A-Z of Entries

Mossop 4.6.1797 at Horseman's, Oxford

See Horseman. John Mossop son of Clement M of Rottington, Cambs adm Queens college 21.1.1792 age 17 BA 1795 died 3.10.1849 will PCC 1849 wife Mary will PCC 1828

her 21.7.1800

clearly referred to Lady Mountcashell who has a person record in GD website

Mudge 23.10.1798 adv at Northcote's

Perhaps William Mudge DNB 1762-1820 surveyor, or Thomas Mudge DNB 1760-1843 horologist

GODWIN DIARY: 19.5.1928 / 19.5.1828 / 30.10.1828. He has a person record on GD website

CRABB ROBINSON DIARY: 21.2.1829 at Aders "I met with Muhlenfels German Prof: Un: London - I should judge a sensible man, but his talk was not particularly agreeable"

Jackson's Oxford Journal 17.5.1828 University of London the council appointed Ludwig von Muhlenfels, Professor of the German and Northern languages and literature. His manual of German Literature was published 1830. de.wikipedia 1793-1861. He fled Germany to Sweden in 1821 after being arrested for subversive activities and was…

4.10.1807 Mul. sups

This should be added to the person record on GD website for William Mulready (DNB 1786-1863) who frequently supped with Godwin

Thomas Mullett has a person record but it doesn't give much information about him. He was a stationer in Bristol and a Baptist who married Mary Evans in 1768 and died a merchant of St Mary Axe, London at Clapham in November 1814 buried Bunhill Fields aged 69. His will PCC 1815 mentioned four children. Mary Ann widow of John Jeffries Evans (see Evans); Sarah; Frederick born 1781; and Jane who married James Webbe Tobin DNB 1767-1814 in 1807 (the DNB has her name as Mallet). Frederick, who was presumably the Mullet, jr who called on Godwin 24.1.1810, went bankrupt in 1815 soon after his…

mrs Mulready invited to dinner 27.12.1805 / 19.6.1806 callon mrs Mulready with M(ary) J(ane)/ 26.6.1896 again / 18.10.1806 call on mrs Mulready / 23.8.1807 mrs Mulready adv at dinner / 21.7.1808 mrs Mulready sups / 6.11.1809 meet mrs Mulready / 30.3.1810mrsMulready sups / 27.5.1810 call on mrs Mulready

William Mulready DNB 1786-1863 married in 1803 Elizabeth Robinson Varley 1784-1864 sister of John Varley DNB 1778-1842. They were separated by 1809

mrs Mumford calls 12.8.1805 / call on mrs Mumford 13.8.1805

see work notes below

12.10.1901 chaise w. Philips's : call on Munday, Oxford / 1.4.1807 dcall on Philips; adv. Munday / 10.4.1813 write to Munday / 5.6.1813 call on Munday, Oxford / 1.9.1823 call on Munday

Joseph Munday bapt 24.3.1771 St Peter i t East Oxford of Joseph & Susannah / Joseph Munday of St Martins Oxford = All Saints Oxford 1.8.1802 Martha Robinson / Joseph Munday published University & City Herald from 1806 / 1809 Joseph Munday printer, Oxford / 1817 Munday & Slatter printers Oxford / 1841 census 26 SWt John-st Oxford / Bury & Norwich Post 13.3.1844 Joseph Munday printer…

14.11.1806 meet Reynolds & Munden / 21.4.1817 at Drury Lane Theatre; see Munden, Kean, Oxberry &c. / 16.10.1823 Munden at tea at Bacon's

Joseoh Shepherd Munden (DNB 1758-1832). First entry above he was with playwright Frederic Reynolds, second entry in list of famous actors seen at theatre. Third entry less certain

Munford 5,5,1800 calls / 11.5.1800 again / 12.5.1800 dines / 21.5.1800 at tea / 19.6.1801 write to Montfort / 2.3.1802 again

Bodleian Abinger c15 f51 letter to Godwin from James Madison bishop of Virginia and president of Williamsburg University dated 20.11.1799 and introducing Munford who had already astonished th world at 17 years old. His letter to Godwin dated 25.11.1801 New York Abinger c6 f80-1 signed himself Montfort. He was presumably the William Munford 1775-1825 whose entry in Allibone follows that of his father Col Robert Munford. Another William Green Munford was born…

S Munnings 23.4.1793 Godwin writes to.

Godwin had been visiting his friend Leonard Munnings who was jailed probably for debt and died soon after on 11.5.1793. His father Leonard grocer of Bildeston Suffolk had married Alice Scott widow of the same parish there 4.3.1741 and was buried there 17.5.1779 in his 56th year, 'formerly an eminent shopkeeper of Stowmarket', his will Norwich 1779. Mrs Leonard Munnings was buried at Bildeston 25.3.1806, but she could have been the mother or the widow of Godwin's friend, (if he was married).. Shadrach Munnings maltster of Stowmarket was in a…

9.8.1810 P Murphy calls

A Patrick Murphy was officer of the night where a pickpocket crime that had occurred in Skinner-st was reported on 19.5.1811 though this was perhaps not the same Skinner-st where Godwin lived. A Patrick Murphy stonemason Marlborough-row St James Westminster voted Burdett 1818. Patrick Murphy DNB 1782-1847 could conceivably have been this caller. There was also a Phineas Murphy Old Bailey 18.9.1816 victim of a theft but no address given. And a Peter Murphy law officer in 1811. All these from London Lives

Murray perruquier 13.1.1793 adv at Holcroft's

Probably James Murray (will PCC 1798) barber of Lower Holloway, Islington, formerly of St Martins le Grand. Sun Fire insurance 1780 perukemaker, hairdresser & perfumer of Paternoster Row. His will mentioned James Cornfoot of Hertford St, Fitzroy Sq, confectioner who was a member of London Corresponding Society (Thale)
 

L W Murray 20.1.1794 at Muir's / 9.5.1795 La. Murray at Reveley's

Lord William Murray born 20.3.1762 3rd son of John Murray 3rd Duke of Atholl. Served in America 1777, Capt 42nd foot 1778; 1784 fought duel in East Indies with Lt Gilbert Waugh who died 3 days after; 1787 envoy to Lower Egypt; 1789 married Mary Ann daughter of James Hodges, lived at Tidmarsh, 1 son, 1dau; was at Bath 13.11.1791, writ issued 11.1.1792 for debt by James Sims, wine merchant, Henry Chawner (qv) one of many creditors; Lady Murray gave birth to a child in Wright's lock-up house; 21.4.1792 to Kings Bench…

21.12.1810 Wardmote, St Brides; adv. (Murrel)

Wm Murrell auctioneer 20 Skinner-st (Holdens directory 1811). St James Chronicle 25.12.1810 Murrell was one of the 16 re-elected to Common Council in the ward of Farringdon Without, which was a radical ward at that time (e.g. its common councilmen voted unanimously to protest Burdett's arrest June 1810). William Murrell was baptised 5.4.1778 St James Clerkenwell son of Stephen & Elizabeth and apprenticed in the Barbers Company to his father Stephen of Ray-st Clerkenwell auctioneer in 1792. Stephen's will PCC 1802

museum 20.1.1797 / 25.1.1797

These two entries should surely be added to those starting on 11.8.1802 event-tagged in the GD website to the British Museum. Although the first 3 entries in 1802 stated British Museum in full, Godwin soon reverted to writing simply Museum and only used the full form 4 more times out of hundreds of visits

Myers 27.11.1799 at Charles James Fox's, St Ann's Hill

Possibly Thomas Myers DNB 1774-1834 mathematician but he doesn't seem a very probable visitor of Fox's. Another random possible Dr Joseph Hart Myers 1758-1823 (Monk's Roll)

24.6.1808 call on Mylius, w. M(ary) J(ane)

William Frederick Mylius bapt 1776 St Martin i t Fields, s. of Charles & Elizabeth.  Ad in Morning Chronicle 11.1.1810 for books published by the Godwins, including Mylius's School Dictionary with preface by Edward Baldwin (pseudonym of William Godwin), and Junior Class Book by W F Mylius, Master of the Academy, Red Lion Sq. He was still alive in 1861 census Chelsea and perhaps in 1864 as voter in South Mimms, but I couldn't find a record of his death