A-Z of Entries

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…

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

HCR diary 7.10.1832 re Sir Thomas Lawrence "There is a letter by L: to J: Fred: Lewis at Mrs Aders 'I sincerely rejoice at your good fortune in securing the kind hospitality of Mr & Mrs A: and in having for your present companion Mr Gotzenberger of whose genius I have a most sincere admiration - The compositions that I saw of his pencil were in the purest taste yet with equal originality and power' "

Probably John Frederick Lewis (DNB 1804-1876)

                                                                            HCR diary 20.6.1818 musical party at Aders' house "The Schunks Platts Mrs Fazy Miss Lewis were my acquaintances"  re the failure of Mr…

HCR diary 25.2.1826 "dined at Henry Rogers' at Highbury" a Dr Leigh or Lee among guests

                    25.1.1837 "The mortality of this season is unusually great - Dr Ley is gone"

Reminiscences 19.10.1857 Mrs Aders' daughter Ellen Kelly "I should think about the worst person I ever knew - She was plain in person but had a certain humour & vivacity in society which enabled her to gain the affections of an amiable M.D. a Dr Ley whom she married and all but ruined - She spent…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Henry Liddle 25 Poland St ratebooks 1778-1781 / SunFire 1777 Sarah Hales widow at Mr Liddal's tailor Poland St (note Thomas Hales leaseholder of 50 (then 49) Poland St 1788) / Daily Advertiser 26.3.1778 sale on the premises in Poland St opposite the Pantheon, the effects of Mr Henry Liddle and lease of said premises ten & 3 quarter years unexpired rent £30 p.a. "substantially built, in perfect repair, four storeys high, two rooms to a floor"/ Ann Liddle 25 Poland St ratebooks 1800-6

see Poland Street number not known in London Addresses dataset

Mary Limm widow SunFire 1788 matron of St James Infirmary Poland St / SunFire 1779 Mary Limm widow 10 Queens Row Knightsbridge / perhaps Joseph Limm bach = St Geo Han Sq 20.12.1756 Mary Latham sp by lic / Land Tax 1757 Joseph Limm Ditch Side / Mary dau of Joseph & Mary Limm of Ditch Side bapt 18.12.1757 St Bride Fleet St / Eleanor dau of same bapt 22.2.1759 there / Joseph Limm Land Tax 1768 Silver St, Whitefriars Precinct / Mary Limb adult of White Bear Court, High St bur 29.6.1794 St Botolph Aldgate

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…

27.11.1809 call on Lindsel

William Lindsell bookseller 87 Wimpole-st Cavendish-sq (bbti)

22.12.1809 call on H Lindsey

Probably Hannah Lindsey (died 1812) widow of Theophilus Lindsey DNB 1723-1808 her will PCC 1812

Ling 21.3.1802 at King's

see work notes

(see Francis Place's Autobiography ed. Mary Thale pages 94 - 119, Place worked for tailor Lingham)

Note; for parish registers of Savoy precinct you have to contact the vicar, I have not seen for Linghams

Thomas Lingham glover Strand voted 1774 Mountmorris & Mahon, Old Bailey 9.1.1776

   glover precinct of Savoy bankrupt (Gazette 11.2.1777 certificate 24.6.1777)

   glover 137 Strand stock for sale (Morn Post 28.3.1777)

   Sun Fire 1777 glover corner of Dutchy lane Strand

   Old Bailey 21.10.1778…

                                                                                Linnell's Journal 6.8.1825 Mrs Aders 11 Euston Sq with Mr Blake

        …

miss Linwood 6.6.1779

Explained in GD website in event tag, though underlined and no person record

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

William Lippop 44 Poland St ratebooks 1779, 27 Poland St ratebooks 1780-8 / William Lipop = St James 13.11.1780 Rene Lacroix botp banns wits Thos Theed, PHC(?) La Guignard / SunFire 1781 William Lipop 27 Poland St taylor, his wife a lace & silk stocking cleaner 1789 7 Maddox St tailor & silk stocking cleaner 1809 7 Maddox St tailor & dealer in Irish linen / William Lipop bur St Geo Han Sq 31.5.1823 age 71 / his will PCC 1823 of Maddox St gent dated 26.9.1821 mentioned wife Rene, niece Anna Maria Lipop, Joseph &…

8.3.1789 Lisakovicz at Holcroft's. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1789, crossed out, and in 1794 version.

General Robert Thomas Wilson DNB 1777-1849 sent a letter in 1807 to Chevalier Lisakovitz who was clearly an important Russian officer but at that time in Holstein. (Life of Sir Robert Wilson)

 

Lister's (New Inn) 20.4.1798 with M(arshall), Lawson, Hammond, Jos Wilkinson, Jo(seph) G(odwin) & another / 5.5.1798 Wych St w M & S Lister; dine at Lister's w M & Lawson, adv Wordsworth & Hammond / 16.10.1798 Lister adv at theatre / 11.8.1799 call on S Lister / 26.10.1799 S Lister calls / 24.1.1801 call on S Lister (not in)

Samuel Lister attorney of 3 New Inn, Law List 1800. The first entry above is coded in GD website to Dr William Lister but the address and the recurrence of the same guests in the second entry make it clear that the first entry was Samuel Lister.…

In Godwin's 1796 list for 1778 in the 1794 version added later in small letters. Person record in GD website but 1796 list entry not coded to it

William Lister Monk's Roll 1757-1830

18.12.1808 dine at Hume's, w. Listons / 23.12.1808 call on Listons, w. M(ary) J(ane) / 30.12.1808 Listons dine / 24.4.1809 Listons sup / 4.6.1809 dine at Liston's / 21.11.1809 Liston calls: sup at Liston's / 31.12.1809 Listons & B Tyrer dine / 8.2.1810 Listons adv. at theatre / 23.2.1810 Liston calls (not seen) / 27.3.1810 Listons sup / 30.4.1810 Liston (at RA exhibition) / 21.6.1810 call on Liston, w. M(ary) J(ane) & 7; adv. Smith, Lambs, Laburns, miss Tyrer & miss Liston. Call on Hume / 16.11.1810 call on Liston / 26.11.1810 Liston calls / 2.12.1810 Listons dine / 27.12.1810…