A-Z of Entries

Hesse 13.1.1804 at Foulkes's

Possibles

Obadiah Legrew bapt 22.8.1781 Wheeler Chapel Spialfields of Obadiah, weaver of Steward st, Old Artillery Ground & Martha, admitted Inner Temple 12.1.1792 changed surname (Whitehall Evening Post 12.7.1794) to that of his grandfather Solomon Hesse (will PCC 1795 weaver of Norton Folgate). His will PCC 1837 dated 29.4.1834 mentioned his wife Margaret (nee Brooks?) and by a codicil dtaed 20.4.1835 he annulled a legacy to Mrs Josette Hughes because she had married an MP De Lacy Evans whose political principles he thought subversive

16.11.1809 call on Taylor & Hessey / 12.6.1819 call on Hessey / 16.10.1825 sup at Lamb's; adv. Hessey

John Taylor & James Augustus Hessey booksellers 93 Fleet-st 1806 to 1825 (bbti). Published Keats. Hessey was father of James Augustus Hessey DNB 1814-1892. John Taylor died 1853 (bbti).

16.9.1806 Curran & Hetherington call

No clear identification. The only instance of this name in Godwin's diary. The format above does not mean he called with Curran, though he may have done. Andrew Hetherington & John Mackie wholesale perfumers of 40 Drury Lane went bankrupt and dissolved their partnership in October 1806. An Andrew Hetherington was buried 2.3.1814 at St James Westminster age 35 from Cumberland St, St Pancras. A William Hetherington of 31 Skinner's St, Somers Town was one of the spectators crushed to death at the Old Bailey in the crowd witnessing a hanging…

30.11.1793 Hewardine at Wrights and 11.7.1794 at Mrs Jennings and 2.5.1797 at King's, with Swainson. In Godwin's 1796 list (crossed out) for 1793 and in 1794 version.

William Hewardine 1763-99 songwriter (Highfill, Burnim & Langhans). His song satirising patriots in Public Advertiser 24.5.1792. He often sang at Anacreontic Society with Dignum who was at Wrights with him in 1793. He was often anti-radical and sang at Hood's election dinners but according to Pryse Lockhart Gordon's Personal Memoirs (vol 1 p249, 262 vol 2 p 372-4) he did this only for money and was a 'double-tailed…

dr Hewit & son 7.2.1805 at Wake's

The only medical doctor Hewitts I found were Thomas who died 1794 and Cornwallis who only got his MD in 1822. There were several surgeons, but this was more probably Alexander Hewat DNB 1738/9?-1824? who began his career as a minister in South Carolina came to London in 1777. in 1797 his sermon The Obligations of Christians to Avoid War was published. He married  Mrs Eliza Barksdale at St Marylebone on 16.9.1798, and she died in 1814. His will PCC 1824 Alexander Hewat DD of Gt Quebec St Marylebone mentioned no children

27.9.1788

In Godwin's 1796 list for 1788 (crossed out) and in 1794 version. GD website has a person record for him but the 1796 list entry is not coded to it.

John Hewlett DNB 1762-1844. The DNB states that he ran a school at Shackleford, Surrey. As he appeared in newspapers (e.g. Times 18.1.1800) as keeping a school in Shacklewell this looks like DNB's mistake rather than Godwin's. Shacklewell was near Hackney, Middlesex. The GD website event tag wrongly states reference unclear on 27.9.1788 T.C. goes to Shacklewell, when it is explained in John Hewlett's person record. The…

Hewson 22.8.1797 at Joseph Johnson's

see Hay

In Godwin's 1796 list for 1785, also in 1794 version. There is a person record on GD website but this 1796 list entry is not coded to it

Samuel Heywood DNB 1753-1828

meet E Hick 15.2.1805

See work notes below

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

John Hickey 47 Poland St ratebooks 1784-6 / DNB 1751-95 statuary = 1794 St James Ann Mack / his will dated 12.1.1795 mentioned brother Thomas Hickey portrait painter brother Isaac Hickey sister Ann Daly of Ormond Quay Dublin friend Henry Webber modeller of Lisson Grove witness sister Mary Hickey. "Mr Taylor of Hatton Garden put a masque Forest of Dodona to managers of Covent Garden" Mrs Henley otherwise Mary Mc Daniel of 6 Little St Martins Lane

Higgins 25.7.1800 at Hamilton's

GD website has coded this entry to Godfrey Higgins DNB 1773-1833 but I couldn't see any Irish connection for this Yorkshire squire. Perhaps Francis Higgins DNB 1746-1802 owner of Freeman's Journal, Dublin & informer, or William Higgins DNB 1763?-1825 chemist, in Dublin from 1791. Subscrs 1798 to D E O'Conor Matthew H missionary Limavaddy co. Derry, Dr H, Frankford, Kings Co. / Godfrey H of Higginsbrook, Derry = Oct 1808 Eliza dau of James Hamilton of Lurgan Louth (note venue on 25.7.1900 though GD website has coded this perhaps correctly to the…

18.11.1809 call on Highley

In a string of calls on booksellers so probably Samuel Highley medical bookseller 24 Fleet-st (bbti)

Hills 30.12.1800 adv at M(arshall)'s / E Hill jr 6.1.1801 at M(arshall)'s, adv H Hill / 24.7.1801 E Hill's bill / 6.8.1801 E Hill dines (& Lambs) / 20.11.1801 E Hill calls / 15.9.1803 C & E Hills adv at L Knapp /  27.4.1807 E Hill adv at dinner / 23.9.1823 call on H Hill / 1.3.1827 M Hill at Hodget's

Thomas Holcroft's letters from Germany to Godwin of 24.10.1800 (Bodleian Abinger c6 f60-1) and 24.11.1800 (Abinger c6 f78-9) referred to a Mr Henry Hill who appears to have been the pretended author of a theatrical piece for which Holcroft was trying to negotiate payment from…

Hill's study 30.9.1801 / 1.10.1801 Fillingham's study

These entries surely referred to Thomas Hill DNB 1760-1840 and his friend William Fillingham, but the GD website has left Hill as inidentified, and coded Fillingham to te 1301, an unidentified text, although it has a person record for both of them. As they were both book collectors, study may have referred to rooms in their houses, but more probably to amateur sketches of Godwin, the sort of fun they might have enjoyed

call on Luntley & Hill, PS 5.12.1804 / 22.12.1804 call on Luntley & mrs Hill / 31.12.1804 call on Batty, mrs Hill, Luntley / 5.1.1805 call on Luntley, mrs Hill / 12.1.1805 call on Luntley, Brookes & mrs Hill / 24.1.1805 call on Luntley, mrs Hill, Batty

Luntley (qv) was a surveyor at 62 Shoreditch, not far from Primrose Street where Godwin was managing property for the sisters of his first wife Mary Wollstonecraft. A James Hill and a Samuel Brooks (qv) both appeared in the ratebooks for Primrose St in 1803 and 1806, though as far as I can tell neither was a tenant of the…

Hinckes's 18.7.1800 at Drennan's

see Hinkley

15.3.1790 Hindmarsh's benefit.

John Hindmarsh violinist (Highfill, Burnim & Langhans c1759-1796). of Vauxhall House, Hampstead Common. Mrs H late miss Williams soprano 1794 (Doane's)

2.2.1795 Hinkley at Thelwal's / 28.3.1795 Hinckley at Adams's / 14.8.1795 Hinckley calls / 22.4.1797 again / 1.5.1797 again / 26.6.1797 meet Hinkley / 5.9.1810 Hinckley at Aldis's / 4.3.1811 again / 9.7.1811 again

Henry Hinckley 1759-1817 and John Hinckley 1765-1814 were sons of Henry Hinckley (d.1779) physician to Guy's Hospital. They became merchants and insurance brokers, and in 1789 were partners with John Dyer Collier 1762-1825 in Leeds. In 1807 they were both on the Committee of the Surrey Institution. In 1813 Henry was a steward of the Royal Lancasterian Society dinner. John…