A-Z of Entries

Morley, John

11.10.1794 at Mawley's / 23.6.1795 Mawley at Parr's / 1.7.1795 Mawley at Wills' / 4.7.1795 at Mawley's / 6.7.1795 Mawley at Greatheed's / 13.12.1796 Morley calls: talk of enquiry / 5.6.1797 at Morley's, Hampton Lucy with Parr / 20.7.1798 Morley calls / 25.4.1832 at J Taylor's adv Morley.

Rev John Morley of Hampton Lucy, later vicar of Aylesbury, Bucks,will PCC 1842. He was admitted at Oriel College aged 16 in January 1780 son of Rev John of Elworthy Somerset, BA 1784 and had at least 15 children by his first wife Mary to whom he was already married when he became curate of Hampton…


Morphew

Morphew 6.7.1794 on mail.

Likely to have been John Morphew attorney of Norwich from 1784. In 1801 as bailiff of the Bishop of Norwich's manor of Horning he forbade a fair, in 1803 he was deputy register of the Archdeacon of Norwich's court, and also a Captain along with William Firth in the 2nd regt of Norwich Volunteer Infantry, and he may have been the John Morphew who was buried 21.9.1814 at St George Tombland, Norwich
 


Morres, Hervey Redmond

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Lord Mountmorris proposed member 30.4.1784 by Cecil Wray 2nded Edward Bridgen

Hervey Redmond Morres DNB 1741/2-1797


Morris

Morris 27.10.1799 at Kemble's. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1799 Morris (secret) / 31.10.1799 at theatre / 21.6.1800 at Reynolds' / 13.12.1801 again / 10.7.1802 at theatre / 30.10.1802 again / 5.11.1803 again / 1.2.1804 at Westminster Hall (& Agar) / 29.10.1805 Morrises at mrs Eastwick's / 24.2.1809 meet Morris

Possibly Robert Morris (Highfill, Burnim & Langhans fl 1768-1809 scene painter) but more likely David Edward Morris (will PCC 1842) brother-in-law of George Colman DNB 1762-1836 who gradually took over Colman's ownwership of the Haymarket theatre. When Colman first…


Morris, Evan

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addressesdataset

Evan Morris' wife Ann lodged at 22 Poland St Old Bailey 4.7.1798 / there was an Evan Morris milkman of Bowling St Westminster with a wife Ann, he voted there in 1788 and 1796 and it was his address when he made his will 18.2.1811 mentioning brother Thomas of Little Britain proved by widow Ann 9.4.1812, his son Evan articled clerk in 1808 / there was also an Evan Morris buried St James 17.9.1809 adult (age 60 according to familysearch?) / Evan Morris = St Geo Han Sq 29.9.1784 Ann Arnold botp by banns wits Eliz Campin, Bernard…


Morris, Robert

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Robert Morris Esq of Cecil Street proposed member 19.4.1782 by Alured Shove 2nded John Jebb

Robert Morrisson of Robert Morris of Swansea. Matric. from Oriel College, Oxford 20.5.1760 age 16. Adm. Lincolns Inn 13.1.1763. BA Oxford 1764. MA Cambridge 1767. Called to bar 1767. According to Alum Cantab "Advocate of Lord Baltimore in the memorable trial of his lordship for a rape on Miss Woodcock, which gained him the confidence and approbation of his Lordship, after whose death he carried off his patron's daughter, a ward of Chancery, and,…


Morse, Robert

3.3.1794 Morse at Richard Johnson's with Jon. Scott  /  1.6.1795 mrs Morse with mrs Wilson at or after John King's

Jonathan Scott DNB 1753-1829 orientalist

The brothers Robert & John Morse had a sister Ann Frances who married Richard Johnson's banking partner Nathaniel Middleton and another sister Catherine who married Edmund Green

Farington diary (p4783) Robert Morse died 1816 age about 65, (p4787,4829) he spent £10,000 in last 3 years of his life on prints, also collected Morland's pictures, his newspaper obituary said "his collections were well known in the…


Morthland

Morthland 31.10.1801 at D Stuart's. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1801

John Morthland advocate Edinburgh 1795. Married 25.2.1789 Edinburgh Mary dau of Rev Dr Duncan Menzies of Teston Kent (will PCC 1781). Hist of Parl Glasgow Burghs 1790. Defended Stewart & Ellis publishers of Paine's Rights of Man 1793. Editor of Scots Chronicle. Caledonian Mercury 26.3.1807 John Morthland advocate died at London. Mary Morthland widow of Chelsea will PCC 1826


Mortimer, Thomas

7.3.1789 Mortimer at Brand Hollis' / 21.12.1790 again, with Disney & Thorkelin both times / 13.4.1809 at Thelwall's / 26.7.1809 call on Phillips, adv Mortimer / 2.10.1827 sup at Reynolds' with Mrs Mortimer / 20.11.1831 Mortimer calls / 18.5.1832 sup at Reynolds' with mrs Mortimer / 15.6.1832 sup at Reynolds' with Mortimer / 28.8.1835 sup at R Reynolds' with Mortimers.  In Godwin's 1796 list for 1789, and in 1794 version

Thomas Mortimer DNB 1730-1810. Disney's Memorials of T B Hollis 'Mr Mortimer informed B Hollis very soon after the death of Timothy H that Timothy H had…


Morton, John

5.1.1810 call on Morton (S R)

The GD website has coded this to Thomas Morton DNB 1764-1838 playwright, pointing out that S R could stand for his play the School of Reform. But as Godwin had already noted Morton the playwright several times in preceding years, it's more likely that the S R was to distinguish this Morton from the playwright and that this was John Morton 1773-1815 many years proprietot and printer of the Sunday Review. He later went bankrupt and died of brain fever - or a broken heart - leaving a widow and six children, and a public subscription was raised for them by…


Moseley

30.3.1796 at Mrs Robinson's / 12.7.1809 Godwin writes to Moseley / 4.1.1833 Moseley at C Jones's   In Godwin's 1796 list

perhaps Benjamin Moseley DNB 1742-1819 doctor who subscribed to Mary Robinson's poems 1791 along with Miss Moseley and William Henry Moseley (his will PCC 1823 doctor of Chelsea)


Moseley / Mozley

12.7.1809 write to Moseley &c / 1.8.1809 write to Mozley &c / 18.11.1809 call on Mozley &c / 19.1.1810 write to Mozley &c / 4.4.1810 write to Mozley &c / 14.5.1810 write to Mozley & Withers, w. administrations

Godwin wrote to several booksellers outside London on four of the dates above. On 18.11.1809 he called on Mozley and then 12 booksellers in London. Perhaps the provincial bookseller was visiting London, or perhaps Godwin called first on Jacob Mozley, slopseller 34 Upper East Smithfield (near to Skinner-st) or on Morris Lewin Mozley, merchant &…


Mossop, John

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


Mounsher, William

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: William Mounsher of Old Jewry proposed member 8.11.1782 by Joseph Brown 2nded Thomas Hinton Burley Oldfield

SunFire 1760 William Mounsher wine merchant 17 Old Jewry / Land Tax 1782 William Mounsher Old Jewry

I haven't made any firm identifications for his history before and after Old Jewry. A William Mounsher son of Andrew & Anne was bapt 4.6.1755 at Portsmouth High St Presbyterian, and a William Mounsher was buried at St Luke Old St London on 28.1.1831 age 75 of Rahere St, those two fit together for age but that doesn't mean they…


Mountcashell

her 21.7.1800

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


Mudd, Richard

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Mudd of 11 Church St, Soho proposed 9.11.1792 by John Rae 2nded John Richter REJECTED

Mudd and Schieffer were both proposed by John Rae on 9.11.1792 and both rejected, only five other proposed members were ever rejected, (Agar, Gillespy. Ryland, Shelley and Favell who was later accepted).  Rae was a new member (proposed on 19.10.1792 by Charles Sinclair) and withdrew on 14.12.1792 after William Sturch put a motion to expel him. Richter was a delegate from the London Corresponding Society and never became a member of the SCI so perhaps didn't…


Mudge

Mudge 23.10.1798 adv at Northcote's

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


Muhlenfels, Ludwig von

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…


Mul

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


Mullett, Thomas

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…