A-Z of Entries

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…

Christopher Hull Esq of the Temple proposed Society for Constitutional Information 8.7.1791 by Arthur Onslow 2nded Richard Sharp

Christopher Hull was articled as an attorney to his uncle Christopher Hull in 1767. His uncle died (Public Advertiser 17.8.1790) age 72 at his house in Foots Cray, his will PCC 16.8.1790 dated 17.2.1785 gent of Inner Temple and (Lampert?) in parish Footscray Kent, mentioned nephews John & Christopher Hull and niece Elizabeth wife of John Wallace. On Inner Temple Admissions database there are two Christopher Hull entries one on 20.11.1764 and one on 20.…

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…

See Autobiography of Francis Place, ed. Mary Thale p96, 100. (where Place met his wife)

Thomas Hummerston Cooks Co. took appr Thos Webb 1744
James Hummerston son of James Hummerstone of Lothbury, London, silk dyer appr to Thos Webb Cooks Co 13.2.1766
William Dunn Hummerston appr to Geo Grace Goldsmiths Co 24.12.1776
SunFire 1777 James Hummerston pastrycook Fleet St
Will of Thomas Hummerston of Wormley, Herts, citizen of London dated 28.8.1777 proved PCC 31.12.1777 execs friend Thomas Lindsay cook and brother James Hummerston, mentioned nephews James…

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…

HCR diary 21.6.1819  "I strolled out at 9 - Hundleby was not at home"

John Alliston (QV*) & George Hundleby attorneys 2 Freeman's Court, Cornhill (Law List 1825). Articled 1805 to Nathan Atherton, his will PCC 1830 of Herne Hill, Surrey, wife Emily (nee Curtis). Jacksons Oxford Journal 22.12.1832 at Brixton, W Tite Esq of St Helens Place married to Emily, widow of George Hundleby Esq

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
 

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

William Hunneman SunFire 1783 limner 8 Poland St / ad 1791 Hunneman friend of J F A Gottling and pupil of Messrs Klaproth and Harmbstaedt of Berlin / Hunneman exhibited at the Royal Academy every year from 1776 to 1787 except 1784 and none of his addresses listed in Graves were Poland St / Christopher William Hunneman SunFire 1792  gent 59 Frith St / Christopher William Hunneman will PCC 1793 portrait & miniature painter Soho mentioned his wife Sarah Ann (who was buried St Ann Soho 20.1.1816 age 50) / their…

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/…

16.3.1789 Hunter at Miss Williams' and 11.3.1791 (where it is wrongly coded to her husband John) as the 'Mes' makes it clear it was female both times. Anne Hunter DNB 1742/3-1821. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1791 and in the 1794 version as mrs J Hunter, which suggests that the 1789 entry might have been her daughter Agnes. The 1796 list entry has not been coded to her person record on the GD website

dr Hunter 20.3.1798 at (Joseph) Johnson's / 22.4.1798 Rd Hunter adv at Godwin's / 18.12.1798 Hunter at (Joseph) Johnson's / 6.8.1799 again / 1.4.1801 again / 28.12.1801 call on Hunter / 14.1.1806 Hunter adv at Godwin's

There are 5 entries in the DNB for Doctor Hunters in 1798, but Alexander H 1729?-1809, Andrew H 1744-1809 and John H 1745-1837 were more likely to have been found in their respective professional spheres of York, Edinburgh and St Andrews. John Hunter DNB 1754-1809 physician worked in London and the first edition of his Diseases of the Army in Jamaica had been…

6.7.1806 Mrs Hunter at Joseph Johnson's

Perhaps the wife of Joseph Johnson's step-nephew Rowland Hunter, or possibly Hunter's mother Elizabeth née Gaskell who died in 1815. Rowland Hunter bach = St Gregory by St Pauls 3.7.1802 Ann Bellworth wid of St James Westminster. Hunter was her third husband and probably ten or more years her junior. John Bellworth wid = St Geo Han Sq 3.12.1799 Ann Kent wid by lic. She had three children by her first husband Thomas Kent, the eldest of whom, Mary Ann, married the poet and essayist Leigh Hunt (DNB 1784-1959). According to the Leigh Hunt…

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: John Hurford gent of Albion Place proposed member 9.1.1784 by Henry Amory 2nded Joseph Towers

Lowndes directory 1782 listed William Hurford of Albion Place, Surrey, coal merchant. This was John Hurford's father William, coal merchant of Thames St who owned a wharf on the east side of Puddle Dock and was a member of the Barbers Company and a common councilman for Castle Baynard ward, generally a supporter of John Wilkes. He married firstly Ruth daughter of George and Hannah Cordwell, they had a son William born about 1741 who was drowned at…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

According to the plaque outside the Kings Arms 23 Poland St  Henry Hurle founded the Ancient Order of Druids there on 29.11.1781. I don't know of any contemporary record of this, it probably rests on a statement in a Druid magazine some years later but perhaps within living memory of the event. (see Ronald Hutton, Blood and Mistletoe p133). The publican would probably have been Alexander Warren who had married on 15.9.1781 Elizabeth, widow of the previous publican William Arthur who died in 1779. / Henry Hurle of St Luke = St…

miss Hurst 16.11.1794 at Foulkes'