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HCR diary 11.5.1825 at Green's Lincoln's Inn Fields, a large party "and a Mr Stokes a disputer and so far an unpleasant companion but said to be an able man and a man of science - the afternoon passed off very agreeably - we debated on ethnology etc etc"

Charles Stokes 1784-1853., stockbroker, collector and natural historian. His letters to Charles Babbage (DNB 1791-1871) are at British Library Add MS 37182-93. The National Portrait Gallery has an etching of him by Mary wife of Dawson Thurner (DNB 1775-1858) after Francis Chantrey (DNB 1781-1841). See Boase. Linnaean Socy 1808,…

10.3.1809 dine at Johnson's, w. Dr Stokes &c

Maybe Jonathan Stokes DNB 1755?-1831, or his son Jonathan Richard Stokes (d.1818), or maybe Whitley Stokes DNB 1763-1845

tea, Stone 6.6.1797

Clearly the place Stone in Staffordshire

Stone 31.1.1795 at King's / 15.3.1795 again.

The William Stone who was acquitted of treason in January 1796 seems to have been arrested in May 1794 and kept in Newgate till his trial. He had been a member of the Society of Constitional Informaqtion and was a coal merchant at Rutland Place, Thames Street with his brothers John Hurford and Henry. A (presumably different) William Stone spoke in early July 1795 at a meeting of merchants at London Tavern, perhaps he was the William Stone wine merchant of 2, Northumberland Street, Strand in 1791. There was also Francis Stone DNB 1738-1813…

6.8.1793 Stone, taylor (in small writing).

Perhaps John Stone tailor of 79 Leather Lane (1800) and of 24 King St Holborn (1806 Sun Fire Insurance).

see Poland Street 1 to 9 & 49 to 62 in London Addresses dataset

William Stone, taylor of Poland Street sat on a Westminster coroners jury (London Lives 1781) and paid rates at 3 Poland St 1780-1782. William Stone tailor of Church St (St Anne Soho) voted Fox 1780. William Stone bach = St Marylebone 14.4.1787 Esther Jones sp botp by banns / William Stone buried St James 3.1.1790 / William Robert s of William & Esther…

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: William Stone of Rutland Pl, Thames St proposed member 23.5.1783 by Joseph Towers 2nded Richard Brocklesby

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: John Hurford Stone of London Fields, Hackney proposed member 15.1.1790 by Thomas Brand Hollis 2nded Richard Sharp

John Hurford Stone1763-1818 DNB
CURRENT TEXT "his younger brother William"
SUGGESTED CHANGE <his older brother William>
NOTES I haven't found Wiilam Stone's birth or death details or any records giving his age but William Stone of Rutland Place, Thames…

Storch 16.3.1803 at Joseph Johnson's

A close look at the original confirms the GD website has mistranscribed this, should be Sturch (see Sturch, William)

HCR diary 3.5.1823 to the park with Storks

                    7.7.1825 "returned to Storks with whom I had a late tete-a-tete. We have it seems a formidable new man in Mr Kelley"

(Fitzroy Kelly DNB 1796-1880). Henry Storks 1788-1866 in Henry Knight Storks (DNB 1811-1874).. Born 7.8.1778 bapt 23.8.1778 All Halllows died 4.11.1866 Paris. Henry Storks bach of St Dunstan i t West = St Helens Bishopsgate 14.6.1810 Ann Trundle otp sp by lic wits Ann Janes, Tho Trundle, Robt Storks, Sophia Ince(?), Elizth & Josh Chaplin, J C Reeve.

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: John Story of Lawrence Lane proposed member 8.11.1782 by Joseph Brown 2nded Edward Hall

John Story appr 1724 to Henry Brown of Merchant Taylors Co (father unreadable of Bucks, clerk). John Story of St Lawrence Jewry age 30 and upwards bach license 7.8.1746 to marry Elizabeth Pritchard sp of All Hallows Lombard St age 21. 1766 John Story warehouseman of Lawrence Lane, Christopher Alderson otsp (Warwick Co Record Office). London directories 1768-1773 Story, Alderson & Nethercoat 16 Lawrence lane, 1776-1794 just Story & Alderson. Pub Adv…

HCR diary 4.4.1823 at Aders, viewing pictures, Sir George Beaumont "proposed bringing Fuseli & Rgers, Stodhart"

                  2.11.1824 at Flaxman's with Mrs Aders "looking over Flaxman's drawings which Mrs A: highly enjoyed but she says F: steals a great deal and she believes also from Stothard though Mrs F: says St: borrows from Fl:"

                  8.11.1824 party at Aders "The Flaxmans with the Miss Gunns and old Stothard. It was pleasing to observe the interest the old gentleman took in the pictures - listened to the conversation of the two excellent men and…

Stavin 26.5.1789 at Timothy Hollis' & Stovin 18.5.1790, 13..1790,, 24.8.1790, 7.9.1790 there.

The first Stavin looks like an error for Stovin given the similar context. Stavin is also a very rare name though there was one John Sparrow Stavin. Best candidate for Stovin is George Stovin appr to Henry Atkinson attorney of Ripon Yorks 1777; 9.5.1788 George Stovin Esq of Newark, Notts bach marr Diana Sabine sp otp by lic at St Marylebone, wits Anna Maria Lawes, H Michell, John Wylde; 1792 Charles Beckett & John A Baumbach appr to George Stovin attorney of Thornhaugh St, Bedford…

Stow 30.11.1793 at Wrights

Mr James Stow Navy Office subscr 1788 to Bell's Shakspere / James Stow line engraver appr William Sharp. of 1 Park Row Knightsbridge voted Fox & Gardner 1796  / John Stow gent Exeter St Covent Garden voted Tooke 1796 greengrocer Exeter St voted Graham 1802

Stracy 12.3.1795 at King's.

Farington diary p4254 (18.11.1812) bankers Marsh Sibbald Stracey Fauntleroy & Stewart of Berners St

King of The Swindlers: Stracy a military officer said to have been swindled by Deane & Co, supposedly run by John King, back in 1783

Asks of R C; talks of Strafford & Leland 30.7.1800 at Grattan's

From the entry of the night before, these subjectless verbs probably referred to Grattan. R C is uncoded (neither identified nor unidentified) on GD website. At a reasonable guess it may have referred to John Philpot Curran's eldest son Richard, whom Godwin may have seen more recently than Grattan had (see Curran, Richard). Leland probably referred to Thomas Leland DNB 1722-1785 whose History of Ireland Godwin had looked at on 27.7.1800 and was to read further in the next few days, and Strafford to Thomas Wentworth…

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Thomas George Street of 4, Cowley St, Westminster proposed member 4.11.1792 by Joseph Gerrald 2nded Joseph Jennings

GODWIN DIARY: 25.11.1794 at Parr's / 26.11.1794 at Mackintosh's / 5.3.1796 at Parr's / 19.4.1800 again / 31.10.1801 at D Stuart's (wrongly transcribed as Sheet in GD website).

Editor of the Courier. His poem Aura the Slave was published 1788 and the first volume of his History of the Reign of Lewis the Sixteenth, dedicated to Samuel Parr, in 1794. The other two projected volumes never appeared and according to Parr this…

see Newman Street 1 to 9 in London Addresses dataset

Thomas Stratten Esq 3 Newman St Law List 1798-99 / Boyle's Court Guide 1798-99 William Stretton 3 Newman St / SunFire 1799, 1801 Willikam Thomas Stretton gent 3 Newman St / Joseph Ward of Newman St witnessed William Thomas Stretton son of Elizabeth Stretton wid of Oxford St Soho articled to James William Mark of Upper Charlotte St (clerk to Joseph Ward of Newman St) / 25.4.1792 William Thomas Stretton articled to James Knox attorney of Newman St / Thomas Streeton bach otp = St Marylebone 2.5.1775 Elizabeth Bentley sp of St Geo Han…

HCR diary 22.2.1821 "I went this morning and had my first sitting for my portrait to Jacob Strutt"

                    12.6.1822 "called early on Strutt at his son's - met them going out and accompanied them to Aders but I was forced to leave them and therefore do not know how Strutt was pleased with the pictures"

Jacob George Strutt (DNB 1784-1867) and his father Benjamin Strutt (1754-1827)

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: William Strutt, W Strutt junior & Joseph Strutt of Derby proposed members 28.9.1792 by Thomas Symmonds 2nded John Horne Tooke

William Strutt senior was a brother of Jedediah Strutt DNB 1726-1797. His two nephews William and Joseph are treated separately in the DNB entry of their father Jedediah. The will PCC 3.10.1800 of William Strutt of Derby hosier dated 29.1.1800 mentioned his three nephews William, George Benson, & Joseph Strutt

see Martindale, Henry

Cha Stuart 24.2.1795 at Mackintosh's / 20.4.1796 again.

Charles brother of Peter and Daniel Stuart of Morning Post, and Mackintosh's brother-in-law