A-Z of Entries

Hazlitt, Mary

16.6.1795 mrs Hazlitt adv at Holcroft's

Probably the wife of John Hazlitt, who married 16.5.1789 at St Anne Soho, Mary Pierce of Marylebone, in the Bishop of London's license called Mary Pearse of Southsea, Hants

Or possibly the Hazlitts' mother Grace (nee Loftus) 1746-1837 on a visit to her children in London from Wem


Hazlitt, William

HCR diary 10.12.1820 ""Hazlitt, Mrs Horace Twiss & Barry Cornwall were at Montague's and I had a very pleasant lounge"

                      21.2.1821 after meeting Hazlitt at Lamb's "Hazlitt and I now speak again"

William Hazlitt (DNB 1778-1830)


Heard

Heard 10.10.1799 adv at Curran's

 


Heath, Charles Theodosius

25.3.1808 call on C Heath / 29.3.1808 C Heath & H Corbould call / 23.4.1808 C Heath calls / 31.5.1808 again / 30.6.1808 again / 1.10.1808 again / 6.9.1819 steamboat to London w. C Heath & wife / 18.12.1820 call on Perkins; adv. C & G Heath & Miller / 19.12.1822 C Heath adv. at theatre / 16.5.1828 C Heath at Reynolds's / 18.11.1829 call on C Heath; at F Reynolds / 19.11.1829 write to F Reynolds, leave at Heath's / 23.3.1832 C Heath adv. at Suffolk Street (gallery)

Charles Theodosius Heath (DNB 1785-1848), engraver, married Elizabeth Petch 1808. It is strange that…


Heath, George

18.12.1820 call on Perkins; adv. C & G Heath & Miller / 9.10.1821 seek Heath, barrister / 11.10.1821 call on Heath / 11.12.1823 call on G Heath / 6.11.1824 call on Heath (Debtors' Court)

George Heath eldest son of James Heath engraver (DNB 1757-1834) admitted Inner Temple 22.6.1802 called to bar 13.11.1807 eldest son of James Heath Esq, Russell Place, Fitzroy Square, his will PCC 15.5.1852 serjeant at law of Kitlands Surrey. He may not have been the Heath barrister of 1821 and 1824 as Godwin had probably known him from childhood and would have used the initial G (you might…


Heath, James

14.9.1788 call on Barry met Wilson & Heath / 24.3.1789 Robinson & Heath call talk of Barry / 29.8.1789 at Robinson's adv Shield & Heath / 12.10.1795 Shield & Heath at Robinson's / 14.10.1795 call on / 27.12.1796 at Robinson's / 26.1.1797 adv there / 11.2.1797 there / 31.10.1797 call on (not in) / 1.11.1797 call on / 3.11.1797 call on Fuseli with Heath / 16.11.1797 call on / 5.12.1797 / 6.12.1797 / 11.12.1797 / 12.12.1797 / 14.12.1797 / 16.12.1797 / 20.12.1797 / 9.1.1798 (all call on) / 23.4.1798 at exhibition / 28.4.1800 at exhibition / 17.5.1800 at Milton gallery / 12.9.…


Heathcote

Heathcote 11.11.1792 at Pinard's /  29.12.1793 at Holcroft's


Heaton, Richard

Richard Heaton of Harpur Street, Red Lion Square proposed Society for Constitutional Information 6.1781 by Lewis Disney Ffytche 2nded Thomas Brand Hollis

See Burke's Landed Gentry. John Heaton (1696-1779) = 16.7.1734 Martha Adamson, their son Richard born 1.10.1738 married 11.8.1783 Sarah dau of Edward Venables of Oswestry, their children John (1787-1855), Sarah Elizabeth, Margaret, Mary. Richard Heaton died 27.11.1791 buried Oswestry 3.12.1791. He went to Harrow School and Cambridge (son of John of London & Denbighshire), admitted Middle Temple 1756 eldest son of John Heaton of…


Heaviside, Richard

Heaviside of Seymour St, proposed Society for Constitutional Information 18.5.1792 by John Horne Tooke 2nded John Williams, WITHDREW

Not a common name so probably the following but no mention elsewhere of Seymour St address, perhaps an error for Somerset St. Lyson's Environs of London (1792) Peterborough House, Fulham was sold to Richard Heaviside, Esq on death of late Lord Peterborough (i.e. 1779), now unoccupied. Member of Society for Encouragement of Arts. Manufactures & Commerce 1785-6 Peterborough House, 1787-9 Temple, 1790-3 Peterborough House, 1794-8 Somerset St, 1800…


Helvetius, Claude Adrien

5.3.1792 Helvets / 14.12.1792.

Must have referred to Claude Adrien Helvetius 1715-1771

 


Heming

Heming 6.10.1794 at Parr's / 10.10.1794 at Coventry with Hall & Ca. Parr.

No clear identification. Thomas Heming (or Hemmings) of Hatton will proved 1824 PCC, Thomas Heming s of John & Mary bapt Lapworth 20.9.1778. Thomas Heming, Alcester subscribed to History & Antiquities of Stratford 1806 (as did Samuel Parr and many of his local friends). Thomas Heming of Cookhill, nr. Alcester 1810

 


Hemming, John

John Hemmings Esq of Bear Binder Lane proposed Society for Constitutional Information 26.2.1790 by Benjamin Cooper 2nded Richard Sharp

His father was John Cheshyre Hemming linen draper of St Saviour Southwark will PCC 14.12.1787 who had married Martha Tyson at St Lawrence Pountney 3.6.1756. A son of John Cheshyre Hemming, probably John (the first name is obscured on the document) was admitted to the Vintners Company by patrimony as born 1760, father admitted 1754. Directoeries 1780-1782 John Hemming 1783-1787 John Hemming & Son linen drapers 38 Borough High St. John Hemming of…


Henault

Henault, &c  28.5.1801

This should be coded in GD website to te1247 the text Godwin also ead the next day


Henderson

Henderson 27.2.1791 at Fenwick's

John H merchant Mitre Court Milk St 1780-91

John H jeweller 21 Cornhill 1780-91

J H signed declaration of Friends to Liberty of Press 1792

Anthony H special pleader 8 Fig Tree Court Inner Temple Law List 1793

Thomas H attorney Staples Inn Law List 1798

H Esq 82 Newman St Boyle's 1792; & Alex H Esq 4 Adelphi Terr, John H FSA 1794 there; Col H Lower Grosvenor Pl; H Esq 20 Hart St Bloomsbury

William H dealer in eggs (Trials for Treason & Sedition) witness known Thomas Hardy nearly 20 yrs


Henderson, Dr

HCR diary 5.11.1824 Dr Henderson at Athenaeum Club

                   26.4.1839 at sale of Aders' pictures "there attended the sale"...."and no-one else I know except Dr Henderson"

Probably Alexander Farquharson Henderson (DNB 1779/80-1863)


Henderson, George

George Henderson, Cornhill joined "unnumbered division" (QV) 26.2.1794. I've not been able to identify him further. Cornhill was close to Bishopsgate near where the first members of that division lived.


Henley, Isaac

3.11.1791 Henley calls/4.11.1791 call on / 25.1.1792 dine at Mr Henley's nr Angel Edmonton / 27.4.1792 again, with his son and Mr Rahl / 16.3.1793 dine at Henley's / 9.4.1793 calls / 12.8.1794 dine at his / 31.12.1799 at Joseph Johnson's. In Godwin's 1796 list / 3.1.1800 meet / 15.4.1800 at Joseph Johnson's / 26.6.1800 meet / 20.9.1800 again / 30.3.1802 call on mrs Henley, Watling Street / 4.8.1802 adv at Philips / 13.5.1803 meet / 15.6.1803 at Joseph Johnson's / 21.6.1803 meet / 27.7.1803 at Joseph Johnson's / 7.9.1803 again / 10.2.1804 John Henley calls / 6.7.1804 meet rev. Henley / 24.…


Henly

Henly 5.6.1797

Clearly the place Henley-in-Arden


Henry

(Henry) 31.3.1800 at S Cuxson's  / 15.4.1800 at Joseph Johnson's / 13.6.1801 L Henry at Lansdown's / 23.3.1802 Henry at Davy's / 1.8.1804 Henry at Joseph Johnson's. In Godwin's 1796 list Henry of Manchester / 21.11.1804 again / 9.12.1806 capt Henry at Johnson's / 22.2.1810 Henry & C Hopwood dine / 30.12.1810 Henry dines / 17.2.1811 again / 14.5.1820 Harwood H(olcrof)t dines adv Henry / 3.6.1820 mrs Pilcher & Henry call / 4.6.1820 mrs Pilcher & Henry sup / 14.12.1828 dine at Robinson's with Henry, adv Harold

Some of the above Henry entries may have referred to a…


Henshaw

Henshaws 3.7.1801 at Lamb's

Letters of Charles & Mary Lamb. 13.11.1810 to Dorothy Wordsworth. William Henshaw died yesterday aged 56. His father the gunsmith outlived him. ( Wm H sr was Lamb's godfather). William son of William & Elizabeth Henshaw of King St bapt 23.11.1755 St Botolph Aldgate. Wm H gunmaker Strand opp. Norfolk St 1763, 279 Strand 1783, 181 Strand 1784-90. Holdens 1611 Wm H & Wm H jr 4 Pratt St, Camden Town. Wm H bur St James Picc'y 15.11.1810. Wm H sr died 28.7.1822 of Bexley, Kent age 99 bur St John Wapping 5.8.1822 will PCC 1822