Richard Cooke 10 Tottenham Court Rd joined 16.5.1794 the "unnumbered division" (QV)
I have found no good identification yet. The address at 10 Tottenham Court Rd was insured SunFire 1791 to 1815 by Lars Bergstrom brazier and in 1817 by Lars Bergstrom dealer in umbrellas, fishing tackle and philosophical instruments.
Nat Arch HO 42/30/100 f255 letter from James Hartley to Dundas with list of visitors to Newgate prison state side who were notorious Jacobins (Thale page 161note says it was list of people keeping LCS papers). James Cornfoot, coal merchant, Tottenham Court Road
There seem to have been several people called James Cornfoot in London at the time. One was a baker in Marylebone, and one a coal dealer, with also a son called James, in St Pancras.
the coal dealer James Cornfoot
James Cornfoot otp bach = St Pancras 1.4.1771 SusannahXDavis otp sp banns wits William Clark, John…
James Cruden in printed list of 77 date 7.1.2.1788, on committee of conference 1789 and 1790, baptised 12.4.1789 New Jerusalem
With father John & brother John merchants in North Carolina, took loyalist side, sent memorials to British government claiming compensation, May 1789 at 7 Southampton Pl, New Rd, British Museum / James Cruden bach otp = 7.3.1792 St Geo the Martyr Southwark by lic Mary Glazard sp otp / Mrs Mary Cruden of St Mary Newington bur 19.5.1797 Locks Fields dissenters' burying ground / Cruden Land Tax 1793-1798 Sun St Newington / JC = 3.6.1798 St Botolph Aldgate…
see Autobiography of Francis Olace, ed. Mary Thale p. 53-4 (in Greyhound Court where Place learned to turn and file) Place made a simple error calling him Cuthbertson. There was indeed a John Cuthbertson, mathematical, philosophical and optical instrument maker c.1743-1821 who worked in Amsterdam in the 1770s and 1780s and then returned to London, trading in Shoe Lane Holborn and then Poland Street. However the mathematical instrument maker in Greyhound Court was David Cuthbert
A David Cuthbert was apprenticed to James Mackay coppersmith of Edinburgh for 6 yrs on 13.8.1768, premium…
E Davenport, printer, 6 George Court, Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell on list of LCS contacts, 2nd edition of report of the LCS general meeting at St George's Fields 29.6.1795, At General Committee 2.6.1795 a Davenport was deputed to absent Div 22 and was nearly voted onto the Exec Cttee. On 6.8.1795 a Davenport elected to Exec Cttee. At General Cttee 13.8.1795 Bustle in place of Davenport became delegate of Div 3. Exec Cttee 27.8.1795 Davidson printer sent letter complaining at Davenport using position on Exec Cttee to underquote him. General Cttee 3.9.1795 Davenport ballotted off Exec Cttee…
James Davidson printer Clare Court, Strand voted Tooke 1790. St Clement Danes rates 1789 to 1794 James Davidson, Clare Court, Strand value £30. Thale is the source for otherwise unreferenced items below. On 11.4.1793 he printed handbills for LCS; a Davidson was in committee of correspondence 21.11.1793; a Davison was delegate of Div 5 on 2.1.1794. In the examination of spy Nodder by the Privy Council 22.5.1794 (Nat Arch TS 11/963) James Davidson of (Rickett?) Court, Covent Garden was claimed to have been sometimes printer for Lambeth Loyal Association. The list of witnesses for the treason…
From meeting of Div 23 on 11.12.1793 in Brown Bear, Moorfields the spy George Lynam reported that Davis went to a Serjt at the Tower and made a convert of him & several Soldiers. On 20.12.1793 Home Secretary Evan Nepean wrote to Major General Leake that a shoemaker named Davis of 15 Cannon Street had been spreading sedition to soldiers at the Tower. (Thale p.34). He may have been the same as Peter Davey or Davie who testified at the LCS trial of Lynam 13.6.1793 that he had enquired about Lynam's character from a Mr Crab and then proposed him as a member. Peter Davey was Div 23 delegate…
Edward Dawson, Paternoster Row joined 31.5.1794 the "unnumbered division" (QV)
Edward Dawson son of George Dawson boltingclothworker of Reading appr 2.8.1763 for 7 yrs to Thomas Harrison of Paternoster Row, Stationers Co, premium £21 paid by father
History of the Oxford University Press, vol 2 p83 William Dawson warehousekeeper at 7 Paternoster Row from 1780
SunFire 1789 William Dawson 7 Paternoster Row bookseller
Book of Common Prayer printed at Clarendon Press, Oxford 1797 and sold by W.Dawson, Oxford Bible Warehouse, Paternoster Row, London
Holdens…
LCS General Committee 21.3.1793 (report from spy Lynam) Dawson Covent garden has one (a roll to get signatures for petition to Parliament.); General Committee 10.10.1793 Dawson has 2 skins for signatures for petition to the King (see Thale). No other evidence Dawson was LCS member.
(James Dawson of Jacksons Alley voted Fox 1780, ratebooks there 1799 to 1819, maybe different person).
Sun Fire 1784 James Dawson of Drury Lane greengrocer & fruiterer, 1786 same of Covent Garden Market. James Dawson fruiterer of Covent Garden voted Hood 1788. voted Fox & Tooke 1790, orange…
Ezekiel Delight 25 New Bridge St joined 5.5.1794 "unnumbered division" (QV)
His grandfather Ezekiel Delight cordwainer of Norwich married 29.3.1737 Sarah Greenwood at Norwich Cathedral. He married 2ndly at St George Tombland Norwich 22.4.1747 Sarah Ebden sp otp. His will PCC 19.10.1797 of St Peter Mancroft Norwich mentioned wife Sarah, sons Ezekiel & William, dau Watts, sister Watts, dau Elizabeth. He was buried 3.4.1797 age 84. His widow Sarah will PCC 10.2.1806 died 27.10.1805 age 90 Norwich Unitarian.
His father Ezekiel Delight bach otp age 27 = St Geo Hanover Sq 27 .…
SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Earl of Selkirk proposed 9.8.1782 by John Jebb 2nded Edward Bridgen / Lord Daer proposed 4.5.1792 by John Cartwright 2nded Thomas Paine / Hon. John Douglas of Inner Temple proposed 6.7.1792 by Lord Sempill 2nded Christopher Hull
Dunbar Douglas,1722-1799 4th Earl of Selkirk married Helen (d.1802) dau of John Hamilton of Blackadder, Berwickshire.(see Thomas Douglas DNB 1771-1820). Basil William Douglas, Lord Daer (DNB 1763-1794 under London Corresponding Society) was his heir but died before him. The next brother, Hon. John Douglas was born 24.5…
TS 11/963 examination 22.5.1794 of Frederick Polydore Nodder, for whose spy reports on LCS in April & May 1794 see Thale. Mentioned William Draper who lived somewhere in Clerkenwell and was preacher at London Wall, Draper also mentioned in Hayward's examination 27.5.1794. No other evidence that Draper was sympathetic to reform or the LCS.
Lloyds Evening Post 21.3.1791. Rev W Draper, Sunday afternoon lecturer of All Hallows Londom Wall, of 5, Bowling Green Lane, Clerkenwell. Wife and 9 children, £40 lectureship, classical and mathematical tuition. late curate of New Church…
Luther Edmonds, Devonshire St, Bishopsgate joined unnumbered division (QV) 26.2.1794
Luther Edmonds born 1757 admitted to Vintners Co, father Nathaniel admitted 1745, buried 15.2.1833 Dorking, Surrey age 76 from Westcote. He married at St Nicholas Cole Abbey 13.10.1782 by license to Sarah Leighton formerly Cooper of Shoreditch widow, mother of Ann Cooper a minor. Their children bapt at Shoreditch, Sarah Speller 1783, Eunice 1786, Ann 1788, Mary Ann 1791, James 1793, Sarah 1794 all of Holywell St, Shoreditch. Their son Charles Byrne bapt St Dunstan i t West 1799 of Crane Court, Fleet…
(Thale) David Edwin gave evidence to LCS 4.9.1794 for spy Grove (who was wrongly acquitted by LCS of being a spy), Edwin said he had breakfasted with Grove on 18.8.1794. No other evidence to suggest he supported or was a member of LCS.
Born Dec 1776 bapt St James Bath 18.1.1777 son of John & Sarah Edwin (probably unmarried Sarah Walmsley). John Edwin was a well known comic actor (Morning Chronicle 5.8.1784 Haymarket Theatre). David Edwin studied under Christian Josi in Amsterdam, went to Philadelphia December 1797. National Intelligencer 13.5.1801 he engraved portrait of Thomas…
Thomas Evans and his wife Janet are well covered by Ian McCalman in his excellent book Radical Underworld. Evans first appeared in LCS records in 1795, first as a delegate from Div 40 and elected to the Exec Cttee 10.9.1795. Alexander Galloway was described as his brother in law (probably by Francis Place but I haven't searched for the exact source yet). Galloway had a sister Janet born 24.10.1777 but I could find no record of her marriage. It is likely Evans and his wife were not keen on the marriage ceremony, but this was also probably true of Alexander Galloway whose marriage to his…
Wrote to LCS 21.2.1793 to see if they wished to promote his pamphlet "Imprisonment for Debt Unconstitutional" which was printed for the author in 1788. It included a letter dated 29.8.1785 from John Sawbridge (DNB 1732-1795). 2nd edition 1795. An Edward Farley gent of Hamilton St, St George Hanover Sq had voted Lord Trentham 1749. An Edward Farley of Godalming, Surrey voted for Vincent & Scawen against Mawley in Surrey 1774 and was an occupier in Godalming 1780. An Edward Farley was discharged from the Kings Bench Prison 14.5.1784 where he was detained at the suit of Thomas Parrock (…
GODWIN DIARY: 8.4.1796 at Thos Fawcett's with Powel, Bedder / Fawcett 17.1.1795 at Powell's with Thelwall, Bailey, Walker ( and compare 2.2.1795 Bailey Walker Bedder at Thelwall's) was Isaac or Thomas (see below) and not Joseph as coded on GD website
SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Isaac Fawcett of Camomile St proposed 1.2.1793 by John Balmanno 2nded John Horne Tooke. Thomas Fossett of Pancras Lane proposed 15.3.1793 by Stewart Kyd 2nded John Balmanno
Isaac Fawcett of White Cross St articled 26.11.1783 for 5 yrs to Thomas Yates of New inn, authorised by his brother…
John Finbor 109 St John St joined 5.5.1794 the "unnumbered division" (QV)
Not sure if I read the handwriting of his name right, but I could find nothing about anyone of that name (or of any similar name associated with St John St)
Frost at 16 Pepper St, Lomans Pond, Southwark was an address for LCS signatures 12.11.1795, and the president of Div 15 of the LCS on 18.9.1797 was called Frost (see Thale). Nearest but unlikely identification I found was John Frost pawnbroker of Tooley Street Southwark will proved PCC 21.1.1799. Though both in St Saviour's parish, Tooley Street and Lomans Pond were not particularly close.
Thomas Galloway bach = (by banns) All Hallows London Wall 26.6.1775 Ann Watson sp. wits John & Margaret Witherspoon. Their children Alexander born 18.3.1776 bapt 14.4.1776 St Edmund Lombard St, Janet born 24.10.1777 bapt 18.11.1777 St Edmund Lombard St, John bapt 13.5.1779 All Hallows London Wall, Thomas bapt 9.1.1785 All Hallows London Wall.
Alexander Galloway first appeared in LCS records (according to Thale) at meeting of Divs 6 and 11 at The Parrott (in Green Harbour Court, Old Bailey) on 30.9.1794. Criminal register 28.4.1798 Alexr Galloway age 31 5ft 7ins fair complexion,…