A-Z of Entries

6.6.1788 at T Hollis' / 29.12.1789 Simpson, E.T. at T Hollis' / 18.2.1803 Simpson at Lea's / 9.11.1813 Jas Simpson dines / 2.12.1813 Jas Simpson calls / 4.10.1814 M(ary) J(ane) from Simpson / 5.10.1814 again / 10.4.1829 Simpson at Joshua Robinson's

For the James Simpson of 1813 consider James Simpson DNB 1781-1853 advocate and author, who shared Godwin's interest in education, though he was based mostly in Edinburgh. Otherwise I have very little substance here. Still racking my brains to what ET stood for. Lea was a contact of Godwin's brother Joseph (see Box). Nothing probable…

18.7.1796 Weybourn camp officers Simpson

James Simpson 1st Lt Royal Artillery 14.8.1794, not in Army List after 1799, will PCC 1811

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: John Simpson of Leadenhall St proposed member 9.5.1794 by James Savage 2nded Thomas Wardle. Never elected as this was last meeting of SCI

Thomas son of Thomas Simpson of Kingsington Middlesex baker appr 7.7.1731 to John Horner of Merchant Taylors Co. John son of Thomas Simpson of Merchant Taylors Co deceased appr 5.5.1756 to John Horner premium £20. Will PCC 19.12.1757 of Thomas Simpson of Kensington baker dated 19.5.1752 mentioned daus Elizabeth Simpson, Martha Greyshain & Mary Hopkins, wife Elizabeth, son William. Gazetteer 15.4.1767…

mrs Sims adv at S Elwes' 9.7.1799 / 19.10.1809 call on Sims, with Lockhart

HCR diary 29.9.1827 at the Flaxmans' "Mrs Sinclair (?) a queer sort of person - a familiar old lady who did not much please me"

                   16.4.1834 "called late on Miss Denman where were the Aders, the Sinclairs etc"

not yet identified. possibly found in Flaxman papers at British Library?

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Charles Sinclair proposed member 18.5.1792 by John Horne Tooke 2nded John Frost. His first recorded attendance at a London Corresponding Society meeting was on 21.6.1792

GODWIN DIARY: 12.9.1794 S, sup with, This was most likely Charles Sinclair as his was the only name beginning with S appearing earlier in that day's entry

Charles Sinclair was an illegitimate nephew of Sir John Sinclair DNB 1754-1835. Parish register of Latheron Caithness 20.1.1769 George Sinclair son to Lybster had a child baptised got out of wedlock nam'd…

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: John Sinclair Esq proposed member 19.7.1782 by Edward Hall 2nded John Cartwright. Not recorded as elected but came to next two general meetings. Resigned 1.2.1788

John Sinclair DNB 1754-1835

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Thomas Singer 28 Poland St ratebooks 1774-86 / Thomas Singer = St James 1.6.1770 Elizabeth Weller botp banns wit Atwood Martin / Daily Advertiser 4.11.1774 Wanted several French Trimming Weavers and hand workers, Thomas Singer's 7 Poland St, & 1st floor to let unfurnished / Daily Advertiser 29.4.1777 ad for lease of No 7 on east side of Poland St occ. Thomas Singer rent £38 p.a. ground rent £26.5s p.a./ Daily Advertiser 8.5.1778 lease of 28 Poland St for sale rent £38 p.a. ground rent £26.5s p.a. / Thomas Singer feather…

Sivewright 15.3.1795 at King's.

James Sivewright was a hardwareman at 206 Strand in 1790, his will PCC 1811; J & J Sivewright Lottery Office 141 Oxford st (Sun Fire 1814); Sivewright stockbroker 11 Holborn Hill (Sun Fire 1824);Frances Catherine Sivewright spinster will PCC 1829; John S, Esq, Priory, Old Windsor; Mrs S, Guildford (subscriptions 1833)

20.11.1796 Skenes at (Jonas) Davis's / 7.3.1797 dine at Davis's adv Skene / 18.10.1798 theatre adv Skene / 21.7.1804 again / 19.11.1805 again / 6.4.1828 adv Skene at M W S (Mary Shelley's)

George Skene A.M. was the author of Donald Bane an heroic poem published in 1796 printed for George Robinson (for whom Jonas Davis often printed), dedicated to James Duff, Earl of Fife, and based on "a manuscript at the family seat of Mr Skene of Skene, MP for Aberdeenshire in the parliament before last". That MP was George Skene (History of Parliament 1749-1825 a drunken laird and a…

A Skeys calls 4.11.1797 / 20.11.1797 again

Probably a relation of Hugh Skeys whose deceased wife Fanny had been Mary Wollstonecraft's close friend. There was an Abraham Skeys merchant in Ireland alive in 1807

see Autobiography of Francis Place ed. Mary Thale p.87. There spelt Skillem but this may have been a transcription error. Perhaps a fairly common error which led to Place thinking the name was spelt and pronounced with an 'm'. Of the various friends of his father's whose lives Place believed ended in poverty (he mentioned a list of 27) eight are named on pages 87 and 88 but four of those, including Skillern, seem to have owned property at their deaths (the others were Bury, Robinson and Woollams).

Stephen Skillern tailor of Arundel Street was buried at Petersham Surrey 27.3.1797 age…

Skinner 1.1.1803 at Philips / 25.4.1803 again

Probably Joseph Skinner who edited "The Present State of Peru" which was printed for Richard Phillips 1805; the Editor's Preface was signed Joseph Skinner, Tottenham Court 30.1.1805. In Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica it was ascribed to Captain Skinner. In the Annual Review Jan 1805 p49 it was suggested that Skinner had obtained the material by capturing a Spanish ship and finding copies of periodicals published in Lima. In John Timbs' London Clubs p153 Captain Skinner of elegant manners who had been in the procession of Anacharsis Cloots…

Scotto 18.10.1797 at Carlisle's

Anthony Carlisle DNB 1768-1840 was the son of Thomas and Barbara Carlisle. His mother died the year he was born and his father remarried to Susan Skottowe

6.11.1795 Sloper at Carr's with Carlisle / 16.1.1796 Sloper at Carlisle's / 23.5.1797 Slopers at Carlisle's / 6.10.1797 Sloper & Carlisle call / 27.5.1798 Sloper at Tooke's / 4.6.1798 Sloper & Carlisle call / 3.5.1800 adv Sloper senior at Carlisle's / 18.5.1800 miss Sloper at Tooke's / 16.7.1805 mesdames Carlisle White & Sloper & Mulready at tea / 29.1.1807 call on Sloper / 24.2.1807 again / 8.4.1807 again / 24.4.1807 call on Sloper: adv. Sutton / 6.5.1807 meet Sloper / 27.5.1807 call on Sloper (not seen) /  30.5.1807 again / 2.6.1807 meet Sloper & Keir / 1.12.1807…

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Baptist Smart of Bletchingly, Surrey proposed member 28.5.1784 by William Middleton 2nded Samuel Romilly

His father Baptist Smart bapt 23.12.1708 Chipping Campden, Glos son of John Smart, married 10.3.1740 Lucy Whitmore. Lucy wife of Baptist Smart bur 1.12.1744. Baptist Smart = 5.10.1752 Elizabeth Osborne. Baptist son of Baptist Smart doctor of Cheltenham adm Oriel Coll, Oxford 1770 age 17. Baptist Smart Doctor of Physic Cheltenham died 20.12.1772 in 63rd year, buried 26.12.1772 Clifton, Glos. His will PCC 15.2.1773 dated 5.11.1772 mentioned…

Smart calls with Esther 12.5.1802

Martin Smart son of Thomas & Esther was bapt 10.7.1751 at St Marylebone. Smart was a fairly common name but Martin & Esther were not the commonest of first names so the coincidence level is quite high, though not a certainty. Fifty might seem a good age for a militia sergeant but he was clearly an unusual person. First names often repeated in families so the baptism above might have been in another generation, and Esther might have been his mother, sister or daughter. Esther Smart widow of Greek St formerly of Tothill St was buried 5.6.1804…

23.8.1795 Smeatham's at Foulkes'

smiler 11.4.1791 at Brand Hollis'

7.12.1795 call on Sme with Holcroft (not at home) / 3.1.1796 Sm breakfasts / 22.5.1812 call on Sme (not in)

Robert Smirke DNB 1753-1845, in the GD website under person record for plain Smirke, because of his "large family of artists". But in 1795 his father was dead and his eldest child just 17. Given his known radical sympathies he is the obvious candidate for the 1795 entries and the abbreviated entries above fit the pattern of Godwin's contacts with him