A-Z of Entries

7.7.1807 accompany T(homas) T(urner) to Clark / 29.10.1897 call on Clark / 11.1.1809 call on Clark, chamberlain; adv.Walker / 12.4.1813 call on Clark, chamberlain

Richard Clark, chamberlain of London (DNB 1739-1831) was presumably the last two entries above, and may have also been the first two (if not, I regard them as too hard to identify because the name is so common).

19.7.1811 M(ary) J(ane) calls on Eves, Davison, Macmillan, Pheney, Clarke & Butterworth / 4.4.1816 call on Clarke & Boyd, Middleton & Jo(seph) G(odwin) / 14.12.1822 call on Purland, Clarke &…

18.6.1796 3 Clarkes at Tooke's / 12.11.1797 Clarke at Tooke's / 26.6.1798 Clarke calls (not in) / 13.7.1798 Clarke, Fell & M(arshall) at tea /  2.9.1802 Clarke calls   

See also Clarke, Mrs (work notes) / Clarke, Dr John / Clarke mystic for earlier entries of this name. The two entries at Tooke's had no other guest in common. In DNB sympathies with radical politics are noted for John Clarke 1757-1820 schoolmaster and Adam Clarke 1762-1832 Methodist and scholar. The last three could have been Dr John Clarke, or the Clarke at Tooke's, or another

16.2.1817 dine at L Hunt's, w. Shelleys, Hazlits & B Montagu; adv. Colson, Gatty & Clarke / 15.11.1823 sup at Lamb's, w. Novellos, C Clarke / 1.6.1824 sup at Lamb's, w. Novellos, Holmes, Clark / 26.10.1828  call on L Hunt; adv. miss Kent, Novello & Clarkes

These entries are likely to have been Charles Cowden Clarke (DNB 1787-1877) particularly the last three, where Novellos were present, and after Clarkes's marriage to Mary Novello on 5.7.1828 Novellos & Clarke became Novello & Clarkes. Note the spelling Clark in 1824 demonstrating  that Godwin's spelling with or…

2.3.1794 dr Clarke (talked of at Holcroft's with Ritson) / 5.9.1797 Clarke in the afternoon (when Wollstonecraft ill) / 12.2.1798 Fordyce's with Clarke, Carlisle, Johnson, Stewart

John Clarke DNB 1761-1815 physician and midwife. Friend of Matthew Baillie. Of Queen St, Golden Sq, St James voted Fox 1790. Married April 1789. will PCC 1815. 5.9.1797 this entry was made without the usual "calls" or "call on" but Fordyce was both a physician and a friend of Mary Wollstonecraft's and Clarke was a midwife of high reputation. The dinner at Fordyce's on 12.2.1798 then included three doctors…

8.2.1806 Hewson Clarke callsⁿ

Very likely Hewson Clarke (DNB 1787 - in or after 1845) who at age 18 had come down from Gateshead  to Cambridge University, but was more interested in literature than study and it's perhaps a shame that Godwin missed or refused the call and never recorded the name again. There is a burial record at St Dunstan in the West, London on 21.5.1817 for a Hewson Clarke age 29 from Serle's Place, which accords well with his birthdate and with  the reports of R Welford and E Mackenzie, (which are contradicted by works and letters published in his name…

1.4.1822 Rosser & Joseph Clarke at tea / 24.7.1822 write to Joseph Clarke

not researched

sheriff Clarke 7.10.1803 at Norwich

See Bury & Norwich Post 7.9.1803 and 14.9.1803 Edward Rigby & Joseph Clarke sheriffs. Clarke was a wholesale linendraper and a director of the Norwich Insurance Company from 1809 (newspaper ads). A Joseph Clarke of Norwich subscr 1782 to Hancock's Doctrine of Eclipses. A Joseph Clarke haberdasher, hosier & hatter took apprentices in 1784 and 1790. With his wife Elizabeth (nee Bell) he baptised 3 children at St Andrews Norwich 1786 to 1789, and in 1802 Joseph Clarke merchant of Norwich voted for Fellowes and Smith against Windham &…

8.6.1799 tea E Reynolds' w. mrs Baker & miss Clarke

Perhaps an actress but a common name (see Highfill, Burnim & Langhans)

5.8.1804 Yates's & miss Clarke dine; adv. Jo(seph) G(odwin) / 17.12.1805 call on Jo(seph) G(odwin); adv. miss Clarke

Probably one of Hannah Godwin's millinery assistants, see my entry for Godwin, Hannah

20.10.1816 D Clarke dines / 21.10.1816 D Clarke sleeps / 10.11.1816 mrs & L Clarke dine / 12.12.1816 L Clarke dines / 7.1.1817 Clarkes dine / 20.3.1817 miss Collins dines & theatre, w. M(ary) J(ane) & Clarkes / 12.5.…

27.10.1788 at Miss Williams' / 30.3.1795 at Barbaulds', with Mrs Barwell both times

15.1.1795 Clarke, mystic at Thelwals.

'avec lui' at the end of this day's diary entry has been coded in GD website to Thelwal but alternative readings could be Clarke mystic, or Jennings himself (as another way of saying tete a tete). Godwin's only other use of avec lui is for revising with William Nicholson, 25.12.1792, 2.11.1793, 10.1.1793

Probably Richard Clarke (Literary memoirs of living authors p99) author of various mystical works published between 1750 and 1795, was Rector of St Philip's Charleston, South Carolina in the 1750s then came to England, was curate of…

Clarkson of Paisley calls 9.3.1799

Paisley directory 1810 John C lodging-keeper St James Pl, 1812 elected by subscribers as manager of dispensary and house of recovery. John C = Penelope Shaw 12.4.1801 Paisley Middle, John C = Janet Dalziel 14.11.1807 Paisley

Mrs Clendenning 26.8.1792 at Nicholson's 'au bas' with Shield.

Elizabeth nee Arnold actress (1768-99) wife of William Clendenning (Highfill, Burnim and Langhans)

write Clennel 14.9.1799 / 13.7.1806 dine at Nicholson's w. Clennel / 15.7.1806 Clennel calls (not in) / 17.7.1806 Clennel calls / 30.10.1807 call on Clennel / 2.12.1807 Clennel calls / 3.12.1807 Clennel sups / 6.12.1807 again / 7.12.1807 call on Clennel / 11.12.1807 Clennel calls / 12.12.1807 Clennel sups / 14.12.1807 Clennel calls / 19.12.1807 Clennel sups / 26.12.1807 Clennels call / 29.12.1807 again / 4.1.1808 again / 5.1.1808 Clennel calls / 9.1.1808 Clennels, T[homas] T[urner] & O[rlando] F[enwic]k dine / 12.1.1808 Clennel calls / 19.1.1808 E Topping, Clennel & F Walsh dine /…

Cliff 24.9.1789 arrest

Clifford 21.5.1797 at Horne Tooke's / 25.6.1797 meet / 16.6.1799 Cliffords at H Tooke's / 14.11.1799 meet Clifford / 16.2.1800 at H Tooke's / 18.5.1806 again / 11.8.1807 adv at Bow Street

Hemry Clifford DNB 1768-1813 Catholic radical lawyer active supporting Burdett in 1802 Middlesex election and in 'Old Price' theatre riots 1808. His parents were dead by 1787 and he didn't marry till 1813 so the plural at Tooke's 16.6.1799 may include a brother, perhaps Thomas Hugh Clifford his older brother

Clifton 23.4.1801 at Goldsmith's

'Mrs Cline to Medical Society' 18.1.1794

Presumably Margaret Webb who on 11.2.1775 at Christ Church Spitalfields married Henry Cline DNB 1750-1827 surgeon

miss Cline 3.8.1803 at Joyce's (&miss Harts) / 20.7.1804 miss Cline (& miss Harts) invited

See Henry Cline DNB 1750-1827 surgeon. He married Margaret Webb in 1775. They had three daughters Margaret bapt 1782 (who perhaps died young), Frances Ann bapt 1777 who married Huntley Bacon in 1797 at St Andrew Undershaft and Amelia bapt 1784 who didn't marry till 5.2.1831 at St Geo Bloomsbury to Thomas Smith Barwell. This was probably Amelia aged 19. Henry Cline's sister Winifred had married Edward Horler surgeon in 1770 and his sister Frances had married Joseph Green 6.2.1790 St…

ami de Cloncurry 12.10.1799 at Curran's

Cloncurry was Valentine Brown Lawless DNB 1773-1853 who was confined in the Tower of London on suspicion of treason and had recently succeeded to the title of Baron Cloncurry. Godwin's reason for not naming his friend might have been security rather than forgetting

call on Close 4.5.1788 / 16.9.1788 again

John Close was a broker at addresses near Tower Dock from 1761 to 1791. He was mentioned in some of Hannah Godwin's letters to Godwin (Abinger c.1 f32-3, f90-1) and was clearly known to their mother Ann Godwin. Godwin called on him again on 16.9.1788.