A-Z of Entries

Macnally 4.7.1800 at Curran's. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1800 / 5.7.1800 again / 10.7.1800 at Macnally's / 6.8.1800 meet Macnally / 2.8.1817 at Dyer's

Leonard MacNally DNB 1752-1820

16.7.1794 Macnamara & 19.7.1794, 4.8.1794, 3.9.1794, 18.9.1794, 19.12.1794 & 23.1.1795 all at Jennings'.

Whig Club 11.6.1793 of Queen St Cheapside / Farington diary 149 Jany 1794 Mr Macnamara principal agent to Duke of Bedford / 1812-5 John Macnamara & wife vs Duke of Bedford, Kings Bench / PCC 1840 of 44 Half Moon St Piccadilly mentions son John Augustus Macnamara, friend Susanna Cox

Daniel Macnamara DNB 1720-1899 will PCC 1800 Stretham Surrey mentions wife Catherine, witness Maria Macnamara

Boyle's 1792 John Macnamara 51 Baker St & Hengoed Castle…

Macneil 2.9.1804 at H Rowan's / 15.10.1804 again / 12.2.1805 theatre with mrs Rowan &c and Macneil

see work notes below

21.11.1795 D Macpherson at Ritson's  In Godwin's 1796 list for 1795 crossed out

David MacPherson DNB 1746-1816 which says he was friend of Ritson's. Coded in GD website to James McPherson of Ossian fame

Will PCC 1816 St Pancras

Mackin 16.2.1798 at Chandler's (in Godwin's 1796 list) / McQuin 19.3.1798 there / Macquin 10.7.1798 there / 22.6.1799 Chandler dines, tea O Fancourt's, meet Macquin / 24.6.1799 Macquin at Chandler's / 25.7.1799 meet Mcquin / 17.10.1799 meet Macquin / 1.1.1800 at O Fancourt's with Chandler / 6.1.1800 again / 17.10.1800 invited at Godwin's / 16.8.1802 adv at Townsend's / 21.12.1809 call on Townsend, meet Macquin

Ange-Denis Macquin DNB 1756-1823 antiquary & writer, will PCC 1823 of 7 Bermondsey Sy Southwark

21.09.1809 Macreery calls / 22.9.1809 call on Macreery / 21.2.1810 Macreery calls / 25.2.1811 call on Place (adv. Macreery)

Holdens 1811 directory: John M'Creery printer Black Horse-court, Fleet-st. At Old Bailey 21.2.1810 he prosecuted Isaac Pettitt for stealing 30/- worth of paper, part of a work on Scottish Chiefs he was printing for Longmans. M'Creery said his dwelling house was in Surrey.. Pettitt, a journeyman printer, said he was told M'Creery was a particular man, and he would be treated "like a negro" if he worked there. His sentence was 7 years transportation. Perhaps M'…

23.3.1810 dine at Johnson's, w. Maddocks

This was quite possibly William Alexander Madocks DNB 1773-1828 Whig MP for Boston famous for reclaiming land at Tremadoc in Wales and quite an enthusiatic reformer. One of his brothers Joseph was active in amateur theatricals, the eldest brother John Edward cut his own throat in 1806. There was a Richard Maddocks auctioneer at Coleman-st buildings, a Henry Maddock barrister of Lincolns Inn whose son Henry put himself forward as a candidate to succeed Fox in Westminster 1806, and a Walter Maddocks c.1745-1823 actor on the London stage

Madox 5.5.1789 at Timothy Hollis'

Magee 17.6.1801 see Gilbert & Magee

31.8.1806 dine at Philips's, Hampstead w. Magnys & many

Nicholas Magny otp wid = Maylebone 4.6.1802  Mary Gamby otp sp

Christopher Magnay & William Pickering stationers 72 Upper Thames-st (SunFire 1791) 55 Queen-st Cheapside (SunFire 1802 to 1816) College Hill (SunFire from 1819)
married 29.3.1806 Lambeth Harriet Burdon, his will PCC 6.3.1827

Mahaffy 5.8.1800 at Wallace's trial. Carlow

Mahon 4.5.1803 at Joseph Johnson's

It would be surprising if this was Philip Henry Stanhope Hist of Parl 1781-1855 known till 1816 as Viscount Mahon, as although he was educated by Jeremiah Joyce, at this point he had been disinherited by his father, the radical peer Charles Stanhope, and appointed Lt Governor of Dover Castle by Pitt on £500 p.a. and Johnson's dinners had a radical reputation. Another Mahon was Gertrude Mahon DNB 1752-1808+ the "Bird of Paradise", she might have been welcome at Johnson's dinners as a rejected superstar like Mary Robinson, but it seems unlikely, and…

call on Gen Maitland 13.4.1803 / 28.1.1807 Maitland at Lauderdale's / 19.2.1808 M(arshall) dines, from Maitland / 11.3.1808 M(arshall) calls from Maitland & Sharp / 20.6.1818 call on Maitland / 8.2.1834 Maitland at Anthony White's / 30.11.1834 again

The first entry was perhaps Thomas Maitland DNB 1760-1824 brother of the 8th Earl of Lauderdale. He became brigadier general in 1798 and was MP 1790-1804, but from 1805-1811 was governor of Ceylon and from 1813-1824 governor of Malta so was probably not the later Maitland entries. Another brother William Mordaunt Maitland died 1841…

28.4.1789 Majendie at T Hollis and 5.5.1789.

Lewis Majendie 1756-1833, younger brother of Henry William Majendie, bishop of Bangor DNB 1754-1830, married 1783 at St Marylebone Elizabeth Hoghton, granddaughter of Timothy Hollis' sister Elizabeth who married William Ashurst (d 1735), their daughter Elizabeth married Sir Henry Hoghton and died in childbed 1761, her daughter Elizabeth survived and married Lewis Majendie. Codicil to Timothy Hollis's will dated 16.5.85 mentions his niece Elizabeth Majendie Hoghton

14.2.1795 at Powel's / 20.2.1795 call on / 11.10.1795 at Holcrofts / 26.10.1796 meet Barnes & Major / 17.11.1802 adv at theatre / 9.8.1809 call on Major br / 12.6.1810 call on / 15.1.1811 calls / 24.1.1811 call on / 14.3.1815 again / 22.4.1817 again

Major br was probably John Major DNB 1782-1849, bookseller of Hospital Gate, West Smithfield or his father Samuel Major tailor and music seller, Duke-st West Smithfield, his will PCC 1816. Close neighbours of Godwin at Skinner-st. Godwin used br for bookseller a few times in his diary, Laing, Hayes, Williams. All the above entries…

29.12.1810 write to Malone / 1.1.1811 call on Malone / 17.1.1811 write to Malone

Quite possibly Edmond Malone DNB 1741-1812 Shakespearian scholar

GODWIN DIARY Maltby 27.5.1798 at Horne Tooke's / 5.5.1813 call on Maltby LI / 19.2.1835 Maltby at Rogers'

William Maltby DNB 1763-1854 librarian of London Institution (clearly the LI in 1813 above). By presumed coincidence Godwin had received a letter on 8.5.1798 from William Maltby and his brother Rowland, acting as attornies of Fishmongers Hall, threatening arrest for a supposed debt of £15 incurred by Mary Wollstonecraft for carpeting (Abinger c4 f18-9). They referred Godwin's reply to R Sherman for whom along with Mr Cowie they were presumably acting. Joseph Farington in his…

dine at mrs Wilford's (mr Mangles) Hurley Bottom 29.11.1799

John Mangles' will  PCC 1837 of Henley was dated 9.2.1825 and witnessed by a blacksmith and a carpenter both of Hurley, and mentioned his father Robert. Three Mangles spinsters were married at Hurley in 1808, 1820 and 1825. James Mangles DNB 1786-1867 was probably his son or brother. Robert Mangles was a ship's chandler of Wapping. The Mangles family featured in Joseph Farington's diary in the circle of Wilson, Lestock (qv)

18.12.1808 dine at Hume's, w. Manly

Only instance in Godwin's diary. No clues yet

Holdens Directory 1811: David Manley wine merchant 48 Southampton-row / James Manly merchant & agent 41 Mansell-st / Edward Manly esq Herne-hill Dulwich / Joseph Manly esq 28 Grove-pl Camden Town / Henry Manley insurance broker 7 Gt Wincgester-st & Lloyds / John Manley attorney 2 Tanfield-ct Temple

Mann 31.10.1801 at D Stuart's / 16.12.1824 call on Mann, Cornhill

Possibly Horatio Mann DNB 1744-1814 MP for Sandwich 1790-1807 who joined the Whig Club in 1790 but was a supporter of Pitt by 1795 and was more famous as a man of pleasure and patron of cricket than as a politician. Gother Mann DNB 1747-1830 army officer & military engineer. George Mann bookseller & stationer of 39 Cornhill will PCC 1852