A-Z of Entries

HCR diary 2.2.1827 "Gotzenberger the young painter from Germany called on me and I accompanied him to Blake - We looked over Blake's Dante. Gotzenberger seemed highly gratified by the designs and Mrs Aders says G: considers B: as the first and Flaxman as the second man he has seen in England. The conversation was slight - I was interpreter between them and nothing remarkable was said by Blake - he was interested apparently by Gotzenberger"

                  10.2.1827 called on Mrs Aders "Gotzenberger had left them"

letter 5.9.1830 Mrs Aders in London to HCR in Italy "by the…

HCR diary 10.6.1824 at Gillman's Highgate (where Coleridge lived) "there we found a large party - Mr & Mrs Green, the Aders" &c &c

                    11.5.1825 "I dined with Green - Lincolns Inn Fields - a large party - Mrs Aders" &c &c

                      8.6.1826 dinner party at Aders "the Greens" &c

                   30.4.1829 "called on Aders. I was alarmed by finding the knocker tied and I found she had been very ill even dangerously - but she was thought then out of danger - Green thinks there has been an attack on the brain - Dr Lee…

HCR diary 5.11.1824 "Mrs Aders, Ellen, Miss Denman and the Miss Gunns called on me - Not a little worried by such a visit I accompanied them to the Royal Academy Somerset House"

                    8.11.1824 party at Aders "The Flaxmans with the Miss Gunns and old Stothard"

                    20.5.1828 "The Rev Mr Gunn and his son breakfasted with me"

                    11.7.1836  blue stocking party at Mrs Aders "the Miss Denmans & Miss Gunn etc"

The daughters of William Gunn (DNB 1750-1841) who married Ann Mack (1768-1828) at Smallburgh, Norfolk on 11.2.…

HCR diary 10.11.1817 "I stayed with Aders till late and gave him directions to buy a number of engravings for Mr Gurney"

Probably?  Hudson Gurney (DNB 1775-1864)

HCR diary 9.5.1838 called on Aders "He tells me that Halcomb the Dover candidate has taken up the cause of Mrs Leigh"

                   8.7.1838 "I hear from the Aders that Mrs Ley has returned to her old house where she means to open a school -she has a friend in Halcomb the barrister!!!"

John Halcomb (DNB 1792-1852). Ellen Ley (1804-1867) was the daughter of Mrs Aders and the widow of Hugh Ley (DNB 1790-1837). Halcomb's interest probably didn't last very long and she was soon in trouble again (HCR diary 7.1.1840). See my background article 3 Wives 3 Husbands Living

HCR diary 25.11.1842 at Basil Montagu's - Haldane's father was stopped from preaching in Aberdeen over forty years ago

Presumably James Alexander Haldane (DNB 1768-1851) father of Alexander Haldane (DNB 1800-1882)

HCR diary 9.8.1832 "I took Mr hall to see Mrs Aders' pictures - she was there and thus the whole morning - for we went to the Athenaeum - was spent with him. Mrs A: says he has a good taste and knowledge of paintings, tho' his taste is not altogether for the old masters"

                  24.4.1839 "to Christie's to inspect the pictures. There I met with hall who gives a favourable opinion of them"

                  26.4.1839 at sale of Aders' pictures "For the great picture there were no bidders but myself thro' Mr Hall and Lemme who for himself took it at 95 gns and but for…

HCR diary 1.1.1820 tea at Aders "I was glad to be withdrawn for a time from the melancholy subject"

                 23.5.1820 Hamond's view of Crabb Robinson "kindhearted, gay, ingenious, animated, well read man with a good taste in morals & poetry but he is as far from being an interesting man as Joe Rolley who was called so by Pollock. His manners are too coarse - he has too little ambition, too much vanity & garrulity"

Elton Hamond (1784-1820) shot himself at midnight as the new year 1820 began, and made Crabb Robinson his executor, hence Robinson got to read his…

HCR diary 24.11.1821 party at Aders "Also a Mr Harcour (or some idem sonam) who is said to sing well and has a modest and sensible air"

                    29.11.1822 at Aders "Mrs Harcourt a niece of Aders was just arrived - a very plain woman but she looks amiable and Mrs A: says she is accomplished"

Auguste, eldest daughter of Johann Jakob Aders (1768-1825) older brother of Charles Aders, and his wife Anna Helena (d 1844) daughter of Johann Heinrich Brinck (1748-1817) banker. They were married 20.5.1793 and Auguste was born in 1794. She married on16.4.1819 Karl Friedrich…

HCR diary 10.10.1819 "by appointment to Aders. At one I met at his house Haydon the painter"

Benjamin Haydon (DNB 1786-1846)

GODWIN DIARY: adv soeur 4.4.1799 at M Hays / 25.9.1799 mr Hays adv at Astley's

Mary Hays' sister Sarah Hills has a person record on the GD website. Soeur should perhaps be added to her. perhaps to another sister like Joanna Dunkin, or Elizabeth Hays later Mrs Lanfear. Mr Hays was probably one of their brothers John or Thomas, her father was by then dead. See Correspondence of Mary Hays

CRABB ROBINSON DIARY     5.9.1812 at George Wedd's, Mr Hill nephew and Mr Lanfere son in law of Miss Hays (should be nephew-in-law?)

HCR diary 10.12.1820 ""Hazlitt, Mrs Horace Twiss & Barry Cornwall were at Montague's and I had a very pleasant lounge"

                      21.2.1821 after meeting Hazlitt at Lamb's "Hazlitt and I now speak again"

William Hazlitt (DNB 1778-1830)

HCR diary 5.11.1824 Dr Henderson at Athenaeum Club

                   26.4.1839 at sale of Aders' pictures "there attended the sale"...."and no-one else I know except Dr Henderson"

Probably Alexander Farquharson Henderson (DNB 1779/80-1863)

HCR diary 14.11.1827 "dined afterward at Aders -Dr Wurm and Dr Heusler were there"

                   25.12.1827 Christmas dinner at Aders "Heusler and Peiper were there - H: is so very shy and quiet I can make nothing of him, and only give him credit for learning and talents"

                     24.4.1828 "Scargil, Dr Heusler and Beldam breakfasted with me" "H: who is soon to leave the country. He is an excellent man, I believe, though dull and somewhat tiresome"

Marquardt II p115-6 "a young Swiss lawyer, whom I have scarcely seen". Also in HCR diary 14.12.1827, 23.2…

The GD website has Hogan as an Idenified Person but knows almost nothing about him.The mentions of Hogan in Godwin's diary were approx 200 from 16.3.1812 to 12.2.1816, most of these were Hogan calling on Godwin, and taking tea and supper with him. 24.8.1814 was the last time Hogan came to Godwin, after which Godwin wrote to him a few times, called on him once, and heard from him via others (mostly Charles Clairmont). While Hogan was coming regularly to Godwin's, Godwin only called on him a few times and wrote to him a few times. Near the start of their acquaintance Godwin invited him a few…

GODWIN DIARY 30.7.1813

CRABB ROBINSON DIARY 8.7.1828 at Lambs "found there a Louisa Holcroft - a fine and interesting young woman - seemingly a girl of talents and sweet disposition"

                                   21.3.1829 at John Payne Collier's - Kennys & Mrs Baddam

Born 24.6.1801 daughter of Thomas Holcroft and his fourth wife Louisa, she married John Badams of Aston Warwicks bachelor by licence at St Pancras on 30.12.1828 (the witnesses were her father-in-law J Kenney and Basil Montagu's wife Anne D B Montagu). She married secondly on 15.10.1835 at…

GODWIN DIARY 14.4.1803

Son of Thomas Holcroft and his fourth wife Louisa, he was born on 9.1.1803, married Catherine North at St Marylebone on 9.1.1825, and appeared in the 1841 census living at Nassau St, Soho age 36 Man of Letters with Elizabeth Holcroft age 32 (presumably his second wife). 22.11.1818, 31.1.1819, 12.4.1819 and 31.5.1819 should be added to his dates. Godwin noted him over 50 times between his first marriage and Godwin's death but no sign of Godwin's having met Thomas's wife

CRABB ROBINSON DIARY (21?) 29.10.1823 Tom Holcroft back from India, Robinson found…

HCR diary 10.6.1834 "obtained from Hopkinson's Aders' account which I sent him"

Hopkinson's bank at 3 Regent St, built in 1825, architect George Stanley Repton (1786-1858). Their previous address was 6 St Albans St, Pall Mall.  Charles born 3.1.1804 baptised St James Piccadilly son of Charles 1772-1830 (will PCC 1830) and his wife Arabella (nee Sainsbury) whom he married 21.8.1798. His grandfather George Caesar Hutchinson (will PCC 1825) founded the bank in 1795. Charles Hopkinson (1804-1882) married 27.4.1837 Clara Bunny. Their country seat was at Wotton, Glos, Charles Hopkinson's…

HCR diary 29.11.1820 "at Aders - a large party there - chiefly of German merchants, including my old acquaintance Hormann"

Marquardt II p 82-5 Johannes Hörmann born in Hamburg active in business in London but without his own firm, very musical, introduced to Robinson by William Rough (DNB 1772/3-1838). He left England in 1811 and returned in 1816, living from 1817 with William Benecke, through which connection Robinson met Benecke. Hormann worked on translating German works into English, he returned to Germany in 1821 but Robinson saw him in England on 30.1.1825 when "Hormann…

HCR diary 3.3.1819 "I also called on Aders & Mr Howell for a few minutes"

                  26.5.1823 "returned to Chambers after a call on Mr Howell"

                25.11.1823 "Mrs John Howell's - Mr Howell who came afterwards asserted my pulse was low"

                10.12.1824 "called at Howell to speak to Mr Rotheram"

                  13.6.1825 "to Mr Howell's - the Pattisons were all there and the rest of the family" "evening at Mrs Thornthwaite's - heard all the Witham news - Ich glaube man wird Howell noch halten"

                    4.5.…