adv Leeson 7.2.1798 at Devlin's
? William Leeson attorney Staples inn 1784 Law list / Derbyshire Record office D239/ M/F10295-6 & M/T223-4 (1791) / Wm L = Eliza Robinson 15.9.1796 by banns wits H Brodie H Robinson / Wm L = Joanna Wright 3.10.1802 St Martin i t Fields
Lefanus 9.3.1798 at miss Lee's / 16.7.1800 (in Ireland) call on mrs Lefanu with Everina (Wollstonecraft) / 19.7.1800 dine at Lefanu's with Everina / 1.8.1800 call on (not in) / 3.10.1808 Godwin reads work by Lefanu / 16.2.1811 Lefanus call / 21.2.1811 Godwin reads Lefanu / 12.3.1811 Lefanus at tea / 13.3.1811 Godwin reads Lefanu / 14.3.1811 write to A Lefanu / 11.7.1811 again / 4.10.1811 again / 10.5.1823 Lefanu jr calls / 5.6.1825 Lefanu adv at M(ary) W S(helley's)
Not identified by a person record in the GD website, but the entry for the texts read by Godwin on 3.10.1808 and 21.2.…
Lefevres 15.10.1804 adv at Holcroft's / 28,10.1804 Lefevre adv at Hts / 30.11.1804 again
Charles Shaw Lefevre Hist of Parl 1759-1823 was MP for Reading from 1802 to 1820 and by 1808 he had moved from being a supporter of Pitt via Addington and Sidmouth to voting for Burdett's reform motion in a minority of 15. Sidmouth considered he had been "bitten by a popularity" at Reading where the reform movement was strong but I note he voted for Graham in Westminster in 1802, so it's not impossible he was friendly with Holcroft in 1804, but it seems an improbable identification
11.10.1795 Leftley at Holcroft's / 22.11.1795 there
Charles Leftley 1771-1798 son of Charles Leftley grocer of Strand (voted 1774 Mountmorris & Mahon 1784 Fox 1788 Townshend 1790 Fox) married 26.12.1760 St Clement Danes Eleanor Palmer their son Charles bapt 1771 St Martin in the Fields (father or son) signed Declaration of Friends to Liberty of Press 1792, Flights of Fancy 1797 glees with music by William Linley DNB 1771-1835 who wrote account of him in 1819. A Masque 1802 The Corsicans unfinished. The Sylph (DE Baker Biographica Dramatica). Parliamentary reporter for Times…
mrs LeGrand calls 3.10.1805 (& Keir)
Possibly Lydia nee White the wife of George Wren Legrand brewer of Hampstead married 1.6.1787. He was born Canterbury 1759 and died 26.12.1834 at Union Place Lambeth buried 2.1.1835 there the same day as his wife, his will PCC 1836. In Holdens 1811 he was at 2 North Addington Pl Camberwell. His father George of Canterbury will PCC 1807. See work notes below as well
30.12.1807 Philips's, tea & supper; adv. Leigh / 20.11.1809 call on Mills, Rivington, Leigh, Hume, Knowles, Goddard, Hatchard, Sharpe, Stockdales & Tabart / 17.12.1811 Leigh calls / 20.5.1813 call on Leigh
Godwin's calls on 28.11.1809 were mainly on booksellers, starting from Rivington at St Pauls and then via Knowles at the Navy Office in the Strand to Goddard in Haymarket, Hatchard, Sharpe and Stockdale in Piccadilly to Tabart in Picadilly or Bond-st. If Hume was Godwin's friend Joseph Hume as coded in GD website he is said to have worked in the Victualling Office Smerset…
10.6.1798 Leipsic on coach from Bath
Given the entry on 5.6.1798 (see Florence) this may have been a person from Leipsic or someone with that surname
10.8.1807 call, w. (Marshall) on Lepard / 12.8.1807 call on Lepard & (w.him) Barber : Bow Street, Lep(ar)d, Humphrys, H(odgkins)s, Corbet, M(arshall) & T(homas) T(urner) / 18.8.1807 Lepard & Hodgkins call / 25.8.1807 call on Lepard (w. M(arshall)) / 8.10.1807 call on Lepard / 26.1.1808 Lepard calls / 27.1.1808 call on Lepard / 1.7.1808 call on Lepard (w. M(ary) J(ane))
William Lepard bookseller Tooley-st, Southwark 1757, stationer Newgate-st SunFire 1780 his will PCC 21.2.1805. He was a Baptist and member of the congregation of John Rippon (DNB 1751-1836). His father,…
H Leroux 14.6.1799 adv at dinner
Jacob Leroux was Godwin's landlord who financed the building of the Polygon and sub-let it. He lived hard by and his son Henry was tenant of no 8. Jacob died 26.4.1799 and the whole estate was put up for sale see GD website event tag 20.6.1799. Jacob's will PCC 1799 dated 11.4.1799 wife Mary (PCC 1831) children Priscilla Mary, Midford George (Doctor will PCC 1847 of Calais & St Pancras), Maria Ann (married John Tatham), Henry Jacob (=18.1.1798 St Pancras Frances Ross Finch, H J L bur St Paul Covt Gdn 24.1.1832 age 55 of St John Hackney, his dau…
walk to Leadenhall with Cl(airmon)t 23.11.1801 / call on mrs Lester 27.11.1801 sleep at St Agnes / 2.12.1801 sleep at Baldock / 3.12.1801 again / 11.12.1801 again / 12.12.1801 sleep at St Agnes / 19.12.1801 again / 21.12.1801 Shoreditch Church &c with Ct (=Mrs Godwin) / 30.12.1801.call on Lester &c with Ct
William St Clair in The Godwins & The Shelleys suggests that Godwin (before his marriage on 21.12.1801) slept at St Agnes in order to fulfil the oath that he was "of this parish", the place being probably St Agnes Place or St Agnes Circus, Old Street Road in the parish…
22.9.1809 call on Letterman / 27.1.1810 Guildhall, Didier; adv. Letterman / 12.6.1810 call on Letterman / 23.6.1810 (Guildhall; adv. Letterman &c) / 29.6.1810 Guildhall (Tabart); adv. Letterman &c / 13.7.1810 call on Letterman / 18.7.1810 Chancery Lane, w. Letterman &c / 21.7.1810 call on Letterman / 31.7.1810 Guildhall (Tabart); adv. Letterman / 11.8.1810 Guildhall; Tabart, Letterman &c / 20.8.1810 Examination of sir R P; Letterman &c / 21.8.1810 Guildhall; Tabart, Letterman &c / 24.8.1810 call on Letterman / 11.9.1810 again / 5.10.1810 again / 9.10.1810 Baptist's…
Lettsom jr 11.6.1800 at Mary Robinson's
Probably one of the sons of John Coakley Lettsom DNB 1744-1815. Edmund 1781-1821 was hydrocephalic and said to have been an imbecile from 1797. Samuel Fothergill 1779-1844 (married 1802 Eliza Sophia Garrow, bankrupt 1823) and Pickering 1782-1808, a barrister of the Inner Temple (admitted 7.11.1803) and said to have been very handsome
GODWIN DIARY; Lee Lewes's Benefit (The Wonder) 24.6.1803
GREATER SOHO: see Poland Street 10 to 18 & 45 to 48 in London Addresses dataset
World 26.2.1791 tickets from Mr Lee Lewes at Mr Brough's 16 Poland St / William Brough adult buried 22.5.1795 St James (William Brough staymaker of Carnaby St voted Hood & Fox 1784 will PCC 1785 mentioned wife Margaret, son Thomas)
Charles Lee Lewes DNB 1740-1803
SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Sir Watkin Lewes of Kings Road, Grays Inn Lane original member 1780. took on Wales for SCI tract distribution
Watkin Lewes 1740-1821 (historyofparliamentonline 1754-1790 & 1790-1820)
GODWIN DIARY: 11.11.1788 Lewis at miss Williams' / 9.2.1790 again / 7.5.1790 again / 13.5.1791 again.
Many of the Lewis entries have been coded in GD website to Sir Watkin Lewes but I find most of these unlikely. The Lewis at miss Williams' could have been one of a number of subscribers to her 1786 Poems (T Lewis Esq, C Lewis Esq, R Lewis Esq…
Erving & Lewis Cs call 31.1.1802
Lewis Cs could have been an abbreviation for a surname ending in s like Chalmers but was more likely a plural. Lewis Goldsmith who had met Godwin in 1801 had left for France in December (see Goldsmith) and the C is clearly not a G, no other obvious candidates among people mentioned in the diary before or after. Searching PCC wills produced a few possibles of which my favourite was Lewis Crespin of St Pancras will PCC 1824 who married Ann Massy 13.2.1768 at St Paul Covent Garden and whose will mentioned his son William, his dau Ann born 1770 who…
Lewis, distiller 21.8.1800 at Nicholson's
There was a bit of a family of distillers called Lewis. William Lewis distiller Uxbridge will PCC 1782 / George Lewis distiller Fulham will PCC 1784 / Lewis & Co distillers New Inn Yd, Holloway Lane 1785 / J & R Lewis distillers Holywell La, Shoreditch 1790 / William Lewis distiller Uxbridge will PCC 1803 dated 13.4.1794 mentioned wife Jane, Mrs Mary Turner of Charles St, St James Sq, and his friend William Bird of Old South Sea House, Old Broad St
mrs Lind at John King's 28.5.1798 / 14.11.1799 mrs Lind adv at theatre / 7.6.1809 Lind adv at Perry's
subs to Egerton Leigh's Munster Abbey 1797 included mrs Lind of Bruton St and mrs Lind of Stratford Place. Edward George Lind of 16 Stratford Place (will PCC 1832) had married Elizabeth Ainslie at Kendal in 1786. His brother Francis of 30 Bruton St (will PCC 1840 of Twickenham) married his cousin Anne daughter of the engraver Richard Cooper DNB 1701-1764. Mrs Lind of Bruton St was also named in Cesare Mussolini's Italian conversation book of 1800 which rather charmingly listed the…