A-Z of Entries

8.10.1806 call on Curran (talk of H S) / 25.10.1807 Curran calls, talk of C M



John Philpot Curran (DNB 1750-1817) seems to have had a number of mistresses in his life, see my entries for Hughes, Maria, for Dixon (mrs Dixon) and for W Place (mrs Fitzgerald). Godwin sometimes used initials for convenience, but particularly for children, and also for women, perhaps especially when mentioning their name was a socially delicate matter. They could also have been abbreviations for some politically sensitive subject. For possible identity of C M, see Mercier, Charlotte. Godwin…

H, C, M & M Moore call 28.12.1794.

H C and M are presumably Holcroft, Cooper and Marshall rather than Matthew Moore's family

 

Hadfield, Drury Lane 15.5.1800 in red ink

Covered by event tag in GD website but underlined as if unidentified. Godwin added news events in red ink

BONNEY DIARY 17.5.1794 / 18.5.1794 / 19.5.1794 / 20.5.1794 / 29.5.1794 / 2.6.1794 / 3.6.1794 / 4.6.1794 / 8.10.1794 / 9.10.1794 / 11.10.1794 / 13.10.1794 / 14.10.1794 / 15.10.1794 / 18.10.1794 / 22.10.1794 / 23.10.1794 / 29.10.1794 / 30.10.1794 / 31.10.1794 / 1.11.1794 / 6.11.1794 / 7.11.1794

GODWIN DIARY Hague 27.2.1803 at Horne Tooke's, & return with him

Thomas Hague was articled to John Augustus Bonney on 7.6.1788 for 5 years at a small premium of 5/-. Bonney had married Hague's sister Mary (a widow Mrs Johnson) at St Pancras 23.9.1787. Thomas Hague married Hellen…

miss Haines 7.11.1802 at Foulkes / 21.1.1803 at Nicholson's

There were a series of reciprocal dinners with the Holcrofts, the Raphael Smiths, the Nicholsons,. . Foulkes, Wolcot and Godwin (see Smith, John Raphael). Miss Haines was noted on two of those occasions. See work notes below

Halhed 17.2.1794 at Parr's.

Nathaniel Halhed DNB 1751-1830



 

mrs Halker 27.3.1798 adv at Chandler's with miss Valpy

Though easily confused with the commoner name Hasker in newsprint fonts of the time, and with Walker in handwriting, Godwin seems to have written Halker, and the name did exist. She may have been governess or chaperone to miss Valpy.

Will PCC 1781 Charles Halker of Bethnal Green gent, will PCC 1786 Ann Halker of Bethnal Green wife mentioned her husband's sister-in-law Mary Halker / Elizabeth Halker age 36 of St Pancras, noncomformist burial 14.4.1822 Clerkenwell /  Mrs Halker buried 26.1.1845 Enfield /  Thomas…

Hall 3.2.1794 at  Mackintosh's (with Parr). In Godwin's 1796 list for 1794 inserted above next to Losh & Tweddel who Godwin also met that day at Mackintosh's. Tweddel was in 1794 version of 1796 list but not Losh or Hall./ 6.10.1794 Hall at Parr's, Hatton (nr Warwick) / 10.10.1794 again / 20.11.1795 call on Robinson, Perry & Debrett; see Hall sec / 4.2.1796 Hall at theatre / 13.2.1797 Hall at Aldis' / 4.8.1800 Hall at Carlow, Ireland  / 31.12.1800 miss Hall at Mary Robinson's funeral, Old Windsor  / 30.4.1805 M(ary) J(ane) at Chiswick  / 9.6.1805 call with…

Hall 4.8.1800 at Burne's, Carlow

18.11.1809 call on Hamilton

Coded on GD website to Samuel Hamilton printer. After the fire at his works in 1803 he seems to have moved to Shoe-lane in 1805 but by 1809 he had probably moved to Weybridge, and this call is in a string of calls on booksellers, so was probably Thomas Hamilton bookseller 37 Paternoster-row or less likely Alexander Hamilton bookseller 14 & 15 Temple-pl Blackfriars-rd

7.11.1788 Archd. This must be Archibald Hamilton, either son or grandson of Archibald Hamilton (see his Person Record in GD website)

Also probably 9.9.1795 call on A H / 15.2.96 call on A Hn

 

17.7.1795 tea at Amelia Alderson's with John Walker & Capt Hamilton. adv  Dyer. Miss Alderson was perhaps staying with the Batty's but Godwin didn't mention them. An unmarried lady having four random gentlemen to tea was perhaps a bold and unusual event.

There were 3 naval captains at the time, Sir Charles Hamilton DNB 1767-1849, Charles Powell Hamilton and Thomas Hamilton; and plenty more in the Army. Boyle's 1794 had a Col H at 15 James St Westminster and another at 35 Gt Marlborough St. A letter of 1804 from a Capt Hamilton to Sir William Windham Dalling (1175-1864)…

16.4.1796 Hamilton, Blake, Christal, mrs Gregory & dr Crawford at miss Hayes / 12.11.1796 miss Hamilton at Hayes's

Elizabeth Hamilton DNB 1756-1815 and see Correspondence of Mary Hays p312. A friend of Mary Hays who fell out with her over the review of her first major work in the Analytical Review of October 1796 supposedly written by Hays. Godwin often dropped the miss or mrs for women, particularly authors. But the plain Hamilton on 16.4.1796 might also be the S Hamilton who according to Correspondence of Mary Hays p299 was assisting Dr George Gregory as editor of the…

H. senr 24.6.1804 at H Rowan's / 10.8.1804 H Rowan & father call / 2.9.1804 father at H Rowan's / 14.9.1804 H Rowan & father call

Gawen Hamilton father of Archibald Hamilton Rowan DNB 1751-1834 who died 9.4.1805. See letter Bodleian Abinger b4 f102-3

miss Hamilton 9.8.1800 at La Moira's (in Ireland) / 25.10.1803 miss Hamiltons at H Rowan's / 4.11.1803 miss Hamilton & Rowans dine / 7.11.1803 miss Hamiltons at H Rowan's / 14.1.1805 adv A Hamilton at Rowan's / 19.5.1805 miss Hamilton at H Rowan's / 16.6.1805 mrs Rowan, mrs Beresford & miss Hamilton call / 20.6.1805 mrs H Rowan, mrs Beresford & 2, miss Hamilton, Plowdens & Northcote at tea

Archibald Hamilton Rowan DNB 1751-1834 was born Archibald Hamilton and obliged to adopt the surname Rowan in order to receive an inheritance though his son appears to have reverted…

28.2.1794 dr Hamilton at Bell's / 9.5.1804 dr Hamilton at Joseph Johnson's / 21.9.1804 Curran & Hamilton (son ami) call / 27.9.1804 dr Hamilton at Hamilton Rowan's with Bell / 4.2.1808 Hamilton jr at Hawthorn with 2 Beresfords

William Hamilton born 1758 Strabane co. Tyrone, elected physician to London hospital 1787, Physician to Surrey Dispensary resigned by 1806 (Morning Post 27.2.1806), died 22.5.1807 of Old Broad St (Monk's Roll). Haven't found any will of his. The Hamilton, friend of Curran's, of 1804 seems likely to have been a different person, Godwin having already noted…

Hammond 20.12.1797 adv at Reveley's  / 5.1.1798 again  / 20.4.1798 Lister's, New Inn / 5.5.1798 adv at Lister's

These entries may have all referred to one person but there is nothing to link the first two at Reveley's with the next two at (Samuel) Lister's. At the latter the company was mostly attorneys (Lister, Lawson, [Richard] Wordsworth, Jos[hua Lucock] Wilkinson) so Hammond may have been Richard Hammond attorney of Gt James St, Bedford Row (with William Whitton) Law List 1800. A Richard Hammond son of John Hammond of Great Marlow, Bucks was articled 17.12.1785 to…

4.1.1808 call on Hankey

This name only appears this once in Godwin Diary. The Hankeys were a major banking family in the City of London, providing several Lord Mayors. The main members still alive in 1808 were Robert (will PCC 1815), his son Augustus Robert (will PCC 1830) and his nephews Frederick and Thomson (both wills PCC 1855), William Alers who went bankrupt as a West India broker in 1831 and John Barnard. The main  bank was in Fenchurch Street. There were also less grand shopkeepers: Thomas Hankey dealer in sticks 15 Marylebone St 1784, orange merchant and cane dealer…

11.8.1810 Guildhall; Tabart, Hannam &c / 20.8.1810 Examination of sir R(ichard) P(hillips); adv. Hannam &c / 21.8.1810 Guildhall; Tabart, Hannam &c / 9.10.1810 Baptist's Head; Tabart, Hannam &c / 12.10.1810 call on Hannam (not seen) / 5.2.1811 theatre; adv. Hannam / 1.6.1811 Hannam's clerk calls

William Hannam solicitor & general agent, for the West India islands, & actuary to the masonic society, Piazza Chambers, Covent-gdn (Holdens directory 1811) was the attorney dealing with Benjamin Tabart's bankruptcy. From the same attendees we can deduce that the…

miss Hansard 16.10.1800 at tea at Godwin's with H G and Forsyth / 26.11.1800 at tea at Godwin's with H G / 17.10.1802 dines at Godwin's with H G and Forsyth.

Ann Hansard was bound to Hannah Godwin on 26.11.99 (IR1/38)