A-Z of Entries

2.4.1810 dine at Tipper's, Cumberland, Bligh, Dr & mr Davis,  H Robinson, Crowe & J Richter / 18.4.1810 Curran, Cumberland, Wolcot, Bligh & T(homas) T(urner) dine

Bligh may have been Richard Bligh DNB 1780-1838 equity draftsman (24 Old-buildings Lincolns-inn 1811 Holdens) & legal reporter, about whom the DNB says very little. Richard Cumberland's London Review was published by Samuel Tipper and four quarterly issues of it appeared in 1809. Henry Crabb Robinson and G W Crowe who were also present at Tipper's wrote for it. However in one advert for the Review Bligh was…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Isaac Blissett 24 Poland St ratebooks 1785-1800 / Isaac Blisset = St James 29.12.1781 Betty Wiggins botp by banns wit Thomas Hendy / Messrs Mackenzie & Blissett cabinetmakers St James took appr 1793 Wm M Oliver / Isaac Blissett carpenter Poland St voted Graham 1802 / carpenter Poland St Holden's directory 1805 / Isaac Blisset of Wardour St age 75 bur St Anne Soho 18.2.1816, Elizabeth Blisset of Wardour St age 71 bur St Anne Soho 22.2.1816 / also Sush Blisset age 48 bur 3.7.1811 St Anne Soho according to familysearch.org but…

Thomas Blizard St Mary Axe joined 16.5.1794 the "unnumbered division" (QV)

See Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Thomas Blizard 1772-1838 and his relative Sir William Blizard 1744-1835.

William Blizard bach = Barnes, Surrey 13.7.1736 Elizabeth Robinson sp by banns
William Blizard will PCC 2.1.1745 (1744 old style) surgeon of Lambeth mentioned eldest son Robert, wife Martha, Epsom, son William, Hotham Suffolk, dau Harriott dated 26.10.1743
John Blizard = Petersham 18.9.1760 Susanna Cho(w)les
Mary Blizard bapt Petersham 13.3.1763 of John & Susanna (…

22.7.1796 water party at B Gurney's, Wroxham

see Cabble.

Blogg & Son, limeburners & bricklayers, Wymer St Norwich, Bailey's 1784 / William Blogg bricklayer Norwich will 1788 / Samuel Blogg bricklayer Norwich Common Councillor &c 1788-1808

Joshua Blogg 1795 baker of Corpusty, Norfolk.

18.7.1796 Weybourn camp officers Blomfield

There were two officers in the Royal Artillery at the time, Thomas Blomefield DNB 1744-1822 Lt Col 5.12.1793, Col 26.1.1797 and Benjamin Bloomfield Captain 9.9.1794 will PCC 1846 Rt Hon Benjamin Baron Bloomfield. Since the camp was small and temporary and Major Judson was its commander (see Judgson, Thomas) Capt Benjamin B was perhaps more likely to have been the one Godwin met

4.10.1796 meet Allen, Stoddart, Bloxam / 6.11.1796 Allen, Bloxam call / 12.11.1796 Allen, Bloxam at Hayes's / 16.12.1796 at theatre / 22.11.1800 at Carlisle's / 31.3.1801 again / 4.8.1801 again / 6.2.1805 adv at Carlisle's / 6.5.1805 again / 26.8.1805 again / 10.12.1814 C(harles) C(lairmont) from Bloxam

The proximity to Allen three times in a row suggests they may have been friends. Robert Allen was a surgeon and Richard Bloxam surgeon and apothecary of Alcester Warwicks will PCC 1825 his sons Richard Rouse Bloxam master of Rugby School will PCC 1840, Samuel Anthony Bloxam 1st regt…

1.11.1795 dine at B P with Foulkes / 20.11.1806 dine Blue Posts / 15.7.1807 dine Blue Posts

May well be Blue Posts, Haymarket, a tavern much favoured by actors. Eight of the subscribers to George Parker's Life's Painter of Variegated Characters gave their address there

John Blunt of Great Ayliff Street, Goodmans Fields proposed SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION 8.11.1782 by Thomas Hinton Burley Oldfield 2nded Joseph Brown. Not sure if this was the same John Blunt as the coal factor and ship broker of 9, Coal Exchange, Thames St in 1782 and later of 1 Cross St, Thames St, if not the same they were in a similar line of business, see Nat Arch ADM 106/1246/424 where Nathaniel Bulmer shipbuilder of South Shields asked John Blunt of 6, Great Alie Street (another way of spelling Ayliffe Street) to tender the hull of a ship built by him at Hull (not seen…

23.3.1809 Boardman calls

Only once in Godwin's diary.

Joseph Boardman gent of Kingsland, Mx will PCC 1817 dau Cicely Garnons widow of Rev John Garnons curate of All Hallows Barking & lecturer of All Hallows London Wall will PCC 1790, son Joseph Boardman of the Bank, gent; SunFire 1793 glazier of 19 Stewart-st Spitalfields & 63 Kingsland, 1803 at Mr Pace's Old-st; buried 2.12.1817 Bunhill Fields age 84 from Dalston / Thomas Holloway Boardman painter & cooper St Botolph Aldgate will PCC 1818. Several victuallers in London, and plenty of this name in Lancashire and…

Samuel Boddington proposed Socy for Const Info by Richard Price 19.3.1790 2nded Thomas Brand Hollis. West India merchant History of Parliament 1766-1843. See Godwin Diary website entry which I haven't examined though there is some uncertainty about distinguishing between Samuel and John Boddington. SB of Enfield subscr 1786 to Peacock's 6 Princesses, SB Hackney 1790 subscr to Hazlitt's Discourses, SB of 17 Mark Lane subscr 1791 to Socy for Prmoting Religious Knowledge among the Poor, SB = 24.2.1792 Grace dau of William Ashburner of Surat, honeymoon in Paris, SB Southgate subscr 1795 to…

Christ. Fred. Boham of New Brentford

UBD 1791 CFB gingerbread maker, Brentford

Boisgelin 29.12.1799 at Lanesborough's / 5.1.1800 at John King's / 19.1.1800 at Lanesborough's / 21.1.1800 at John King's / 26.1.1800 again / 9.2.1800 again / 16.3.1800

Boisgelin has been identified on 17.11.1799 on the GD website but all the above subsequent entries have not been coded to him

see Batemans Buildings in London Addresses dataset

Robert Boissier ratebooks 16 Batemans Buildings summer to Xmas1787 / John Boissier bach age 21+ = St James Picc'y 22.10.1761 Elizabeth Mellors sp 18+ with consent of her father FrancisXMellors of Shersey, Surry, farmer by Abp lic / John Boissier wid = St James Picc'y 22.6.1778 Ann Fairbrother sp age 40+ botp by Abp lic

Bolton 25.4.1804 at Carlisle's / 3.11.1807 call on Bolton (then Pickering) / 4.12.1807 call on Pickering adv Bolton / 3.5.1812 Boltons at John Poole's

Possible : Boyle's 1800, Holdens 1811 John Bolton 11 Greek St Soho surgeon to St Anne's parish voted Hood 1788 & 1790, Paull 1806, Burdett & Romilly 1818 his will PCC 1821

Thomas Bolton of Richmond plumped for Burdett

Thomas son of George Bolton bapt Richmond 26.7.1772 / TB bach of Richmond = 18.1.1795 Isleworth Elizabeth early sp otp (licence dated 19.1.1794) / TB bur Mortlake 9.2.1795 / Criminal Register Apr 1803 TB age 27 born Surrey goldsmith arrested for theft died in Newgate last September before trial / TB age 67 from Workhouse bur Richmond 27.9.1833

Wm Bolton of Kingston

See Bolton, Thomas / will PCC 1794 of WB publican of Epsom dated 19.5.1790 mentioned wife Sarah sons William & James / Land Tax redemption 1798 Gigg Hall, Kingston WB, prop Mrs Legh

Wm Bolton plumped for Burdett

see Bolton, William (Kingston) and Bolton, Thomas

SOCY for CONST INFO : George Bond Esq of the Temple proposed 7.2.1783 Alured Shove 2nded Samuel Shore. In 1792 he was a signatory to the Friends of the People and to the Friends of the Liberty of the Press. DNB 1750-1796. See Ride, Ann in Greater Soho dataset for more on his personal life.

GODWIN DIARY:  Bond 8.12.1790 at Holcroft's, with Fenwick and Bishop. May be George Bond as above, or the singer below if Bishop (QV) was the musician

Nicholas B Esq Boyle's 1792 44 Sloane St / John B singer Worcester & London (Highfill, Burnim & Langhans)  / Oliver B (Trials…

14.9.1810 Bond (on sir R Corbett) calls

Sir Richard Corbett will PCC 1815 claimed to be the heir to Sir Richard Corbett 4th baronet will PCC 1774 but the books of baronetcy say the 4th baronet died unmarried and the baronetcy became extinct with him. The claimant was a son of Charles Corbett, a bookseller who went bankrupt and was therefore excluded from the estate in the 4th baronet's 7th codicil.. Public Ledger 14.3.1810 reported the claimant's Chancery case against Archdeacon Corbett formerly Joseph Plymley, and the case by archdeacon Corbett that the claimant should not be…

Benjamin Bond 1788 in printed list of 77 / BB PCC 1810 ironfounder Bristol / BB PCC 1835 St Marylebone / BB PCC 1838 Clapham buried Bunhill Fields 23.5.1838 age 76 from Blackman St Southwark / Holdens 1799 BB Esq South Lambeth / 1790, 1793 BB Connissioner of Land Tax London / Wakefields 1793 BB cabinetmaker Ratcliffe Highway