Pontigny 27.2.1805 adv at (R) Taylor's
Victor de Mazet Pontigny son of Henry Pontigny of Little Tower Hill potter was apprenticed 2.2.1819 to Richard Taylor of the Stationers Company. Henry Pontigny potter and glass seller of Hermitage Wapping had been partner there with John Livie (qv) who died 1798. His daughter Clara de Chatelain DNB 1807-1876
write to Poole 15.3.1802 / 5.6.1802 write to Poole / 19.8.1802 write to M, Liverpool : M dines / 23.3.1803 Ct Poole dines (& E Napier) / 2.2.1804 Ct Pool calls (& miss Walsh)
The first two entries above are coded to Thomas Poole in the GD website. He was a friend of Coleridge and Godwin had met him in Coleridge's company 5 times in January and February of 1802 so it's reasonable to infer that the two letters were to him. But the letter of 17,3,1802 from Poole to Godwin (Bodleian Abinger c7 f100) bore a signature that doesn't appear to be Thomas Poole, though it is hard to…
talk of Pope Rembrandt Rubens & Raffaele 9.5.1801
on GD website Rembrandt is uncoded and the other three coded as unidentified. The only one in any doubt was Pope who was probably the poet Alexander Pope DNB 1688-1744 but possibly the actor and painter Alexander Pope DNB 1763-1835. The three famous artists need no comment
30.11.1793 at Wrights (with Perry) / in 1796 list (crossed out) for 1793, and in 1794 version / 4.10.1803 call on w. Curran / 17.10.1807 dine at Perry's, w. Popes
Alexander Pope DNB 1763-1835 actor and painter who married Mrs Wheatley (Clara Maria Pope DNB 1767-1838) on 14.6.1807. On 17.9.1802 Godwin had dined at Perry's with Mrs Wheatley (when she was a widow)
Porter 2.4.1797 at Mary Robinson's / 4.6.1797 at Horseman's, Oxford / 27.4.1800 adv at Mary Robinson's (& Northcote). In Godwin's 1796 list for 1800 in position which might have referred to any of the 1800 entries / 28.4.1800 at RA exhibition / 2.5.1800 Porter's Seringapatam / 3.5.1800 adv at Bedford House / 13.5.1800 meet Porter / 17.5.1800 sup at Hoare's with N(orthcote) O(pie) Reynolds. Chalmers, Porter / 11.6.1800 Mary Robinson's with Northcote & 4 Porters / 18.6.1800 call on Northcote; meet Porter / 8.3.1802 Porter at Fuseli's lecture / 31.7.1802 theatre adv R K Porter / 3.1.…
Porteus 15.3.1797 at Robert Knight's / 14.5.1809 Porteus dies
For the 1797 entry GD website transcript has Portens, original looks more like Portens than Porteus but I cannot trace any instances of that surname. The 1809 entry was certainly Beilby Porteus DNB 1731-1809 Bishop of London.
miss Potts 6.9.1799 sups at Godwin's with H G / 9.10.1799 tea at Fell's with Godwin, Marshall & Fenwicks.
Ann M Potts was bound to Hannah Godwin on 1.6.1796 (Nat Arch IR1/36)
2.3.1789 Nicol & Potts at Robinson's and 9.3.1789 same pair at Hamilton's.
George Nicol DNB 1740-1828 bookseller and James Potts (R Pollard, Dublin Book Trade 1733-96) seem a likely pair to have been dining with these publishers (and see Jenkins 22.1.1789)
Poulain 2.1.1794 at Richard Johnson's
1774 Poulain, the Academy, Kensington / 1786 Paris 'L'Amour Conjugal' by Mlle Poulain / 1785-90 Poulain & Kaye navy agents 11 Savage Gdns / 1798 will PCC John Poulain of Grosvenor Row Chelsea (dated 11.9.1797 'nevew Francois Disiaux of Valenciennes, servant Jane Hallifax') / 1828 will PCC James Poulain of Finchley
11.3.1796 Powell at Holcroft's
Not James Powell the spy as coded in GD website. In Holcroft's diary (Hazlitt's Works vol 3 p196) he mentioned seeing William Nicholson's diary entry for 11.3.1796 and referred to Powell as "a young Oxonian brought by Parr". May be one of these
Charles Powell son of Rev Wm of Abergavenny - Jesus Coll matric 20.5.1790 age 18, BA 1794 MA 1796 (PCC 1827?)
James Powell son of James of Abingdon - Trinity Coll matric 13.12.1788 age 16, scholar, BA 1792, MA 1795, died 20.3.1797 (PCC 1797 x 2)
John Folliott Powell son of Richard of…
7.1.1789 Powell at Miss Williams' and 14.9.1789 there.
Jane Powell 1766-1838 and her sisters Anna and Margaret, daughters of John Powell (d.1799 PCC will) a prosperous Boston merchant who lost money by taking English side then came to live in Ludlow where they were part of Penelope Weston's circle (see her entry) and moved to London about the same time as her. Their brother Willam Dummer Powell (see his life by William Renwick Liddell) became Chief Justice of Upper Canada and died in 1835. Anna married Isaac Winslow Clark on 5.3.1791 in Boston and died in childbed in America. Jane…
Gen. Powell 10.10.1794 at Johnson's.
His will PCC 1814 Henry Watson Powell, General in HMArmy of Warwick. Took part in the 1790 Warwick meeting against dissenters and voted Villiers (pro Pitt) in 1792 Warwick poll. Died 14.7.1814 at his house near Lyme, Colonel of 15th regt of infantry
in {} brackets, probably not the right James Powell, but possibly
{SunFire 1786 James Powell gent, corner of John St, Tottenham Court Rd}
Customs 1788 James Powell £25 per annum Examiner of Journals for Northern Ports. In 1795 he stated he had been a clerk in the Customs Office for 12 years. Thale p256 note 34
The Narcotic and Private Theatricals Two Dramatic Pieces by James Powell of the Custom House. London, printed for & sold by the author, H D Symonds, Vernor, R Gyfford, Harrison, I Axtell, and Riley & Willis, published March 1793, 8vo 2 shillings.
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14.11.1807 write to H Siddons & mrs Powel / 2.12.1807 mrs Powel calls / 2.6.1808 Exhibition; adv. mrs Powel
Jane Powell (DNB 1761-1831) played the Countess Orsini in Godwin's play Faulkener at Drury Lane on 16.12.1807. Over the month between 14.11.1807 and the opening night Godwin saw three other of the principal actors in his play, Mr & Mrs Siddons, and Mr Elliston
Prado 25.6.1801 adv at Northcote's / 14.10.1801 Prado's nephew at Hoare's / 9.7.1805 Prado at Northcote's
Abraham Prado Billiter Sq 1774 will PCC 1782 Twickenham widow Esther will PCC 1788 Twickenham / Joseph de Prado merchant 1790 New Court Throgmorton St / Josue de Prado merchant 1791 10 Lothbury will PCC 1814 Newington Butts / Samuel Prado Land Tax Twickenham 1789, Socy for Improving Naval Architecture 1792, Robert St Adelphi 1798, 28 Grafton St 1811, will PCC 1839. There were also many PCC wills for Prado and de Prado of Amsterdam
Jas Pratt calls 25.1.1803 / 3.9.1804 Pratt (taylor) calls / 15.8.1813 call on Pratt, Islington
The two last entries above are coded in the GD website to Samuel Jackson Pratt DNB 1749-1814. There is nothing to suggest he was ever a tailor and he died in Birmingham in 1814, and there is nothing to suggest he was living in Islington in 1813.
The first entry was clearly the James Pratt who wrote to Godwin on 27.8.1804 from 10 Howard St ,Strand (Bodleian Abinger c8 f93) saying that he had called a year and a half ago. He had plans for a school and hospital in London for the…
18.7.1796 Pratts at J Astley's
Blanch Astley sister of Sir Edward Astley married Edward Pratt in 1751, his will PCC 1784 of East Dereham, her will PCC1804, their son Edward Roger Pratt PCC 1838 of Ryston, Norfolk. He married Pleasance dau and heiress of Samuel Browne, mayor of King's Lynn. Ryston or Riston is a deserted village and Riston hall cannot be found in present-day searches
In Godwin's 1796 list near end of 1796 but not coded to his person record in GD website. For Pratts 15.7.1796 at Astleys in Norfolk, wrongly coded to him, see Pratt, Edward Rogers. For Pratt 3.9.1804 and 15.8.1813 both probably wrongly coded to him, see my entry Pratt. Samuel Jackson Pratt was in the Kings Bench prison from 24.4.1799 to 13.9.1799 at the suit of John Comerford and Hanway Hanway (qv)
9.5.1809 Prattent calls / 10.5.1809 again / 17.5.1809 again
Thomas Prattent engraver 48 Cloth Fair, Smithfield (bbti). He took as apprentice 1786 engraver of St Bartholomew the Great Joseph Crane premium 12gns. He married by licence 1787 Ann Graves. There was a T Prattent prisoner for debt in the Marshalsea 1804. He advertised an engraving of Daniel's Life Preserver (Public Ledger 15.11.1806). It was probably him that died in 1841 at Clerkenwell Close age 77, and his widow Ann who died 1846 in Jerusalem Court Clerkenwell age 82