Blackwood 14.7.1800 at Grattan's / 4.3.1806 at Rowan's
The GD website has coded the two above entries to William Blackwood DNB 1776-1834, though he had no connection with Ireland. They have correctly coded the 1808 and 1809 entries at Joseph Johnson's to him, but the four letters in 1830 which should also have been coded to him have been left uncoded (in brown). For Dublin possibles see work notes below
26.6.1792 Blair talked of with Jardine, 14.12.1792 Blair calls on Godwin, 3.1.1793 Godwin calls on Blair. In Godwin's 1796 list at end of 1792 and in 1794 version.
Most likely Hugh Blair DNB 1718-1800 though I have no evidence he was in London at this time; or less likely William Blair DNB 1766-1822 surgeon and methodist. It needs to be someone famous enough to talk about and include in the 1796 list. The later Blair from 16.1.1794 at Richard Johnson's (see Blair, Alexander) was a relative of the host and unlikely to have been this Blair
16.1.1794 Blair at (Richard) Johnson's / 1.2.1794 Blairs at (Richard) Johnson's / 15.12.1796 again
Alexander Blair married Mary sister of Richard Johnson, his will PCC 1816
SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Arthur Blake proposed member 24.1.1794 by John Horne Tooke 2nded John Augustus Bonney
GODWIN DIARY: 14.11.1805 at theatre adv Heath (& Blake).
GD website has coded this entry to Arthur Blake but it is possibly more likely to have been the famous William Blake if Heath was his fellow engraver James Heath. Blake (presumably Arthur) appeared in the 1794 version of Godwin's 1796 list for 1794 but was left out of the 1796 version.
Arthur Blake born about 1745 youngest son of Andrew Blake of St Kitts by Marcella French of Ireland.…
see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset
James Blake 29 Poland St ratebooks 1796-7 / coincidence this was house next door to 28 where William Blake DNB 1757-1827 lived from 1785-90, and his brother James Blake was rated nearby at 28 Broad St (though ratebooks more often included it in Marshall St) from 1784 to 1807. William Blake's brother was generally supposed by Blake scholars to have remained a bachelor. James Blake = St James 22.11.1779 Mary Eaton botp by banns & James Blake = St James 9.8.1781 Ann Beconsall botp by banns. That register didn't note widowhood…
BONNEY DIARY 9.7.1794 Mr Blake (junr?) of Essex St / 29.10.1794 Blake / 14.11.1794 young Blake
Ascribed by Nicholas Roe to "probably Arthur Blake".but given the Essex St address this was more likely Robert Blake (History of Parliament 1766-1823 MP for Arundel 1819-1823). He was not exactly young at 28 but his father,John in whose attorney's firm at 14 Essex St he was a partner was still alive (his will PCC 1803). Robert Blake's son John Goble Blake was still a baby (bapt 19.11.1793 St Clement Danes). His father John, or indeed Arthur Blake could have been the entry of 29.10.1794…
GODWIN DIARY: Heath (& Blake) at theatre 14.11.1805
see my entry for Blake, Arthur to whom the above entry is coded on GD website. More likely to have been William Blake DNB 1757-1827, Heath was a friend and fellow-engraver.
SWEDENBORGIANS: William Blake and his wife Catherine were among the 18 who signed the 1788 Swedenborgian New Church Conference along with the 77 printed names.
GREATER SOHO: see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset
William Blake 28 Poland St ratebooks Xmas 1785-1790
CRABB ROBINSON DIARY:
The journal of John…
see Poland Street number not known in London Addresses dataset
Thomas Blanchet victular Poland St Westminster coroners jury 18.9.1788 / SunFire 1785 Thomas Blanchett victualler The White Hart, Newport Market / SunFire 1789 victualler Coach & Horses Conduit St / Thomas Blanchet adult bur St James 17.11.1800 & 26.2.1805 / Miss Blanchet dancer later Mrs Wybrow wife of eminent surgeon (Highfill, Burnim & Langhans) / Clarissa Blanchet = St Martin i t Fields 30.12.1793 William Wybrow botp banns wit Angelique Minton / 1.10.1794 Westminster Coroners Inquest William Wybrow pupil…
Blanford calls 12.12.1802
Perhaps Stapley Blanford copperplate printer of 17 Kings Head Court Gough Sq. His marriage licence to Hannah Webb of St Marylebone 24.10.1787 called him a bookbinder age 27 of St Martin i t Fields
30.8.1797 Blenkinsop. Birth of Mary / 3.9.1797 Blenkinsop / 4.9.1797 Blenkinsop, puppies
Midwife
HCR diary 9.5.1833 Lady Blessington "has not been to see Aders pictures"
Marguerite Gardiner (DNB 1789-1849)
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…
see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset
Isaac Blissett 24 Poland St ratebooks 1785-1800 / Isaac Blisset = St James 29.12.1781 Betty Wiggins botp by banns wit Thomas Hendy / Messrs Mackenzie & Blissett cabinetmakers St James took appr 1793 Wm M Oliver / Isaac Blissett carpenter Poland St voted Graham 1802 / carpenter Poland St Holden's directory 1805 / Isaac Blisset of Wardour St age 75 bur St Anne Soho 18.2.1816, Elizabeth Blisset of Wardour St age 71 bur St Anne Soho 22.2.1816 / also Sush Blisset age 48 bur 3.7.1811 St Anne Soho according to familysearch.org but…
Thomas Blizard St Mary Axe joined 16.5.1794 the "unnumbered division" (QV)
See Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Thomas Blizard 1772-1838 and his relative Sir William Blizard 1744-1835.
William Blizard bach = Barnes, Surrey 13.7.1736 Elizabeth Robinson sp by banns
William Blizard will PCC 2.1.1745 (1744 old style) surgeon of Lambeth mentioned eldest son Robert, wife Martha, Epsom, son William, Hotham Suffolk, dau Harriott dated 26.10.1743
John Blizard = Petersham 18.9.1760 Susanna Cho(w)les
Mary Blizard bapt Petersham 13.3.1763 of John & Susanna (…
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