A-Z of Entries

Wood 8.6.1800 at John King's / 11.1.1801 Wood calls / 10.5.1801 again / 19.5.1801 sups / 7.6.1801 calls / 14.6.1801 again / 28.6.1801 again / 12.7.1801 again / 19.7.1801 Wood (talk of Home & Lumsden) calls / 27.7.1801 call on Wood / 15.8.1801 Wood calls / 18.8.1801 sups / 6.9.1801 at tea / 25.9.1801 calls / 21.10.1801 sups / 1.11.1801 calls / 8.11.1801 dines / 22.11.1801 calls / 29.11.1801 again / 6.12.1801 again / 27.12.1801 again / 19.1.1802 again / 7.2.1802 again / 6.3.1802 again / 14.3.1802 Wood & Campbell call / 23.3.1802 Wood dines / 18.4.1802 again / 30.4.1802 Wood &…

dine at H Tooke's, with his sister & miss Wood 4.9.1803 / 21.9.1806 mrs Dicker at H Tooke's

John Horne Tooke DNB 1736-1812 had four sisters - Mary  = Thomas Wildman, Sarah = Stephen Demainbray, Elizabeth = William Clark, and Ann = Dicker. The will PCC 1834 of Ann Dicker widow of Strand on the Green Chiswick mentioned (as well as Demainbray relatives which identify her) her friend Harriot Wood spinster

7.9.1809 seek Zoust, at Woodburn's &c, w. M(ary) J(ane)

J Woodburn, picture dealer, 112 St Martin's-lane (Holdens trades directory 1811). They were looking for a print of Shakespeare by Gerard de Soest or Zoust

18.8.1809 Funeral; Woodcock &c / 24.8.1809 write to Woodcock / 24.9.1809 again / 7.10.1809 again / 31.10.1809 again / 7.11.1809 again / 10.11.1809 again

Thomas Woodcock of Briston (3 or 4 miles north of Wood Dalling) advertised in Norfolk Chronicle 18.11.1809 for all creditors and debtors of the late Mrs. Ann Godwin of Wood Dalling. In December 1809 he and Godwin's brother Philip Hull Godwin were the contacts for details of land to be sold at auction by James Woodcock. In 1811 he subscribed 1 guinea to the Norfolk & Norwich Auxiliary Bible Society. Norfolk Chronicle 9.5.1812…

In Godwin's 1796 list for 1786 Woodfal, also in 1794 version, but entry in 1796 list not coded in GD website to his person record

Henry Sampson Woodfall DNB 1739-1805 or his brother William Woodfall DNB 1745-1803 (the GD website person record says it could be either)

5.9.1810 dine at Aldis's, w. Woodham &c / 30.1.1811 call on Woodham / 31.1.1811 call on Woodham; adv. N(athaniel) G(odwin) / 4.3.1811 dine at Aldis's, w. Woodham &c  / 19.1.1817 call on Aldis, w. W(illiam) G(odwin); adv. Woodham / 27.6.1819 dine at Aldis's, w. Woodham &c / 7.10.1822 Funeral, Lady Aldis, w. Woodham / 18.10.1822 dine at Aldis's, w. Woodham &c / 16.9.1823 again / 2.8.1826 again / 16.8.1827 again

James Woodham surgeon 35 West Smithfield (Holdens directory 1811, Robsons directory 1820)

14.7.1796 at tea / 3.10.1803 Godwin calls on / 5.10.1803 at tea / 5.9.1805 Godwin calls on (not in) / 6.9.1805 calls / 18.8.1809 Woodhouse jr at Ann Godwin's funeral / 19.8.1809 Godwin calls on Mrs Woodhouse

all the above entries were when Godwin was visiting his family at Wood Dalling in Norfolk and most have been wrongly coded in GD website to Robert Woodhouse, father or son.

Anthony Woodhouse married Mary Long at Wood Dalling 1758 / Anthony Woodhouse farmer of Wood Dalling voted 1795 & 1802 / Anthony Woodhouse widower of Wood Dalling married Ann Glover spinster 30.9.…

T Woodhouse 20.12.1799 at Opie's / 17.1.1800 Tho Woodhouse at Opie's / 26.6.1800 again

Presumably John Thomas Woodhouse 1780-1845 fellow of Caius College, Cambridge and brother of Robert Woodhouse DNB 1773-1827 (see Jones)

Woodman 26.2.1791 (just the name, no 'calls' or 'call on')

14.10.1809 Woolnoth calls / 30.10.1809 call on Woolnoth / 31.10.1809 Woolnoth calls / 6.11.1809 again

Likely William Woolnoth engraver (bbti) 92 White Lion-str Pentonville (Holdens directory 1802) 1780-1837 (William Woolnoth gent White Lion-row SunFire 1782 presumably his father). Woolnoth was a surname given to foundlings baptised at St Mary Woolnoth

Woolriche 9.1.1802 at Thomas Moore's (the Irish poet)

Morning Post 24.3.1806 and 3.4.1806 "Mr T Moore has been confined these 8 weeks Stephen Woolriche Esq surgeon to HRH Duke of Cambridge has attended him the entire time". Stephen Woolriche born 3.6.1770 died 29.2.1856 (Plarr's Surgeons). 1794 subsrs to Mary Darwall's Poems Mr Woolriche surgeon, Miss Woolriche New Mills nr Walsall. Army surgeon half pay 1788-1806, 4th foot from 1807. Morning Post 5.11.1825 Mr Woolriche surgeon on staff of Duke of Wellington in Peninsula, accompanied Duke of Bedford to Nice. Retired to Qwatford…

call on Wordsworth atty 2.4.1798 / 3.4.1798 call on Wordsworth, adv Montagu / 14,4,1798 call on Worswort atty / 16.4.1798 call on Wordsworth (& Montagu) / 17.4.1798 call on Wordsworth / 5.5.1798 adv Wordsworth at (Samuel) Lister's

The above entries have all been coded to William Wordsworth on the GD website. The poet was clearly down in Somerset at this time (see Reed, Wordsworth Chronology 1770-1799) and two of the above entries add "atty" i.e. attorney, which was the profession of the poet's brother Richard. There are also two later entries that are coded to William Wordsworth…

15.7.1795 Dyson & W call. Since Godwin called on Wordsworth the previous day, this W seems very likely to have been Wordsworth

7.6.1796 sup with W at Montagu's. Since Wordsworth had already been named in full that day, this was certainly him

In Godwin's 1796 list for 1779 also in 1794 version

Hugh Worthington DNB 1752-1813 a London dissenting preacher from 1774. Didn't appear in Godwin's daily diary entries dating from 1788

10.11.1795 Wrangham & Montagu call / 11.11.1795 call on Montagu adv Wrangham / 18.11.1795 at Montagu's / 13.1.1796 there / 14.5.1797 Wrangham & Montagu call /  28.5 1797 again / 4.6.1799 Godwin calls on Wranghm (not in) / 5.6.1799 again / 13.5.1800 adv at Mauman's / 15.3.1810 Godwin wrote to / 3.4.1811 Wrangham & Strickland call / 22.7.1815 Godwin wrote to / 8.6.1816 calls / 1.6.1834 calls

Francis Wrangham DNB 1769-1842. Brightwell: Memorials of A Opie p59. Seatonian prize. Married 1799 Yorkshire Agnes Creyke, she d.1800, 2ndly Dorothy Cayley 1801

Sir Cecil Wray proposed Society for Constitutional Information 29.11.1782 Edward Hall 2nded Samuel Shore

See DNB 1734-1805 also History of Parliament. His one appearance in Godwin Diary 1.4.1795 was interestingly at  the table of John King DNB c1753-1823 see my Background article King of the Swindlers

Wright 8.4.1796 adv at King's / 2.12.1807 call on Wright / 4.12.1807 again / 6.9.1808 again (in Newbury)  / 7.11.1808 Wright cpp calls / dine at Collier's w. Wright / 8.8.1812 tea Collier's, w. Wright

I suspect five different Wrights in the above entries. For 1796 at King's I have no suggestions. For the two entries two days apart in 1807 I considered Henry Wright attorney of Paper-bldgs Temple partner to Thomas Nelson Pickering, because a Pickering also appeared in the list of calls on 3.12.1807, 4.12.1807 and 5.12.1807. However on 4.12.1807 they both appeared but separated by…

Wright 16.7.1800 calls, adv at Lefanu's

Perhaps Thomas Wright Dict Irish Biog 1760-1812 surgeon, United Irishman, informer from 1799. Dublin Trades 1797 Benjamin Wright grocer, James Wright victualler, Joseph Wright grocer, Joseph Wright hatter, Nehemiah Wright linen draper, Patrick Wright factor

19.4.1810 call on Curran; adv. dr Wright

Perhaps Thomas Wright 1760?-1812 Dict Irish Biog a surgeon who was part of the United Irishmen but after his arrest informed on them and later served as Temporary Physician to the British forces in the fever stricken Walcheren expedition of 1809. His book The History of the Walcheren Remittent was published in 1811 (Morning Post 26.6.1811) and he died of yellow fever in October 1812 in Spain. He was a licentiate of the Irish College of Physicians, the only Dr Wright in the Royal College in 1811 was Warner Wright of Norwich

30.11.1793 sup at, Wrights (with 13 others) / 17.12.1794 evening at Merry's, Wrights

no Wright appears in the diary till 1796, and such a large company with several well known actors/singers (Hewardine, Pope, Dignum, Johnstone) suggests a public venue, as does the plural form without apostrophe. There was a Wright's coffee house in York Street Covent Garden in the 1760s frequented by actors, and a Wright's coffee house in Soho Square from 1796 (Law List), a Francis Johnson Wright brandy merchant of the Strand (who voted Tooke 1790) and a David Wright brandy merchant Bridges St…