A-Z of Entries

Cavendish, George Henry

3.2.1796  Geo Cavendish &c. Looking at the original I think this says "l Geo Cavendish &c" and is meant to be additional to the Holcrofts and Mrs Cowley who Godwin saw at the theatre

George Henry Cavendish d.1834, after the death of George Augustus Cavendish in 1794 known as Lord George Cavendish, afterwards 1st Earl of Burlington. Whig M P (see History of Parliament)


Cayford, James

SWEDENBORGIANS: James Cayford son of James & Sibila born 2.11.1756 bapt 13.3.1796 New Jerusalem

James Cayford = 8.8.1753 St Michaels Bristol Sybilla Richardson. JC appr 1770 to Wm Reynolds citizen and joiner of London, JC took apprs 1787, 1793 (2), 1797,1806, James Birt Cayford = 8.4.1782 St Mary Aldermanbury to Elizabeth Campbell their children Harriot and Elizabeth bapt St Mary Whitechapel both buried as infants at St Mary Aldermanbury, another Elizabeth bapt 26.6.1785 St Andrew Holborn of Fetter Lane also buried as infant at St Mary Aldermanbury, Susanna born 1.3.1787 bapt 21…


Celinas

see Selinas


Cerbre

see Acerbi


Chadwell, William

MILL VOTERS William Chadwell of Richmond

William Chadwell chandler Little Peter St Westminster voted 1788 Hood / William Chadwell chandler 1800 Market Lane, St James


Chalk, John

John Chalk jr of Canterbury proposed Society for Constitutional Information 19.10.1792 by Thomas Clio Rickman 2nded Sharpe (presumably one of the two William Sharpes in SCI)

1772 The Kentish Companion, John Chalk master of the Endeavour hoy from Whitstable to Wool-Key, London / 1781 John Chalk, Canterbury subscr to Edmund Rack's essays / Bailey's 1784 John Chalk hop merchant & hoyman, Canterbury / John Chalk, jr of Canterbury subscr to T C Rickman's Fallen Cottage 1786 / John Chalk of Canterbury in List of the Society for Abolition of the Slave Trade 1788  / John Chalk…


Chalmers, Alexander

HCR diary 13.12.1820 after Flaxman's "left this party to join a far less interesting one at the Baldwin's Queen Square - a genteel set" Chalmers, biographer there, no other literary persons

Alexander Chalmers (DNB 1759-1834)


Chamb

31.5.1796 chaise with mrs Chamb -  (from Edgware to London)

Godwin wrote to the end of the page, it looks like an e or an r after the Chamb. Could well have meant Chambre (a not too rare surname) or else Chambers


Chamberlaine, William

3.1.1808 Chamberlaine calls / Godwin calls on (not in) / 21.1.1808 calls / 14.2.1808 again / 1.3.1808 again / 25.5.1808 again / 30.6.1808 again / 14.7.1808 again / 19.7.1808 again / 17.8.1808 calls on (not in) / 20.8.1808 calls / 27.8.1808 again / 30.9.1808 again / 10.1.1809 again / 28.1.1808 again / 25.4.1809 again / 5.5.1809 again / 6.7.1809 again / 10.7.1809 again / 9.1.1810 again / 16.1.1810 again / 26.1.1810 again / 26.4.1810 again / 22.12.1810 calls on / 12.8.1811 calls / 30.3.1813 again / 21.6.1813 again / 28.12.1813 again / 24.5.1814 again / 5.8.1814 again / 23.8.1814 meet / 24.4.…


Chambers

Chambers 11.7.1797 at Joseph Johnson's


Chambers, Elizabeth

see Newman St 1 to 9 in London Addresses dataset

SunFire 1785 Elizabeth Chambers widow 6 Newman St / Mrs Chambers 6 Newman St subscr 1790 to Edward Harwood's Discourses on St Paul / London Chronicle 19.7.1791 Mrs Chambers of Newman St victim of fraud / presumably a tenant of George Villeneuve or vice versa / possibly one of the following / Elizabeth Chambers of Church St age 69 bur 17.12.1800 St John Westminster / Elizabeth Chambers age 75 bur 18.7.1802 Hammersmith / Elizabeth Chambers widow of Lambeth will PCC 1807 formerly of Hercules Buildings


Chamilly

4.3.1806 Chamillys at Rowan's (with a party of 30 or more)



No clear identification. A seigneur de Chamilly was valet de chambre to Louis XVI of France and was guillotined in 1794, but his son lived to 1827 (Hoefer, Nouvelle Biographie). Holden's 1811 directory listed a John Chamilly, surgeon, Ireland.  Peter Francis Venault de Chamilly was a coal merchant of Somerset Street, Marylebone who owned a distillery at Paddington Green, and went bankrupt (Morn Post 25.3.1808, Morn Chron 13.6.1808).  Dorcas de Chamilly was buried at St Marylebone 4.8.1818 age 53. The…


Champante & Whitrow

27.9.1809 call on Champante / 17.11.1809 call on Whitrow / 19.12.1809 again

William Champante & Benjamin Whitrow booksellers 2 Jewry-st Aldgate


Chance, Robert Lucas

HCR diary 10.6.1824 (at James Gillman's in Highgate where Coleridge lived) "There was also a Mr Chance who broke out at last by an opposition to Mr Ir: which made the good man so angry that he exclaimed 'Sir I reject the whole bundle of your opinions'"

Mr Ir: was Edward Irving (DNB 1792-1834). Mr and Mrs Chance were neighbours of the Gillmans in Highgate, and appeared in Coleridge's letters from 1824 to 1827. Because in a letter of 1829 Coleridge mentioned a Mr E Chance, the editors of Coleridge's Letters and of his Notebooks assumed that this was the same person, but in fact…


Chantrey, Francis Leggatt

HCR diary 18.12.1820 Mrs Aders talking about her father John Raphael Smith "Chantry she says owed evrything to Mr S: It was Smith who discovered him at Sheffield where he was an apprentice to a carver and gilder. S: persuaded his master to allow him time and opportunity to draw. Chantry came to town in extreme poverty - S: gave him money - to make him known S: caused him to make a bust of himself - then introduced him to Horne Tooke and so amde him known. Afterwards when Raffles S: went to him as a pupil and the old gentleman died, the lad was sent into the kitchen to the servants - the…


Chaplin, Amos

Amos Chaplin of Catherine St proposed Society for Constitutional Information 28.6.1782 by John Jebb 2nded Edward Bridgen

Amos Chaplin = St Clement Danes 14.1.1759 Mary van Stockum / Daily Advertiser 17.11.1772 ad A. Chaplin boot & shoe maker of Chichester Rents, Lincolns Inn entered into partnership with John Pritchard of York St, Covt Gdn / 15.1.1773 City of London Sessions Matthew Kenny prosecuted Amos Chaplin for perjury after Chaplin obtained a judgement against him for rent owed on Chichester Rents / Amos Chaplin Brydges St Covt Garden voted Fox 1780, 1784 Townshend 1788 /…


Chaplin, Thomas

Thomas Chaplin Esq of Henderley proposed Society for Constitutional Information 13.6.1788 by John Cartwright 2nded Lord Sempill

Probably the Thomas Chaplin  of Enderby who was sheriff of Lincs in 1799. Thomas Chaplin Esq = St Geo Han Sq 31.3.1788 Elizabeth only dau of late Godfrey Webster, Baronet. He died in 1780 and was succeeded by her brother Godfrey who was Whig MP for Seaford 1786-90 (see my entry for Oldfield, Thomas Hinton Burley). The will PCC 1804 of Thomas Chaplin of Riseholme, Lincs mentioned his wife Elizabeth and his mother-in-law Lady Webster, and estates at…


Chapman

MILL VOTERS John Chapman, William Chapman senior & William Chapman, all of Isleworth

John Chapman of Twickenham bach = Harmondsworth 8.7.1799 Ann Riddington sp otp by lic wits Stephen Riddington, Thomas Chapman / children of John & Ann Chapman bapt Twickenham William 1801 James 1803 John1805 Mary Anne 1808 Henry 1810 / John Chapman buried 16.7.1832 Twickenham age 63 / will PCC 1832 John Chapman blacksmith & furnishing ironmonger of Twickenham execs wife Ann brother James of Harrow and George Smith coachmaker of Twickenham. House in Church Street. Land Tax Twickenham 1804…


Chapman, Henry

Henry Chapman 68 Chiswell Street joined 28.5.1794 the "unnumbered division" (QV)

No good identification yet. Neighbour of Thomas Fawcett (QV) who joined the same day.

Henry Chapman merchant of Savage Gardens bankrupt 1799
Gloucester Journal 21.7.1800 Henry Chapman of the Barrack Office = Miss Ann Davies of Lambeth
SunFire 1790 Henry Chapman 8, Hercules Buildings, Lambeth
SunFire 1790 Elizabeth Chapman 58 Chiswell St spinster Other occupier William Ewster gent  (58 Chiswell St also connected with Hon. Artillery Co.)
Chancery 1811 plaintiffs Thomas Chapman…


Chappel, John

John Chappel born 10.7.1771 of Samuel & Mary bapt 23.3.1794 New Jerusalem 

(John Chappel bapt 10.10.1771 Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire, son of Samuel probably not this one) / John Abraham Chappel bapt 7.8.1771 Bicester, Oxon son of Samuel / John Abraham Chappel = 25.10.1797 Northaw, Herts to Martha Knight / SunFire 1802 JC pork butcher 56 Snow Hill / John born 18.7.1798 bapt 8.4.1803 St Sepulchre, John son of John Abraham Chappell & Martha of St Sepulchre  bapt 28.7.1798 Cross Street Swedenborgian / Abraham bapt 26.10.1800 New Jerusalem / William born 27.12.1806…