A-Z of Entries

Stone 31.1.1795 at King's / 15.3.1795 again.

The William Stone who was acquitted of treason in January 1796 seems to have been arrested in May 1794 and kept in Newgate till his trial. He had been a member of the Society of Constitional Informaqtion and was a coal merchant at Rutland Place, Thames Street with his brothers John Hurford and Henry. A (presumably different) William Stone spoke in early July 1795 at a meeting of merchants at London Tavern, perhaps he was the William Stone wine merchant of 2, Northumberland Street, Strand in 1791. There was also Francis Stone DNB 1738-1813…

6.8.1793 Stone, taylor (in small writing).

Perhaps John Stone tailor of 79 Leather Lane (1800) and of 24 King St Holborn (1806 Sun Fire Insurance).

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

William Stone, taylor of Poland Street sat on a Westminster coroners jury (London Lives 1781) and paid rates at 3 Poland St 1780-1782. William Stone tailor of Church St (St Anne Soho) voted Fox 1780. William Stone bach = St Marylebone 14.4.1787 Esther Jones sp botp by banns / William Stone buried St James 3.1.1790 / William Robert s of William & Esther…

Storch 16.3.1803 at Joseph Johnson's

A close look at the original confirms the GD website has mistranscribed this, should be Sturch (see Sturch, William)

Stavin 26.5.1789 at Timothy Hollis' & Stovin 18.5.1790, 13..1790,, 24.8.1790, 7.9.1790 there.

The first Stavin looks like an error for Stovin given the similar context. Stavin is also a very rare name though there was one John Sparrow Stavin. Best candidate for Stovin is George Stovin appr to Henry Atkinson attorney of Ripon Yorks 1777; 9.5.1788 George Stovin Esq of Newark, Notts bach marr Diana Sabine sp otp by lic at St Marylebone, wits Anna Maria Lawes, H Michell, John Wylde; 1792 Charles Beckett & John A Baumbach appr to George Stovin attorney of Thornhaugh St, Bedford…

Stow 30.11.1793 at Wrights

Mr James Stow Navy Office subscr 1788 to Bell's Shakspere / James Stow line engraver appr William Sharp. of 1 Park Row Knightsbridge voted Fox & Gardner 1796  / John Stow gent Exeter St Covent Garden voted Tooke 1796 greengrocer Exeter St voted Graham 1802

Stracy 12.3.1795 at King's.

Farington diary p4254 (18.11.1812) bankers Marsh Sibbald Stracey Fauntleroy & Stewart of Berners St

King of The Swindlers: Stracy a military officer said to have been swindled by Deane & Co, supposedly run by John King, back in 1783

Asks of R C; talks of Strafford & Leland 30.7.1800 at Grattan's

From the entry of the night before, these subjectless verbs probably referred to Grattan. R C is uncoded (neither identified nor unidentified) on GD website. At a reasonable guess it may have referred to John Philpot Curran's eldest son Richard, whom Godwin may have seen more recently than Grattan had (see Curran, Richard). Leland probably referred to Thomas Leland DNB 1722-1785 whose History of Ireland Godwin had looked at on 27.7.1800 and was to read further in the next few days, and Strafford to Thomas Wentworth…

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Thomas George Street of 4, Cowley St, Westminster proposed member 4.11.1792 by Joseph Gerrald 2nded Joseph Jennings

GODWIN DIARY: 25.11.1794 at Parr's / 26.11.1794 at Mackintosh's / 5.3.1796 at Parr's / 19.4.1800 again / 31.10.1801 at D Stuart's (wrongly transcribed as Sheet in GD website).

Editor of the Courier. His poem Aura the Slave was published 1788 and the first volume of his History of the Reign of Lewis the Sixteenth, dedicated to Samuel Parr, in 1794. The other two projected volumes never appeared and according to Parr this…

see Martindale, Henry

Cha Stuart 24.2.1795 at Mackintosh's / 20.4.1796 again.

Charles brother of Peter and Daniel Stuart of Morning Post, and Mackintosh's brother-in-law

9.3.1806 dine at Wimbledon [Tooke's} w. col. Stuart / 13.7.1806 dine at Nicholson's; adv. col Stuart & C[om]be

June 1804 Ireland Lt Col James Alexander Stuart only son of Lt Gen James Stuart c-in-c of forces in Madras (DNB d.1793) married Letitia 7th daughter of Colonel Irvine of Castle Irvine, Fermanagh / Col Stuart was on half pay of 20th foot from 1805 to 1813 and buried 5.3.1813 St James Westmr age 43 / Holdens 1811 Lt  Col I A Stuart, 6 Charles-st, Berkeley-sq & Atwick-pl, Bognor / SunFire 1809 Letitia wife of Col J A Stuart, 6, Charles-st, Berkeley-sq / the will PCC 22…

miss Stuart 13.10.1793 adv at Perry's (with Gillies) / 7.3.1802 at Perry's with Gillies's

perhaps a sister of the journalist brothers Peter, Daniel & Charles Stuart and their sister Catherine who married James Mackintosh and died in 1797, though Godwin didn't record her with the Stuarts or at Mackintosh's but both times with Gillies at Perry's

10.5.1796 at House of Commons, Mac, Perry, P Stuart

Peter Stuart brother of Charles and Daniel of the Morning Post and brother-in-law of James Mackintosh

8.8.1805 see my entry for Stewart

Dr Stubbs of Frierning 22.8.1792 with B Hollis.

Richard Stubbs, son of Robert of Lorton Cumberland gent, born about 1746, Wadham College, DD 1783 (Alum Ox); died 26.12.1810 in London, Rev Dr Stubbs of Fryerning, Essex (Ipswich Journal 5.1.1811); will PCC 1811 mentioned his wife Pleasant

sleep at Stump's 2.4.1805

Godwin took tea at Charlotte Smith DNB 1749-1806 at Tilford, Surrey then slept at Stump's so this was probably the name of an innkeeper or neighbour. John Moon Stump son of Thomas & Elizabeth was baptised at Peper Harow 23.9.1798 a couple of miles from Tilford. There was also a Thomas Stump & Mary in nearby Farnham and a Thomas Stump & Ann in nearby Godalming

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: William Sturch of Stanhope St, Clare Market, ironmonger proposed member 9.8.1782 by John Jebb 2nded Edward Bridgen. Proposed again 6.4.1792. Transmitted tracts to Mr Christie of Montrose

GODWIN DIARY: Sturch 30.4.1799 at Joseph Johnson's / 16.9.1801 again / 16.3.1803 again / 12.5.1807 again / 11.9.1807 again / 24.7.1809 call on / 30.11.1809 again / 29.12.1809 at Johnson's funeral / 2.6.1814 M(arshall) from Sturch

William Sturch DNB 1753-1838. Mentioned in A Liberal Publisher as friend of Joseph Johnson's. GD website has mistranscribed…

3.5.1808 call on Sturley, Swaffham: Bradenham, with do.: meet P(hilip) H(ull) G(odwin): Sturley dines

Thomas Sturley married 9.11.1804 Mary Raven, who was baptised 4.10.1780 at Foulsham, dau. of Aldridge & Sarah Raven, so the sister of Philip Hull Godwin's wife. See my entries for Raven and for P H Godwin, brother of Godwin. Sturley may have been the main reason for Godwin's trip to Norfolk. He went bankrupt in 1810 as upholder & cabinetmaker of Swaffham. On this visit Godwin also went to his own home patch at Dalling but only recorded seeing his brother Hull, and Hull's…

Sturt 28.1.1798 at (Horne) Tooke's. In Godwin's 1796 list / 16.4.1799 C Sturt at Orlean's Italian pictures / 1.12.1799 Sturt at H(orne) Tooke's / 4.2.1800 meet Sturt / 9.12.1800 again

Charles Sturt 1763-1812 MP for Bridport 1784-1802, joined Whig Club 1786. Farington diary p404, p429, p518, p1810. Perhaps the most consistently radical of MPs in this period (History of Parliament)

Danvers& miss Sturt 5.2.1798 at (John) K(in)gs / 26.4.1798 again / 8.10.1798 again. (In Godwin's 1796 list E Sturt) / 15.10.1798 adv miss Sturt at King's / 27.10.1798 Danvers & E Sturt at King's / 7.11.1798 again / 19.12.1798 again / 21.6.1799 again / 25.5.1800 again / 4.1.1807 Danvers's & mrs & miss Sturt at (John) King's / 12.6.1802 meet Lanesborough, SM, EBD / 10.1.1807 Danverses & Sturts at (John) King's / 18.1.1807 Danvers's & 2 Sturts at (John) King's

Because E Sturt appeared on Godwin's 1796 list after Pienne who first appeared in the diary on 8.10.…