtons were his hosts, it seems more likely to me that that was where Mrs Godwin and Fanny had gone for a break. These were the only three mentions of…

26.9.1809 call on Black / 17.11.1809 again / 5.12.1811 again

A & J Black booksellers 7 Leadenhall-st from 1800 to 1822 trading as Black, Kingsbury & Parry from 1807 to 1812 (bbti)

22.10.1810 write to Blackhall / 17.11.1810 write to Blackall / 19.11.1810 again / 26.11.1810 write to Blackall: Patrickson (ppc) dines

Bodleian MS Abinger c.10 f.100 is a letter from Samuel Blackall dated 25.10.1810. He was the proctor and taxor of Emanuel College Cambridge and Godwin had written to him about Proctor Patrickson. See my entry for Watkinson

17.2.1789 Blackburne at Hollis' and 16.3.1789, Mr Blackburne 22.4.1789 there, Dr Blackburne 1.5.1789 at House of Commons, Blackburne 9.6.1789 and 19.1.1790 at Hollis', Blackburnes at Newton's 14.1.1796. William Blackburne MD of Spring Gardens and Mr William Blackburn of St Olaves, Southwark both appear in a list of subscribers to Hackney College 1788. Dr B (Monk's Roll 25.10.1755 to 9.4.1835) was a member of the Unitarian Society 1791, and son of Francis Blackburne DNB 1705-87. Mr B was a surveyor and architect DNB 1750-90 and a member of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade…

17.2.1789 Blackburne at Hollis' and 24.2.1789, 16.3.1789, Mr Blackburne 22.4.1789 there, Dr Blackburne 1.5.1789 at House of Commons, Blackburne 9.6.1789 and 19.1.1790 at Hollis', 14.1.1796 Blackburnes at Newton's. William Blackburne MD of Spring Gardens and Mr William Blackburn of St Olaves, Southwark both appear in a list of subscribers to Hackney College 1788. Dr B (Monk's Roll 25.10.1755 to 9.4.1835) was a member of the Unitarian Society 1791, and son of Francis Blackburne DNB 1705-87. Mr B was a surveyor and architect DNB 1750-90 and a member of the Society for the Abolition of the…

George Blacker of Hounslow

Thomas Blacker Land Tax Heston 1801, 1802 £3 pa prop Wm Knight

Blackman 10.5.1801 calls

Godwin must have been unsure of his name as he first wrote x x x and then Blackman in small letters above