A-Z of Entries

Kenyon 21.4.1794 at Thelwall's

17.7.1810 Kerr calls / 10.8.1810 Bradley v. Kerr / 13.8.1810 Kerr calls / 31.8.1815 meet Kerr / 13.4.1829 call on Kerr

21.12.1807 Advertisement, Shopman; Bradley, &c / 9.3.1812 Bradley absent

J Kerr bookseller Holborn-hill 1810 (bbti) / John Kerr schoolmaster 18 Little Wild-st (Holdens 1811). Bradley could have been Godwin's shopman from 1807 to 1812, like the Godwin's domestic servants who hardly get a mention in the diary. If so, Bradley v. Kerr might have referred to him

3.11.1807 call on Kerslake

Only instance of this name in Godwin's diary. Possibles:

Thomas Kerslake brewer 19 Marshal-st Carnaby-mkt SunFire 1783, voted Paull 1806 Holdens directory 1811
Thomas Kerslake coal merchant Brewer-st voted Paull 1806 (will PCC 5.3.1827 Thomas Kerslake of Marylebone perhaps one of these)
Kerslake tailor 16 Devonshire-st Queen-sq Holdens 1811
Mary Kerslake single woman vendor of medicines 46 Salisbury-sq (Old Bailey 2.7.1806)
John Kerslake victualler The Crown, Essex-st Strand (Old Bailey 10.1.1816)
James Kerslake…

meet Sarah Elwes & mrs Ketting 31.5.1800 / 26.3.1800 mrs Ketting at Sarah Elwes'

Perhaps a Dutch name

14.9.1796 mes(dames) Kettle & Lloyd at Foulkes'

Godwin used the mes to include married and unmarried ladies. The only other Kettle in his diary were 2 Kettles at his mother's funeral in Norfolk in 1809, unlikely to be the same person as this entry

Keylocks 13.4.1800 at Southgate's

see Southgate. John Keylock glass grinder 11 Hatton St 1785, looking glass manufactory 11 Hatton Garden 1790

Keys 8.4.1805 at Philips / 18.6.1805 again / 7.10.1805 Keys jr calls / 31.6.1806 Keys at Philips / 7.5.1807 again

see work notes below

Kilburn 13.2.1805 at Joseph Johnson's

Perhaps William Kilburn DNB 1745-1818 artist and calico printer, his will PCC 1819

Kilkenny 25.9.1800 at mrs Plunket's

Perhaps Edmund Butler 1771-1846 who married 1793 Mildred dau of Robert Fowler (DNB 1724-1801 archbishop of Dublin) and was created Earl of Kilkenny 1793, but he was said to have been insane by 1799. Mary Kilkenny widow of St Pancras will PCC 1843

Kimberley 31.12.1800 at Mary Robinson's funeral, Old Windsor

PCC wills William Kimberley of Windsor 1809 (mentioned sons William Lewin & Avery, grandsons George & James, nephews Thmas saddler of Windsor and his brother a cooper in London, Mrs Huguenin 33 Haymarket London, her brother John Kimberley late grocer of Windsor, Mrs Keppel, friends Stephen Kinsey & wife, Joseph Cutting & wife, 10 Bartletts Bldgs Holborn, Mr Charles March late of Salt Hill but now of Dover St, Piccadilly) Thomas Kimberley 1812 Avery Kimberley grocer of Windsor 1813 wife Judith. Possibly one…

1.12.1793 dine at Jennings with Holcroft & King / 22.4.1795 King at Holcroft's / 14.5.1796 tea Reveley's with Woodford & King / 21.9.1796 dine at Reveley's adv C King / 7.3.1797 3 Kings call / 30.4.1797 Opie & King call (not in) / 7.11.1797 dine at Reveley's with King & Lowrys / 13.12.1797 King at Aldis's / 3.5.1800 Bedford House adv C King / 16.10.1800 meet (Shd) King / 7.12.1804 meet Marshall, (J King) & Lamb / 11.9.1805 (from Ipswich) coal coach with King, Waterhouse, & capitaine / 17.2.1812 mrs King calls / 13.1.1814 seek King / 14.1.1814 call on King / 17.1.…

C King at Reveley's 21.9.1796 / 3.5.1800 C King at Bedford House

Could be Charlotte Byrne (nee King) DNB 1782?-1825 dau of John King, or his son Charles

19.4.1802 write to Geo King / 20.4.1802 again

Abinger c7 f115-20 has George King's letter to Godwin of 17.4.1802 from Liverpool and his two further letters of 21.4.1802 and 22.4.1802. He was clearly a son of John King DNB c1753-1824, perhaps by a Scotch woman (Mary Barbara Mackay?), and claimed to have had no education but reading and writing and to have spent 9 months in a school in Yorkshire where the pupils were put to farm work. He had got into debt in London, gone to sea and ruptured his groin. In the first letter he said his father had discarded him, but by the second he had…

19.12.1801 meet, at Fenwick's, Kingden, &c, £75

The surname spelt Kingden is virtually nonexistent, so this was probably Kingdon, common in Devon particularly, or Kingdom, less common. The only other amounts of money noted in Godwin's diary around this time were 4.9.1801 £30 to Ht (=Holcroft) and 11.12.1801 £262 (which had Ht beneath it in very small letters). Thomas Holcroft's letters to Godwin show that Godwin and James Marshall were looking after his financial affairs in London while he was in Europe. In his letter from Paris dated 1.1.1802 (Bodleian Abinger c7 f80-1) he…

7.1.1798 Kingslake at Holcrofts

Kingslake is a rare name but may have been an alternative spelling of Kinglake, as both are found chiefly around Taunton, Somerset in this period. The Coles and the Braddocks who were also at Holcroft's that night had West Country connections. Robert Kinglake (DNB 1765-1842) according to Farington's diary p630 met Richard Duppa (DNB 1768-1831) by arrangement in Dresden and they travelled together perhaps to Vienna, Constantinople and Rome. If this was him he was probably newly returned from Europe and soon to set up practice as a doctor at Hot Wells,…

On 13.3.1794 Godwin dined at Wedgwood's where Kinsman was present. On 26.9.1798 he met miss Kinsman near Watford. In (Abinger c.17 f66-7) is a copy of Godwin's letter to her about that meeting. In reply he got a letter from her brother H Kingsman who said he knew Godwin (Abinger c.4 f47-8). In the 1796 list E Kingsman is towards the end of 1798, and D Kingsman near the start of 1799. On 8.5.1799 at Langley-berry he saw Mrs and Misses Kingman. Dorothea and Emily were the daughters of William Long Kingsman of Langleybury, Herts. Dorothea died in 1800 (her will Nat Arch PROB11/1348). Emily…

22.6.1810 Kingston &c call

Godwin rarely shortened a list of callers with a &c (I sometimes shorten Godwin's lists with &c). In this case he did the same the day before, and on this day he followed it with a colon and a further list of callers. All of which suggests a number of undesired callers, or ones whose names were not worth remembering?

2 Kingstons 24.2.1803

See Cooper, Elizabeth Priscilla. John Kingston MP (1735-1820) Oporto wine merchant, and director of Sierra Leone Company, lived at Oak Hill, Barnet, and at Stratford Place (History of Parliamnet: will Nat Arch PROB11/1639)
 

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION Rt Hon Lord George Kinnaird proposed member 17.5.1782 by Edward Hall 2nded John Jebb

GODWIN DIARY lord Kinnaird 17.3.1795 at Bosville's, 6.11.1807 Kinnaird at Johnson's, 16.5.1828 Kinnaird at Reynolds'. In 1796 list.

George Kinnaird born 1754 succeeded as 7th Earl 1767 died 1805 so was presumably the first Godwin diary entry and the entry in 1796 list, also the SCI member, see Wikipedia.  His sons Charles DNB 1780-1820 and Douglas DNB 1788-1830 were both possible for the other two entries which didn't mention any title, Ds Kinnaird is…

See Kingsman