A-Z of Entries

24.12.1808 mrs Oldfield, 2 sons & Petman dine / 30.10.1811 Petman calls / 31.10.1811 Boinville & Petman dine

Clarissa Indiana Oldfield ran a school in Margate where the Oldfields lived from before 1798 till around 1808. See my entry for Oldfield, Thomas Hinton Burley. A promissory note dated 31.12.1808 (maybe in Abinger but in Shelley & his Circle SC 94) for £13 6s to Mes Oldfield & Pettman was endorsed C J Oldfield which given identical capitals for I and J fits Mrs Oldfield's initials. Pettman was a strongly local name in Sandwich, Whitstable, Chatham area of Kent…

20.11.1789 Peysonnel talk of with Robinson.

Probably Charles Peysonnel 1727-90 French consul in Smyrna and colleague of Condorcet as writer (though others of his family also enjoyed some fame)
 

11.10.1810 call on Dawe; adv. White, Wilson & Philip / 1.7.1830 dine at Judkin's, w. Wilson & Philip / 13.11.1831 T(homas) T(urner) & Philip jr au soir

For the five other uses of Philip (without a surname and non-fictional) in Godwin's diary, see my entry for Taylor, Philip. The 1810 entry above could refer to George Dawe's father Philp Dawe DNB, see my entry for Dawe, Philip in Amendments to DNB dataset with his possible dates 1748-1819. The combination of Wilson & Philip in 1810 and 1830 may have been coincidental as the two entries were twenty years apart.…

Philips grocer calls 22.3.1804

There were seven grocers called Phillips in London listed in Holden's 1811 directory, and one greengrocer. Perhaps the most likely (because the nearest to Godwin) was Robert Phillips grocer & tea dealer of 13 Somes Place, Somers Town

6.11.1795 mrs Philips adv at Inchbald's / 3.4.1801 Philips calls adv mrs P

The 1801 entry was surely the wife of Richard Phillips DNB 1767-1840. Mrs Philips at Mrs Inchbald's could just possibly be her too, as her husband moved to London in 1795, but Godwin didn't meet him till he called on 28.12.1795

28.12.1795 Philips (Leic) calls / 16.4.1796 Philips calls / 9.3.1800 meet R Philips / 7.3.1802 Phs calls

14.3.1797 adv Stephens & Philips at Joseph Johnson's / 11.7.1797 adv Stephens & Philips at Joseph Johnson's

19.4.1797 Philips at theatre / 14.11.1798 at theatre / 2.3.1799 at theatre

18.12.1797 at Chandler's / 15.1.1798 adv at Chandler's / 16.2.1798 at Chandler's / 19.2.1798 adv at Chandler's / 25.2.1798 Chandler & Philips call / 26.2.1798 at Chandler's / 19.3.1798 adv at Chandler's / 22.3.1798 Chandler & Philips at tea at Godwin's / 28.4.1798…

Philips calls: E Philips dines 20.7.1803 / 23.4.1808 call on La. Philips / 30.1.1815 again / 3.10.1819 again / 7.4.1820 again

Richard Phillips DNB 1767-1840 had married Elizabeth Griffiths in 1796. They had a daughter Eliza born 1797 and another Emily born 1800. In theory E Philkips could have been mother or either daughter but my guess would be the 6 year old daughter, particularly if the Godwin girls were all at home. Richard Philips was knighted on 30.3.1808 and Godwin consistently used La. for Lady

6.10.1794 Philips at Parr's / 5.6.1797 at Boot's, Albertson, nr Stratford.

Probably Samuel Parr's godson and pupil the Rev William Phillips of Ealing Hants mentioned in his will and in the diary of Rev John Morley (see Morley, John) as a pupil of Parr's in May 1797. He matriculated Trinity College Oxford 6.11.1797 age 19.  His father William Phillips (c.1752 - 1828) was notorious as "the inventor of illegal insurance in the lottery", and ran a high-class gambling den at his house at 40 Pall Mall. He was said to have been acquitted of highway robbery at York when a young man and,…

29.6.1810 Guildhall (Tabart); adv. Phipps &c / 10.7.1810 Phipps calls / 31.7.1810 Guildhall (Tabart); adv. Phipps &c / 11.8.1810 Guildhall; Tabart, Phipps &c / 20.8.1810 examination of sir R(ichard) P(hillips); adv. Phipps &c / 21.8.1810 Guildhall; Tabart, Phipps &c / 27.8.1810 Phipps calls / 11.9.1810 Baptist C(offee) H(ouse); Tabart, Phipps &c / 9.10.1810 Baptists Head; Tabart, Phipps &c / 26.3.1811 Phipps calls / 3.5.1812 Poole's, music, Phipps &c / 14.7.1812 Phipps calls / 27.3.1813 again / 29.3.1813 again / 5.5.1813 call on Phipps / 13.5.1813 again / 2.…

call on E Pickering 1.8.1802 / 3.11.1807 call on Bolton, Pickering / 3.12.1807 call on Pickering / 4.12.1807 call on Pickering adv Bolton / 5.12.1807 call on Pickering / 12.1.1827 again / 10.10.1832 Pickering artist calls / 25.10.1832 Pickering calls

When Godwin used an initial with a new surname in his diary it sometimes meant the person was female (but not consistently). Edward Rowland Pickering was an attorney of 8 Staples Inn in Holden's 1811 and also had a house at 37 Bernard St. But the only London attorneys called Pickering in 1800 were Ralph P of Old Fish St and Thomas…

call on Picoux (with Sarah Elwes) 10.2.1802

The name Picoux so spelt I cannot find at all. Angelique dau of Simon Francois Ravenet DNB 1721-1774 engraver married Victor Marie Picot, printseller in St Martins Lane, and after his death received charity from the Royal Academy 1795 to 1797 (Farington's Diary). Antoine Picquot was buried at St Pancras age 40 on 2.10.1797 and the Rev Julien Picquot was buried there age 41 on 3.1.1802. An A Picquot was the author of Elements of Universal Geography, London 1813 and in the front matter of its fourth edition 1826 he was a Fellow of the…

Pidcock's 17.7.1797 Exeter Change / 27.4.1801 Pidcock's with F(anny) & M(ary or possibly Marshall) / 14.5.1803 Pidcock's (with Mrs Godwin & their four children)

The will of Edward or Gilbert Pidcock PCC 1810. His menagerie in Exeter Change from 1791 or earlier had elephants kangaroos tigers and a two-headed heifer

17.2.1792 pidd / 10.9.1792 pides

the Godwin Diary editors have avoided explaining Godwin's words in Greek letters, using squares to represent them. Perhaps their Greek is as weak as mine but for completeness I've included them anyway.

I think these may mean piss or urine. please enlighten me

la duchesse de Pienne at John King's 8.10.1798. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1798 / 15.10.1798 de Pienne at King's / 22.10.1802 (Godwin reads) Pienne p.102 / 23.10.1802 Pienne p.212, (M J calls on do.)

Louis Marie Celeste d'Aumont de Rochebaron 7.9.1762 to 9.7.1831, duc de Pienne from 1780, his first wife Melanie Charlotte de Rochechouart was guillotined 21.4.1790 he then married (his mistress?) Francoise Fortunee Pauline de Chauvigny de Blot born 1761 widow of the Comte de Reuilly. (See Dictionnaire de Biographie Francaise under Aumont, Pauline de Chauvigny duchesse d'). She was known…

Piercy at theatre (& O"Brien & Col Hastings) 22.2.1799

perhaps William Piercy DNB 1744-1819

7.4.1795 Pikes at Foulkes' / 13.1.1804 Pike at Foulkes' / 2.5.1814 send to Pike / 12.5.1814 M(arshall) to Pike / 25.3.1817 M(arshall) from Pike / 20.12.1817 call on Pike

John Baxter Pike DNB 1745-1811 in his son's entry (John Deodatus Gregory Pike). Born 1745 King St Westminster. Lived in Netherbury Dorset 1797 - 1803. The Ipswich Journal of 2.11.1805 and the Morning Chronicle of 18.1.1806 reported on accusations of paedophilia against him as a schoolmaster. His range of interests (see DNB article) suggest him as possible for the two entries at Foulkes'. The later entries in 1814…

4.11.1807 meet Pilcher, w. M J / 3.8.1809 write to S Pilcher / 30.10.1809 Pilchers dine

Edward Paul Pilcher 1763-1826 had married Mary Jane Godwin's sister Sophia in 1792. It was eight years after Godwin's second marriage that the Pilchers first visited the Godwins (according to the diary). The Pilcher children later became frequent callers on the Godwins.

Their children (first three all baptised together in 1796) were 1) Edward, who probably died young, as he was not mentioned in his father's will of 1826, nor apparently in Godwin's diary 2) Peter who married in 1826 Emma…

mrs Pilkington 19.1.1800 at Lanesborough's / 26.1.1800 Pilkingtons at King's / 9.2.1800 again / 16.3.1800 again / 26.3.1800 again / 30.6.1833 miss Pilkington at Gaskel's / 12.6.1835 mesd Gaskel & Pilkington

Pym 9.7.1800 at Lady Moira's. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1800 / Pim 12.7.1800 at Curran's / 24.7.1800 meet Pim

John Janesa Pym Dict Irish Biog 1773-1861 Dublin brewer / Joshua Pim Esq subscr to Cervantes (Dublin 1796) / Dublin Trades 1797 Joshua & Joseph Pim merchants, James Pim tabbinet & silk manufacturer

Pinard 18.12.1791 at Holcroft's and 20 more times there till 24.1.1796, plus 25.117.93 Godwin calls on him and 7.7.1793 Godwin dines at his, with Holcroft

Nat Arch PROB31/1015/473 inventory of Jean Baptiste Pinard 1808 late of Oxford St, St Ann Soho bachelor, father Francois Pinard. creditor Rev Andre Benoitt Hardouin. sureties Rice Ives wine merchant & Wm Grant upholsterer both of Oxford St

Paul Pinard goldsmith 2 New St Covent Garden 1808, gent 9 Moor St Soho 1805 (Sun F). Paul Pinard goldsmith New St Covent Garden will PCC 1785 mentions brother James of Jamaica, wife…