A-Z of Entries

Commissioner's Room with Goldsmith 2.10.1799 / 8.10.1799 Goldsmith calls (not in) / 25.2.1801 mrs Goldsmith at S Elwes'. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1801 / 21.3.1801 S Elwes & S Goldsmith call / 19.4.1801 S E(lwes) & L Goldsmith call / 21.4.1801 call on L Goldsmith / 23.4.1801 evening at Goldsmith's with S Elwes, Egerton & others / 16.9.1801 meet L Goldsmith / 16.3.1802 call on Goldsmith (with McAdam) / 19.3.1802 sign with McAdam & Goldsmith

From the position of Goldsmith in Godwin's 1796 list we can deduce that the two first entries above were a different Goldsmith,…

call on Goldston 15.8.1805 wit Jo(seph) G(odwin)

Goldston Primrose St Land Tax 1806 & 1807, Sun Fire 1808 Manasseh Isaac Goldston 20 Primrose St. Manasseh Isaac Goldston merchant Gt Prescot St, Goodmans Fields bankrupt 20.6.1811, cert granted 22.8.1811. Found guilty of forgery at Old Bailey 18.9.1821 and sentenced to death. Described as about 50, small, Jewish. 20 Primrose Street was one of the houses Godwin was managing for his Wollstonecraft sisters-in-law from which he had recently got rid of the previous tenant (see my entry for Ball)

19.5.1793 at Horne Tooke's. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1793 but not in 1794 version.

11.9.1807 dine at Johnson's w. Gooch /  2.2.1820 seek Gooch

The only two Gooch entries in Godwin's diary, and 12 years between them, so they may not have referred to the same person, Possibles:

Robert Gooch (DNB 1784-1830) had graduated MD from Edinburgh in June 1807 and then worked for a time under Astley Cooper in London. He could have also been the 1820 entry.

Rev William Gooch whose General View of the Agriculture of the County of Cambridge was printed for Richard Phillips in 1811 but the preface signed Whatfield parsonage Suffolk 1807. He was born about 1761 son…

27.11.1795 Goodbehe at Crown & Anchor

This dinner at the Crown & Anchor wasn't advertised in the newspapers and seems to have been only attended by 15 or so people as Godwin lists names followed by "& 2" changed to 3 (or "& 3" changed to 2), but though it could be an anniversary celebration of the acquittals in the treason trials, Bonney and Tooke being present, it was more likely to be discussing the sedition bills, the hot topic of the day. The Crown & Anchor in the Strand was happy to host political associations of all stripes  Goodbehere had been a common…

Goodenough of Queen Ann St East proposed Society for Constitutional Information 22.12.1780 by John Jebb 2nded Capel Lofft

Eldest son of Rev William Goodenough of Broughton Poggs (will PCC 1768) and his wife Elizabeth nee Serle, his younger brother was Samuel Goodenough DNB 1743-1827, his three younger brothers went ito Oxford, William studied medicine and died (PCC 1770), Samuel & Edmund went inot the church, Richard was articled 1762 to Edward Bathurst attorney of Cirencester (also to Kedgwin Webley?). He inherited property from his uncle Richard Serle (will PCC 1767) and…

write to E Goodford 23.1.1802 / 7.4.1814 call on Place & Bridger / 13.9.1814 Bridger calls

I have a tentative suggestion as to this person's identity. The will of John Old Goodford of Yeovil PCC 1787 mentioned his wife Maria and his daughters Maria, Elizabeth, Harriot and Mary Ann. The will PCC 1828 dated 14.1.1828 of Elizabeth Bridger formerly Goodford of Romford but late of Windsor, wife of Lt Col James Paul Bridger, mentioned her mother Maria Goodfrod, her brother John Goodford of Clifton Cantelo and his wife Charlotte, her aunt Mrs Harbin, her friend John Frederick Pinney of…

Goodwin 29.4.1800 at Foulkes's / 26.1.1812 at Collier's / 8.10.1814 J Goodwin calls

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Thomas Goodwin 29 Poland St ratebooks 1774 / Daily Advertiser 28.4.1774 first floor to let Mr Goodwin's tallow chandler opposite the Pantheon, Poland St / St James Chronicle 10.11.1772 Thomas  Goodwin tallow chandler of Oxford St married at St Marylebone Miss Prosser of Wells St / Thomas Goodwin bach = 5.11.1772 Bridget Prosser sp wit Pryce Devereux Prosser (who was bapt 5.12.1753 Glasbury, Brecon, he  = St Marylebone 26.11.1782 Frances Pearce bach & sp botp banns , North Devon settlement examination June 1793 of Pryce…

call on Goodyer, sexton, Chelsea 3.3.1804

See Joslyn for possible reason for Godwin's call. In Chelsea Land Tax 1804 there was a George Goodyer at Lawrence St (till 1818 then Thomas Goodyer till 1832) and a Richard Goodyer of Franklin Row (till 1826 then Eliz Goodyer at Blacklands Place and in 1841 & 1851 censuses at Sidney Terrace laundress). George Goodyer was probably the sexton as his signature appeared regularly as a witness in the Chelsea marriage registers, including on the marriage of Thomas West (qv) and Lucy Dallas

see Gould

19.2.1792 at Holcroft's / 29.9.1793 at Shield's / 3.11.1793 & 24.11.1793 at Perry's / 30.11.1793 at Wright's / 4.12.1793 at Holcroft's / 24.8.1794 at Gray's / 3.12.1795, 1.3.1796 & 8.4.1796 at John King's  / 16.4.1796 at Perry's / 14.12.1796 at House of Commons / 8.11.1797 at Holcroft's / 22.6.1798 at House of Commons / 28.12.1799 adv at Tobin's / 31.10.1800 Gordons at Northmore's / 3.7.1801 maj. Gordon & femme at Perry's. In these entries Gordon was with Perry 11 times, Holcroft 9 times, Porson 4 times, & Gray, Gillies and Barnes 3 times each.  At King's, Tobin's and…

see Poland Street 10 to 18 & 45 to 48 in London Addresses dataset

Cosmo Gordon was a Colonel in the Guards who wrote a letter, from 18 Poland Street on 3.9.1783 to Lt Col Frederick Thomas "demanding satisfaction" as the language of duels had it. The letter was part of the evidence in a subsequent court case, Lt Col Thomas having died from wounds received in the duel. Gordon was the 3rd son of William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen, and was found not guilty of murder on 17.9.1783 at Old Bailey. He was probably not  the Cosmo Gordon of St Nicholas Acons = 10.9.1779 Magdalen Gordon…

Gore 29.12.1799 at Lanesborough's / 19.1.1800 again / 21.1.1800 Goire at John King's

An Irish landed family, from Hist of Irish Parliament there was John Gore 1735+-1814, Hon Richard Gore 1735/40 - 1807 (this one perhaps the best candidate for dinner at King's as his estate was hard-pressed), William Gore 1744-1815, and William Gore 1767-1832. Edward Gore was custos brevium at £600 p.a. from 1782-1800. Francis Gore was Lt Governor of Grenada 1791. Boyle's Court Guide of 1800 had Thomas Gore 6 Queen St Mayfair / Miss Gore 17 Lower Brook St / Christopher Gore Esq 20 Cumberland Place,…

19.5.1793 at Tooke's.

Charles Goring of Queen Ann Street, Westminster proposed Society for Constitutional Information 15.1.1790 by Count Alvise Zenobio 2nded Richard Sharp / Boyle's Court Guide 1792 Charles Goring 10 Queen Ann St West, 1800 42 Norton St

Charles Goring (History of Parliament) born 1743, 2nd son of Sir Charles Matthew Goring, 5th Bart, Magdalen College Oxford 1762, MP for Shoreham 1774-80. Friends of the People 11.4.1792, withdrew with Bosville and Knight on issue of universal suffrage 7.4.1794. Died 3.12.1829 age 86
 

18.7.1810 call on Gotobed

Holdens directory 1811: Thomas Gotobed attorney 15 Norfolk-st Strand / Charles Gotobed linen draper 30 Gt Marylebone-st

HCR diary 2.2.1827 "Gotzenberger the young painter from Germany called on me and I accompanied him to Blake - We looked over Blake's Dante. Gotzenberger seemed highly gratified by the designs and Mrs Aders says G: considers B: as the first and Flaxman as the second man he has seen in England. The conversation was slight - I was interpreter between them and nothing remarkable was said by Blake - he was interested apparently by Gotzenberger"

                  10.2.1827 called on Mrs Aders "Gotzenberger had left them"

letter 5.9.1830 Mrs Aders in London to HCR in Italy "by the…

Museum, Gough 27.6.1803 / write to Gough 28.6.1803

Richard Gough DNB 1735-1809 antiquary. GD website has coded the Gough at the Museum as a text by Gough te 1414 Sepulchral Monuments, which was clearly the reason he wrote to him next day

Gould 26.8.1797 calls / 27.8.1797 again / 7.7.1800 at Gould's (in Ireland). In Godwin's 1796 list for 1800 / 13.7.1800 at Grattan's / 14.7.1800 again (?) / 15.7.1800 dines at Curran's & sleeps / 16.7.1800 at Reeves's / 20.7.1800 at Webb's / 26.7.1800 at Curran's / 8.10.1800 (in London) meet Goold, Dogherty, Burne / 11.10 meet Goold & Dogherty / 18.10.1800 meet Goold / 13.1.1803 Goold adv at Perry's / 2.11.1833 Gould adv at theatre

Thomas Goold DNB 1766-1846 may have been all the above entries except the first two (before the 1796 list entry) and the last. For other…

26.9.1795 Gourbillon at miss Mansel's adv Cooper B

Charles Antoine Joseph Florent Gourbillon & Marie Modeste baptised 2 sons St Marylebone 29.6.1802

Dictionnaire Biographie Francaise Joseph Antoine G, secretary to Marie Antoinette, royalist officer, writer / Charles de G London subscr to The Traditions by Mary Martha Sherwood 1795 / Dictionnaire des Consonances April 1799 / Itineraire Poetique / Charles de G's poem Le Diamant et le Ver Luisant publin Mercure de France 1800