A-Z of Entries

Britton 24.1.1803 at Philips / 2.5.1803 at Royal Academy exhibition / 24.2.1806 calls / 26.2.1806 call on / 14.3.1806 calls / 16.1.1807 call on / 25.1.1807 meet / 13.4.1809 Soane, Brittons at Thelwal's / 24.10.1810 meet Britton / 21.6.1824 call on Britton / 7.9.1826 call on Britton for Col Drummond / 9.9.1826 call on Britton adv Brayley / 27.11.1828 call on /8.1.1829 again / 8.2.1829 again / 14.2.1829 again / 15.12.1829 meet / 4.1.1831 Britton adv at Brayley's / 14.3.1831 Britton at Martin's / 16.6.1831 Britton at Sass's / 4.3.1832 Britton at Pickergil's / 18.3.1832 Britton at Pickersgil's…

Broadhurst 11.3.1798 at Losh's (Bath)

(Surman Index) Thomas B b1767 Blackley Manchester, at Hoxton 1783-5, asst tutor in classics New College Hackney 1789, minister of Trim Street (formerly Frog lane) Presbyterian Bath 1797-1809, died 9.10.1851, A friend of Joshua Toulmin who dedicated a book to him. Mary Ann born 6.6.1805 and Susan born 15.2.1807 bapt Walcot daus of Thomas Broadhurst & Frances dau of Daniel & Esther Whittaker, Frances Whittaker was born 28.1.1774 bapt 23.2 St Mary Manchester, her father Daniel's will PCC 4.2.1793, merchant of Manchester dated 11.3.1792…

Joseph Brockbank of Nicholas Lane proposed 1.6.1792 by John Augustus Bonney 2nded John Frost

BONNEY DIARY 25.11.1794  GODWIN DIARY 31.1.1796 Brockbank at Tooke's

son of Myles Brockbank of Whitehaven, Cumberland attorney of Kings Bench, articled to his father 18.1.1781 transferred to John Winter 7.4.1785 / 1791 Joseph Brockbank attorney of 24 Nicholas Lane, Lombard St / 1792 member of Socy for Improvement in Naval Architecture 1796 secretary / JB vs Earl of Thanet Chancery cases1811 & 1812 (Nat Arch C13/126/1, 1455/8, 138/20) / solicitor Lyons Inn 1818 voted Romilly &…

Richard Brocklesby of Norfolk St, Strand original member Socy for Const Info, elected vice-president 8.12.1780. DNB 1722-1797

24.1.1810 write to Brodie / 4.4.1810 again / 4.8.1810 again / 5.12.1810 again / 15.7.1810 again / 20.9.1810 write to Brodie, for C(harles) C(lairmont) / 3.4.1814 Brodie calls / 23.4.1814 again / 26.4.1814 Brodie dines / 23.7.1819 Brodie calls / 28.7.1819 Museum; adv. Brodie / 2.8.1819 Brodie calls / 9.8.1819 Brodie sups / 13.8.1819 Brodie at tea / 17.8.1819 Brodie calls / 18.8.1819 Brodie sups / 26.8.1819 Brodie au soir / 31.8.1819 Brodie sups: Brodie au matin / 2.9.1819 Brodie (ppc) calls / 18.5.1822 Brodie calls (not seen) / 14.8.1822 write to Brodie / 2.10.1823 letter to Brodie / 3.10.…

Brogden 22.6.1798 at House of Commons / 11.1.1802 adv at theatre (& Jervis)

James Brogden c.1765-1842 (Hist of Parl) MP for Launceston 1796-1832 on Duke of Northumberland's interest.  Joined Whig Club 12.1.1796 will PCC 1842 of Clapham Common. Proposed Socy for Const Info of Size Lane 7.12.1792 by William Maltby 2nded John Horne Tooke. Russia merchant. Perhaps the Mr Brogden who toured northern Europe in 1791 with William Joseph Denison, late MP for Camelford and also a Whig Club member

Bromfields 11.12.1794 adv at Crompton's
 

ANTHONY WILSON 1750?-1814?
NOTES I have no clear suggestions for revising this article as all I can do is cast doubt on it and suggest some possibilities. The only evidence for Henry Bromley having been a pseudonym of Anthony Wilson comes from the Catalogue of Edward Evans DNB 1789-1835 who was only aged 4 in 1793 when Bromley's catalogue was issued, and from a manuscript note by Evans in his copy of Bromley's catalogue. This copy was in the collection of Sir George Scharf so was likely to have passed to the National Portrait Gallery; there are two copies of Bromley listed in the…

Rev Robert Anthony Bromley of Upper Charlotte St behind Fitzroy Chapel original member of Socy for Const Info. First attended 8.12.1780 after unquorate general meeting, secondly on 9.3.1781

GODWIN DIARY  20.11.1795 Bromley at Carr's

I have no clear evidence that this Bromley was the Rev Robert Anthony but it certainly could have been. He was the son of John Bromley attorney of Wigan, born about 1731 admitted Grays Inn 1759, married 1764 Mary dau of Stretch Cowley, (mariner of Liverpool and Stepney who died 1770 at Bonny in Africa), variously morning preacher at Foundling…

26.3.1795 at King's / 11.1.1796 there.

In John Taylor's Records of My Life vol.1 he mentioned his friend Samuel Brook who had a good opinion of John King, but Taylor was only noted 3 times at King's out of 100 meals Godwin took there, and not on the 2 occasions when Brook was there

mrs Brooke dies 23.1.1789 = Frances Brooke DNB 1724-1789

Brooke 14.5.1795 at miss Hays' with William Frend, George Dyer, Brown, &c. talk of God

6.5.1809 Brooke calls / 8.5.1809 again / 10.5.1809 again / 12.5.1809 Brooke adv at supper / 17.5.1809 Brooke calls / 18.5.1809 call on Brooke / 19.5.1809 Brooke calls / 20.5.1809 again / 19.6.1809 Brooke sups

23.7.1824 Arthur Brooke calls. Possibly Arthur Broke DNB 1791-1858 who had just had his Scandinavian travels published

10.10.1831 Brooke at John Martin's / 31.10.1831 again / 9.1.1832 again / 30.1.1832 again / 4…

Brookes's 23.4.1801 at Goldsmith's / 12.1.1805 call on Brookes / 22.1.1805 C Brookes calls / 27.3.1811 call on Brookes / 2.1.1813 call on Brooks / 6.1.1813 Brookes jr calls / 11.5.1813 call on Brookes / 31.5.1814 write to Brooks / 8.5.1815 seek Brookes / 9.5.1815 again / 30.6.1815 again / 15.9.1815 again / 16.9.1815 again / 29.2.1816 call on Brookes / 23.8.1816 again / 15.7.1818 call on Brookes, banker / 16.7.1821 call on Brookes & Co / 23.6.1828 call on Brooks (W & P) / 22.12.1828 Brooks, stationer calls / 25.6.1832 Brookes at Martin's / 6.8.1832 again / 28.10.1833 again / 7.4.…

Isaac & Robert Brooks bapt 12.8.1792 New Jerusalem 

Capt Broome of Hampstead proposed Socy for Const Info 11.5.1792 by John Farnell Tuffin 2nded William Sharpe. Capt Broome on committee of Revolution Society 4.11.1791. Probably son of Ralph Broom and Mary bapt 28.2.1743 at Clyffe Pypard, Wilts. Ralph Broome captain in the service of the East India Company in Bengal, Judge Advocate in India, and Persian translator to the army, author of poetical satires, the Letters of Simkin the Second, (published 1788-1796) primarily on the trial of Warren Hastings DNB 1732-1818 (on Hastings' side), as well as prose works including observations on Paine…

Broomhead 11.12.1801 call on

This call may have been connected with some sort of preparations for Godwin's wedding (21.12.1801) or the subsequent domestic arrangemants. See work notes below

Anthony Brough of White Hart Court, Bishopsgate St proposed Socy for Const Info 5.11.1782 by Thomas Hinton Burley Oldfield 2nded Joseph Brown. India, Russia & China merchant, managing shipowner and shipbuilder, address sometimes Salvador House, Bishopsgate St without. Prosecuted in 1789 for procuring sailors to serve in Russian ships without royal licence. His book on Necessity of Lowering Freight on East India Ships published 1786 and his View of the Trade between Great Britain & Russia published 1789 both by George Robinson (New Catalogue of Living English Authors 1799 called him…

24.8.1794 Brown adv at Gray's / 12.9.1794 adv at Despard's / 24.10.1794 at Newgate / 28.11.1794 at Gerald's / 29.11.1794 at Crompton's / 14.2.1795 adv at Gerald's / 12.3.1795 adv at Gerald's / 3.5.1795 at Tooke's / 14.5.1795 at Mary Hays' / 12.7.1795 Godwin calls on mrs Brown / 15.8.1795 mes Gardners & Brown at John King's / 18.10.1795 adv at Knight's / 2.12.1795 at Mary Hays' / 20.1.1796 at Mary Hays / 9.3.1796 talk of him at Newton's / 4.5.1796 Brown calls / 9.6.1796 at Mary Hays / 30.6.1796 J Brown calls  / 29.7.1796 call on Brown with Montagu / 7.12.1798 mrs Brown at Fell's with…

21.7.1796 Trial; Brown, v. A

No information yet, but I presume the A was Dr James Alderson

see Castle Brown

See Castle Street East 1 to 15 &c in London Addresses dataset.

Castle St East  Land Tax  No 4 1791-1798 Catherine Brown No 6 1796 Catherine Brown for tenants No 7 1791-1799 Catherine Brown (for tenants 1796 Catherine Edmonds for tenants 1797) / Sun Fire 1790 Catherine Brown widow Nos 4 & 7 / Sun Fire 1794 Catherine Brown widow Nos 4 & 7

William Brown (his mark) wid = 13.11.1786 St Marylebone Catherine Dowling (her mark) sp / 1.9.1798 Middlesex Sessions Rex v Mary Wragg for a nuisance, bail Thomas Hall coachmaker 23 Cleveland St St Marylebone and Catherine Brown…