A-Z of Entries

20.11.1796 Skenes at (Jonas) Davis's / 7.3.1797 dine at Davis's adv Skene / 18.10.1798 theatre adv Skene / 21.7.1804 again / 19.11.1805 again / 6.4.1828 adv Skene at M W S (Mary Shelley's)

George Skene A.M. was the author of Donald Bane an heroic poem published in 1796 printed for George Robinson (for whom Jonas Davis often printed), dedicated to James Duff, Earl of Fife, and based on "a manuscript at the family seat of Mr Skene of Skene, MP for Aberdeenshire in the parliament before last". That MP was George Skene (History of Parliament 1749-1825 a drunken laird and a firm adherent…

A Skeys calls 4.11.1797 / 20.11.1797 again

Probably a relation of Hugh Skeys whose deceased wife Fanny had been Mary Wollstonecraft's close friend. There was an Abraham Skeys merchant in Ireland alive in 1807

Skinner 1.1.1803 at Philips / 25.4.1803 again

Probably Joseph Skinner who edited "The Present State of Peru" which was printed for Richard Phillips 1805; the Editor's Preface was signed Joseph Skinner, Tottenham Court 30.1.1805. In Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica it was ascribed to Captain Skinner. In the Annual Review Jan 1805 p49 it was suggested that Skinner had obtained the material by capturing a Spanish ship and finding copies of periodicals published in Lima. In John Timbs' London Clubs p153 Captain Skinner of elegant manners who had been in the procession of Anacharsis Cloots…

Scotto 18.10.1797 at Carlisle's

Anthony Carlisle DNB 1768-1840 was the son of Thomas and Barbara Carlisle. His mother died the year he was born and his father remarried to Susan Skottowe

6.11.1795 Sloper at Carr's with Carlisle / 16.1.1796 Sloper at Carlisle's / 23.5.1797 Slopers at Carlisle's / 6.10.1797 Sloper & Carlisle call / 27.5.1798 Sloper at Tooke's / 4.6.1798 Sloper & Carlisle call / 3.5.1800 adv Sloper senior at Carlisle's / 18.5.1800 miss Sloper at Tooke's / 16.7.1805 mesdames Carlisle White & Sloper & Mulready at tea / 29.1.1807 call on Sloper / 24.2.1807 again / 8.4.1807 again / 24.4.1807 call on Sloper: adv. Sutton / 6.5.1807 meet Sloper / 27.5.1807 call on Sloper (not seen) /  30.5.1807 again / 2.6.1807 meet Sloper & Keir / 1.12.1807 call…

Smart calls with Esther 12.5.1802

Martin Smart son of Thomas & Esther was bapt 10.7.1751 at St Marylebone. Smart was a fairly common name but Martin & Esther were not the commonest of first names so the coincidence level is quite high, though not a certainty. Fifty might seem a good age for a militia sergeant but he was clearly an unusual person. First names often repeated in families so the baptism above might have been in another generation, and Esther might have been his mother, sister or daughter. Esther Smart widow of Greek St formerly of Tothill St was buried 5.6.1804…

23.8.1795 Smeatham's at Foulkes'

smiler 11.4.1791 at Brand Hollis'

7.12.1795 call on Sme with Holcroft (not at home) / 3.1.1796 Sm breakfasts / 22.5.1812 call on Sme (not in)

Robert Smirke DNB 1753-1845, in the GD website under person record for plain Smirke, because of his "large family of artists". But in 1795 his father was dead and his eldest child just 17. Given his known radical sympathies he is the obvious candidate for the 1795 entries and the abbreviated entries above fit the pattern of Godwin's contacts with him

18.4.1790 Russian chaplain at Paradise's and Smirnhoff 31.3.1793 there.

James Smirnove d. 8.5.1840 (newspapers) in his 85th year, chaplain of Russian Legation, officiated at Greek Orthodox church Welbeck St and was Lucy Paradise's chaplain (Shepperson), his will PCC 1840. Boyle's 1792 Rev James Smirnove 47 Upper Marylebone St
 

Smith 2.7.1795 at Lambe's & 4.7.1795 miss Smiths at Morley's

May be Lilley Smith grocer of Warwick, his will PCC 1803 wife Susanna, daughter Sarah married William Dwarris, daughter Ann married Thomas Ellis, dau Elizabeth Smith, late sister Mary Smith, son William Lilley Smith, grandson Henry Lilley Smith dated 8.1.1802. 1792 High St Warwick voted Villiers (pro govt).

John Bohun Smith attorney of Warwick 1784

Smith (Gower St) sups 7.12.1832

Smiths (Stockwell) 22.11.1800 at Carlisle's

Thomas Woodrouffe Smith of Stockwell Park will PCC 1811, merchant 29 Gt St Helen's 1786-99, (Standard 11.4.1839) his widow Ann died at Clapham aged 72. see Coleridge's Letters

Cooke's with Gent, miss Tucker & Smith 6.9.1829

C Smith 2.5.1797 at John King's

The GD website has coded this entry to Charlotte Smith, but her position in the sequence of Godwin's 1796 list for 1797, after Bage (met 14.6.1797) and G Fordyce (met 7.7.1797), suggests that her taking tea at Godwin's on 13.7.1797 was their first meeting. The 1796 list also put sir Robert Smyth and Carrington Smith in that order immediately before Bage, and the diary noted them both at Joseph Johnson's on 9.5.1797, a week after the C Smith entry above. So it may have been Carrington Smith or some other C Smith at King's (see Smith, Carew).

20.8.1788 Godwin dined at Smith's in or near Guildford

Smith of Philadelphia 27.10.1801 calls. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1801 / 1.1.1802 T P Smith (Philadelphia) calls / 3.1.1802 T P Smith calls

Sketch of the Revolutions in Chemistry by T Smith Philadelphia 1798. Two papers in Trans Amer Socy vol.4 431, 445 (Allibone). Philadelphia census 1800 North Ward no.661 Thomas Smith chymist. Philadelphia death certificates Thomas Smith died 31.3.1809 age 62 / Thomas Smith born Ireland died Feb 1810 age 55

13.8.1810 Smith of Sun. Rev. calls / 15.8.1810 Smith, S R, calls

Courier 5.5.1815 Sunday Review to be sold, apply to Charles Smith mapseller 172 Strand (bbti). See my entry for John Morton, whose wife was Katharine daughter of Colquhoun Smith, printer, and executor of her will PCC 1818 which also mentioned her daughter Margaret Jacobina wife of John Anderson bookseller of 40 West Smithfield

Smith of Sun Rev calls 13.8.1810 / 15.8.1810 Smith S R calls

In the Morning Chronicle of 6.5.1815 the Sunday Review, its copyright and printing materials, were advertised for sale, applications to Mr Charles Smith, mapseller 172 Strand. It was probably bought by Matthew Davenport Hill DNB 1792-1872 and/or his friends. Charles Smith the mapseller or his son will PCC 1855

Betterton's au soir with Jo(seph) G(odwin) & Smith, artist 26.10.1817

Not looked into this yet, this was the only Betterton in Godwin's diary so he was probably a contact of Godwin's brother Joseph