A-Z of Entries

3 Swans 4.6.1797 at Horseman's Oxford / 6.11.1810 at Ward's (with Coleridge & Middleton)

Godwin's letter to Mary Wollstonecraft (Abinger c40 f168) referred facetiously to "Mr Swan and his two wives or sisters". Unlike the others Godwin met at Horseman's, there was no Swan at Oxford University at that time, the nearest in Alum Ox being Abraham Swanne son of Richard of Raphoe Ireland cleric, adm 17.12.1784 age 17 BA 1789. Maybe it really meant some swans rather than humans.

For the 1810 Swan see my entry for Ward for the context. Of Swan entries in Holdens directory 1811…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Peter Swann 39 Poland St (Crispin) ratebooks 1793-5 / coroners jury 1794 PeterSwann victualler Poland St / Peter Swan = St James 23.3.1794 Elizabeth Norris botp by lic wits John & Mary Norris

4.12.1807 call on Swannack / 5.12.1807 again

Charles Swannack grocer of Russell-st Covent-garden, his will PCC 17.3.1814 mentioned sister Mary Griffin widow and Maria Felicite Choraldi

Swannick 17.9.1794 at Hazlit's  

Joseph Swannick 1777-1841 was baptised 8.6.1777 at the Presbyterian chapel, Wem, son of John & Mary, and was educated by Rev William Hazlitt in Wem. He studied at New College, Hackney in the 1790s and became a merchant. He was probably the Joseph Swannick silk manufacturer of Prestbury, Cheshire who was declared bankrupt in 1837

 

15.11.1810 dine at Cooper's, w. Swartwout / 29.11.1810 call on Swartwout / 2.12.1810 Swartwout invited to dine / 14.2.1811 Swartwout calls: sups / 17.2.1811 Swartwout dines / 29.3.1811 Swartwout calls / 15.12.1817 letter from Swartwout / 9.1.1818 write to Swartwout

Samuel Swartwout (wikipedia 1783-1856) friend of Aaron Burr

Sweeney 11.8.1800 dines

Sweeting 23.3.1794 at Hubbard's

1760 Wm S cit & draper of Ldn / 1763 Wm S merchant Bow Bridge, Ldn / 1770 Wm S appr to Robt Ansell gilder St Marylebone 1785/7 Wm S gilder St Pancras / 1790 Wm S engraver 102 East Smithfield / W P S of Warwick St Golden Sq subscr 1789 to novel by Eliz Todd / Thos S cooper St Giles without Cripplegate 1775 / Thos S---g by Mr Lindsey, Unitarian Socy 1791 / Saml S boot & shoe maker 36 St Swithins La Ldn 1789-90 / Saml S appr 1802 to Jn Nixon Dukes pl Pimlico carpenter

27.10.1788 Swift at Miss Williams' / 12.2.1790 again. Theophilus Swift DNB 1746-1815. See Letters of Anna Seward, ii 129, 285. Although Anna Seward doesn't appear in Godwin's diary she was close to H M Williams and introduced her friends to her, see Weston, Penelope Sophia and Powell, Jane. According to the DNB Swift lived in Dublin but his Female Parliament is prefaced 41 Wigmore St 1.5.1789, and he fought a duel with Colonel Lennox on the Uxbridge Road on 3.7.1789

 

10.11.1789 Swinney at Robinson's.

Myles Swinney printer and bookseller of Birmingham since 1770s, PCC will 1812

 

swiss 11.4.1791 at Brand Hollis'

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Thomas Simmons of Inner Temple proposed member 25.5.1792 by Samuel Favell 2nded Jeremiah Joyce. Symmons and Joyce proposed John Fenwick SCI member 5.10.1792

GODWIN DIARY: 4.2.1793 Symonds at tea (with Jardine, Fenwick & Pearson) / 20.2.1793 with Jardine / 19.5.1793 at Tooke's /28.5.1793 / 2.6.1793 / 16.6.1793 / 8.8.1794 / 24.10.1794 / 1.11.1794 / 3.11.1794 / 25.11.1794 / 6.3.1795 / 9.6.1795 adv at Joyce's with Tooke.

On 2.6.1793 his name was followed by Grecian, and on 8.8.1794 preceded by Grecian, separated by a comma each time.…

31.10.1807 T(homas) T(urner), from T R D L, sups, seeking Sheridan

In GD website T R D L is underlined as unidentified here, but it clearly meant Theatre Royal Drury Lane as on 21.12.1807 and on 15.9.1818 where GD website correctly explains it in a note

3 Tabarts sup 4.1.1810 / 9.2.1810 call on Tabart (not seen) / 10.2.1810 call on Tabart / 23.6.1810 call on Tabart (not seen) (Guildhall) / 29.6.1810 Guildhall (Tabart) / 31.7.1810 again / 11.8.1810 again / 21.8.1810 again / 11.9.1810 Baptist C H; Tabart / 9.10.1810 Haines calls from Tabart: Baptist's Head; Tabart / 18.12.1810 Tabart calls / 7.4.1820 call on La(dy) Phillips adv. Tabart

Benjamin Tabart (1767-1830) son of Benjamin Tabart & Mary St Paul. Both his parents died while he was a child and his grandfather Daniel Tabart a jeweller left money in his will PCC 1775 for his…

Taggart 10.10.1799 at Curran's / 12.10.1799 again / 28.10.1799 again / 29.8.1800 calls (& Curran) / 9.9.1800 sup at Taggart's with Curran

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: John Bayley Tailor proposed member 16.4.1784 by Joseph Towers 2nded James West, to be sent to Mr Knight's, 57 Strand (John Knight draper Strand 1778-1823)

Presumably son of John Tayler and Sarah Bayly who married 17.7.1752 or 17.7.1751 somewhere in Suffolk (familysearch.org). From his age at burial he was born about 1752. He took an apprentice as grocer of Woodbridge 1776 (and another in 1790 at a premium of £105). His son John Bayly Tailer junior was born 22.2.1787 son of John Bayly Tailer & Elizabeth and baptised at age 44 on 3.10.1831…

7.9.1809 seek Zoust, at Tain's &c, w. M(ary) J(ane)

This must surely have meant J Thane, printseller 18 New Lisle-st Leicester-sq (Holdens trades directory 1811). They were seeking a print of Shakespeare's head by Gerard de Soest (or Zoust)

Fell, S Elwes & Talbot call (not in) 11.6.1800

The only Talbot in Godwin's diary and Godwin didn't even see him, but I could still hazard a guess on Montague Talbot DNB 1774-1831 actor. His last appearance at Drury Lane theatre was a week later on 18.6.1800 and he then removed to Ireland and married an Irish actress that autumn. Consider also Thomas Talbot DNB 1771-1853 but there were plenty of other Talbots who this could have been

see Batemans Buildings in London Addresses dataset

William Talbot Esq ratebooks 4 Batemans Buildings 1774 / William Talbot Esq SunFire 1777 Tavistock St, Bedford Sq / will of William Talbot  Esq of Tavistock St Bedford Sq dated 30.9.1778 mentioned Margaret Goodridge and her mother Margaret Goodridge both of Henrietta st, Covent Garden, execs Richard Beale & William Kingston gents of Covent Garden proved 7.5.1783 but revoked and admon granted Nov 1780 to John Osborne Esq for H M Treasury confirmed (stating Talbot to have been a bachelor and a bastard). The state had the…

According to the letter of Alexander Galloway to Richard Hodgson in Paris 24.12.1801 (Nat Arch PC 1/3535 "Ben Binns is married to my old sweetheart Charlotte Tallboys, I am sorry to say they are much distressed". I found no record of this marriage. According to the Dictionary of Irish Biography entry for John Binns, his brother Benjamin returned to Ireland about 1803 and was a plumber at Bray, co. Wicklow, then joined his brother in Philadelphia about 1817.
So who was Charlotte Tallboys? Galloway was born in London. There was a Charlotte Ann Tallboys born 9.5.1779 and bapt 29.7.1779 at…

Tanner 30.11.1793 at Wrights

Samuel Tanner cordwainer Litchfield St Soho voted Fox 1790 wife Frances (Old Bailey witness 1787)

John Tanner steward Friends of Parliamentary Reform 18.5.1797