21.11.1795 O at King's / 17,5.1800 dine at Milton Gallery with Opie; sup at Hoare's with O
John Opie DNB1761-1807 must surely have been the O at Hoare's in 1800 but GD website has it underlined. By the same token the Reynolds who supped at Hoare's was probably Samuel William the engraver rather than Frederick as the GD website has coded it. Read the whole entry for that day if you don't follow me. The O at King's 21.11.1795 was possibly also Opie who was there on 3.12.1795
see Poland Street 10 to 18 & 45 to 48 in London Addresses dataset
Thomas Oriell 18 Poland St ratebooks 1790-1800 / SunFire 18 Poland St 1791 Thomas Oriell tailor, 1819, 1821 & 1825 Thomas Oriel(l) senior & junior tailors / Thomas Oriel tailor Poland St voted Fox & Tooke 1796, Hood & Paull 1806, Maxwell 1818 / Thomas Oriel = St James 1.8.1790 Mary Spencer botp by Archbishop's lic wit Abrm Walker, their children Catherine bapt 9.9.1794, Francis Henry bapt 7.3.1796, Mary Ann born 13.2.1797 bapt 30.9.1803 / Thomas Oriel taylor took appr John Hodges 1799 / Thomas…
10.6.1808 dine at Johnson's, w. Ormondys
Only instance in Godwin's diary. Ormondy or more commonly Ormandy mostly found in NW of England and in Dublin. John Ormandy stationer of Liverpool will PCC 1842 mentioned wife Cathetrine. As Johnson's family came from Liverpool area this was likely a relative by marriage or business associate
see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset
Edward Osborne 34 Poland Street ratebooks 1788-1806 / SunFire 11.12.1787 Edward Osborne 34 Poland St dealer in coals, 1790 same & other property 38 Poland St / Old Bailey Sessions Papers 23.2.1789 Edward Osborne keeps a house in Poland St and deals in coals, robbed / coroners jury 1790 Edward Osborne Poland St cole marchant / Edward Osborne his mark = St James 23.6.1792 Sarah Thorp her mark botp banns wit E Harley / Edward Osborne adult from St James bur 11.4.1806 St Anne Soho / will PCC of Edward Osborne coal merchant of…
Otley 2.1.1790 at Holcroft's & 31.3.1790, 1.9.1790, 5.4.1791, 7.7.1791 there; 5.11.1791 at his; 6.7.1792 at Holcroft's; 11.11.1815 at Knowles'; 30.6.1834 Godwin calls on
Otley appeared 7 times between 1790 and 1792 always with Holcroft and mostly with known musicians (Clementi, Shield, Bosse). On 6.7.1792 Godwin listed 8 guests at Holcroft's and added 'quartets' - all the other 7 can be shown to be professional or amateur musicians which suggests Otley was a musician too
Henry Otley shoemaker of Cranbourn Alley will PCC 1771 widow Elizabeth; 1773 Henry Otley appr to…
Otridge's 18.3.1799 / 20.3.1799 again
William Otridge constable of St Mary le Strand 1770, bookseller Strand voted 1774 Pelham & Clinton, 1784 Hood & Wray, 1790 Fox, 1802 Fox & Gardner, took an appr 1786 134 Strand, died 9.11.1812 Turnham Green (Maxted) / John Otridge, 158 Strand from 1789 died 1824 aged 55 of Otridge & Rackham, booksellers Strand
breakfast at Otter's 19.6.1797 (near Cambridge)
Edward & William Otter (Alum Cant) both fellows of Jesus college Cambridge in 1797, Edward was vicar of All Saints Cambridge in 1797, William was nearer in age to Basil Montagu, who had been a student at Cambridge, and with whom Godwin was travelling round England in a chaise
meet Ouvry 4.2.1805 & Thos Campbell
Peter Aime Ouvry (see his son Frederic Ouvry DNB 1814-1881) was an under secretary at the Ordnance Office, and brother in law of John Payne Collier DNB 1789-1883. The will of his father PCC 1808 Peter Ouvry of Acton mentioned a daughter Francesca who had married 2.12.1797 at Acton John Henry Campbell, a Major in the Army 1794 who joined the Whig Club in 1798 and died at Ramsgate 9.3.1834 aged 72. Perhaps he was a relative of the poet Thomas Campbell DNB 177-1844 (who was very likely the person Godwin met with or on the same day as Ouvry) but I…
Owen 1.1.1803 at Philips / 8.4.1805 call on Owen / 12.4.1805 meet Owen / 13.4.1805 Owen calls / 14.4.1805 Davies, Owen &c: cala / 24.4.1805 Owen calls / 14.5.1805 again / 22.5.1805 again / 11.11.1805 meet Owen / 1.7.1808 again
Probably William Owen (Pughe) DNB 1759-1835. His Cambrian Biography was published London 1803 with no publisher named and the final instalment of his Welsh & English Dictionary was printed the same year for Evan Williams, Strand successor to the late Richmond Blamire (his will PCC 1799). So no clear link to Richard Phillips, but Godwin's reading of…