A-Z of Entries

Maling, Sara Jane

HCR diary   22.4.1813 Miss Maling 93 Mount St Berkeley (Square)

                   17.12.1824 "I called late on Mrs Aders who was going to Brighton and gave her a letter to Miss Maling"

                        7.6.1828 "letter from Mrs Clarkson requesting me to call on Miss Maling - Esther being dangerously ill - I saw Mr M: whom I found very composed - Miss M: had gone out with Mr Benj: Greene and not wishing to see them I came away soon" "wrote to Mrs Clarkson explaining my feelings towards S: J: M:"

                    20.11.1828 re: Esther Maling's death


Malone

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


Maltby, William

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…


Malton, Thomas

see Poland Street 1 to 9 & 49 to 62 in London Addresses dataset

According to British History Online Thomas Malton lived at 58 Poland St from 1772 to 1780, This accords with an ad giving his address as third house on left in Poland St from Broad St, as this was probably before nos 61 & 62 Poland St were built / in the Royal Academy exhibitions his address was given as 3 Poland St from 1774 to 1777 and 56 Poland St in 1779 / Thomas Malton mathematician of Poland St voted 1774 Percy & Mountmorris / Sun Fire 1783 Thomas Malton engraver Conduit St, Hanover Sq / an ad of 1778…


Manessier, Alexander

see Batemans Buildings in London Addresses dataset

Manassier 16 Batemans Buildings ratebooks 1783-4 / Alexander Mannassier watchmaker Batemans Buildings voted 1784 Hood & Wray, Parker's General Advertiser 28.7.1784 Manessier's vote queried by Fox / Alex Manassier ratebooks Berwick St, St James 1785-6 / Alexander of Elisha & Mary Manessier bapt 12.5.1734 St Martin i t Fields / Elisha Manessier engraver & chaser St Martin i t Fields took apprs 1731, 1737, bur Whitechapel 1780 age 80 / Elisha of Elisha & Mary Manessier bapt 1730 St Martin i t Fields, oboe player Doane's…


Mangles

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)


Manly

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

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


Mann, James Hargrave

HCR diary 5.6,1842  Aldebert "his father in law Mr Mann"

Isaac Aldebert born 5.2.1812 illegitimate son of Isaak Aldebert (1762-1817) and Dorothea Maria Catharine Kruckenberg. He married at St Pancras 17.10.1840 Sarah Elizabeth Mann of Kentish Town, father J W H Mann varnish maker. witnesses J H Mann, Mary Elizabeth Mann. Sarah Elizabeth born 1.2.1816 bapt 9.3.1816 St George Bloomsbury dau of James Hargrave Mann and his wife Mary Elizabeth nee Laws, of King St. They had married at St Pancras 7.3.1815.. He died 31.3.1869 age 81 effects under £14.000. His son Joshua Hargrave Mann born…


Manning

18.1.1794 at Thelwall's / 5.12.1794 at Foulkes (celebrating Thelwall's acquittal) / 17.1.1795 / 31.1.1795 / 14.2.1795 at James Powell's (3 times with Walker & Lee, twice with Thelwall, Bailey & Hubbard) / 12.6.1795 Mannings at Thelwall's (with Walker) / 10.12.1795 adv at House of Commons

GD website suggests William M 1733-1810 (Geo Robinson published his sermons on liberty)  Other possibles:

Thomas Manning vintner Oxenden St, St Martin in the Fields voted 1796 Fox & Tooke

Thomas Manning DNB 1772-1841 then a student at Cambridge, wore Quaker dress, met…


Manning, Robert

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Robert Manning Esq of Shore Place, Hackney proposed member 16.12.1786 by Michael Pearson 2nded Thomas Ridgway

His father Robert Manning married at St Olave Southwark 2.6.1724 Ann Adams. His father's will PCC 18.12.1741 Robert Manning cooper of Wapping dated 26.1.1735 mentioned his wife's brothers William, James, Thomas & Joseph Adams, his brother Benjamin, his brothers-in-law Charles Hughes and Joseph Rutt (whose wife was Ursula). Robert Manning was apprenticed 1755 for 7 yrs to Daniel Wise citizen & draper of London, premium £210. A…


Manning, Thomas

HCR diary 10.6.1824 Lamb spoke of Manning - the most wonderful man he ever knew, more extraordinary than W[ordsworth] or C[oleridge] - yet he does nothing. He has travelled in China, India, Tibet but written nothing

Thomas Manning (DNB 1772-1840)


Mansel

Mansel 31.3.1789 at Timothy Hollis' & 16.3.1790, 29.6.1790, and 28.9.1790 there.

Possibly Rev William Lort Mansel DNB fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge who subscribed 1786 to HMWilliams' poems, though his politics were different from Hollis's. Or a William Mansell Esq who wrote the opera "Fairy-Hill" 1784; a W Mansell signed the Declaration of the Friends to the Liberty of the Press 1792; a Samuel Mansell was minister of Baptist Church, Snows Fields, Southwark 1796; Rev Rowland Dawkin Mansel, will PCC 1789 upholder of St Pancras or his son Mansel Dawkin Mansel of Lothbuty…


Mansel, Elizabeth

14.10.1795 call on Mansel / 25.10.1795 Mansel at Holcroft's / 6.12.1795 Mansel at Holcroft's / 3.1.1796 EM at Holcroft's / 17.1.1796 EM at Holcroft's / 21.2.1796 EM at Holcroft's / 9.3.1796 call on EM / 28.3.1796 call on Mansel /  11.5.1796 call on Mansel / 22.9.1796 call on Mansel / 6.10.1796 call on Mansel / 4.11.1796 sup at Mansel's with De Camp, Coopers, C Kemble & C Moore / 25.11.1796 call on Mansel / 29.1.1797 Mansel, de Camp & C Moore call / 10.3.1797 call on Mansel / 11.3.1797 call on Mansel / 13.4.1797 call on Mansel / 17.4.1797 / 21.5.1797 Mansel at Horne Tooke's / 3.12.…


Mansfield, John

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

John Mansfield 38 Poland St ratebooks 1796-1822 / John Mansfield painter & glazier Poland St voted 1802 Fox 1818 Romilly & Maxwell / SunFire 1804, 1814 John Mansfield 38 Poland St glazier and dealer in candles & rabbits / SunFire 1804 James Crew gent 38 Poland St other occupier glazier / John Mansfield bur 24.1.1837 St James age 81 from workhouse / Maria Elizabeth Ann bapt 20.2.1780 & Mary Ann bapt 6.7.1784 St James daus of John & Mary Mansfield / Edwin son of John & Isabella Mansfield compositor of…


Manwell, George

George Manwell  12 Burrows Buildings Blackfriars joined 5.5.1794 "unnumbered division" (QV)

I found no good identity yet. Possibles:
directory 1791 George Manwell builder 10 Newman St Oxford St
Oracle & Daily Advertiser 21.5.1806 died 10.5.1806 at Brompton, Middlesex Mrs manwell wife of Mr George Manwell of Walton-on-Thames
George Manwell otp wid 3rd banns at Christ Church Southwark 7.5.1809 Ann Ward Holden sp otp


map-engraver

map-engraver calls 7.10.1802 / 22.5.1809 Blake, map-engr calls

The only entries in British Book Trades Index for an engraver named Blake are for William Blake DNB 1757-1827 poet and artist and William Stadden Blake (will PCC 1814). Blake Records, Bentley p839 has info on him but no record of his having been a map-engraver except the reference in Godwin's diary. BBTI cite Laurence Worms, British Map Engravers, (work in progress) under William Blake the poet. The 1802 map-engraver may not, of course, have been called Blake. The BBTI doesn't have a category for map-engravers but those…


Mara

Mara 7.4.1802 oratorio at Drury Lane

Gertrud Mara DNB 1749-1833 which says she left England 1801 but newspaper ads make it clear she sang in London up till April 1802, see Morning Post 22.4.1802 which announced she was to quit England in a few weeks


Marcand

Marcand 7.10.1794 see Marquand, John


March, John

March's 27.6.1794 / 5.7.1794 / 5.7.1796 / 9.7.1796 / 12.7.1796 / 13.7.1796 / 20.7.1796 / 21.7.1796.

John March was a printer & stationer at London Lane Norwich in 1797 and a steward at Norwich Friends of Freedom dinner 5.10.1795. Ipswich Journal 4.8.1804 died at Philadelphia aged 51 Mr John March formerly a printer at Norwich. Bury & Norwich Post 26.12.1804 on 19.12.1804 aged 89 died Mrs Mary March, widow of late Mr T March hotpresser & mother of late Mr John March printer of this city.
 

1784 John March printer Yarmouth voted H W. John March printer…