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HCR diary 10.6.1824 Lamb spoke of Manning - the most wonderful man he ever knew, more extraordinary than W[ordsworth] or C[oleridge] - yet he does nothing. He has travelled in China, India, Tibet but written nothing

Thomas Manning (DNB 1772-1840)

HCR diary 10.2.1823 to Aders, Euston Sq "calling on the way at Mrs Mason"

                 10.12.1826 "called at Mrs Anne Mason's"  Mrs Frankland going to Van Diemens Land. Mrs A: M: bedridden, disease of spine, Mrs McMurdo next door

                 11.12.1826 called on Mrs Mason at her daughter's Mrs Williams

                     2.4.1828 Miss Mason's 48 Gt Coram St - house for private pupils, Mrs M: met me there

                   5.11.1828 "called on Mrs Wathen late Miss Mason"

Thomas Mason born 20.7.1776 at St Laurence Pountney, London, son of…

HCR diary 21.3.1832 at Aders "death of Westfal in Sicily mentioned by Mayer"

                 18.12.1833 Mayer "with M: at Aders picture gallery - M: seemed to think the prices marked absolutely monstrous"

                   24.1.1834 Mayer "introduced him to Miss Denman"

                     4.6.1934 "had to breakfast with me Vogel von Vogelstein, Aders and Mayer"

                     7.6.1845 "Meyer called on me today. He has brought his wife to England"

These are probably all Enrico Mayer (Dizionario Biografico Degli Italiani or it.wikipedia1802-1877)…

GODWIN DIARY: 24.10.1796 Meux at Carlisle's lecture /  2.11.1796 again

Richard Meux DNB 1734-1813 his will PCC 1813 Anthony Carlisle was one of the witnesses. Or one of his sons Henry 1770-1841 /  Richard born 1768 / Thomas born 1772

CRABB ROBINSON DIARY: 10.12.1820 Mrs Basil Montagu's gossip "She knows too that Mrs Aders has visited at Mr Meux's when a woman of infamous character was there"

HCR diary 17.2.1818 Mrs Smith formerly Mrs Meyer later Mrs Aders "she has resumed her maiden name (tho' she ought to have taken that of her first husband) at Mr meyer's request and with reason, since the bonds of marriage have been dissolved between them"

                 19.12.1820 Mrs Basil Montagu's gossip about Mrs Aders "Of the second husband she spoke more favorable. She used to say of Charles Meyer he is always in the right. But he has shunned her since this affair and that makes her think ill of him in this affair"

                      8.6.1826 at Aders a German (…

HCR diary 15.2.1822 Mitchells at Masqueriers

                    28.3.1829 Mrs Mitchell at Masqueriers in Brighton

John James Masquerier (DNB 1778-1855) married in 1812 Rachel widow of Rober Eden Scott and daughter of Duncan Forbes-Mitchell. The Mitchells could well have been the family of one of her married brothers then living, either John Forbes-Mitchell born 1784, married Ann Powell in 1809, had 6 children and died  9.7.1822, or Henry David Forbes-Mitchell born 1790, married Margaret Fraser in 1816 and had several children by her by 1822. He died in 1869

GODWIN DIARY:  Monkhouse 5.8.1790 at George Robinson's (or quoted there?) / 14.1.1818 calls with Wordsworth / 14.2.1818 at Telford's

CRABB ROBINSON DIARY: 2.2.1822 "dined at Monkhouse's calling by way on the Aders & Flaxmans"

                                                   2.4.1823 saw Lambs at Monkhouse's "succeeded in making an arrangement for a party at Aders's which delighted them greatly"

                                                   6.5.1827 Monkhouse's brother John from Wales. Monkhouse's widow married Mr Dick

The Monkhouse in 1819 and 1822-3…

HCR diary 12.12.1821 at Aders "I found the party all in raptures with the performance on the violin of a Mr Mori who they all extolled to the skies"   "Mori has the look of a man of talent - Burrel says he is only a fine performer and stops short of genius and is not to be compared with Philippi (right name?)"

Nicolas Mori (DNB 1796/7-1839)

GODWIN DIARY: 19.5.1928 / 19.5.1828 / 30.10.1828. He has a person record on GD website

CRABB ROBINSON DIARY: 21.2.1829 at Aders "I met with Muhlenfels German Prof: Un: London - I should judge a sensible man, but his talk was not particularly agreeable"

Jackson's Oxford Journal 17.5.1828 University of London the council appointed Ludwig von Muhlenfels, Professor of the German and Northern languages and literature. His manual of German Literature was published 1830. de.wikipedia 1793-1861. He fled Germany to Sweden in 1821 after being arrested for subversive activities and was…

HCR diary 3.6.1818 at British Gallery with Mrs Smith, the futre Mrs Aders "Mrs S made me attentive to the brilliant lights of Hobbema and made me half a convert to her preference of Cuyp over Claude"

A longish passage on how the future Mrs Aders influenced Robinson's taste in art, but compare his visit the previous month to the gallery with Munro, who seems to have influenced him in much the same direction. Probably Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro (DNB 1797-1864)

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Nash of Royston proposed member 30.3.1781 by Joseph Parker 2nded John Jebb

William s of Thomas Nash & Sarah nee Wallis born 1745 married 1774 Hester Wedd, died 30.12.1829. Woodfall's register 27.1.1790 Wm Nash signed resolutions of Canbridgeshire Constitutional Society. 1791 Unitarian Society, attorney of Royston, his son Wedd William Nash articled to him 1792. Morning Chronicle 9.1.1818 W Nash Royston subscr to William Hone (DNB 1780-1842) and see below

HENRY CRABB ROBINSON DIARY:

                    26.4.1820 "tea at Miss…

GODWIN DIARY: Naylors 12.11.1794 at Gerald's.

Probably Samuel Naylor attorney of Great Newport Street from 1770 and of Hogs Lane Hammersmith, buried 12.2.1799 at Baptist Chapel, Hammersmith age 53 (will PCC 1799 dated 7.9.1793 wits Thomas & Ellen Maclean). His wife Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Maclean, sons Samuel and Thomas (born 1776 Dr Williams' registers) still at Newport St in 1841 census, son Samuel unmarried at Hammersmith with sister Elizabeth 1851 census

CRABB ROBINSON DIARY: 29.1.1829 at Naylor's Hammersmith

HCR diary 23.2.1825 at Aders "a Prussian diplomatist going to America, a Herr von Niederstätter an elegant and sensible man"

Ludwig Niederstetter 1788-1846 chargé d'affaires from Prussia to the United States from 1825 to 1830 (en.wikipedia)

HCR diary 20.2.1822 at Aders "a musical party - A Mrs Obert there - who I accompanied home - A French teacher of musick - a very nice woman apparently - a lady in reduced circumstances"

Mrs Obert Land Tax 1825 Newgate St. Harriet Obert buried 5.4.1837 St Pancras age 66

HCR diary 3.1.1833 "I warned Aders about the dangers of arrest, but he assured me and this was confirmed by Jameson that a pledge was given by L's attorney Parnther to Upton, Aders' attorney that there should be no arrest" L was Loevenhagen, Aders was arrested anyway the same day

Michael Smith Parnther will PCC 1850 of 50 Fenchurch St. 1833 of London St, London. 1829 he was clerk to Tallow Chandlers Company. Born 10.6.1776 bapt 2.7.1776 St Andrew Holborn son of Robert & Ann Parnther. Robert Parnther = St Mary Catrlisle 2.1.1772 Ann Smith. Standard 20.2.1850, on 17.2.1850 in…

HCR diary 18.12.1820 at Aders "I went by particular desire to meet a Mr & Mrs Parry - He a wealthy merchant - she a fine and interesting woman - Aders' prints afforded us all entertainment"

                   21.12.1822 large party at Aders, Coleridge the star "The Parrys - I do not see why they were invited to meet C:"

                     13.2.1823 musical party at Aders  "Miss Flaxman & Miss Denman, the Parrys, Babingtons etc"

                     24.4.1823 re Mrs Aders history of 3 husbands "Mrs A: means to open herself to Mrs Parry, Miss Flaxman etc. etc…

HCR diary 15.4.1838 at Aders' "He, I should say they are annoyed at the difficulty in disposing of any of the pictures and now propose writing to Passavant at Frankfurt"

See Marquardt II p520 and n37. Johann David Passavant 1787-1861 art historian, saw Aders' collection in London in 1831 and described it in his book Kunstreise durch England und Belgien (1833). Not to be confused with the doctor Johann Karl Passavant (1790-1857) his brother?  whom Robinson met in Germany in 1829 (Marquardt II p 284 and n14)

HCR DIARY 10.4.1842 Miss Pate "related to me a strange story of Basil Montagu" (shorthand passage) "Miss P: is the godmother of his son Frederick"

This was possibly Eliza Lloyd Pate daughter of John Pate solicitor of Bury St Edmunds and his wife Susanna who was bapt 5.2.1778 at St Mary's Bury, died at Bury 23.4.1857. Bury & Norwich Post 11.11.1829 & 28.4.1857. Her will PCC 1857 spinster mentioned a godson but not Frederick Montagu

GODWIN DIARY 13.4.1809 dine at Thelwall's, w. miss Pate

The Miss Pate that knew Basil Montagu (see above) may well have been the…

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Joseph Pattison of Thorpe Hall nr Rochford, Essex proposed member 23.11.1792 by John Towill Rutt 2nded John Horne Tooke. Not listed as ever elected

Joseph Pattison (1756-1841) see below. His father Joseph (1728-1817) was still alive in 1792, but though Thorpe Hall was let to Joseph Pattison of Maldon, Essex in 1777 when Joseph junior was only 21 (Coventry History Centre PA/101/5/34), in the 1792 subsription list for Robert Robinson's Ecclesiastical Researches, they appeared as Joseph Pattison of Malden, Essex and Joseph Pattison of Thorpe Hall…

HCR diary 25.12.1827 Christmas dinner at Aders "Heusler and Peiper were there"

                        8.6.1829 at Aders' "he told me of Mr Piper or Pfeiffer having committed suicide"

Gustav Wilhelm Peiper born 31.5.1803 bapt 10.6.1803 Elberfeld Evangelical Church son of Goswin Friedrich Peiper & Johanna Catherine Hoddick. Committed suicide 6.6.1829 see Standard 10.6.1829. Put pstol to his mouth in a field near Charlton in Kent, left a note identifying himself and his age 26 years "living without honour is worse than death". At the inquest evidence was given that he was…