A-Z of Entries

27.11.1809 call on Lindsel

William Lindsell bookseller 87 Wimpole-st Cavendish-sq (bbti)

22.12.1809 call on H Lindsey

Probably Hannah Lindsey (died 1812) widow of Theophilus Lindsey DNB 1723-1808 her will PCC 1812

Ling 21.3.1802 at King's

see work notes

miss Linwood 6.6.1779

Explained in GD website in event tag, though underlined and no person record

8.3.1789 Lisakovicz at Holcroft's. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1789, crossed out, and in 1794 version.

General Robert Thomas Wilson DNB 1777-1849 sent a letter in 1807 to Chevalier Lisakovitz who was clearly an important Russian officer but at that time in Holstein. (Life of Sir Robert Wilson)
 

Lister's (New Inn) 20.4.1798 with M(arshall), Lawson, Hammond, Jos Wilkinson, Jo(seph) G(odwin) & another / 5.5.1798 Wych St w M & S Lister; dine at Lister's w M & Lawson, adv Wordsworth & Hammond / 16.10.1798 Lister adv at theatre / 11.8.1799 call on S Lister / 26.10.1799 S Lister calls / 24.1.1801 call on S Lister (not in)

Samuel Lister attorney of 3 New Inn, Law List 1800. The first entry above is coded in GD website to Dr William Lister but the address and the recurrence of the same guests in the second entry make it clear that the first entry was Samuel Lister.…

In Godwin's 1796 list for 1778 in the 1794 version added later in small letters. Person record in GD website but 1796 list entry not coded to it

William Lister Monk's Roll 1757-1830

18.12.1808 dine at Hume's, w. Listons / 23.12.1808 call on Listons, w. M(ary) J(ane) / 30.12.1808 Listons dine / 24.4.1809 Listons sup / 4.6.1809 dine at Liston's / 21.11.1809 Liston calls: sup at Liston's / 31.12.1809 Listons & B Tyrer dine / 8.2.1810 Listons adv. at theatre / 23.2.1810 Liston calls (not seen) / 27.3.1810 Listons sup / 30.4.1810 Liston (at RA exhibition) / 21.6.1810 call on Liston, w. M(ary) J(ane) & 7; adv. Smith, Lambs, Laburns, miss Tyrer & miss Liston. Call on Hume / 16.11.1810 call on Liston / 26.11.1810 Liston calls / 2.12.1810 Listons dine / 27.12.1810…

Litchfields 1.1.1800 at O Fancourts / 27.6.1801 Litchfield at Reynolds' / 23.11.1813 Litchfield at Poole's / 9.7.1826 call on Northcote & Litchfield

John Litchfield (Highfill, Burnim & Langhans 1774-1858) actor who on 14.9.1795 at St Martin i t F married Harriet (1777-1854) dau of John Sylvester Hay son of Robert Hay vicar of Maldon, Essex will PCC 1771. The entries at Reynolds' and Poole's (both playwrights) have a theatre connection, the other two are possibles

21.1.1796 Littledale at Carlisle's / 19.4.1796 at Carr's with Carlisle / 10.1.1797 at Carr's

\perhaps (Sir) Joseph Littledale DNB 1767-1842 Grays Inn, special pleader, called 1798. Related to William Wordsworth the poet. Married bach 26.2.1821 St Pancras Hannah Timberlake of St David's Exeter witnesses Benjamin Winthrop, Edward Littledale. dau Elizabeth

Amendments to Oxford DNB

JOSEPH LITTLEDALE 1767-1842

CURRENT TEXT "Mary, daughter of Isaac"
SUGGESTED CHANGE <Sarah, daughter of Isaac>
NOTES According to Burke's Family Records, Joseph…

miss Littlewood 17.8.1802 sups at H G's with Godwin, Jo G &c, Waring & Forsyth.

Charlotte Littlewood was bound to Hannah Godwin on 10.2.1802 (IR1/38)
 

Livie 7.3.1797 at (Jonas) Davis with Taylor, Barbaulds / 12.10.1803 call on R Taylor adv Livies / 6.3.1805 Jas W(ollstonecraf)t dines; adv 3 Livies, Northcote, Hazlit, Lambs & Dawes / 24.04.1805 call on mrs Livie for (mrs Godwin) / 17.5.1805 call with (mrs Godwin) on Lamb & Livie; adv Edward Taylor / 29.11.1808 mrs Livie at tea / 8.8.1809 Lancaster's lecture, adv R Taylor, mrs Livie / 14.9.1809 call on R(ichard) T(aylor) adv mrs Livie / 1.4.1811 mrs Livie dines / 6.6.1811 mrs Livie calls / 2.8.1811 call on R Taylor adv mrs Livie / 9.4.1812 mrs Livie calls

John Livie married…

27.12.1790 at Steele's (see Steele)  with Trusson & Rutherford / 18.1.1791 Mr Lloyd calls on Godwin / 23.10.1794 miss Lloyd at Jennings' / 14.9.1796 mes Kettle & Lloyd at Foulkes' / 5.11.1799 Lloyd at Joseph Johnson's / 14.12.1804 Lloyd calls

For the 1790 and 1791 entries above, possibly Thomas Griffith Lloyd who subscr to Rd Fenton's poems 1790, was clerk in accounts at East India House 1788-1819+; or John D Lloyd who was EIC clerk at Botolph's Wharf 1791-1808, both subscribed to same work as Thomas Trusson of Kelsale, Suffolk (Rev William Clubbe's 1795 version of Horace,…

1.9.1810 mrs Lloyd calls

While this could have been Sophia wife of Charles Lloyd DNB 1775-1839 that seems unlikely as Godwin doesn't seem to have met Lloyd until 1819 and the Lloyds were living in the Lake District with many children in 1810. Mrs Lloyd may have been of the medical profession in the light of the sequence of events in Godwin's diary from 30.8.1810. First Charles Aldis surgeon called, who hadn't appeared in the diary since shortly after the death of Mary Wollstonecraft, but he had since then written a book justifying her; and the same day Godwin, his wife and 5…

7.11.1813 call on Lamb, adv. P Lloyd / 22.11.1813 P Lloyd calls / 21.1.1817 sup at Lamb's, w. Pl. Lloyd

Plumsted Lloyd one of the sons of Charles Lloyd DNB 1748-1828

19.7.1796 dine at col Lloyd's with Harwood

Vaughan Lloyd of Royal Regt of Artillery, Colonel 6.3.1795, will PCC 1818 Lt General

GODWIN DIARY: 15.2.1811

Maria Anne Lobrot was the daughter of Frederic Lobrot a merchant of Birmingham who died in 1807. (will Nat Arch PROB11/1379). She was born about 1782 (Morning Post 8.6.1836). All the Lobrot entries in Godwin's diary belong to her, as does Lebrau on 15.2.11 when she first called with Margaret Jones. A Marianne Lobrot died in 1859 at Reading.

CRABB ROBINSON DIARY: 6.3.1814 Godwin applied to HCR to speak to Walter (i.e. John Walter of the Times DNB 1776-1847) on behalf of Miss Jones and another lady keeping a school at Blackheath about his sending the…

Barry (Locke) Chandler 20.5.1799 at Milton Gallery / 1.3.1800 at James Moore's adv mrs Angerstein & miss Locke

William Lock DNB 1732-1810 (will PCC 1810) married 1767 Frederica Augusta Schaub 1750-1832, their son William Lock DNB 1767-1847artist. Father and son were involved in the art collecting world and daughter Amelia married John, son of John Julius Angerstein DNB 1732-1823. She was very likely the mrs Angerstein at James Moore's in 1800 and miss Locke was probably her sister Mary Augusta Lock mentioned in William Lock's will dated 29.5.1806. She married George Martin DNB…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Adam Lockwood 42 (43) Poland St ratebooks 1782-1800 and 43 (44) Poland St ratebooks 1781-1800 / born Norfolk 1741 son of David Lockwood & Elizabeth (nee Bunting) who married at Holme Hale Norfolk 1725 / Adam Lockwood greengrocer Poland St voted 1784 Fox 1796 Fox / Adam Lockwood = St Anne Soho 26.8.1784 Sarah Brickstock her mark by Archbishop's lic / Benjamin s of Adam & Sarah Lockwood bapt 17.3.1786 St James / Adam Lockwood bur St James 13.3.1808 age 67 / Sarah Lockwood widow of 43 Poland St took admon under £100 on bond…

13.12.1791 lodgings and 28.12.1791 Remove.

Godwin moved to 39 Devonshire Street, Portland Place