A-Z of Entries

14.9.1789 Dr Bawd at miss Williams'

15.12.1794 Richter & Baxter discharged / 26.8.1804 Baxter at Tooke's / 12.10.1806 again

The above entries have been coded in GD website to Baxter family (Baxter of Dundee). The first should belong certainly, and the other two probably, to John Baxter (fl 1794-1816 in DNB London Corresponding Society act. 1792-1799)

Bayles 8.3.1801 adv at Godwin's dinner with M(arshall)

Beach's 10.3.1798 at Pump room Bath with Jones's

This may have been the family of the Bath portrait painter Thomas Beach DNB 1737-1806 who appeared in a 1784 directory as painter West-gate buildings Bath. There is a transcript of his diary at the West Country Studies Library at Exeter which might shed more light (GB/NNAF/P141256). There were also two spinster sisters of Bath, Elizabeth Beach will PCC 1785 and Anna Catharina Beach will PCC 1804 whose brother Thomas of Jamaica had died by 1778 leaving two sons Thomas and John Hynes who called themselves de la Beeche and a daughter…

call on Beadle 5.1.1805

Could have referred to a beadle (official of a parish, court, ward, city company or other institution) but it was also a surname, fairly common in Kent, and Godwin used a capital B. James Beadle advertised his Irish Linen & Sheeting warehouse at 9 Commerce Row, Gt Surrey St (on Surrey side of Blackfriars Bridge) in Morning Chronicle 22.6.1803 and insured it Sun Fire 1803. William Beadle of Dartford was a lottery winner in 1802. Thomas Beadle was at 13 Braziers Bldgs Fleet Mkt (Sun Fire 1803) and had a butcher's shop at 29 Fleet Mkf and lived at 9 Seacoal…

Beaufort 31.3.1805 at Philips / 12.5.1805 at Joseph Johnson's (& Edgworth) / 18.5.1805 dines (& Edgworth) / 9.6.1805 at Tooke's (& Edgworth) / 11.3.1808 at Joseph Johnson's (& H Edgworth) / 28.4.1809 again

Probably Daniel Augustus Beaufort DNB 1739-1821 whose daughter Frances Ann married Richard Lovell Edgeworth DNB 1744-1817 at St Anne Dublin on 31.5.1798 or perhaps his son Francis DNB 1774-1857

20.4.1788 Beaufoy, Henry. Add Abinger c.1 f44-5 to bibliography

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Thomas Richard Beaumont of 26 Old Burlington St proposed member 9.11.1792 by William Bosville 2nded John Horne Tooke

GODWIN DIARY: 29.3.1795 mrs Beaumont at Bosville's / Beaumont 18.6.1795 at Parkinson's / 27.6.1796 at Telegraph / 28.6.1796 adv at Holcroft's / 4.10.1796 meet /13.3.1801 at Rickman's / 16.4.1801 at Lamb's (with Rickman) / 16.7.1804 Holcroft calls, on Beaumont / 29.9.1804 read Beaumont, accurante H(olcrof)t / 15.3.1805 sir G Beaumont at Northcote's / 26.12.1824 Beaumont, painter calls

Thomas Richard Beaumont 1758-1829 (…

Beausejour 2.6.1792 at Brand Hollis'

11.1.1796 at KIng's Bebzunce see Belsunce

Me Beccaria at tea 2.8.1802. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1802 / 5.8.1802 call on Me Beccaria

The 1796 list entry and four J Beccaria entries shortly after the two above have all been coded to a person record for J Beccaria on the GD website, the two entries above should surely be coded to it as well as the editorial notes seem to agree

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Anthony Beck saddler of Oxford Street proposed member 31.1.1794 by John Williams 2nded Francis Weldon

GODWIN DIARY: 30.1.1796 Beck adv at Inchbald's

Not the context we would most expect to find him in but this Beck at Inchbald's could have been the SCI member above / 5.7.1773 St Marylebone bapt Anthony son of Richard Beck & Mary / SunFire 1777, 1779 Richard Beck sadler Oxford St  (Rd B coal merchant Grosvenor St St Geo Han Sq voted Fox 1780, 1784) / 1791 (St Thos Hospital admissions Anthony Beck 229 Oxford St / (Thale) London…

Bedder 2.2.1795 at Thelwal's / 8.4.1796 at Thomas Fawcett's / Godwin calls on 2.2.1813.

Mr Thomas Bedder of 6, St Thomas Apostle and Thomas Bedder jr both contributed to the London Corresp Socy Nov 1794 collection for state prisoners' families. Thomas Bedder of St Martin Ongar married Ursula Stanley of St Mary Aldermary at St Clement Eastcheap 4.1.1763, took an apprentice as member of Butchers Company in 1773 and was buried 4.7.1802 at St Mary Aldermary age 64. Thomas Bedder of Long Acre was buried at St Martins in the Fields 14.11.1831 age 66

28.3.1797 Bedfords at Townley's collection / 24.5.1799 Bedford jr at Carlisle's

Both above entries should maybe be added on GD website to person record for John Russell 6th Duke of Bedford, they were while his father Francis Russell 5th Duke (d 1802) was still alive, and he would have held the title Marquis of Tavistock. And the 1797 entry should maybe be added to the person record for the 5th Duke as well. The surname Bedford is not rare but I could find no other likely candidates.

(Beechey) 17.5.1800 at Milton Gallery

Presumably referred to William Beechey DNB 1753-1839, but unidentified in GD website. The brackets perhaps implied the person was only talked about or seen at a distance

12.7.1796 mrs Beacroft adv at mrs J Taylor's

Thomas Beecroft of Saxthorpe Hall, Norfolk married 1785 Judith Dixon, her will PCC 1842 widow of Norwich, execs friends Thomas Hudson banker of Norwich & Richard Taylor of Charterhouse Square (son of Mrs J Taylor above). They had two daughters but he died aged 33 on 1.6.1787. He was the son of John Beecroft d.1779, bookseller of Paternoster Row, from a Norwich family..

Subscr to Norwich Public Library 1796 Mrs Beecroft / subscr to Wm Enfield's Sermons 1798 Mrs Beecroft

17.7.1795 Beens at Foulkes'

spelt Been the name is rare, spelt Bean quite common. None of the Beens I found so far seem particularly likely

4.5.1796 miss Beetham adv at Opie's

see John Opie DNB 1761-1807. Jane Beetham was Opie's pupil, daughter of Edward Beetham, actor, author, inventor and bookseller of 27 Fleet St, and his wife Isabella, silhouette artist. Jane was named in Opie's divorce case but chose not to marry him and married a solicitor, John Read on 11.2.1800 at St Dunstan in the West, and exhibited at the RA as Mrs Read. Her cousin was Mary Matilda Betham.

Bel Arbre 16.3.1800 at John King's / 26.3.1800 again / 29.3.1800 meet

There was a seigneurie of Belabre and a cleric of that name was guillotined in the French Revolution. There is a place in France (Lot) called Bel Arbre. Otherwise I've had no luck in identifying this person - yet.

24.5.1807 explanation, S S, on Belcher & Bovy

S S usually means Skinner Street in Godwin's diary (where he ran his bookshop and later lived as well). Belcher and Bovy both appear just this once in the diary. See work notes below