Willaim Berry of Twickenham
UBD 1791 shoemaker / Land Tax Twickenham 1794 WB £2 pa prop Danl Passant, 1802 Mr Berry £2 pa prop Mr Patience 1802 WB & Harris £5 pa prop Mrs Goose,
Willaim Berry of Twickenham
UBD 1791 shoemaker / Land Tax Twickenham 1794 WB £2 pa prop Danl Passant, 1802 Mr Berry £2 pa prop Mr Patience 1802 WB & Harris £5 pa prop Mrs Goose,
22.2.1795 Bertrand adv at Dr Moore's / 14.5.1797 there. In Godwin's 1796 list (crossed out) and transcribed in GD website as Bernand (but look closely at original) and between Middleton and Wordsworth so in correct sequence for Bertrand.
Antoine Bertrand de Moleville (25.10.1744 - 19.10.1818 Wikipedia) Chief of royalist secret police, fled to England 1792
see Poland Street 10 to 18 & 45 to 48 in London Addresses dataset
7.2.1793 his first public performance in England at Salomon's concert / 29.5.1793 his benefit, tickets from him at 13 Poland St / Doane's 1794 Signor Beozzi oboist 13 Poland St / Gaetano Besozzi 1727-1798 Highfill, Burnim & Langhans, came to England 1793 died in London 1798
Charles Bessell 30 Charing Cross joined "unnumbered division" (QV) 5.5.1794
George Bessell born 21.9.1761 bapt 28.9.1761 St Martin i t Fields son of John George & Frances
Charles Bessell born 25.2.1767 bapt 11.3.1767 St Martin i t Fields son of John & Frances
Lutheran Church Savoy 21.3.1796 died Johann George Gottlieb Bessell age 63 born Reine in Brunswg
June 1798 Charles Bessell clerk in War Office salary £100 per annum
SunFire 1800 Charles Bessell at Colyer Wood near Morton, Surrey, gent
Morning Post 4.12.1804 Capt. Charles Bessell chairman of…
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
Beverley 31.8.1800 on stage coach to Wimbledon
Pcc wills Algernon Earl of Beverley 1831, Isabella Countess of Beverley 1812 / Joshua B 1829, Caroline B wife 1823 both of St Marylebone / Thomas B Mildmay House Newington Green 1837
Rev William Beville at Mr Barrell's Gt Queen St proposed 9.5.1783 by John Cartwright 2nded Jackson Barwis. Born 1755 Hempswell, Lincs, his mother Ann was a widow by 1774. Fellow of St Peter's Cambridge. In 1782 he published "Observations on Dr Johnson's Life of Hammond" in which he defended the poems of James Hammond DNB 1710-1742 against Samuel Johnson's dismissal. Hammond's poems had been written to Catherine Dashwood (d.1779) whose niece Ann had married John Cartwright in 1780, see note on p8 of Beville's pamphlet. Beville became rector of Exford Somerset in 1789, chaplain to Lord Mount…
see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset
Henry Bevins 19 Poland St ratebooks 1777-88 / Henry Bevins cooper of Poland St voted Hood & Wray 1784 / Henry Bevins turner Poland St directories 1785, 1790 / Henry Bevins otp = St James 10.11.1760 Sarah Blake of St Catherine Cree by Archbishop's lic wit Daniel Fisher / will PCC 1789 of Henry Bevins late cooper of Poland St but now gent living with Mr & Mrs Schliephaken at 6 Gt Pulteney St (see 34 Poland St) to be buried Tottenham Court Rd chapel with late wife Sarah (her will PCC 1787) by Mr Augur undertaker of Wardour…
15.2.1796 sup at Warren's with Bewgo & Smith
Probably the printseller Alexander Beugo or Bugo of Maiden Lane, Covent Garden from at least 1803 till after 1819. Perhaps the Alexander Bugo who was buried 6.6.1838 at St Andrew Holborn age 64 of Grays Inn Lane. An Alexander Beugo married Ann Taylor 1799 St Martin in the Fields and an Alexander Beugo widow married Rebecca Lee (signed with x) at St Mary le Strand 19.9.1803. He may have been related to John Beugo 1759-1841, musician, poet and engraver in Edinburgh and friend of the poet Robert Burns. There was also a Gavin Beugo,…
Beynon 11.1.1805 adv at dinner
Possibly John Mathias Beynon 1748-1830 born Rosilly nr Swansea, Carmarthen Presbyterian Academy 1765-9, minister & schoolmaster Yarmouth, Norfolk (Dissenting Academies Online) subscr 1793 Wm Enfield, 1808 Mrs Hurry's Artless Tales. Rice Beynon was a surgeon of Penton St Islington whose will PCC 1803 dated 23.9.1803 mentioned his wife Sarah and William Beynon an infant now in Christ's Hospital son of my brother Richard (who was perhaps the venetian blind maker of 5 Eyre St Hill Holdens 1811 will PCC 1815
see Batemans Buildings in London Addresses dataset
Michael Biaggini 14 Batemans Buildings ratebooks 1780-1781 / Daily Advertiser 10.6.1777 sale of stock and effects of Michael Biaggini artificial flower maker 37 Southampton St, Strand / Morning Chronicle 30.4.1779 Michael Biaggini artificial flower maker of Soho patent for stamping silk to look like lace / General Advertiser 11.5.1779 Michael Biaggini 14 Batemans Buildings ad for "stampt and painted tiffanies" / Gazetteer 10.11.1783 Michael Biaggini of 33 Noble St, Cheapside has let off 5ft diameter balloon from his house (later…
18.11.1809 call on Bickerstaff
In a string of calls on booksellers so probably Robert Bickerstaff bookseller 210 Strand (bbti)
31.3.1790 Bicknel at Holcroft's / 19.2.1792 again / 6.7.1792 again / 23.4.1793 at theatre / 7.6.1799 adv at Ranelagh.
Since he was in musical company at Holcroft's and may well have been at the theatre and Ranelagh to play music, these could all have been Mr Bicknell of Blackman St, Borough, bassoonist (Highfill, Burnim and Langhans; Doane's 1794). Or some or all (except the last) might also have been Alexander Bicknell DNB d1796 many of the subscribers to whose Patriot King were reformers active in the SCI
see Poland Street 10 to 18 & 45 to 48 in London Addresses dataset
Scourge Dec 1815 p411 letter from son of John King DNB c1753-1823 (probably George King) saying he went by the name of Jervoise Biddulph 16 Poland Street as a front for his father's "business" activities. There were at least 63 ads from 7.5.1794 to 1.5.1795 giving that name and address. Jervoise and Biddulph were both names of gentry in the Shropshire area but I found no-one baptised married or buried with the name Jervoise Biddulph. The ratebooks for 16 Poland St have the name Jervoise Biddulph for1795. See my…