A-Z of Entries

HCR diary 6.1.1833 at Aders in lock up "at his place I found Lemme - I was pleased by the cordial manners of L: towards A: and that A: had made up his mind to carry into effect the agreement with Loevenhagen and Jameson - L: I found thought that I had offered too much and that A's engagement should be only honorary"

                 20.4.1833 wrote to "Lemme stating on what conditions and understanding I consented to become trustee for Aders"

                 29.4.1833 "attended for the first time in Warwick St, Aders, Lemmé, Loevenhagen, Richardson and Upton, and there…

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Charles Lennox Duke of Richmond proposed member 16.5.1783 by Richard Brockleby 2nded Edward Hall

Charles Lennox DNB 1735-1806

10.8.1807 call, w. (Marshall) on Lepard / 12.8.1807 call on Lepard & (w.him) Barber : Bow Street, Lep(ar)d, Humphrys, H(odgkins)s, Corbet, M(arshall) & T(homas) T(urner) / 18.8.1807 Lepard & Hodgkins call / 25.8.1807 call on Lepard (w. M(arshall)) / 8.10.1807 call on Lepard / 26.1.1808 Lepard calls / 27.1.1808 call on Lepard / 1.7.1808 call on Lepard (w. M(ary) J(ane))

William Lepard bookseller Tooley-st, Southwark 1757, stationer Newgate-st SunFire 1780 his will PCC 21.2.1805. He was a Baptist and member of the congregation of John Rippon (DNB 1751-1836). His father,…

H Leroux 14.6.1799 adv at dinner

Jacob Leroux was Godwin's landlord who financed the building of the Polygon and sub-let it. He lived hard by and his son Henry was tenant of no 8. Jacob died 26.4.1799 and the whole estate was put up for sale see GD website event tag 20.6.1799. Jacob's will PCC 1799 dated 11.4.1799 wife Mary (PCC 1831) children Priscilla Mary, Midford George (Doctor will PCC 1847 of Calais & St Pancras), Maria Ann (married John Tatham), Henry Jacob (=18.1.1798 St Pancras Frances Ross Finch, H J L bur St Paul Covt Gdn 24.1.1832 age 55 of St John Hackney, his dau…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Ernest Leslie 44 Poland St ratebooks 1779-82 / Ernest Leslie of St Margaret Westminster widower = St Martin i t Fields 30.7.1758 Mary Read sp otp by Archbishops lic / their children bapt St Margarets James 1759, Ernest Augustus 1769, Robert 1762, Maria Ann 1763, Elizabeth Matilda 1766, Janet 1767, George 1770 (father as Ernest Augustus in one of these) / Land Tax 1767 Gt George St Westminster / peruke maker of King St coroners jury 1765, 1774 / Ernest Leslie peruke maker King St, St Margaret's voted 1774 Percy & Clinton /…

walk to Leadenhall with Cl(airmon)t 23.11.1801 / call on mrs Lester 27.11.1801 sleep at St Agnes / 2.12.1801 sleep at Baldock / 3.12.1801 again / 11.12.1801 again / 12.12.1801 sleep at St Agnes / 19.12.1801 again / 21.12.1801 Shoreditch Church &c with Ct (=Mrs Godwin) / 30.12.1801.call on Lester &c with Ct

William St Clair in The Godwins & The Shelleys suggests that Godwin (before his marriage on 21.12.1801) slept at St Agnes in order to fulfil the oath that he was "of this parish", the place being probably St Agnes Place or St Agnes Circus, Old Street Road in the parish…

First in list of "unnumbered division" (QV) joined 22.1.1794 address 2 Artillery St Bishopsgate (2 Artillery St SunFire 1790, 1800, 1818 Joseph Pegrom baker).

Isaac Lestourgeon born 3.1.1752 bapt 26.1.1752 son of Pierre & Marie Lestourgeon of St Giles parish at Savoy French chapel, Strand by Mr. Lestourgeon lecturer of Spring Gardens chapel
Isaac Lesturgeon apprenticed 16.1.1766 for 7 yrs to Peter Perigall, Merchant Taylor's Co, premium £20
Isaac Lestourgeon patterndrawer bach otp married St James Piccadilly 28.7.1773 Susanna Matilda Douxsaint sp of Christchurch…

22.9.1809 call on Letterman / 27.1.1810 Guildhall, Didier; adv. Letterman / 12.6.1810 call on Letterman / 23.6.1810 (Guildhall; adv. Letterman &c) / 29.6.1810 Guildhall (Tabart); adv. Letterman &c / 13.7.1810 call on Letterman / 18.7.1810 Chancery Lane, w. Letterman &c / 21.7.1810 call on Letterman / 31.7.1810 Guildhall (Tabart); adv. Letterman / 11.8.1810 Guildhall; Tabart, Letterman &c / 20.8.1810 Examination of sir R P; Letterman &c / 21.8.1810 Guildhall; Tabart, Letterman &c / 24.8.1810 call on Letterman / 11.9.1810 again / 5.10.1810 again / 9.10.1810 Baptist's…

Lettsom jr 11.6.1800 at Mary Robinson's

Probably one of the sons of John Coakley Lettsom DNB 1744-1815. Edmund 1781-1821 was hydrocephalic and said to have been an imbecile from 1797. Samuel Fothergill 1779-1844 (married 1802 Eliza Sophia Garrow, bankrupt 1823) and Pickering 1782-1808, a barrister of the Inner Temple (admitted 7.11.1803) and said to have been very handsome

Leviczac adv at Dulau's 28.1.1805

Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz de Levizac DNB c1750-1813

call on mrs Leward 25.1.1804

see work notes below

GODWIN DIARY; Lee Lewes's Benefit (The Wonder) 24.6.1803

GREATER SOHO: see Poland Street 10 to 18 & 45 to 48 in London Addresses dataset

World 26.2.1791 tickets from Mr Lee Lewes at Mr Brough's 16 Poland St  /  William Brough adult buried 22.5.1795 St James (William Brough staymaker of Carnaby St voted Hood & Fox 1784 will PCC 1785 mentioned wife Margaret, son Thomas)

Charles Lee Lewes DNB 1740-1803

see Poland Street 10 to 18 & 45 to 48 in London Addresses dataset

World 26.2.1791 tickets from Mr Lee Lewes at Mr Brough's 16 Poland St / Charles Lee Lewes DNB 1740-1803 /  William Brough adult buried 22.5.1795 St James (William Brough staymaker of Carnaby St voted Hood & Fox 1784 will PCC 1785 mentioned wife Margaret, son Thomas)

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Sir Watkin Lewes of Kings Road, Grays Inn Lane original member 1780. took on Wales for SCI tract distribution

Watkin Lewes 1740-1821 (historyofparliamentonline 1754-1790 & 1790-1820)

GODWIN DIARY: 11.11.1788 Lewis at miss Williams' / 9.2.1790 again / 7.5.1790 again / 13.5.1791 again.

Many of the Lewis entries have been coded in GD website to Sir Watkin Lewes but I find most of these unlikely. The Lewis at miss Williams' could have been one of a number of subscribers to her 1786 Poems (T Lewis Esq, C Lewis Esq, R Lewis Esq…

Erving & Lewis Cs call 31.1.1802

Lewis Cs could have been an abbreviation for a surname ending in s like Chalmers but was more likely a plural. Lewis Goldsmith who had met Godwin in 1801 had left for France in December (see Goldsmith) and the C is clearly not a G, no other obvious candidates among people mentioned in the diary before or after. Searching PCC wills produced a few possibles of which my favourite was Lewis Crespin of St Pancras will PCC 1824 who married Ann Massy 13.2.1768 at St Paul Covent Garden and whose will mentioned his son William, his dau Ann born 1770 who…

Lewis, distiller 21.8.1800 at Nicholson's

There was a bit of a family of distillers called Lewis. William Lewis distiller Uxbridge will PCC 1782 / George Lewis distiller Fulham will PCC 1784 / Lewis & Co distillers New Inn Yd, Holloway Lane 1785 / J & R Lewis distillers Holywell La, Shoreditch 1790 / William Lewis distiller Uxbridge will PCC 1803 dated 13.4.1794 mentioned wife Jane, Mrs Mary Turner of Charles St, St James Sq, and his friend William Bird of Old South Sea House, Old Broad St

HCR diary 7.10.1832 re Sir Thomas Lawrence "There is a letter by L: to J: Fred: Lewis at Mrs Aders 'I sincerely rejoice at your good fortune in securing the kind hospitality of Mr & Mrs A: and in having for your present companion Mr Gotzenberger of whose genius I have a most sincere admiration - The compositions that I saw of his pencil were in the purest taste yet with equal originality and power' "

Probably John Frederick Lewis (DNB 1804-1876)

                                                                            HCR diary 20.6.1818 musical party at Aders' house "The Schunks Platts Mrs Fazy Miss Lewis were my acquaintances"  re the failure of Mr Becher (QV*) "I chatted with Miss L: She seems fully aware of the nature of the imputations on Mr B:  She spoke with good sense and feeling on the subject. She is no slight sufferer thro' this affair as she loses a home. Mrs B: offered to take her to the Continent but Miss L: feels that she ought not to accept the offer"

HCR diary 25.2.1826 "dined at Henry Rogers' at Highbury" a Dr Leigh or Lee among guests

                    25.1.1837 "The mortality of this season is unusually great - Dr Ley is gone"

Reminiscences 19.10.1857 Mrs Aders' daughter Ellen Kelly "I should think about the worst person I ever knew - She was plain in person but had a certain humour & vivacity in society which enabled her to gain the affections of an amiable M.D. a Dr Ley whom she married and all but ruined - She spent his money pawned his plate & so tormented him by her misconduct every way, that she killed…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Henry Liddle 25 Poland St ratebooks 1778-1781 / SunFire 1777 Sarah Hales widow at Mr Liddal's tailor Poland St (note Thomas Hales leaseholder of 50 (then 49) Poland St 1788) / Daily Advertiser 26.3.1778 sale on the premises in Poland St opposite the Pantheon, the effects of Mr Henry Liddle and lease of said premises ten & 3 quarter years unexpired rent £30 p.a. "substantially built, in perfect repair, four storeys high, two rooms to a floor"/ Ann Liddle 25 Poland St ratebooks 1800-6