HCR diary 13.2.1823 Babingtons at a musical party at Aders
15.1.1829 at Aders "the Babington family including Mr Peel - a clergyman"
3.5.1829 "at Aders - Mrs A: is suffering from Erisipalus very severe pain; but Dr Babington says with no danger to life - Green was of the opinion that the brain was affected"
11.7.1836 the Babbingtons at Mrs Aders' "blue stocking party"
7.1.1840 (Tuesday) "promised to call on Dr Babbington" 8.1.1840 "called on Dr Babbington. He seemed to know me…
HCR diary 23.2.1825 at Aders "a Frankfurter Mr Baff"
A Charles Baff of 48 Bell St, Paddington was insured SunFire 1815, and a Charles Baff was buried at Lambeth 27.10.1825 age 43, an Ann Baff of 9 Frances St, Kennington widow was insured SunFire 1826. No clear identification
HCR DIARY 25.1.1832 the Aders gave a The Dansant at Willis Rooms "Many of the company were in fancy dresses - The two Miss Baldwins as ladies of the time of Geo II one being supposed to be Lady Grandison - the other in the actual dress of the great grandmother of Mrs Baldwin" "I chatted with .... Baldwin"
2.12.1839 "Camberwell friends,,,, I lunched with the Baldwins"
24.5.1844 "wrote notes on that account to ..... and Mrs Baldwin" (meaning the Aders financial troubles in Italy)
Charles Baldwin (DNB 1774-1869) newspaper…
HCR diary 1.5.1819 Mr and Mrs Banks at Charles Aders
9.5.1819 at Mrs Smith's (the future Eliza Aders) Mr & Mrs Banks there "Mr B: otherwise a formal and tiresome man talked about precious stones a subject he understands being by profession a worker of precious stones - he was a very rich man but ran through his fortune and then took to this occupation in which he has talent - as a means of subsistence - his wife is a quiet good kind of woman much praised by Mrs Smith & Aders &c. I walked with them to give them the protection of my umbrella"
I'm…
GODWIN DIARY 10.1.1796 adv mrs & miss Banks at Holcroft's / 7.5.1797 adv mes Banks at Hts
Elizabeth Hooton 1748-1834 married 1766 Thomas Banks DNB 1735-1805 sculptor. Their daughter Lavinia born in Rome 1774 married 3.8.1799 at St Geo Han Sq, the Rev Edward Forster
Thomas Banks of Newman St (DNB 1735-1805 sculptor) was proposed SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION 28.9.1792 by William Sharpe 2nded John Horne Tooke. See his person record in Godwin Diary website and my Background Article Godwin, the Reveleys and the Jenningses
See Newman Street 1 to 9 in LONDON…
HCR diary 27.6.1820 I just made a note - Flaxman against Barry (husband of mistress, Nollekens and lace hat). I don't recall the story but it was certainly John Flaxman (DNB 1755-1826) telling an anecdote of James Barry (DNB 1741-1806)
HCR diary 23.12.1836 "I made calls on Bates a picture dealer who has some of Aders pictures to sell for us - he pleases me - he is the brother-in-law of Mrs Jameson - he asked me to take tea with him - but he does not expect to dispose of the pictures till the spring"
16.3.1837 "called on Mr Bates and left him a letter authorising him to consider Mr Lovenhagen as the proprietor"
13.4.1839 "Bates who does not deliver up our pictures"
18.4.1839 "called on Lovenhagen who had received an angry letter from Mr…
HCR diary 20.6.1818 a musical party at Aders "Two Germans - Baur (brothers?) performed on the violin and violincello in so exquisite a style as to delight everyone -such sounds were bought from the violincello as I have never heard". The two musicians walked back with Robinson and complained that the French appreciate merit in music but the English not.
The only Baur alive then in music dictionaries was Charles-Alexis Baur who was a harpist, so these remain a mystery to me
HCR diary 1.5.1842 Robinson saw Miss Bayley "interesting chat only I said too much about Mrs Aders etc."
No identification at present
HCR diary 4.4.1823 "I met by appointment at Aders Wordsworth, Sir Geo. Beaumont and Rogers." "Sir Geo. proposed bringing Fuseli" "Sir Geo. seemed to be in particular interested by these specimens of old German art. The Perugini (3 figures in a sort of open temple) he declared to be in parts hardly distinguishable from Raphael. The great painting by Van Eyck he spent a long time in examining"
George Howland Beaumont (DNB 1753-1827)
HCR diary 26.10.1817 "Poor Becher has had the misfortune to be, tho' innocently, involved in the late great Liverpool smuggling fraud".
3.1.1818 "called on Mrs Meyer to excuse myself from going to Mr Becker's with her this evening, but she was herself unwell" (Mrs Meyer was the future Mrs Aders)
26.4.1818 about Becher "There are very bad reports in circulation about him. He is charged with acts that amount to gross dishonesty"
20.6.1818 "chatted with Miss L. she seems fully aware of the nature of the…
HCR diary 5.6.1834 re: Aders' pictures "Beckford is after some of the pictures and I have more hope of him than of anyone else"
William Thomas Beckford (DNB 1760-1844)
HCR diary 18.12.1820 Mrs Aders talking of her father John Raphael Smith "Sir W Beechey used to receive half a guinea of S: and when he went into the country to paint his wife came for the money, but B: did not recollect the kindness of his friend"
William Beechey (DNB 1753-1839). For J R Smith see my background article "3 Wives, 3 Husbands Living"
HCR diary 17.2.1822 "dined late at Sievekings. The Aders, Jenkins and Benickes there - a very agreeable evening"
7.11.1836 at Benecke's re: Mr Aders "I found that A: had obtained from Souchay a promise of £100 but he had represented to S: that he wanted £2000!!!"
9.11.1836 at Aders "I mentioned that Mrs W Benecke had told me the other evening that Matilda Becher obtained from her (Ch. Souchay made the advance) £200 for Mrs Leigh" (see Becher QV*)
22.2.1838 Benecke "I requested Mr B to send direction to Mrs B…
HCR diary 2.4.1838 "I was glad to perceive Mrs Aders house nearly full - Miss Lawrence, Mrs Bent a widow gentlewoman and a young German must render their living now very litle expence to them"
12.6.1839 "went on to the Aders - a friendly reception, but a little constraint. I am afraid to ask questions - Nothing about Ellen, nor their loss of their lady inmate - nor Miss Lawrence - they are now quite alone"
See my background article "3 Wives, 3 Husbands Living". Jane Mary, niece of the renowned plasterer Joseph Rose (1745-1799), married at St Marylebone on 8.8…
HCR DIARY 26.6.1820 Miss Beetham, poetess and radical at Charles Lamb's
(Mary) Matilda Betham (DNB 1776-1852)
GODWIN DIARY 16.11.1810 call on Montagu; adv. Tuthill & Betham / 10.11.1821 Betham calls / 26.11.1821 au soir Betham & Grave / 18.1.1822 Betham calls / 2.12.1822 Betham sups / 12.12.1822 call on Betham / 24.1.1823 Betham calls / 26.1.1823 call on Betham / 9.9.1824 Betham calls
Plausibly this was Matilda Betham, Godwin often referred to independent women with just their surname. Might also have been her father William DNB 1749-1839 or one of her fourteen…
HCR diary 8.6.1826 at Aders "A Prussian, Beuthe, a finance minister, who has the air of a superior man"
Christian Peter Wilhelm Friedrich Beuth (1781-1853) see Marquardt II p109 n304, Karl Friedrich Schinkel (DNB 1781-1841) and Peter Beuth in de.wikipedia, and Schinkel in Crabb Robinson Diary dataset
HCR diary 11.5.1826 (called on) "Bischoff who acquits Hatton Stansfeld of dishonesty but attributes to him monstrous fatuity"
Probably James Bischoff (DNB 1775-1845). Hatton Hamer Stansfeld stuff manufacturer of King St, Cheapside was declared bankrupt in the London Gazette of 6.5.1826. Bischoff was, like Hatton Stansfeld, a Leeds merchant living in London, and had married Stansfeld's older sister Margaret. Stansfeld's older brother Thomas had been declared bankrupt earlier in 1826.
GODWIN DIARY: Heath (& Blake) at theatre 14.11.1805
see my entry for Blake, Arthur to whom the above entry is coded on GD website. More likely to have been William Blake DNB 1757-1827, Heath was a friend and fellow-engraver.
SWEDENBORGIANS: William Blake and his wife Catherine were among the 18 who signed the 1788 Swedenborgian New Church Conference along with the 77 printed names.
GREATER SOHO: see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset
William Blake 28 Poland St ratebooks Xmas 1785-1790
CRABB ROBINSON DIARY:
The journal of John…
HCR diary 9.5.1833 Lady Blessington "has not been to see Aders pictures"
Marguerite Gardiner (DNB 1789-1849)