A-Z of Entries

E Davenport, printer, 6 George Court, Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell on list of LCS contacts, 2nd edition of report of the LCS general meeting at St George's Fields 29.6.1795, At General Committee 2.6.1795 a Davenport was deputed to absent Div 22 and was nearly voted onto the Exec Cttee. On 6.8.1795 a Davenport elected to Exec Cttee. At General Cttee 13.8.1795 Bustle in place of Davenport became delegate of Div 3. Exec Cttee 27.8.1795 Davidson printer sent letter complaining at Davenport using position on Exec Cttee to underquote him. General Cttee 3.9.1795 Davenport ballotted off Exec Cttee…

James Davidson printer Clare Court, Strand voted Tooke 1790. St Clement Danes rates 1789 to 1794 James Davidson, Clare Court, Strand value £30. Thale is the source for otherwise unreferenced items below. On 11.4.1793 he printed handbills for LCS; a Davidson was in committee of correspondence 21.11.1793; a Davison was delegate of Div 5 on 2.1.1794. In the examination of spy Nodder by the Privy Council 22.5.1794 (Nat Arch TS 11/963) James Davidson of (Rickett?) Court, Covent Garden was claimed to have been sometimes printer for Lambeth Loyal Association. The list of witnesses for the treason…

From meeting of Div 23 on 11.12.1793 in Brown Bear, Moorfields the spy George Lynam reported that Davis went to a Serjt at the Tower and made a convert of him & several Soldiers. On 20.12.1793 Home Secretary Evan Nepean wrote to Major General Leake that a shoemaker named Davis of 15 Cannon Street had been spreading sedition to soldiers at the Tower. (Thale p.34). He may have been the same as Peter Davey or Davie who testified at the LCS trial of Lynam 13.6.1793 that he had enquired about Lynam's character from a Mr Crab and then proposed him as a member. Peter Davey was Div 23 delegate…

Edward Dawson, Paternoster Row joined 31.5.1794 the "unnumbered division" (QV)

Edward Dawson son of George Dawson boltingclothworker of Reading appr 2.8.1763 for 7 yrs to Thomas Harrison of Paternoster Row, Stationers Co, premium £21 paid by father
History of the Oxford University Press, vol 2 p83 William Dawson warehousekeeper at 7 Paternoster Row from 1780
SunFire 1789 William Dawson 7 Paternoster Row bookseller
Book of Common Prayer printed at Clarendon Press, Oxford 1797 and sold by W.Dawson, Oxford Bible Warehouse, Paternoster Row, London
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LCS General Committee 21.3.1793 (report from spy Lynam) Dawson Covent garden has one (a roll to get signatures for petition to Parliament.); General Committee 10.10.1793 Dawson has 2 skins for signatures for petition to the King (see Thale). No other evidence Dawson was LCS member.

(James Dawson of Jacksons Alley voted Fox 1780, ratebooks there 1799 to 1819, maybe different person).

Sun Fire 1784 James Dawson of Drury Lane greengrocer & fruiterer, 1786 same of Covent Garden Market. James Dawson fruiterer of Covent Garden voted Hood 1788. voted Fox & Tooke 1790, orange…

Ezekiel Delight 25 New Bridge St joined 5.5.1794 "unnumbered division" (QV)

His grandfather Ezekiel Delight cordwainer of Norwich married 29.3.1737 Sarah Greenwood at Norwich Cathedral. He married 2ndly at St George Tombland Norwich 22.4.1747 Sarah Ebden sp otp. His will PCC 19.10.1797 of St Peter Mancroft Norwich mentioned wife Sarah, sons Ezekiel & William, dau Watts, sister Watts, dau Elizabeth. He was buried 3.4.1797 age 84. His widow Sarah will PCC 10.2.1806 died 27.10.1805 age 90 Norwich Unitarian.

His father Ezekiel Delight bach otp age 27 =  St Geo Hanover Sq 27 .…

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Earl of Selkirk proposed 9.8.1782 by John Jebb 2nded Edward Bridgen / Lord Daer proposed 4.5.1792 by John Cartwright 2nded Thomas Paine / Hon. John Douglas of Inner Temple proposed 6.7.1792 by Lord Sempill 2nded Christopher Hull

Dunbar Douglas,1722-1799 4th Earl of Selkirk married Helen (d.1802) dau of John Hamilton of Blackadder, Berwickshire.(see Thomas Douglas DNB 1771-1820). Basil William Douglas, Lord Daer (DNB 1763-1794 under London Corresponding Society) was his heir but died before him. The next brother, Hon. John Douglas was born 24.5…

TS 11/963 examination 22.5.1794 of Frederick Polydore Nodder, for whose spy reports on LCS in April & May 1794 see Thale. Mentioned William Draper who lived somewhere in Clerkenwell and was preacher at London Wall, Draper also mentioned in Hayward's examination 27.5.1794. No other evidence that Draper was sympathetic to reform or the LCS.

Lloyds Evening Post 21.3.1791. Rev W Draper, Sunday afternoon lecturer of All Hallows Londom Wall, of 5, Bowling Green Lane, Clerkenwell. Wife and 9 children, £40 lectureship, classical and mathematical tuition. late curate of New Church…