A-Z of Entries

mrs Spencer adv at Chandler's 28.5.1798 / 2.5.1800 Milton Gallery adv C Moores (& W Spencer) / 10.10.1806 W Spencer at Fox's funeral (wrongly transcribed as W Spences in GD website) / 18.12.1806 call on Rogers adv W Spencer / 28.3.1818 Spencer dined at Aldis's

The three W Spencer entries in 1800 and 1806 were quite likely William Robert Spencer DNB 1770-1834 who spent his last years from 1825 in Paris in poverty and ill-health so can't have been the Spencer whom Godwin met at the theatre 27 times between 1828 and 1836 (which I haven't included above). He had married Susan, the…

In Godwin's 1796 list LRSpencer crossed out, in 1794 version Lord R Spencer. Has a person record in GD website but 1796 list entry not coded to it

Lord Richard Spencer (History of Parliament 1747-1831)

Spilsbury 6.5.1792; 16.5.1792; and 20.6.1794 - this last a call by Godwin followed by his call on Dorset the next day.

Thomas Spilsbury printer of Snow Hill (see Cooper, John Robinson). He died 1795. See the will PCC 1800 of his son Thomas, whose brothers William and Charles continued the printing business until 1803, then Charles alone.

25.5.1809 Spilsbury calls / 21.6.1809 again / 28.11.1809 call on Spilsbury

William and Charles Spilsbury were in dispute in Chancery in 1807. In 1808 Charles Spilsbury was the printer of Lloyd's Evening Post (see Nat Arch TS11/44/162…

Spiring 26.3.1797 at Holcroft's / 18.2.1798 again / 1.4.1798 again / 13.5.1798 again / 25.2.1804 adv at White Horse, Brighton / 27.2.1804 again / 1.4.1820 calls (& Mergez) / 7.4.1820 again

Clearly connected to William Cole merchant who married Thomas Holcroft's daughter Sophia in 1794, he appeared twice with Cole and Gilchrists at Holcroft's in 1797-8, and twice with Mergez (Sophie Holcroft's 2nd husband) in 1820. The most prominent Spirings were Bristol nurserymen and brewers. There was also a John Spiring carpenter of Holborn from 1773 who went bankrupt im 1786

9.5.1806 Marshalsea, w. Nicholson & Springsguth / 15.5.1806 Serjeant's Inn w. Few & Springsguth / 27.1.1807 Symond's Inn w. Springsguth / 31.1.1807 again / 3.6.1807 write to Springsguth / 10.12.1808 call on Springsguth: Springsguth calls / 27.12.1808 Springsguth calls / 26.10.1812 again / 5.11.1812 call on Springsguth / 16.12.1812 Springsguth calls / 16.6.1814 call on Springsguth / 20.5.1816 again / 4.6.1816 again / 24.10.1816 Springsguth calls / 2.12.1816 again / 3.12.1819 adv. Springsguth at dinner

Letter 1.7.1807 to Godwin, Bodleian Abinger c.10 f.43 from M C Springsguth…

28.4.1789 at Timothy Hollis' / 19.2.1790 there / 14.2.1796 mrs Cole & mr Spurling at Holcroft's / 6.3.1796 Coles & Spurling at Holcroft's / 12.3.1797 Cole & Spurling at Holcroft's / 9.12.1798 at Holcroft's / 3.3.1799 again

The Holcroft Spurling associated with Coles, possibly a different one to the Hollis one. Stephen Spurling of Great Prescot St Whitechapel will PCC 26.5.1804 dated 27.4.1804 wife Frances Battridge (nee Langley married Whitechapel 28.4.1783) sons John Henry (bapt1785) Stephen (bapt 1791) daus Sophia Frances (bapt 1789) Sarah (bapt 1801). For Essex…

22.5.1806 call on Spurrier, w. M[ary] J[ane] / 23.5.1806 call on Spurrier / 10.7.1828 call on Lodge adv. Spurrier

John William Spurrier esq SunFire 1828 25 Old-sq, Lincolns Inn, will PCC 12.12.1848
John Spurrier auctioneer Copthall-ct Throgmorton-st SunFire 1781, 1785, 1789 & Yardleybury, Herts 1802, 1806
Isaac Spurrier coach builder Greek-st SunFire 1789 voted Sheridan & Paull 1806 will PCC 20.9.1827

22.3.1793 Jardine calls, tell him of spy & Nicholson 

Godwin had seen Major AlexanderJardine the day before and then seen William Nicholson at supper (and talked of degeneracy) .

5.4.1809 Crown & Anchor; present Spyring &c / 3.2.1824 Spyring calls / 7.6.1828 meet Spyring

Crown & Anchor was a memorial drink or meeting for Thomas Holcroft, followed by dinner at Thelwall's. Spyring & Marsden chemists & druggists 163 Borough, directories 1801, 1816. John Samuel Shepheard Spyring treasurer of Brighton Unitarian church 1822, will PCC 1848 gent of Brighton. Born 11.10.1774 St John Exeter son of John Spyring and Elizabeth dau. of Samuel Shepheard registered Dr Williams 10.7.1816.

12.10.1806 Tooke's, w. Squire & many / 8.10.1808 Squire calls / 24.10.1809 again / 23.11.1809 call on Squire

Holdens directory 1811:

Squire & Bowley truss makers 17 Broad-st Golden-sq
Daniel Squire shoemaker 23 East-st Manchester-sq
James Squire pork butcher 244 Upper Shadwell (will PCC 26.8.1833 of St Pancras)
John Squire straw hat maker 273 Oxford-st
Joseph Squire salesman & butcher 75 Aldgate
Robt Squire linen draper 2 Field-terr Battle Bridge
Thomas Squire solicitor Scot's-yd Bush-la
Thomas Squire needle &…

2.7.1796 squire to Scole

The Scole Inn was a coaching inn halfway between Ipswich and Norwich. squire is odd for not having a capital letter, if it was intended as a verb, the meaning is obscure. If a proper name it could have referred to Charles Squire, gentleman of Ipswich (will PCC 1817), Edmund Squire, liquor merchant of Bury (will PCC 1835), or Edward Squire, merchant of Norwich, or the name of a local carrier, though not found in directories.

St George 27.12.1801 at John King's / 17.1.1802 St Georges at King's / 4.4.1802 mrs St George at King's

Possibly  Melesina Trench DNB 1768-1827 (nee Chenevix, widow of St George). Her Remains, edited by her son and published 1862, have extracts from her journal which show she was still in Ireland on 17.11.1801 and arrived in Calais on 5.7.1802, so it is possible she was at King's on the above dates, the plural entry perhaps referring to her teenage son who was travelling with her. In the Remains he wrote of this period that he found "few memoranda and fewer still which need to be…

St Hermine 21.1.1800 at John  King's / 16.3.1800 again

Probably Rene Louis, Marquis de St Hermine born 15.10.1741, married 23.5.1775 Aimee de Polignac, gentleman of honour to Charles-Phillipe Comte D'Artois 1762-1836 (who later became King of France 1824-1830). He died in London 1805 or 1815. He had two daughters, the older Caroline 1779-1864 married at St Marylebone 29.7.1806 Michele Marie Comte de Greilly bach otp = Caroline Parsimeter St Hermine sp otp wits R Louis de St Hermine, J L Dufort Corrac duc de Corgi and she married 2ndly in London 1815 Charles de la Bourdonnaye Blossac…

Godwin Diary:  Stabler 2.4.1794 at Newgate

at Newgate. William Stabler linen draper from York age 28 5ft 5ins hazel eyes brown hair fair complexion sent to Newgate 31.7.1793 for conspiracy to escape from Kings Bench prison with Dr Tom Crosfield and Lord William Murray. A William Stabler was committed to Kings Bench prison 17.9.1796 at the suit of Alexander Wyllie for £40 and Edward Daniell for £25 and discharged 2.7.1797
 

Stacpoole 29.4.1800 at theatre

George Stacpoole born 26.8.1736 died 25.3.1824 see Burke's Irish Families, De Stacpoole. Heir to large estates in County Clare, Ireland. He was a man of fashion in London noted for the painting of his coach and was active in the Society for General Inoculation and the Society of Ancient Britons. He was later made duc de Stacpoole by Louis XVIII of France. Some of his relatives were also prominent in London, his second cousin Joseph Stacpoole, admitted Middle Temple 1767 became a money scrivener and went bankrupt in 1782, then acted as secretary to the…

Stacy 14.2.1802 at King's

In Shelley and his Circle there is a promissory note (SC 83) to Benjn Stacey 25.1.1808 but this was probably Benjamin Stacey baker of 23 Somers Place East (Holdens 1811) and not likely to have any connection with the Stacy at King's. A Mr Stacy was teaching Joseph Farington French in 1802/3 (Farington Diary). John Stacey attorney 2 Lyons Inn 1800. Stacey of Rupert St and Stacy of the Bedford Arms, Covent Garden were among the subscribers to the comedian George Parker's Life's Painter 1800. There were many more around spelt Stacy, Stacey or Stacie but i…

Stafford 8.6.1800 at John King's

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Mr Staley, 10 Upper Thames St, proposed member 5.5.1786 by Henry Amory 2nded John Satchell

GODWIN DIARY: Staley 2.1.1796 at Dyer's /  5.6.1796 at Amelia Alderson's

Identity probable but not clear, either for SCI member or Godwin Diary. Benjamin Staley of Bankside, Southwark, subscr 1783 to Comfort by W Augustus Clarke pastor of Red Cross St chapel. Benjamin Staley of Horseshoe Wharf, Thames St in 1786 list of Socy for Promoting Religious Knowledge among Poor (joined 1784). Benj Staley Upper Thames St subscr 2 gns to New College Hackney…

Standard 30.7.1805 adv at tea (& Carlisle) / 26.8.1806 miss Standert at Carlisle's / 20.3.1806 Standert (& Tobin) call / 22.3.1806 Standert calls / 24.3.1806 again / 6.4.1806 Standert (& Tobin) call

Probably Hugh Chudleigh Standert 1782-1850 (Plarr's Surgeons) MRCS 5.7.1805, practised at Taunton his will PCC 1850

adm Stanhope 13.1.1804 at Foulkes's

Sir Henry Edwyn Stanhope,  born 21.5.1754 bapt St m,arylebone of Edwyn Franci (d.1807) & Catherine (Lady Catherine Lyon or Brydges her will PCC 1810). He married Peggy Malbone 17.8.1783 at Trinity Church,  Newport, Rhode Island. He was made Rear Admiral 1.1.1801, baronet 1807, full Admiral 12.8.1812, lived at 1 The Circus, Greenwich in 1810 and died 1814, will PCC 1815 of Stanwell House, Middlesex