A-Z of Entries

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

SunFire 1790 Luke Ideson gent 49 Poland St. He doesn't appear in ratebooks as the leaseholder was the parish of St James and Ideson was the parish clerk . He may have been the Luke son of Robert Ideson bapt 1739 Burnsall Yorks. If so his father came to London soon after, as Inman son of Robert & Hannah Ideson was bapt St James 1747, Robert Ideson = Esther Braithwaite 17.10.1754 St Paul Covt Gdn, Robert Ideson buried 21.1.1756 Westminster. There was also a John & Elizabeth Ideson in St James parish as early…

Iliff (at Philomaths?) 3.10.1794 / Hubbard's 17.1.1795 / Powel's 17.3.1795 / 9.2.1796 meets / 12.2.1796 calls.

Edward Henry Iliff was baptised 18.4.1766 at St Clement Danes son of Thomas Iliff of Lincoln College, Oxford, curate of St Clement Danes, librarian of Westminster Abbey, and his wife Frances. Thomas Iliff of St Clement Danes = Mancetter, Warwicks 26.10.1763 Frances Needham otp by lic wits Francesca Stratford, Susanna Waldron. Thomas Iliff's will was proved 1803 formerly of Devereux Court, Strand and late of Dean's Yard, Westminster and mentioned his wife Frances, his…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Imhose & Co artificial florist 38 Poland St 1790 Wakefield's directory / John Imhose from St Clements age 7 bur 4.4.1799 St Paul Covt Gdn / Edward Frederick Imhose engraver Lambeth 1849

In Godwin's 1796 list for 1796 (crossed out) but not coded in GD website to his person record

25.2.1792 read Independence.

Not coded to anything. Must mean Charles Churchill's poem of that name (te0085)



 

Ingersol calls 9.8.1802 / 10.8.1802 dines

Bodleian Abinger c7 f128 was his letter of introduction to Godwin. Charles Jared Ingersoll Amer Nat Biog born 3.10.1782 died 14.5.1862

15.2.1796 Ireland's with Merry

Samuel Ireland DNB (d.1800). The Skakespear forgeries to which his son later confessed had been on show at his house at 8 Norfolk St Strand for a year, but evidence was beginning to mount against them

see Erving

HCR diary 10.6.1824 with Coleridge and large party at the Gillmans in Highgate

Edward Irving (DNB 1792-1834)

19.2.1794 una Italiana at Richard Johnson's / 2.11.1795 una Ita there

GD website has the second entry transcribed as una H?. "An Italian lady"

19.5.1808 call on R Taylor; adv. J H, advertiser / 23.6.1808 Advertising calls

Unusual for Godwin to just use initials for someone he doesn't already know, as the description of his trade suggests, but advertiser may not have been a trade, but someone inserting a small ad in a newspaper, where people often used just initials.There was a James Hall at Johnson's on 4.8.1807 (see my entry for Hall). John Hunt DNB 1775-1848 (who has a person record on GD website) had just launched the Examiner. In Holdens 1805 Directory there were two "newsmen" with the initials J H ; J Harmer of John…

J.H. 30.11.1790 at Timothy Hollis'

clearly John Hollis

Jacks 11.7.1797 at Joseph Johnson's /

Jackson 2.4.1797 at Mary Robinson's / 28.5.1797 mrs Jackson at (Thomas) Knight's / 27.6.1797 sup at mrs Jackson's / 6.3.1811 call on Jackson / 8.3.1811 again / 21.7.1811 call on Lamb adv (mrs Fenwick) mrs Jackson & mrs W(illiam Godwin?) / 22.9.1814 sup at L Kenney's with Jacksons / 1.7.1815 reads Jackson / 2.7.1815 again / 27.4.1816 (Lake District) call with Wordsworth on Jackson / 30.4.1816 (Lake District) call on Jackson, adv Kershaw, chaise with them / 1.5.1816 (Lake District) call on Jackson / 15.4.1818 Jackson (Am) calls (not in) / 28.4.1818 Jackson calls / 30.4.1818 Jackson sups…

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION George Jackson Esq of Bath proposed member 5.7.1782 by James Martin 2nded Edward Bridgen

I haven't satisfactorily identified this person but he may have been George Duckett (formerly Jackson) (DNB 1725-1822), though his politics both before (as a government official) and after (as a Member of Parliament) was to support the ministries of North and Pitt, he had been dismissed from his post as secretary to the Admiralty by Augustus Keppel on 12.6.1782 and this may have induced him to take a temporary interest in the SCI.

There were other…

see Poland Street 10 to 18 & 45 to 48 in London Addresses dataset

Robert Jackson ratebooks 10 Poland St 1795 / Richard Jackson ratebooks 10 Poland St 1797 / Sun Fire 1797 Jackson upholder 10 Poland St /  Robert Jackson cabinet maker Rupert St Haymarket 1774 voted Percy & Clinton, SunFire 1777, 1780 there (note cabinetmaker was same trade as upholder) / Robert Jackson Berwick St 1780 voted Fox  / Robert Jackson = St James 31.1.1772  Charlotte Green / Robert Henry bapt 24.1.1788, Robert bapt 25.8.1792 St James sons of Robert & Charlotte Jackson / Richard…

9.2.1794 Jackson at Tooke's.

William Jackson DNB 1737-95, journalist and spy. The DNB says he saw Tooke in London early in 1794

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

William Jackson 61 Poland St Doane's 1794 played violin & horn with New Musical Fund, Royal Circus & 2nd regt Guards. Highfill Burnim & Langhans dictionary fl 1784-1815

Jacob in Godwin's 1796 list for 1773, in the 1794 version Jacob is preceded by Jos (crossed out). In some of Godwin's autobiographical notes (these ones don't seem to be scanned online, I read them on microfilm Duke MF 75 in Bodleian Library) he wrote "Jacob's - admiration of Jos" shortly after his arrival in London 1773

John Jacob died 15.7.1804 in his 70th year. In his will (Nat Arch PROB11/1411) he made his brother Joseph of Fulham, coachmaker, an executor. In Ann Godwin's letter of 1805 (Abinger c.9 f2) she said of Mr Benford (who had just died) "he was a trustee for a 150 3 per…

Jacobs 4.1.1795 at Tooke's.

This could have been a singular surname or a plural of Jacob. It may have been William Godwin's friends the brothers John & Joseph Jacob. No particular reason to suppose they went to Tooke's dinners