A-Z of Entries

Housselaer 26.4.1795 at King's, 21.9.1795 there, 19.10.1795 adv at theatre, 9.11.1795 at King's, 3.12.1795 there

This was quite likely Godwin's mis-spelling of Haussoullier (sometimes spelt Haussoulier). See work notes below for similar names from the Low Countries, perhaps this was a French variant. At any rate Haussoulier was a very interesting character and a likely guest at John King's table. Notes & Queries Jan to June 1863 p 91 gave no sources but the facts check out well with records, saying he was a French Jew and fortune-hunter who married the wrong lady by mistake. The…

5.6.1795 Hovels at Foulkes' & 29.1.1796 & 4.2.1796 & 29.4.1800 & 13.1.1804 all at Foulkes'

James Hovell attorney Downham Market 1786, admitted Inner Temple 9.11.1792, 26 Bedford Row & 33 Essex St 1797 Sun F, member of Whig Club 6.2.1798, special pleader 1800 Law List, died 4.7.1805 at his brother's house in Cambridge, will PCC 1807 of Chesterton, Cambs

John H saddler Trumpington St Cambridge 1784, subscr to Robt Robinson's Eccles Res 1792, Thomas H of Cambridge will PCC 1837

Thos H of Doctors Commons 1807 clerk to Crespigny & Green for over 26…

GODWIN DIARY 10.05.1794 Howard at Jennings'

BONNEY DIARY 17.5.1794 Howard / 19.5.1794  I.T. Howard / 15.10.1794 Hague wrote to Howard / 27.10.1794 wrote to T Howard / 6.11.1794 wrote to Howard, he came / 11.11.1794 Howard / 15.11.1794 Howard / 21.11.1794 Perused Dt from Howard to W Johnson

Henry Howard DNB 1757-1842 campaigner for Catholic emancipation / Henry Howard & B.E.Howard signed declaration of Friends to Liberty of Press 1792 / Law List 1794 attorneys David H 27 Jewry St Aldgate, Thomas H 40 Carey St Chancery La, Henry H Jamaica Row nr Salisbury St, Strand, John…

In Godwins 1796 list for 1777, in 1794 version under 1778 and then changed to 1777.

John Howe DNB 1754-1804 eccentric. In Godwin's autobiographical notes (Bodleian Library microfilm Duke MF 1975) he wrote "Lowestoft - Howe - painful solitude". According to the DNB Howe moved from Wiltshire to Ipswich in 1776.

23.6.1795 Howel at Parr's Hatton & 29.6.1795 at his & 2.7.1795 at Lambe's

Rev James Howell of St Mary Warwick bach = 22.3.1783 St Andrew Holborn by lic Ann Roe otp sp wits Saml Roe, Rd Perry

St James Chronicle 31.1.1784 Rev James Howell BA preferred to Rectory of Clutton Somerset on presentation of Earl of Warwick

1792 voted Villiers (pro govt) in Warwick

will PCC 1813 James Howell rector of Clutton, wife Ann, son Thomas, daus Mary Ann, harriet & Jane, brother Thomas Doctor of Physic of Dolphin House Glasebury Brecknock, brother-in-law James Lewis…

Howes resident 23.6.1795 at Parr's, Hatton & 24.6.1795 ride to Warwick with miss Parr & 27.6.1795 at Lord Dormer's & 28.6.1795 departs

Francis Howes DNB 1776-1844 educated Norwich grammar school under Parr, matric Trinity Cambridge 1794, BA 1798, Thomas Howes DNB 1728-1814 cousin of Francis H met Parr at Norwich. As 'resident' at Hatton, likely to be Parr's pupil/assistant

12.12.1793 call on Mrs Hoy.

Richard Hoy honey merchant of Piccadilly voted for Tooke in 1790. Morning Post 26.10.1804 mentioned Mrs Hoy at her honeyshop 175 Piccadilly. Morning Post 28.11.1815 died at her son's house Walthamstow Mrs Hoy aged 87. Hoy was also the name of the manager of the Worcester theatre (Derby Mercury 15.9.1803)

19.2.1794 calls on Godwin / 23.2.1794 tea at his  (adv Vincent & Nichol) / 5.3.1794 adv at Marshall's / 19.3.1794 calls / 23.3.1794 dine at his, (with Drury; adv Nugent, Vincent, Sweeting & Cabbel; talk of practical virtue) / 23.7.1794 tea with Marshall at his / 6.8.1794 calls / 13.8.1794 call on / 15.8.1794 dine at his with Marshall / 24.9.1794 calls / 3.10.1794 dine at his, adv Iliffs / 16.10.1794 dine at his, adv Marshall / 21.10.1794 sup with Agar, Powell & Hubbard after Philomaths / 24.10.1794 sup at his / 17.1.1795 at tea at Powell's with Iliff & many / 31.1.1795 tea…

Hudson calls 28.9.1783 (& Gerald) / 29.9.1803 Hudson Gurney at Alderson's / 28.2.1804 rev Hudson (on coach from Brighton to London) / 16.1.1808 Hudson calls / 21.1.1808 again / 26.1.1808 again

All the above entries (except the rev Hudson 1804) are coded on the GD website to John Corrie Hudson, although the editorial notes on his person record say that they shouldn't be. The second entry should obviously be coded to the person record of Hudson Gurney. The three 1808 entries may have referred to Joseph Hudson copperplate printer of 13 China Row Lambeth (Holdens 1805) or possibly…

1.2.1808 Advertisement, shopman; Hughes &c. / 12.10.1816 coach, w. Hughes (Bath to London) / 3.12.1818 call on Hughes / 17.12.1824 meet, at Keane's, Hughes / 18.9.1827 meet Hughes, Maidstone

Only the last of these five probably different randoms gives any clue. PCC wills for Hughes of Maidstone: Thomas, farmer 1842 / James, milkman 1843 / Charles, gentleman 1848 / William, confectioner 1849

M Hughes 5.7.1800 talk of at Curran's / 4.10.1805 call with Curran on Dawe & Pope; adv Hutchins & mrs Waring: Curran & Hutchins call / 17.9.1806 meet Curran & Waring's / 20.10.1806 Warings at Curran's / 20.10.1807 Curran (& Warings) adv at theatre / 19.4.1810 Hutchins & Waring at Curran's / 29.11.1816 Curran & Waring jr at Meyler's / 4.3.1817 Meyler & Waring jr at Curran's / 5.5.1819 Scott Waring dies

Maria Hughes 1761-1812 Irish actress in Joseph George Holman 1764-1817 (Highfill, Burnim & Langhans). She had children by Holman and claimed to be…

31.7.1795 general Hull at John Frank Newton's

There were no generals named Hull in the British forces at that time but the American general William Hull 1753-1825 (American National Biography) according to one report visited Europe about then. He lived at Newton, Massachusetts where he built a brewery in 1799 run by an English brewer, Newton the town may have had connections with John Frank Newton'sfamily. Another American general was at Newton's on 30.12.1795 (see Marshall, John)

Hume 3.8.1800 at (Castle) Brown's

GD website has coded this to Joseph Hume DNB 1767-1844 but there's no reason to think he was in Ireland in 1800. Perhaps Gustavus Hume Dict Irish Biog 1732-1812 surgeon or his sons Thomas MD 1769-1850, Arthur, Gustavus & Travers. Sub 1798 to D R O'Conor Travers Hume DD Glebe Hill, Ardee, co. Louth. Rev Travers Hume = Oct 1787 Miss Balaguirere in Merrion Sq Dublin / Dublin Trades 1797 Arthur Hume agent Dublin Castle

Joseph Hume DNB 1767-1844. Mentioned 540 times in Godwin's diary, only exceeded by Godwin's second wife, his two children, James Marshall, Thomas Holcroft, Charles Lamb, Thomas Turner, David Booth and John Fenwick. The DNB knows very little about him and most of their article concerns a practical joke he and Lamb played on William Hazlitt. He was born 9.4.1764 in Bishopsgate Street, London son of John Hume and Sarah Weatherly, who had been married on 14.3.1758 at St Augustine Watling St, London as bachelor and spinster. The births of their three children John, Ann and Joseph were…

Humphreys 3.3.1800 at Northcote's / 28.4.1800 Humfries at RA exhibition (GD website has transcribed it wrongly as Humfires) / 20.9.1801 Humphreys at H Tooke's / 29.11.1801 Humphreys's at H Tooke's / 28.2.1802 Humphries at H Tooke's / 15.4.1804 again / 13.12.1804 call on Humfries / 18.5.1806 Humphries at Tooke's / 3.1.1807 Humphries at Northcote's / 13.10.1834 meet Humphries / 26.11.1834 call on Humphries

James Humphreys DNB 1768-1830 said in DNB to have been a friend of Horne Tooke, was perhaps all 5 entries at Tooke's, despite a change of spelling, and may have also been the two at…

18.1.1792 Huniades.

John Huniades was a Hungarian general who defeated the Turks and died in 1456. Godwin mentioned him in St Leon. By the time he wrote St Leon he was reading the 12 volume 1797 edition of Gibbon's Decline and Fall (te0884) but Gibbon was the most likely source of information on Huniades so he may have referred to an earlier edition at this point
 

Arabella Hunt 30.1.1799 at Ralph Fell's

mrs Hunt 6.4.1797 at mrs Inchbald's

Possibly Catherine wife of Capt Hunt (see Hunt, Nehemiah Augustus)

capt Hunt 24.2.1797 adv at Northcote's

Farington's diary v X p3584 (1809) Captain Hunt formerly in Marines, landscape artist, lived Ridgway, Devon, now has military office in Plymouth, Exhibited RA 1789, 1805, 1811. His will PCC 1818 Nehemiah Augustus Hunt of Plympton St Mary. (in context at the artist James Northcote's)

17.9.1794 Hunters at Hazlitt's & 10.12.1794 at Thelwals with Hazlits, 15.12.1794 Hunter at Hazlits, 31.1.1795 at Powels. The brothers Archibald & Joseph Hunter both signed the Declaration of the Friends to the Liberty of the Press 1792 and both joined the London Corresponding Socy (see Thale; and Trials for Treason & Sedition vols 4 & 5). Archibald was a witness at Thomas Hardy's trial. He was in Hardy's division of the LCS and said he was introduced to it by his brother Joseph. He lived in Greek Street with his wife Sarah and voted for Fox in 1796. Joseph was a perfumer/…