A-Z of Entries

6.1.1799 LM should surely be coded on GD website to Louisa Mercier

3.3.1799 L & E Mercier dine at Holcroft's adv T M / 12.5.1799 T & E Mercier at Holcroft's / 18.9.1809 Mercier & mrs Ravizzotti call / 20.1.1810 mrs Ravizzotti calls / 9.5.1829 adv C Ravizzotti at L Kenney's

Theresa Mercier was a witness at Louisa Mercier's wedding to Thomas Holcroft at Chelsea St Luke on 4.3.1799 and she married Gaetano Ravizotti at St Geo Han Sq on 17.5.1800. Her first entry above the eve of Louisa Mercier's wedding. Ravizotti taught Italian and was author of a few books on that line.

Merediths 3.8.1797 at tea (with Addington, Anne Pinkerton)

The only time this name appeared in the whole diary

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Dr Meredith of Wrexham proposed member 23.6.1786 by Edward Griffith 2nded John Lodge Batley

Thomas Meredith 2nd son of Thomas of Pentrebychan Denbighshie, matric Jesus College Oxford 17.3.1778 age 17. B Med 1785. His father had married at St Nicholas, Liverpool on 18.2.1757 Margaret Newton of Heathly, Lancs. Thomas Meredith Fellow of Society of Antiquaries 12.5.1791. Thomas Meredith of Wrexham MB Fellow of Royal Society subscr 1793 to Edward Jones' Index to Records &c. His sister Margaretta married at Pontesbury, Shropshire on 12.10.1796…

Mergez 1.4.1820

Georges Nicholas Mergez born 4.1.1772 and died 25.11.1846. Cousin of Georges Danton, he visited London in August 1792 with Recordain, (another of Danton's relations) and Francois Noel, Danton's "agent", shortly after the French Republic was declared. He appears as Merget in Godwin's dairy on 6.9.92, 13.9.92, 14.10.92, 21.10.92, 16.12.92 and 28.1.93. He was aide-de-camp of General de Beurnonville and turned over to the Austrians by Dumouriez. Then rose to be a successful general in Napoleon's army and was made a baron. After the restoration he was made a Marshal but…

3.11.1809 write to Merridew / 30.7.1810 again / 5.12.1810 again / 15.7.1811 again / 9.3.1812 again

Probably Nathaniel Merridew 1763-1823 bookseller pf Coventry (bbti)

23.7.1796 call on mrs Merry

Anne Brunton 1769-1808 see Robert Merry DNB 1755-1798 who married her 26.8.1791 and see her father John Brunton DNB 1741-1822. Robert Merry had been arrested fro debt on 8.7.1796 while Godwin was his guest, Godwin dined at the Blackamoor on 12.7.1796 with Merry's so it looks as though Robert Merry had already been released by then or was under a permissive custody, unless the plural implied some other relation of Merry's. The article on Ann Wignell (mrs Merry's later married name) in Highfill, Burnim and Langhans states that she had no children by…

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Robert Merry Esq of Osbourne's Hotel, Adelphi proposed member 3.6.1791 by John Horne Tooke 2nded Jeremiah Batley

GODWIN DIARY: 13.6.1796 call on Inchbald with My

Robert Merry DNB 1755-1798. Since he was named in full both before and after this on 13.6.1796, this My was certainly Robert Merry

LCS: attended its 3rd meeting at the Bell, 8.2.1792 (Thale p7note10)

Merton 27.8.1804 / 1.4.1805 Merton

Thiese entries refer to the location of James Perry's house near Wimbledon where he also owned mills

see Newman Street 1 to 9 in London Addresses dataset

John Messenger 2 Newman St Land Tax 1784 / Bailey's Directory 1785 John Messigner & Son cabinet maker 6 Newman St (error?) / John Messenger bur 6.7.1786 Whitefield's Chapel Tott Ct Rd age 37 (error ?) from Marylebone / will PCC 27.7.1786 John Messenger of St Marylebone mentioned wife Lydia, daughter-in-law Ann Little, sister O'Brien, sister Charlwood / Thomas Little = Allhallows London 12.4.1750 Lydia Maxey / John Messenger bach = St Geo H Sq 29.5.1758 Sarah Sheppard sp / John Messenger wid = St Geo H Sq 28.3.1763 Lydia Little…

call on Metcalfe 2.10.1804

Thomas Metcalfe Land Tax 1804 Primrose Street. See Gourbon

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Benjamin Metcalfe merchant of Hull proposed member 3.8.1781 by John Cartwright 2nded Edward Bridgen

Benjamin Metcalfe = York 29.1.1768  & Winestead, Yorks 2.2.1768 Sarah Shutt / children of Benjamin Metcalfe bapt Holy Trinity Hull Harriot 1769, Elizabeth 1772, Carolina 1774, Charlotte 1775, Sarah 1777, Grace 1783, Benjamin 1786 / 1774 BM jr subscr to Hull docks / 1788 BM jr Hull subscr to Bell's Shakespeare / SunFire 1791 BM gent Hull / 1793 BM subscr to Olaudah Equiano / London Gazette 5.8.1794 BM Captain Hull Volunteer Regiment of…

Government spy, a good description of his career on Thale p126n.

William Metcalfe son of Jeffery Metcalfe of St Bartholomew the Less articled 5.2.1772 to Edward Reynolds of Dowgate Hill, Vintners Co.

Jeofrey Metcalfe of St Bartholomew the Less married 23.3.1754 Jane Jackson of St Andrew Holborn, Mayfair non-parochial register

Law List 1792 William Metcalfe Tallow Chandlers Hall Dowgate Hill, clerk to the Company (till 1797)

Will PCC 29.10.1836 William Metcalfe of St Mary Newington Surrey (seen but inconclusive)

Reported on LCS Divs 6, 11, 9, 23 and…

GODWIN DIARY: 24.10.1796 Meux at Carlisle's lecture /  2.11.1796 again

Richard Meux DNB 1734-1813 his will PCC 1813 Anthony Carlisle was one of the witnesses. Or one of his sons Henry 1770-1841 /  Richard born 1768 / Thomas born 1772

CRABB ROBINSON DIARY: 10.12.1820 Mrs Basil Montagu's gossip "She knows too that Mrs Aders has visited at Mr Meux's when a woman of infamous character was there"

HCR diary 17.2.1818 Mrs Smith formerly Mrs Meyer later Mrs Aders "she has resumed her maiden name (tho' she ought to have taken that of her first husband) at Mr meyer's request and with reason, since the bonds of marriage have been dissolved between them"

                 19.12.1820 Mrs Basil Montagu's gossip about Mrs Aders "Of the second husband she spoke more favorable. She used to say of Charles Meyer he is always in the right. But he has shunned her since this affair and that makes her think ill of…

17.7.1788 at musical gathering at Shield's

see Newman Street 1 to 9 in London Addresses dataset

SunFire 1798 Clara wife of William Middleton 9 Newman St (other occupier Golding QV*) / William Middleton = St Marylebone 11.2.1782 Clara Louisa Grace / London 1795 Middelton vs Rose (Kings Bench) William Middelton of Stockeld Park Esq against John Rose his groom for criminal conversation with his wife Clara Louisa Middleton / according to an Ancestry user-submitted tree Clara Louisa Grace was born in France in 1763 and died there in 1834 / a divorce was impossible because husband and wife were both of the Roman Catholic faith

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

SunFire 1797 Elizabeth Middleditch, widow, 10 Poland St (Jackson, upholder) / Joseph Middleditch grocer of Budge Row will PCC 1788, he married Elizabeth Nanfan 1758 and 2ndly at St James 15.2.1774 Elizabeth Buckeridge by Archbishop's license wits John Middleditch, Kath Ann Williams / her will London Consistory Court 1809 of Charlotte St, Rathbone Pl under £5000, she died August 1809 mentioned her grandchildren Lewis William & Harriet Buckeridge / their father her son Lewis William Buckeridge will PCC 1793 of…

miss Middleton 29.12.1799 at Lanesborough's / 4.4.1805 walk to Pepper Harrow, Lord Middleton / 26.9.1805 call on Raine & Middleton, Charterhouse / 10.10.1806 sir W Middleton at Fox's funeral / 6.1.1810 call on Middleton / 6.11.1810 Middleton at Ward's (with Coleridge) / 21.12.1810 Middleton at wardmote St Bride's / 26.1.1814 call on Middleton / 31.1.1814 again / 19.5.1814 adv at theatre / 1.4.1815 call on / 4.4.1816 again

29.12.1799 for miss Middleton see Atty for relationship by marriage at Whitby. Will of Martha Middleton spinster PCC 1812. Martha Middleton dau of Robert bapt…

8.2.1795 at  Richard Johnson's. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1795

Nathaniel Middleton DNB 1750-1807 was Richard Johnson's banking partner along with George Templer MP, and later with Gerard Noel Edwards, Samuel Smith and John Wedgwood. Middleton had also been Johnson's colleague in India. His will PCC 1807 dated 18.2.1806 of Town Hill, Hampshire & PCC 1824 dated 29.1.1788 when he had been richer, codicil of 21.12.1793 says he had by then more children and less money  See Farington diary p5089, 5090. Known as 'no memory'  Middleton thanks to the way he…