A-Z of Entries

19.5.1808 G Walker calls / 21.5.1808 write to G Walker / 23.5.1808 G Walker calls (not seen) / 24.5.1808 G Walker calls

Holdens Directory 1811; George Walker, publisher of music at half price, and warehouse for Hope's Hectic Pills, 106 Gt Portland-st, his will PCC 1847 / George Walker, attorney, 15, Craven-st, Strand

A very common name so no identity suggested, but an interesting outside possibility is that this was George Walker DNB 1772-1847 gothic novelist who satirised Godwin in The Vagabond 1799 and Timothy Thoughtless 1813

15.3.1790 Walker at B Hollis' / Walkers at B Hollis' 24.12.1799. In 1796 list for 1790 as  G Walker Notts, and in 1794 version. Underlined in both versions but not in list of 17 or list of 25 (see "the 1796 list"). 

Rev George Walker of Nottingham original member of Society for Constitutional Information 15.5.1780

Rev George Walker DNB 1734-1807. He was based in Nottingham till 1798, then Lancashire till his death. Not necessarily the 1799 Walkers entry, though at same host. There were four diary entries for G Walker in 1808 after his death

2.5.1792 Walker goldsmith / 5.5.1792 call on Dorset, Bulmer and Walker.

Probably part of the negotiations to bind John Robinson apprentice (see Dorset, Bulmer and Robinson)

22.12.1788 see John Walker.

J Walker was in Godwin's 1796 list near the end of 1788, crossed out, and in 1794 version as John Walker.
Since Godwin saw him after dining at George Robinson's this may well have been Robinson's brother-in-law 'the book-auctioneer of the trade' mentioned in the DNB article on the Robinson family of booksellers. But John Walker was a very common name.

17.7.1795 at Amelia Alderson's, John Walker & Capt Hamilton / 17.7.1805 John Walker at Joseph Johnson's / 27.11.1805 J Walker there,  see Walker
 

11.1.1809 call on Clark (…

Joseph Walker of Tresham nr Rotherham (by the Sheffield coach) proposed Society for Constitutional Information 18.4.1783 by John Cartwright (by letter) 2nded Jeremiah Batley

Joseph 1752-1801 (will PCC 1801 of Aston upon Trent, Derbyshire?) third son of Samuel Walker 1715-1782 in Walker family DNB per 1741-1833

J C Walker 21.7.1800 call on with Lady Mountcashell. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1800 / 29.7.1800 call on J C Walker

Joseph Cooper Walker DNB 1761-1810 antiquary

Thomas Walker of Manchester proposed Society for Constitutional Information 9.5.1788 by Thomas Cooper 2nded Joshua Grigby

Thomas Walker DNB 1749-1817

call on col Wall 27.2.1804 (in Lewes)

John Wall Lt Col South Glos Militia 1793, commanding Royal South Glos Regt Brighton 1809. John Wall will PCC 1808 of Tewkesbury Park, died before 11.8.1808 mentioned wife Molly Groves Wall, sons John & Martin, daus Mrs Crane and Mrs Law(x?)ton, witness Ricahrd Tree "servant to Col Wall"

Wallace's trial 5.8.1800

Covered by event tag in GD website but coded as unidentified

Waller calls 7.4.1798 / 22.4.1808 Waller at J(oseph) Johnson's / 10.12.1809 write to W Waller / 5.2.1810 TTdines adv Waller / 11.2.1810 Waller & TT dine, adv H Robinson & Girle / 8.4.1810 Waller & H Robinson sup / 10,2,1811 Waller dines / 28.4.1811 Waller at tea / 29.4.1811 write to Waller / 2.5.1811 Waller calls (not in) / 10.9.1811 W Waller calls (not in) / 12.9.1811 TT dines adv Waller / 21.9.1811 Fred Waller calls, TT sups / 6.10.1811 Waller at tea / 13.10.1811 Waller dines (with Coleridge, W Collier, H Petman) / 12.12.1811 Waller at tea / 20.1.1812 adv Waller at Coleridge'…

6.7.1792 Maj Waller at Holcroft's and 21.10.1792. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1792 and in 1794 version.

Major Henry Waller, in his will (PCC 1794) left his cello to his esteemed friend John Crosdill. (And see Collick, Iohn his executor) Mentioned his cousin John Waller and his daughters Mary & Maria. Boyle's 1792 Waller Esq Warwick Place
 

Wallis 12.7.1800 at Curran's (in Ireland) / 26.5.1801 at Nicholson's / 21.7.1803 Wallis, Camden St calls / 22.7.1803 Camden St / 9.4.1811 call on Wallis / 14.7.1815 call on Wallis, Newgate Street / 21.7.1815 meet Wallis (N S)

Apart from the last two who were presumably the same person, these may have all been different people. Wallis in Ireland could have been the postmaster of Carlow (see Wallace, Arthur) coming to consult Curran about his trial. The Dublin Evening Post also spelt his name Wallis in the first instance. For other Irish Wallises see work notes below.  A Richard…

21.1.91 Dr Wallis at Robinson's. George Wallis DNB 1740-1802. Robinson was his publisher in 1780s and 1790s

see Poland Street 10 to 18 & 45 to 48 in London Addresses dataset

Dr Wallis 13 Poland St , ad for medical lectures in World  8.5.1790, by September his address was Gt Marlborough St / George Wallis DNB 1740-1802

3.3.1797 call on Wallis w Inchbald / 26.4.1797 adv (Amelia Alderson) & miss Wallis at Inchbald's

Tryphosa Jane Wallis DNB 1774-1818 actress. Her final performance in London before her marriage was 22.5.1797

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

Eliza Walpole 1 Poland Street Ratebooks 1788-1789 / Harris's List 1788 Miss R-ss and Miss D-gl-ss (QV* Douglas) at Mrs Walpole's 1789 Miss M-k-y (QV* Mackay) and "Mademoiselle" at Mrs Walpole's 1790 Miss Bromley // 1794 reference to Mrs W of Poland St in Life and extraordinary adventures of James Molesworth Hobart by John Collard

The following only possibly the same person: SunFire 1777 Elizabeth Walpole widow Marshall St Carnaby Market, St James 1778 Elizabeth Walpole widow Ludgate Hill // Elizabeth Walpole…

9.3.1809 theatre; adv. (Walpoles & Pole)

When Godwin uses brackets it generally means saw but didn't speak to, as with celebrities at the theatre. William Wellesley-Pole DNB 1763-1845 brother of the future Duke of Wellington, was probably Pole. Walpoles may have been two MPs, Horatio Walpole History of Parliament 1783-1858, and his uncle George Walpole History of Parliament 1758-1835. Horatio's father Horatio had just become Earl of Orford on his father's death and handed over the seat of King's Lynn to his son.  Godwin was usually aware of titles and would have called the…

miss Walsh 25.9.1802 adv at dinner with Napier / 29.9.1802 miss Walsh dines adv Napier / 18.11.1803 miss Walsh calls / 22.2.1804 Ct Pool & miss Walsh call / 4.3.1804 Miss Walsh adv at dinner (& Rawlins) / 7.3.1804 sup at Napier's w. Miss Walsh & Miss Burt  / 11.3.1804  Jno & V Napier, Miss Walsh & Miss Burt dine / 24.3.1804 Walsh & Burt call / 29.3.1804 call on Miss Walsh, adv miss Green & V N(apier) / 17.4.1804 Miss Walsh dines / 26.6.1806 meet Walsh / 5.7.1806 Walsh's / 10.7.1806 call at Walsh's / 30.7.1806 call on Walsh / 29.10.1807 Walsh calls / 30.10.1807…

Charles Frederick Walsh of Strand proposed Society for Constitutional Information 22.3.1792 by John Horne Tooke 2nded Sharpe (presumably Richard Sharp as William Sharpe the engraver was only proposed on same day as Walsh)

Frederic Charles Walsh chemist of 100 Strand ratebooks 1782-1809, directories 1785-1791 (1790 as chemist to Duke of York), took apprentices 1792, 1797, 1803. Ads from 1787 to 1802 for Pontefract Licorice, Dr Huxham's Peruvian bark and Walsh's ginger seeds. Frederick Charles Walsh bach of St Clement Danes = Lambeth 30.4.1784 Elizabeth Read otp sp wits Samuel &…

Walstein 26.1.1800 at John King's

German regiment of Walstein to West Indies (Telegraph 13.8.1796). Count Walstein in Fashionable News (Morning Post 23.4.1805 & others 1806 -7). Ferdinand Ernst Graf Waldstein 1762-1823 was in English military service from about 1795 till 1805 and remained in England for some years afterwards, best known as a composer and patron of music to whom Beethoven dedicated a sonata (Constant von Wurzbach, Biographisches Lexikon vol 51-2 p 231). He acted in private theatricals with the family of the ambassador Count Starhemberg at Twickenham in 1802 and…