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SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Capel Lofft ("direct to Mr Dilly's in the Poultry") original member 1780 later of Queen Square Bloomsbury, took on Suffolk for SCI tract distribution, 8.12.1785 his guest Mr Kent at SCI dinner

AMENDMENTS TO OXFORD DNB:  CAPEL LOFFT 1751-1824
CURRENT TEXT "his second wife, Sarah Watson, daughter of John Finch"
SUGGESTED CHANGE <his second wife, Sarah Watson(1780-1855), daughter of Joseph Finch>
NOTES She was baptised 17.12.1780 at St Benedict's Cambridge, dau of Joseph & Sarah. She married Lofft there 10.3.1802.…

Logan 17.12.1793 at Woolwich (visiting Muir & Reid in prison hulks)

In Godwin's 1796 list (At top right of diary Vol VII f 45v and at top of f 47r see my entry for 1796 list)

John Logan DNB 1747-88 came to London October 1785. I think he worked with Godwin on Political Herald but need to check my source for this. According to the DNB he worked with Gilbert Stuart on the English Review which Stuart  edited as also the Political Herald

3.10.1788 Godwin writes to Lomer

GODWIN DIARY see his person record in GD website. Godwin first met him in 1807 presumably in his professional capacity as an attorney.. HCR diary 25.4.1818 "Longdale has an almost Jewish face - is a confident talker, high in his politics & manners - and yet a friend of Shelley"

CRABB ROBINSON DIARY Longdill or Longdale 24.2.1818 / 25.4.1818 / 14.2.1819 / 28.6.1819 / 4.9.1819 / 18.12.1820 (Mrs Montagu's comments re Mrs Longdill) / 22.7.1821 news of Mrs Longdill's death / 25.2.1822 (Mrs Aders' dream of Mrs Longdill) / 26.1.1823 news of Mr Longdill's madness / 23.5.1823 news of Mr…

Longford's negre 13.8.1800 on mail coach

Perhaps a black servant of Thomas 3rd Baron Longford 1768x1778-1835 succeeded to peerage 1792, married 1817 (Burke's Peerage)

11.9.1809 Lopez calls

Only instance in Godwin's diary. Holdens directory 1811 listed A Lopes & co, merchants Austin Friars / J M Lopez Martinez merchant 5 Little Winchester-st / Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes (History of Parliament 1755-1831) 2 Fitzroy-sq / Antonio Lopez esq 4 Hanover-st / John Lopez esq 4 Woburn-pl.

Old Bailey 1810 Francis Lopez witness Portuguese sailor in fight between sailors of various nations / 1811 Sebastien Lopez prosecuted someone for stealing silver ladle but failed to come to court / 1812 Baptesta & Sarah Lopez were prosecuted for stealing a hat…

call on Lord Mayor 1.6.1805 / 20.6.1805 again / 10.7.1817 again

In Godwin's letter to James Wollstonecraft of 5.9.1805 (Bodleian Abinger c9 f34v) he wrote "Ball I have got rid of by the intervention of the Lord Mayor". Ball (qv) was a tenant of Primrose Street and Godwin saw him on 23.1.1805 and 1,2,1805, both before James Wollstonecraft last saw Godwin before leaving for the West Indies. The Lord Mayor of London in 1804/5 was Peter Perchard, it's not clear if Godwin would have spoken to him personally. The Lord Mayor in 1816/7 was Matthew Wood.

mrs Lorimer at Nicholson's 29.1.1804

see work notes below

mrs Losh 26.2.1802 at Southey's

Jamees Losh DNB 1763-1833 married in 1798 Cecilia dau of Rev Roger Baldwin of Aldingham Lancs (DNB). Will PCC 1842 of Cecilia Losh widow of the Grange near Cartmel, Lancs

16.10.1794 Lovel at Newgate / 31.7.1795 at Newton's / 30.12.1795 again / 14.1.1796 again / 2.2.1796 at King's / 9.3.1796 again / 25.5.1800 at King's / 17.12.1801 mrs Lovel at Lamb's with Southey / 26.9.1811 write to and call on / 18.5.1822 call on with MJ / 25.5.1822 Lovel (Brides Passage) calls.

The first instance above must have been Robert Lovell (DNB died 3.5.1796) the friend and brother-in-law of Coleridge and Southey (M Ray Adams, Studies in the Literary Backgrounds of English Radicalism, p133; Hazlitt's Works v.3 p.278). The next five (four at Newton's and one at King's)…

Loveridge 22.9.1799 at Fell's with Oldfield

Loveridge was a friend of Thomas Hinton Burley Oldfield DNB 1755-1821 (see Sheffield Archives WWM/F/82/10 Jane Osbaldeston to Lord Fitzwilliam). Mrs Jane Osbaldeston, the mother of the sporting squire George Osbaldeston DNB 1786-1866, had ambitions for him as an MP and came into conflict with Oldfield who was acting as an election agent for Fitzwilliam at East Retford in 1812. Loveridge met her on Oldfield's behalf and Mrs Osbaldeston wrote that he was an attorney who had been struck off the list, who was notorious in the Alchester…

S Lowe dies 9.3.1801

Sampson Low, a bookseller who had published Charlotte Smith was buried 5.1.1801 age 33 his will PCC 1801 mentioned wife Mary Ann. He had married Mary Ann Sheldrick at St James Piccy 1794. Sampson Low DNB 1799-1886. Sampson Low bapt 28.3.1768 St Paul Cove Gdn of David & Mary. The GD website has only transcribed Lowe dies but the S is clearly there in the original. Godwin recorded his death two months late but it still seems a sound identification

26.8.1794 at Reveley's / 8.9.1794 again / 8.12.1794 again / 7.9.1797 calls & Reveley / 25.10.1797 Lowrys jnrs at Reveleys./ 9.11.1797 Lowrys at Reveleys

Wilson Lowry DNB 1760-1824 a neighbour of architect Reveley's in Titchfield Street and an engraver noted for his architectural work

Wilson Lowry otp bach = St Marylebone 16.6.1796 Rebekah Delvalle of St Luke sp by lic, wit Anna Gabl Burges. According to DNB he had two daurhters Anne & Matilda by his first marriage to miss Porter of Birmingham but given the "bachelor" in the marriage register, they may have been…

27.8.1797

see entry for Margaret & Lucas

31.7.1794 mrs Luneham at Holcroft's (& Porson) / 7.12.1794 mrs Lunan at Holcroft's (& Porson) / 2.3.1795 Lunan at Mackintosh's (& Porson & Perry) / 17.8.1795 mrs Lunan at Holcroft's /  20.9.1795 Lunan at Holcroft's (& Porson & Perry) / 24.7.1796 M A Lunan at Holcroft's / 17.8.1796 meet mrs Lunan / 8.11.1797 M A Lunan at Holcroft's (& Perry) / 5.3.1802 miss Lunan at tea (& Perrys) / 19.10.1805 miss Bentley at Perry's / 21.10.1805 Perry femme & miss Bentley call / 15.6.1806 miss Bentley at Perry's / 7.6.1809 Lunan at Perry's (& mrs Bentley) / 13.10.…

Lune (with an acute accent on the e) 17.11.1799 at John King's

Next to Elisee (qv) which may be some clue. A family name from the south of France Lunet (de Malene) of Rodez (see Hippolyte Barrau, Documents Historiques &c)

see Lunan, Mary

Lunettes 28.3.1797 at Townley's collection

Lunn's 19.3.1799

W H Lunn bookseller Cambridge 1787-1797, William Henry Lunn bookseller 332 Oxford St 1797-1801, Classical Library 30 Soho Sq 1802-16, committed suicide June 1815, (Maxted) will PCC 1815