A-Z of Entries

mrs West 31.5.1794 at Calonne's

Tho West 10.12.1801 See Godwin, Harriet.  Only the West entries from this one till 1804 belonged to this person, none of the others had a T. On 14.3.1804 Mrs T West was his wife Lucy and Mrs Dallas her mother Elizabeth.



 

20.1.1796 [letter from Westley]

Perhaps Robert Hall Westley bookseller 201 Strand. Will PCC 1837 Kingsdown Glos

8.12.1795 W Forum / 31.5.1798 Westminster Forum: duelling, adv M(arshall) & Montagu

Westminster Forum debating society. The subject om 8.12.1795 was "Are not the most probable means left of saving the country from the despotism of the Minister - an immediate junction of the Whig Interest and the Corresponding Society?" The debate was not concluded that night and Godwin doesn't seem to have bothered to return.

Weston of Fenchurch St proposed Society for Constitutional Information 18.6.1784 by Joseph Towers 2nded Edward Bridgen

Law List 1782 James Weston attorney Fenchurch St / Bailey's directory 1784 Ambrose & James Weston attornies Fenchurch St / World 31.10.1789 James Weston of Fenchurch St married Miss (Jane) Whiteway of Portsmouth there (St Thomas) / SunFire 1790 Ambrose Weston 31 Fenchurch St / World 18.10.1792 James Weston steward of Revolution Society dinner on 5.11.1792 / World 29.11.1792 James Weston £2.11s to subscription for France / Law List 1793 Ambrose, George &…

26.10.1788 Weston at Miss Williams' / 27.10.1788 again / 7.1.1789 again / 14.9.1789 again / 11.3.1791 again. Was in 1794 version of Godwin's 1796 list but left out of 1796 version and Baillie later inserted above in same place in list (see Baillie, Matthew)

Penelope Sophia Weston 1752-1827 daughter of Edward Weston a merchant of Worcester who married Mary Jordan of Ludlow, he died in 1765, his will (PCC) mentioned wife Mary, son Joseph and daughter Penelope, and property in Richards Castle, Ludlow. Anna Seward (DNB 1742-1809) knew her by 1783 and in Oct 1785 Miss…

HCR diary 21.3.1832 at the Aders "Flor: seemed shocked by hearing of the death of Westfal in Sicily mentioned by Mayer"

Marquardt II p 307 n 79 Johann Heinrich Westphal 1794-1831

see Batemans Buildings in London Addresses dataset

Frederick Wettegg 2 Batemans Buildings ratebooks 1774 / Morning Post 29.3.1777 ad for move to 9 Duke St / Frederick Wettig = Soho 20.2.1775 Elizabeth Butler botp banns wits Philip Jones, Ann Shephard / City of London Sessions 29.9.1781 Frederick Wettig of 1 Duke St Portland Place swore to a waistcoat he had made about Xmas 1780 London Lives / Old Bailey 18.9.1805 John-Frederick & Frederick Wettig of Duke St, Portland Place victims of theft

Whaley 5.8.1800 adv at dinner, Carlow  In Godwin's 1796 list for 1800 / 6.8.1800 dines / 8.8.1800 at Burne's

Thomas Whaley DNB 1766-1800 politician and gambler, pro-union, married Jan 1800 sister of Valentine Browne Lawless, Lord Cloncurry DNB 1773-1853, died 2.11.1800 in Cheshire on way to London. See Bodleian Abinger c6 f36v for Godwin's description of him in a letter to James Marshall

19.5.1793 Seward, Knight, Goring, Wathen at Tooke's / 1.11.1794 Wharton at Hardy's trial.

Although Wathen could have been Jonathan Wathen, noncomformist surgeon of Walbrook, or Josiah Iles Wathen, special pleader Middle Temple, Wharton came (inserted above the line) directly after Seward and Goring in 1793 in Godwin's 1796 list, so this was very likely John Wharton (History of Parliament) 1765-1843. Wharton also appeared twice in the 1796 list for 1794, both times crossed out, and neither time coded to John Wharton's person record in GD website. In the 1794 version of the 1796 list…

mrs Wheatley 17.9.1802 at Perry's / 18.9.1802 again / 17.10.1807 dine at Perry's, w. Popes

This was probably the widow of Francis Wheatley DNB 1747-1801 who later (25.6.1807) married Alexander Pope DNB 1763-1835, she appears in DNB as Clara Maria Pope 1767-1838 (nee Leigh)

30.9.1809 call on Wheble

John Wheble bookseller 18 Warwick-sq Newgate-st. 1745-1820, had been a newspaper printer and owner. Not far from Skinner-st. Only mention in Godwin's diary

16.1.1821 tea Aldis's, w. mesds Wheeler (&c) / 7.3.1826 La C Lamb's, w. Bulwer, Wheeler (&c) / 12.9.1829 tea mrs Wheeler / 26.9.1829 call on mrs Wheeler (not seen) / 18.11.1829 tea sir John Doyle & mrs Wheeler

Anna Doyle Wheeler DNB 1785?-1848. The dates fit with her times in London from the DNB article. The Wheeler at Lady Caroline Lamb's does not have a feminine title, but Godwin often dropped it especially for independent-minded women. It could also have been Mrs Wheeler's daughter Rosina, as Edward Bulwer Lytton was present and would propose to her the next month,…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

see Wilmot, Edward, 21 Poland St / Old Bailey 15.7.1778 Mr Wilmot witness "my house is in Poland St almost opposite Marlborough St" Jane Wheeler witness "I am the wife ofJohn Wheeler, we rent a room of Mr Wilmot but I had let this room to one John Davidson, it is a front room up two pair of stairs". John Wheeler was a common name but he may have been the same as John Wheeler carpenter Carnaby St SunFire 1778 whose son John was taken apprentice 1779 / John Wheeler carpenter of North Row, St George Han Sq voted Fox 1784 / SunFire…

John Wheeler of Fleet Street proposed Society for Constitutional Information 23.3.1792 by Michael Bush 2nded Doctor Edwards

John Wheeler hosier 150 Fleet Street directories 1790, 1791 Land Tax 1790-1798. I couldn't identify his family or his career before or after those years, his name was a common one. The premises at 150 Fleet St were occupied until 1790 by John Baguley hatter & hosier and from 1798 by Robert Pettit and by 1807 by Sarah & Elizabeth Pettit hosiers & glovers. The adjacent premises at 151 Fleet St were occupied from 1783 to 1793 by Richard Wheeler…

15.2.1808 call on Wheeler (B Hosp)

Thomas Wheeler buried 11.8.1847 Norwood Cemetery aged 93 from Newcastle Court, College Hill. 1775 freedom of Apothecaries Co. Probably the TW who married Ann Blatch sp 24.6.1789 St Pancras. 1801 candidate for apothecary to St Barts in place of Mr Roberts, had been assistant apothecary there for 17 years, address Bolt Court, Fleet St. Retired as apothecary to St Barts 1822. 1841 census Gracechurch St. Will PCC 1847 of St Bartholomews Hospital mentions six sons Thomas Lowe, Charles West, William Lowe, James Lowe, Lowe & Joseph.

miss Wheler 3.11.1805 at Rowan's

Perhaps Charlotte or Penelope daughters of Edward Wheler will PCC 1785 brother of Rev Charles Wheler 7th bart. 1730-1821. Charlotte died unmarried in 1861 and Penelope married Charles John Craven in 1817. Their cousin the 8th bart Trevor Wheler 1763-1830 married Harriet dau of Richard Beresford of Ashbourne, Derbys in 1792 but I couldn't find any connection between the Beresfords of Ashbourne and Benjamin Beresford from Bewdley, Worcs who married Hamilton Rowan's sister (see my entry for Beresford). Trevor Wheler 8th bart had 5 sisters including…

28.12.1796 Wishaw at Tooke's / 17.11.1814 at Lady Mackintosh's / 7.1.1815 invited C M's with R Sharp & Wishaw / 11.1.1815 at Mackintosh's

Probably the barrister and equity draftsman John Whishaw 1765-1840 , later known as "the Pope of Holland House", a Whig fixer and executor of Samuel Romilly's will in 1818. His letters are much quoted in History of Parliament but there seems to be no biographical notice of him in any reference works but I found something on the net at www.turtlebunbury.com and a book "The Pope of…

HCR diary 14.2.1819 at Aders "Mr Longdale and I talked about Whitbred and on professional subjects"

Samuel Whitbread (DNB 1764-1815) had two sons in politics William Henry Whitbread 1795 - 1867 MP for Bedford 1818 - 1834, and Samuel Charles Whitbread 1796 - 1879 MP for Middlesex 1820 - 1830. See History of Parliament

In Godwin's 1796 list for 1780 and also in the 1794 version, between Munnings and Harmer. There is a person record in GD website for 'generic' White but the entry in the 1796 list has not been coded to it. 22.1.1789 White (after Warton and before Kippis) at Robinson's / 24.1.1789 White (after Warton and before Kippis) at Hamilton's / no more for 3 years

I have done some research on the White entries in Godwin's diary but I'm still some way from identifying them all, I will probably add to this entry later but for now I'll discuss who the White in 1780 and the White in 1789…