A-Z of Entries

Dorrell

Dorel 4.5.1795 calls / 15.5.1795 again

Likely to be Godwin's abbreviation of the surname Dorrell


Dorroty

see Dogherty


Dorset

Dorset 26.3.1792 / 3.4.1792 / 5.5.1792 / 6.5.1792 / 8.5.1792 / 15.5.1792 / Mrs Dorset 29.10.1793 / Dorset 21.6.1794

See John Robinson Cooper, from whose indenture this must be John Dorset, perhaps elder brother to banker George, who is mentioned by Charlotte Smith whose sister married their cousin (Abinger c.16 f12-13). He is also featured in two of Elizabeth Cooper's letters (Abinger c.2 f7-8 and c.4 f3) and one of Thomas Cooper's (Abinger c.2 f84-6).

Currently 30/7/2012 in Godwin Diary website the name is not underlined but the Person Record is empty

15.3.1807 L…


Douglas

Douglas, Johnston 23.10.1797 at theatre

The play Douglas by John Home was performed at Covent Garden theatre that night with Henry Erskine Johnston in the starring role. Godwin wrote him a letter (Abinger c55 f28-30) of congratulation. The GD website has missed this though it has an event record for the play


Douglas, (Earls of Selkirk and Lords Daer)

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Earl of Selkirk proposed 9.8.1782 by John Jebb 2nded Edward Bridgen / Lord Daer proposed 4.5.1792 by John Cartwright 2nded Thomas Paine / Hon. John Douglas of Inner Temple proposed 6.7.1792 by Lord Sempill 2nded Christopher Hull

Dunbar Douglas,1722-1799 4th Earl of Selkirk married Helen (d.1802) dau of John Hamilton of Blackadder, Berwickshire.(see Thomas Douglas DNB 1771-1820). Basil William Douglas, Lord Daer (DNB 1763-1794 under London Corresponding Society) was his heir but died before him. The next brother, Hon. John Douglas was born 24.5…


Douglas, Miss

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

Harris's List 1788 Miss D-gl-ss at Mrs Walpole's 1 Poland St

possibles: Elizabeth Douglas adult bur St Martin in the Fields 12.10.1787 / Elizabeth Douglas adult poor bur St James 21.10.1790 / Mary Douglas adult bur St James 16.5.1790 / Margaret Douglas adult bur St James 20.6.1791 / Catherine Douglas of St George Hanover Sq maker of ready made linen took appr Elizabeth Holt 1796


Douglas, Ms

(mes) Douglas 7.5.1790 at miss Williams'

subscibers to HMWilliams poems 1786 Mrs D of Springwood Park, Mrs D, Mrs D, Miss D, Archibald D Esq of Cavers, Miss MD, Capt D of Berwick, Mrs D of Edinburgh. Mrs D of Cavers

Sylvester Douglas (later Baron Glenbervie) attorney to F North when in Ceylon 1798-1805

Andrew Douglas DNB 1735-1806

Hon John Douglas signed declaration of Friends to Liberty of Press 1792

Boyle's 1792 Sir George D MP 25 Hollis St; Lord D 50 Lower Grosvenor St; Dr D 74 Lower Grosvenor St; Miss D 25 Golden Sq; L D Esq 19 Arlington St; Hon Mrs D…


Douglass, James

See Castle Street East 1 to 15 &c in London Addresses dataset

No 14 Castle St East Land tax 1784 James Douglass 1785-90 no data 1791-1794 John Carroll / Harris's List 1790 Miss B-r-n

James Douglass Land Tax 1791 216 Oxford Street


Dovey, Richard

see Batemans Buildings in London Addresses dataset

Richard Dovey 15 Batemans Buildings ratebooks 1784-1792 / Wakefields directory 1790 Richard Davey enamel maker, Richard Dovers bead maker, both at 15 Batemans Buildings / Richard Dovey bach = St Clement Danes 11.11.1759 Elizabeth Lidgely sp / Elizabeth Dovey adult bur 26.4.1767 St Clement Danes / Richard Dovey wid otp = St Clement Danes 21.5.1768 Willgeford Price sp of St Mary Whitechapel by lic / Old Bailey Sessions 30.3.1770 Richard Dovey reported a customer he suspected of intending to forge silver coin / Richard Dovey…


Dowding

Dowding 7.12.1803 at Johnson's / 21.9.1812 call on Dowding (at Salisbury) / 22.9.1812 again / 23.9.1812 again / 22.12.1812 write to Dowding

John Dowding will PCC 1828 stationer, printer & banker of Salisbury was likely the entries of 1812 and possibly the entry of 1803. In the British Book Trades Index he was a bookseller & printer in partnership with Brodie in Salisbury from 1816 to 1827, and there was a John Dowding bookseller of 82 Newgate St London from 1817 to 1840.


Dower

Dower 2.4.1794 at Newgate (Gerrald's with many) / 12.7.1794 again

Robert Dower Esq counsel Law List 1793 5 Essex Court Middle Temple & Highgate / subscr 1791 to W F Sullivan's Flights of Fancy, (as did Dower, Academy, Highgate), subscr 1795 to 2 copies of Anne Cristall's poems

1774 Dower, master of an academy, Islington

1784 Richard D apothecary 79 Houndsditch


Dowling, Nathaniel

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Nathaniel Dowling 42 (43) Poland St ratebooks 1779-81 / Nathaniel Dooling = St James 13.11.1763 Ann Davies / Ann Elizabeth d of Nathaniel & Ann Dowling bapt 12.9.1768 St James / Nathaniel Dowling spur maker Poland St voted 1774 Mountmorres & Mahon 1780 Fox & Rodney / Nathaniel Dowling bur 9.2.1800 St James


Downman

call on Downman 3.4.1802

Perhaps John Downman DNB 1750-1824 (which says he was itinerant after 1800). Compare call on Cosway 20.3.1802, both uncommon names, both could have been the artist of that name, and both called on by Godwin once but never featured in his diary again.


Downs, John

MILL VOTERS 1802:  John Downs of Richmond

John Downs = St Geo Mayfair ("clandestine") 14.5.1752 Mary Millner (both?) of Richmond / John Arthur Downs bapt 18.7.1756 Richmond son of John / John Downs bapt 1,1,1759 Richmond son of James / John Givell Downs bapt 5.2.1760 son of Thomas / John Downs bapt 5.10.1783 Richmond of John & Elizabeth / Land Tax 1786 Richmond John Downs White Cross Row / Land Tax  1803 John Downs Whitecross Row / letter 30.3.1811 from Wm Raymond  & John Downs of Richmond re stone & chalk at Sunbury, Guildhall COL/TNC/01/005 / William son of John &…


Dowse

Dowse 5.8.1792 at Watts's

Dowse & Fleming, stationers Lincolns Inn Gateway 1790 BM Satires, Jacob Dowse printseller & publisher nr Turnstile Holborn 1791. Most likely as similar profession to host (see Watts, William)

John Dowse appr to Robt Fawcett attorney of St Geo Bloomsbury 1770/ attorney Bartletts Bldgs Holborn 1784, 2 gns to Hackney College 1788/ Unitarian Socy 1792, Warwick Ct/ 1792 steward of friends of asylumfor industry East St Walworth (Undertaking for Reform of the Poor) with Henry Clifford, Charles Shuter, William Fletcher/ 1792 John Dowse of Bedford Row…


Doyle, John

18.11.1829 tea sir John Doyle & mrs Wheeler / 23.5.1830 dine at Bulwer, w. sir John Doyle / 7.6.1830 tea M(ary) W S(helley)'s, w. Doyle, 2 Bulwers / 23.7.1831 Bulwer's, w. sir J Doyle

John Doyle DNB 1756-1834. First at tea with his niece Anna Doyle Wheeler (qv), then with Bulwer who had married A D Wheeler's daughter Rosina in 1827


Doyley, John

sir Jno Doyley 6.7.1800 (calls at Curran's?). In Godwin's 1796 list for 1800

Sir John Radley D'Oyley Hist of Parl 1754-1818 6th baronet, MP for Ipswich, = 1780 Diana, widow of Wm Cote of Calcutta, dau of Wm Rochfort bro of Robert Rochfort 1st Earl of Belvedere. Out of English parliament 1796, returned to India 1803 after wife's death. (A Lt Genl D'Oyley = Dec 1802 miss Thomas sau of late Dean of Ely)


Drake

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION:  Capt Drake of Wells proposed 7.5.1790 by John Lockhart 2nded Hollis & Cooper

Francis son of Rev Francis Drake vicar of Seaton & Beer, Devon, & Elizabeth his wife born & bapt 22.4.1764, bapt publicly 15.6.1764 / Francis Drake rector of Uplyme and vicar of Seaton & Beer, son of Thomas Drake of Yardbury Esq by Dorothy his wife dau of William Palmer of Combrawleigh clerk. He married Elizabeth eldest dau of Charles Tudway of Wells, Esq (his will PCC 1770) and died 5.4.1769, bur 9.4.1769 Colyton/ Francis Drake = St Marylebone 19…


Draper

20.1.1796 at Mary Hays' with Draper & Brown / 31.3.1809 dine at Hume's with Draper / 21.12.1813 at Maldon, Essex, Day breakfasts, adv Draper / 22.12.1813 again

According to Marilyn Brooks, The Correspondence of Mary Hays, Godwin met Hugh Draper again at Mary Hays but she gives no more information on him. Can she mean Henry Draper elected lecturer at St George the Martyr Southwark 15.3.1796 resigned March 1808, who would have been a neighbouring preacher to Brown if he was Mary Hays' pastor Michael Brown (see Brown)? Catherine bapt 15.10.1794 & Henry bapt 25.1.1801 children…


Draper, William

TS 11/963 examination 22.5.1794 of Frederick Polydore Nodder, for whose spy reports on LCS in April & May 1794 see Thale. Mentioned William Draper who lived somewhere in Clerkenwell and was preacher at London Wall, Draper also mentioned in Hayward's examination 27.5.1794. No other evidence that Draper was sympathetic to reform or the LCS.

Lloyds Evening Post 21.3.1791. Rev W Draper, Sunday afternoon lecturer of All Hallows Londom Wall, of 5, Bowling Green Lane, Clerkenwell. Wife and 9 children, £40 lectureship, classical and mathematical tuition. late curate of New Church…