A-Z of Entries

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) about Mrs…

Charles Hamilton of Bath proposed Society of Constitutional Information 21.6.1782 by John Jebb 2nded Edward Bridgen

Fairly clearly not the Hon Charles Hamilton of Bath (History of Parliament 1704-86) whose politics would have had to change in his last years and whose Honourable title would probably have been used by the Society. SunFire 1782 Charles Hamilton Esq, Bath. General Evening Post 18.3.1780 Gumbleton Esq married Tuesday at Queen Sq Chapel, Bath, Miss Hamilton dau of Charles Hamilton Esq of Bath. Morning Post 4.3.1783 pictures belonging to Charles Hamilton Esq deceased for…

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 Critical…

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…

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

Robert Hamilton ratebooks 9 Poland St 1781 / three subsequent tenants of 9 Poland St were upholders or cabinet makers, essentially the same trade making and auctioning furniture so this may have ben the Robert Hamilton = St James 23.3.1761 Ann Davidson botp by banns wits Alexr Davidson, Robt Forbes / Margaret dau of Robt & Ann Hamilton born Silver St, St James bapt 18.5.1770 / George sof Robt & Ann Hamilton born Brewer St, St James bapt 23.8.1772 / Robert Hamilton cabinet maker Brewer St voted Percy &…

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 Robert…

HCR diary 1.1.1820 tea at Aders "I was glad to be withdrawn for a time from the melancholy subject"

                 23.5.1820 Hamond's view of Crabb Robinson "kindhearted, gay, ingenious, animated, well read man with a good taste in morals & poetry but he is as far from being an interesting man as Joe Rolley who was called so by Pollock. His manners are too coarse - he has too little ambition, too much vanity & garrulity"

Elton Hamond (1784-1820) shot himself at midnight as the new year 1820 began, and made Crabb Robinson his executor, hence Robinson got to read his…

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 333…

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

Derby Mercury 25.4.1793 Mr Hannam attorney Poland St bankrupt / Richard Hannam & William Stacey Law List 1794-1800 61 Poland St attorneys / Middlesex Sessions Aug 1793 Richard Hannam of Poland St Soho witness to signature / Richard son of Richard & Elizabeth Hannam bapt 24.2.1760 St James / Richard son of Richard Hannam & Ann bapt 10.8.1793 St James

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…

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

Francis Hanrott 5 Poland St ratebooks 1777 / Francis Hanrott gent Poland St voted 1774 Percy & Clinton / Morning Post 12.4.1777 ad for house in Blackheath, Mr Hanrott in Poland St / SunFire 1780 Francis Hanrott gent 1 Laurence Pountney Hill / Gazetteer 2.3.1785 F.G. Hanrott steward of Middlesex Dispensary / will PCC of Francis Hanrott of Hale End Essex gent dated 24.2.1783 mentioned wife Elizabeth, son Philip (other children provided for) sworn to by his sons Francis Gastry Hanrott of Brunswick Sq, St Pancras…

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)
 

16.11.1794 mrs Hanson adv (& Powel) at Foulkes'.

4.12.1796 Hanways at mrs Robinson's / 11.12.1796 mrs Hanway at mrs Robinson's / 22.1.1797 mes Hanway, Hays & Wt at mrs Robinson's / 2.4.1797 Hanways at mrs Robinson's / 29.11.1797 Hanway at theatre / 21.2.1799 meet M E Robinson, M Hanway / 15.11.1799 seek M Robinson at Hanway's / 15.12.1799 call on Hanway

Mary Ann Vergy sp otp = Hanway Hanway otp bach by lic 26.5.1788 St Marylebone, Mary Ann Hanway of Michaels Place age 60 bur St Mary Abbots Kensington 10.9.1817. Mrs Hanway was a moderately successful novelist. Her portrait by J Cranke was exhibited at the Royal Academy 1799.…

HCR diary 24.11.1821 party at Aders "Also a Mr Harcour (or some idem sonam) who is said to sing well and has a modest and sensible air"

                    29.11.1822 at Aders "Mrs Harcourt a niece of Aders was just arrived - a very plain woman but she looks amiable and Mrs A: says she is accomplished"

Auguste, eldest daughter of Johann Jakob Aders (1768-1825) older brother of Charles Aders, and his wife Anna Helena (d 1844) daughter of Johann Heinrich Brinck (1748-1817) banker. They were married 20.5.1793 and Auguste was born in 1794. She married on16.4.1819 Karl Friedrich…

Hardcastle 8.1.1797 at John King's

Maybe the attorney John Hardcastle, 1787 with Michael Hodgson over the Crown Office, Kings Bench Walk, Temple, 1800 at 7 Lincolns Inn New Sq, Morning Chronicle 2.3.1801 advert for creditors of his estate. In 1797 Law List there was also an attorney James Hardcastle of 21 Dean St Soho. In Godwin diary after Dennet who was also likely an attorney

See also Joseph Hardcastle DNB 1752-1819 his will PCC 1819, he married 1785 Anne dau of John Corsbie (see Barnard)

Harding 4.7.1795 at Morley's (with Eyre)

James Eyre married Charlotte Harding bapt 1762 Solihull dau of Judd H surgeon & his wife Elizabeth (nee Hunt marr at Stafford 1753). This may be one of at least 4 of her brothers. Judd Harding surgeon of Tamworth will PCC 1780.

William H bapt Tamworth 1759 s of Judd & Eliz, in 1793 Joseph H of Solihull was trustee for William H late of Calcutta now of Hampton Lucy, so living in Morley's village. 1791 Wm H attorney of Solihull. His will PCC 1822 Alveston, wife Harriet, son Wm Judd H in India, eldest bro Joseph, bro Judd, sons…

18.11.1809 call on Hardinge

In a string of calls on booksellers and directly after Triphook bookseller in St James-st, this was probably John Harding bookseller 36 St James-st (bbti)