A-Z of Entries

CC 28.5.1801 at Sadler's Wells / 11.6.1803 wet docks & beasts in tower with C C / 30.6.1803 C C / 27.8.1803 C C at Lamb's / 21.4.1804 C C / 17.12.1807 theatre, w. T(homas) T(urner), F(anny), C(harles) & M(ary)

Careful study will convince you that these all referred to Charles Clairmont (born 1795) who was usually noted as C when with several other children all with a single initial. The GD website has left them uncoded, even though it has coded later examples of C C to him. One C C that wasn't him was 23.2.1804 Golden Cross C C where Godwin and his brother Joseph boarded the…

see Batemans Buildings in London Addresses dataset

Samuel Clare 15 Batemans Buildings ratebooks 1781-1784 / ads for recruitment, sale of commissions and finding deserters Public Advertiser 16.9.1779 Mr Samuel Clare Batemans Buildings, Public Advertiser 23.3.1780 3 Batemans Buildings, Gazetteer 1.6.1780 Mr Clare 3 Batemans Buildings, St James Chronicle 17.7.1781 Mr Samuel Clare Bateman's Buildings agent to Col MacCarmick's regiment 93rd foot 21.7.1781, 24.7.1781, 26.7.1781, Gazetteer 23.8.1781, St James Chronicle 10.8.1782, Daily Advertiser 3.12.1782 93rd regt at Reading, Gazetteer…

7.7.1807 accompany T(homas) T(urner) to Clark / 29.10.1807 call on Clark / 11.1.1809 call on Clark, chamberlain; adv.Walker / 12.4.1813 call on Clark, chamberlain

Richard Clark, chamberlain of London (DNB 1739-1831) was presumably the last two entries above, and may have also been the first two (if not, I regard them as too hard to identify because the name is so common).

19.7.1811 M(ary) J(ane) calls on Eves, Davison, Macmillan, Pheney, Clarke & Butterworth / 4.4.1816 call on Clarke & Boyd, Middleton & Jo(seph) G(odwin) / 14.12.1822 call on Purland, Clarke &…

MILL VOTERS 1802 Thomas Clark of Hounslow

SunFire 1778, 1782 Thomas Clark gardener nr the Bell, Isleworth / Thomas Clark = Isleworth 6.10.1805 Mary West / Thomas Clark buried Isleworth 22.11.1811 age 74 / bapt Isleworth Ann 1816 Mary 1818 of Thomas & Mary Clark gardener of Kingston, Surrey / will PCC Thomas Clark of Hounslow dated 10.10.1813 proved 4.1.1819 mentioned wife Mary children William, Sarah, Elizabeth, Martha & Mercy

18.6.1796 3 Clarkes at Tooke's / 12.11.1797 Clarke at Tooke's / 26.6.1798 Clarke calls (not in) / 13.7.1798 Clarke, Fell & M(arshall) at tea /  2.9.1802 Clarke calls   

See also Clarke, Mrs (work notes) / Clarke, Dr John / Clarke mystic for earlier entries of this name. The two entries at Tooke's had no other guest in common. In DNB sympathies with radical politics are noted for John Clarke 1757-1820 schoolmaster and Adam Clarke 1762-1832 Methodist and scholar. The last three could have been Dr John Clarke, or the Clarke at Tooke's, or another

16.2.1817 dine at L Hunt's, w. Shelleys, Hazlits & B Montagu; adv. Colson, Gatty & Clarke / 15.11.1823 sup at Lamb's, w. Novellos, C Clarke / 1.6.1824 sup at Lamb's, w. Novellos, Holmes, Clark / 26.10.1828  call on L Hunt; adv. miss Kent, Novello & Clarkes

These entries are likely to have been Charles Cowden Clarke (DNB 1787-1877) particularly the last three, where Novellos were present, and after Clarkes's marriage to Mary Novello on 5.7.1828 Novellos & Clarke became Novello & Clarkes. Note the spelling Clark in 1824 demonstrating  that Godwin's…

2.3.1794 dr Clarke (talked of at Holcroft's with Ritson) / 5.9.1797 Clarke in the afternoon (when Wollstonecraft ill) / 12.2.1798 Fordyce's with Clarke, Carlisle, Johnson, Stewart

John Clarke DNB 1761-1815 physician and midwife. Friend of Matthew Baillie. Of Queen St, Golden Sq, St James voted Fox 1790. Married April 1789. will PCC 1815. 5.9.1797 this entry was made without the usual "calls" or "call on" but Fordyce was both a physician and a friend of Mary Wollstonecraft's and Clarke was a midwife of high reputation. The dinner at Fordyce's on 12.2.1798 then included…

Edward Clarke of March Lane Southwark proposed Society for Constitutional Information 27.11.1782 by Joseph Brown 2nded Willam Pickett

Edward Clarke brewer 116 Maid Lane Southwark Kent's Directory 1770, SunFire 1780, Society for Encouraging Arts, Manufactures & Commerce from 1772, directories to 1790 / will PCC 1791 of Edward Clarke brewer of Maid Lane dated 28.4.1791 mentioned Judith Mitchell of Kensington Sq, daughter Elizabeth Clarke, execs William Barnard of Deptford, Kent & Edward Addison of Surrey St, Strand, witness Edward Clarke jr of Lincolns Inn / Law List 1800 John…

8.2.1806 Hewson Clarke callsⁿ

Very likely Hewson Clarke (DNB 1787 - in or after 1845) who at age 18 had come down from Gateshead  to Cambridge University, but was more interested in literature than study and it's perhaps a shame that Godwin missed or refused the call and never recorded the name again. There is a burial record at St Dunstan in the West, London on 21.5.1817 for a Hewson Clarke age 29 from Serle's Place, which accords well with his birthdate and with  the reports of R Welford and E Mackenzie, (which are contradicted by works and letters published…

1.4.1822 Rosser & Joseph Clarke at tea / 24.7.1822 write to Joseph Clarke

not researched

sheriff Clarke 7.10.1803 at Norwich

See Bury & Norwich Post 7.9.1803 and 14.9.1803 Edward Rigby & Joseph Clarke sheriffs. Clarke was a wholesale linendraper and a director of the Norwich Insurance Company from 1809 (newspaper ads). A Joseph Clarke of Norwich subscr 1782 to Hancock's Doctrine of Eclipses. A Joseph Clarke haberdasher, hosier & hatter took apprentices in 1784 and 1790. With his wife Elizabeth (nee Bell) he baptised 3 children at St Andrews Norwich 1786 to 1789, and in 1802 Joseph Clarke merchant of Norwich voted for Fellowes and Smith against Windham &…

HCR diary 6.1.1822 Mrs Basil Montagu "related to me a romantic incident in the life of Mrs Ponsford - She was a painter by profession and painted many years ago a picture of her Mrs A" (Robinson clearly means Mrs M) "and a child - it was entitled "A Widow and her Child". This picture caught the eye of a rich woman - a Mrs Clarke - who was possessed independently of her husband of £15,000 - which she was resolved he should not have. Mrs C: instantly determined to give this £15,000 to the widow - and for that purpose called on the artist Miss Smith. She told Miss S: only that she wished to…

8.6.1799 tea E Reynolds' w. mrs Baker & miss Clarke

Perhaps an actress but a common name (see Highfill, Burnim & Langhans)

5.8.1804 Yates's & miss Clarke dine; adv. Jo(seph) G(odwin) / 17.12.1805 call on Jo(seph) G(odwin); adv. miss Clarke

Probably one of Hannah Godwin's millinery assistants, see my entry for Godwin, Hannah

20.10.1816 D Clarke dines / 21.10.1816 D Clarke sleeps / 10.11.1816 mrs & L Clarke dine / 12.12.1816 L Clarke dines / 7.1.1817 Clarkes dine / 20.3.1817 miss Collins dines & theatre, w. M(ary) J(ane) & Clarkes / 12.5.…

27.10.1788 at Miss Williams' / 30.3.1795 at Barbaulds', with Mrs Barwell both times

15.1.1795 Clarke, mystic at Thelwals.

'avec lui' at the end of this day's diary entry has been coded in GD website to Thelwal but alternative readings could be Clarke mystic, or Jennings himself (as another way of saying tete a tete). Godwin's only other use of avec lui is for revising with William Nicholson, 25.12.1792, 2.11.1793, 10.1.1793



Probably Richard Clarke (Literary memoirs of living authors p99) author of various mystical works published between 1750 and 1795, was Rector of St Philip's Charleston, South Carolina in the 1750s then came to England,…

see Poland Street 1 to 9 & 49 to 62 in London Addresses dataset

SunFire 1785 Lieut Gen Thomas Clarke 57 Poland St / Boyles Court Guide 1793 & 1794 Gen Clarke 57 Poland St / 13.11.1792 & 5.4.1793 Bedford Archives R3 1198 & 1391 letters from General Clarke, Poland St to Daniel Beaumont, Duke of Bedford's steward / Boyle's Court Guide 1799 Gen. Thomas Clarke 5 St Albans St & Godmanchester nr Huntingdon / will PCC 1799 dated 25.9.1799 General Thomas Clarke of St Alban's St, St James mentioned Joyner Becher of Wokingham, Berks (who had married Sarah Harris 1763…

SWEDENBORGIANS: William Clark of Newport, Isle of Wight was at 1792-3 conference. Intellectual Repository New Series vol1 p333. Died 9.8.1824 by an attack of apoplexy in his 75th year William Clarke Esq of Shide nr Newport, I of W. His grandfather was Unitarian minister of Newport (then called Arian Baptists). In 1789 R Mather, and another, converted Clarke, Dr Maywood and a tradesman. Maywood went to America, Mr R Clarke while still in Isle of Wight continued the meetings. Mr Noble preached Clarke's funeral sermon at Methodist Chapel in Newport

His grandfather may have been the…

Clarkson of Paisley calls 9.3.1799

Paisley directory 1810 John C lodging-keeper St James Pl, 1812 elected by subscribers as manager of dispensary and house of recovery. John C = Penelope Shaw 12.4.1801 Paisley Middle, John C = Janet Dalziel 14.11.1807 Paisley

MILL VOTERS 1802 Charles Clarkson of Hounslow

BONNEY DIARY 11.11.1794 saw Clarkson (and Gurney) 12.11.1794 Clarksons (and Gurney) 13.11.1794 2 Clarksons

George Clarkson and Romaine William Clarkson attorneys. Their father John Clarkson was a chinaman of Market St, St James (Westminster Coroners Jury 28.3.1770 Market St, 1774 voted Mountmorres & Mahon SunFire 1777dealer in Glass China & Earthenware, voted 1780, 1784 Fox, coroners juries 1788, voted 1802 Fox & Graham, will PCC 16.11.1802 dated 6.5.1793 mentioned his two sons as above and his dau Harriet wife of James Hodson of Hatton Garden M.D., who died 16.4.1812…