A-Z of Entries

Dr Knox 9.11.1791 at Bosse's / Knox 13.1.1802 at Wycombe's / 6.9.1821 Knox dies / 27.6.1828 call on Dr Knox

The 1791 and 1821 entries above have been coded on the GD website to Vicesimus Knox DNB 1752-1821, correctly in my view. The 1802 entry (which is uncoded in GD website) may have been him also but no special reason to think so. Of the Knox entries in the Dictionary of Irish Biography the one with the most radical sympathies was George Knox 1765-1827, the others were stong government supporters. The 1802 entry could well have been him. The Dr Knox of 1828 was certainly Thomas…

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

James Knox 17 Poland St ratebooks1777-1788 Ann Knox 1789-90 Andrew Knox & William Wilson 1792-1800 // 26.11.1780 gift of hare to Mr Knox of Poland St from Thomas Woods Knollis 7th Earl of Banbury (Hampshire Archives 1M44/67/fol39) / 9.12.1783 James Knox of Poland St died at Bushey. His will PCC proved 12.2.1784 by widow Ann dtaed 17.7.1783 at Sparrows Hearn, parish Bushey, Herts, James Knox of Poland St taylor late of Pinner mentioned Dr Robert Knox physician (his will PCC 1790) Mr George heming of Bond St…

Knyvet's 21.4.1799 / 23.6.1830 Knyvet adv at Bain

Charles Knyvett DNB 1752-1822 organist of Chapel Royal from 1796, married 1772 Rose Alloway who d.1807 / his sons Charles Knyvett DNB 1773-1852 married 1795 Jane Laney, William Knyvett DNB 1779-1856 married 1801 Sarah Laney (see Laney), & Henry Knyvett 1773-1844 army officer

M(arshall) dines; agreement for Krimee 26.3.1802

See Bodleian Abinger c7 f95 and c7 f101, letters from Thomas Holcroft in Europe to Godwin. Holcroft sent Voyage dans le Crimee to give Marshall a book worth translating, it had already been translated from Russian to German to French, and was published by Robinson in 1802 as Travels in the Crimea, by a secretary to the Russian embassy. It had to compete with two other travel books on the Crimea issued in England in 1802

see Poland Street 1 to 9 & 49 to 62 in London Addresses dataset

SunFire 1781 Rebecca Krudener widow 63 Poland St / Rebecca Krudener = St James 30.11.1782 William Walker

Kyan 16.8.1800 on post coach Chirk to Shrewsbury

Perhaps John Howard Kyan DNB 1774-1850, his father John Howard Kyan of Mount Howard, Ballymutagh, co. Wicklow who died 1804, or Esmonde Kyan DNB 1750-1798. Not everyone Godwin met accidentally got into the DNB but a remarkable number did and Kyan is not a very common name even in Ireland

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION; Stewart Kyd of Middle Temple proposed member 23.11.1792 by John Balmanno 2nded John Horne Tooke

Stewart Kyd (DNB d.1811). Bapt 3.7.1758 Arbroath, Angus of Harry Kid and Helen née Fullerton. Admitted Middle Temple 15.6.1782 called to bar 22.6.1787. His younger brother Henry was admitted Middle Temple 1786.

HCR diary 22.3.1838 "I have some hope of obtaining throughh L'Evesque an introduction to Seguire"

Seguire was William Seguier (DNB 1772-1843), keeper of the National Gallery from 1824 (QV*). Robinson wanted to sell some of Aders' pictures to the Gallery. The most prosperous Levesque in London was Peter Levesque of 29 Guildford St, Russell Sq, who was Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, of the Royal Geographical Society, and active in the Royal Literary Fund. He was probably born 31.7.1779 of Pierre Levesque and Anne Olivier and baptised 18.8.1779 or born 6.6.1781 of Louis Daniel…

la Chausee 19.1.1800 at Lanesborough's

Major La Chausee, le comte de la Chaussee "Memoire militaire sur Bantry" 26.4.1797 (Kent History Centre / photopol.com/articles/bm_corr.html). La Chaussee had to show Thomas Pelham 2nd Earl of Chichester how to load a mortar 13.8.1797. Not in British Army Lists. Probably Charles de la Chaussee, Seigneur de St Aubin (Dictionnaire de la Noblesse Francaise)

Lacy 13.7.1799 at Sheridan's

Willoughby Lacy 1749-1831 (Highfill Burnim & Langhans) was partner with Sheridan in Drury Lane Theatre

call on Lahee 12.8.1805 with Dawe

Because Godwin called on Jones copperplate printer with Dawe two days before, this was probably James Lahee, copperplate printer of 30 Castle St East who appeared in Pigot's Directory 1822 though not in Brititsh Book Trades Index. He had married Esther  Kirton 13.8.1804 at St George Bloomsbury

Laing 3.2.1799 adv at Mackintosh's / 28.7.1807 Johnson's w Laing, bookseller / 30.6.1809 at Johnson's Laing, br, & son / 27.7.1810 at St Paul's with Laing & two

Malcolm Laing DNB 1762-1818 (or perhaps his brother Samuel DNB 1780-1868) may well have been the Laing at Mackintosh's. The three entries at Joseph Johnson's (the last after his death but at his shop at St Paul's) may have  referred to William Laing DNB 1764-1832 bookseller & publisher. He lived in Edinburgh and travelled abroad, the DNB mentions his sons and the br may have stood for bookseller (see Hayes,…

Lang at miss Godwin's 23.7.1795

Because Hannah Godwin seems to have been friends with the Andersons (see Anderson, James) and particularly with his son George, I speculate that this Lang entry may have referred to Charles Laing 1771-1826 mentioned in George Anderson's will PCC 1817 as his partner.

Probable events of his life were / born 21.1.1771 bapt Perth 27.1.1771 son of James Laing & Elizabeth Broun / married St Mary Portsea, Hants 4.9.1799 Mary Barton / brazier, ship chandler & merchant 1805-1817 305 Wapping; 8 Bennett's Wharf nr church Rotherhithe;…

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Malcolm Laing Esq of 11 Southampton Buildings proposed member 11.5.1792  by Lord Daer 2nded John Farnell Tuffin, WITHDRAWN

Malcolm Laing 1762-1818 (historyofparliamentonline 1790-1820). Signed declaration of Society of Friendsa of the People 26.4.1792 / Morn Post 7.3.1794 counsel with Adam Gillies & Archibald Fletcher to Joseph Gerrald at his trial in Edinburgh / Morn Post 20.1.1796 in minority who voted for Erskine as dean of Edinburgh Law Faculty / Oracle 10.11.1796 joined Whig Club 8.11.1796 / Oracle 26.6.1800 ad for his History of…

gen Lake 12.9.1800 on boat from Dublin

Gerard Lake DNB 1744-1808

18.3.1796 Lally at Debrett's

Gerard de Lally Tolendall 1751-1830 Wikipedia. Came to UK 1789 returned to France 1799.

chez lui 25.12.1800

lui is underlined (unidentified person) in GD website but clearly referred to Charles Lamb

John Lamb 9.8.1804 at Lamb's / 24.6.1807 sup at Lamb's, w. 3 J Lambs / 25.3.1815 call on M(ary) Lamb; adv. J Lamb / 21.10.1815 call on J Lamb (not seen), w. C(harles) Lamb / 21.2.1819 call on John Lamb / 7.3.1819 John lamb calls

John Lamb 1763-1821 deputy accountant at South Sea House, brother of Charles Lamb DNB 1775-1834. See Letters of Charles & Mary Lamb

24.6.1807 sup at Lamb's, w. 3 J Lambs

Charles Lamb's brother John Lamb (1763-1821) and his family, which consisted of a woman of about his age (referred to by Charles Lamb as his wife) whose husband was still alive, and her daughter by her husband who was aged about 20. I have discovered their names and life stories but am keeping it secret for a bit, while I wait for the response of the Charles Lamb society to my offer of a mini-talk and/or an article in their bulletin. The "secret" is of course available to anyone with access to the internet and to Ancestry who could do the…

see Poland Street 1 to 9 & 49 to 62 in London Addresses dataset

Aaron Lambe 8 Poland St ratebooks 1777 / Aaron Lambe auctioneer Pall Mall 1759 / Daily Advertiser 4.8.1777 pictures for sale of a gentleman moving to the country 8 Poland St / Aaron Lambe died 30.11.1777 at Mortlake, JP for Middlesex, Major in Middlesex Militia / will PCC 6.12.1777 Aaron Lambe of Poland St Esq dated 8.4.1774 mentioned wife Anne, daus Susanna wife of Mr Thomas Underwood, Anne Caroline wife of Edward Comber Esq, sister Mary wife of Thomas Newborne, wife's daus Mary, Ann & Elizabeth Paschall,…