A-Z of Entries

Mlle Le Canu 29.01.1799 (& Mary Hays & miss Reid) / 8.6.1799 E Le Canu calls (not in) / 14.6.1799 E Le Canu calls

le Cronier 6.1.1805 adv at dinner

Probably a merchant and ship's captain from the Channel Islands, Peter or Philip Le Cronier, sailing often to Plymouth, Padstow and Bristol also to Spain (search newspapers). At Bodmin sessions in 1805 Elizabeth wife of Philip Le Cronier was involved in an assault. Le Cronier's ships were taken by the French several times in the 1790s. Likely to have been an acquaintance of Mary Jane, Godwin's wife, from her earlier days. In France there was a Commissaire de Police of the name mentioned in 1825, and also painters called Le Crosnier in that period…

SunFire 1789 Irrouard le Girardy, 37 the corner of King St in Dean St Soho painter, other occupier Guerres engraver / Sun Fire 1791 Jerouard le Girardy 1 Poland St painter / 22 & 23.5.1793 case in Kings Bench Girardy v. Richardson (no address given but name was very rare in London) Girardy tried to recover rent from tenant who had told him she was a "lady of the town" when she moved in. Girardy lost, as prostitution is against the public good. Painter often meant house painter but in this case with the connection to Guerres engraver he may have been an artist, but doesn't appear in any…

Le Grice 16.9.1800 at Lamb's

Brothers Samuel Le Grice 1775-1802, Charles Valentine Le Grice 1773-1858 see Letters of Charles & Mary Lamb. Winifred F Courtney "Young Charles Lamb" p282 gives a good reason why this entry was Samuel

Le Maitre 2.11.1803 at Joseph Johnson's / 14.6.1807 coach to Wimbledon with Le Maitre

Both the above entries should probably be added on GD website to the person record for Paul Thomas Le Maitre

Le Texier's 8.5.1799 with Fell / 25.5.1799 Este & Le Texier adv at theatre

Anthony A Le Texier DNB c1737-1814. Children of Anthony Stephen Peter le Texier & Mary bapt St Anne Soho 28.8.1784 Horatio 21.4.1787 Anthony / Sun F 1791 Le Texier 4 Lisle St Leicester Fields (insured by Sarah Dickinson widow 80 Gt Russell Bloomsbury) / Nat Arch HO42/23/313 Jacobin clubs 1792 / bankrupt 10.4.1797 / Chancery case between Le Texier and Margravine of Anspach 1796 Nat Arch C12/685/1, 1798 C12/681/2, 1799 c12/687/15 1807 C13/633/32.

24.10.1788 Le Vade at Robinson's. Jean David Paul Etienne LeVade (A de Montet, Dictionnaire Biographique des Genevois et des Vaudois) born Lausanne 2.10.1750 died there 9.1.1834 was a minister in England then Amsterdam. His translation of Tristram Shandy into French was published 1786 in York and Paris, and a translation of his True and Surprising Account of a Natural Sleepwalker, given as a lecture in Lausanne 6.2.1788, was published in Edinburgh in 1792

Lea 24.10.1797

Joseph Godwin was agent to the carpet manufacturer brothers Francis and Thomas Lea of Kidderminster whose London warehouse was at 10 Bagnio Court (oldbaileyonline E18040912-86). Lea appeared in the diary on 24.10.1797, 27.10.1797, 29.10.1797, 30.10.1797, 4.4.1798, 25.1.1801, 9.8.1801, 18.2.1803 and 17.9.1803 often with Joseph Godwin, and was mentioned in Joseph Godwin's letter to Godwin of 16.7.1801 (Abinger c.7 f49). The GD website has been edited to take account of my information on the Leas but missed the entry on 30.10.1797 Lea's

21.4.1796 at Tobin's

HCR diary 11.5.1822 at Aders where Kiesewtter performed "A Mlle Leclerc was also there - a fine girl who sang Italian airs with great spirit and effect - she is young & interesting and I have no doubt will excite a strong sensation when she appears - her performance was to me rather admirable than pleasing"

I could find no references to Mlle Leclerc in newspapers, musical dictionaries, or English deaths or marriages

see Poland Street 1 to 8 and 49 to 62 in London Addresses dataset

Charles Ledeka Old Bailey witness 28.5.1800 (see Bartolomichi, Luigi) was foreman to Mr Aberer, tailor (see Haberer, Martin) at 57 Poland St / Charles Ledike bur 8.1.1836 St James age 75 from workhouse / Hannah Lidike bur 28.11.1837 St James age 67 from workhouse

24.9.1794 Lutwich at Northmore's / 14.10.1794 again / 14.11.1794 again / 11.3.1795 again / 8.12.1794 meet / 15.7.1800 meet Ledwick (in Ireland). Edward Ledwich DNB 1739-1823 lived mostly in Ireland but joined Whig Club 1.3.1791 of Gerrard Street (i.e. gave a London address) and was Fellow of Society of Antiquaries like Northmore

1798 Rev William Ledwich LLB Vestry House, St Michan's, Dublin subscr to Works of D R O'Conor

 

Lee, Somt calls 26.10.1799 / 12.8.1801 Lee at Reynolds' (North Cray, Kent)

Probably two one-off Lees, though Godwins friends the misses Lee of Bath were of course from Somerset (if that is what Somt was short for)

at Martineau's 10.12.1794.

Rather than Richard 'Citizen' Lee, a master hatter in the London Corresp Socy (as per GD website), this was likely to have been James Lee, Turkey merchant of London, who married the Martineaus' sister Sarah in 1799 and also (along with the Martineau brothers) subscribed to the fund for state prisoners in 1794. The later Lee entries at Powel's are most likely Richard 'Citizen' Lee

 

23.3.1792 Susannah Lee of St Anns Court buried Soho age 69 (of old age)

1792 Soho ratebooks Richard Lee St Anns Court value £14

13.2.1794 letter from Thelwall "letter from Allum brought this morning by Citizen Lee" (source?)

28.2.1794 handbill printed by Richard Lee including his poem "Ye tyrants bend to Molloch's shrine" (Thale p119n)

3.3.1794 Morning Chronicle "Flowers from Sharon" written between ages 15 and 19. William Belcher of 9 Thornhaugh St, Bedford Sq disavows criticism published under his name in January English Review. Rev C G de Coetlegon also…

call on H & A Lee 6.3.1798 (in Bath) / 8.3.1798 call on S & H Lee (in Bath) / 9.3.1798 tea miss Lee's with Lefanus, Thompson & Losh (in Bath) / 13.6.1798 call on Lees (in Bath) / (2.6.1798 Abinger c4 f28 Godwin to H Lee) / (4.6.1798 Abinger c4 f29-30 Godwin to H Lee) / 6.61798 call on H Lee (in Bath) / 8.6.1798 again / 9.6.1798 Conference (in Bath) / 12.6.1798 Letter / (16.6.1798 Abinger c4 f31-2 H Lee to Godwin) / 25.6.1798 Chez elle / 26.6.1798 chez elle:....Conference / 27.6.1798 call on (not in).....S Laney calls. Letter on Religion / 28.6.1798 Water, with H & A /…

Leeds 19.4.1797 at theatre

May have been Francis Godolphin Osborne 8th Duke of Leeds DNB 1751-1799

adv Leeson 7.2.1798 at Devlin's

? William Leeson attorney Staples inn 1784 Law list / Derbyshire Record office D239/ M/F10295-6 & M/T223-4 (1791) / Wm L = Eliza Robinson 15.9.1796 by banns wits H Brodie H Robinson / Wm L = Joanna Wright 3.10.1802 St Martin i t Fields

Lefanus 9.3.1798 at miss Lee's / 16.7.1800 (in Ireland) call on mrs Lefanu with Everina (Wollstonecraft) / 19.7.1800 dine at Lefanu's with Everina / 1.8.1800 call on (not in) / 3.10.1808 Godwin reads work by Lefanu / 16.2.1811 Lefanus call / 21.2.1811 Godwin reads Lefanu / 12.3.1811 Lefanus at tea / 13.3.1811 Godwin reads Lefanu / 14.3.1811 write to A Lefanu / 11.7.1811 again / 4.10.1811 again / 10.5.1823 Lefanu jr calls / 5.6.1825 Lefanu adv at M(ary) W S(helley's)

Not identified by a person record in the GD website, but the entry for the texts read by Godwin on 3.10.1808 and 21.2.…

Lefevres 15.10.1804 adv at Holcroft's / 28,10.1804 Lefevre adv at Hts / 30.11.1804 again

Charles Shaw Lefevre Hist of Parl 1759-1823 was MP for Reading from 1802 to 1820 and by 1808 he had moved from being a supporter of Pitt via Addington and Sidmouth to voting for Burdett's reform motion in a minority of 15.  Sidmouth considered he had been "bitten by a popularity" at Reading where the reform movement was strong but I note he voted for Graham in Westminster in 1802, so it's not impossible he was friendly with Holcroft in 1804, but it seems an improbable identification