A-Z of Entries

Samuel Boddington proposed Socy for Const Info by Richard Price 19.3.1790 2nded Thomas Brand Hollis. West India merchant History of Parliament 1766-1843. See Godwin Diary website entry which I haven't examined though there is some uncertainty about distinguishing between Samuel and John Boddington. SB of Enfield subscr 1786 to Peacock's 6 Princesses, SB Hackney 1790 subscr to Hazlitt's Discourses, SB of 17 Mark Lane subscr 1791 to Socy for Prmoting Religious Knowledge among the Poor, SB = 24.2.1792 Grace dau of William Ashburner of Surat, honeymoon in Paris, SB Southgate subscr 1795 to…

Boisgelin 29.12.1799 at Lanesborough's / 5.1.1800 at John King's / 19.1.1800 at Lanesborough's / 21.1.1800 at John King's / 26.1.1800 again / 9.2.1800 again / 16.3.1800

Boisgelin has been identified on 17.11.1799 on the GD website but all the above subsequent entries have not been coded to him

Bolton 25.4.1804 at Carlisle's / 3.11.1807 call on Bolton (then Pickering) / 4.12.1807 call on Pickering adv Bolton / 3.5.1812 Boltons at John Poole's

Possible : Boyle's 1800, Holdens 1811 John Bolton 11 Greek St Soho surgeon to St Anne's parish voted Hood 1788 & 1790, Paull 1806, Burdett & Romilly 1818 his will PCC 1821

SOCY for CONST INFO : George Bond Esq of the Temple proposed 7.2.1783 Alured Shove 2nded Samuel Shore. In 1792 he was a signatory to the Friends of the People and to the Friends of the Liberty of the Press. DNB 1750-1796. See Ride, Ann in Greater Soho dataset for more on his personal life.

GODWIN DIARY:  Bond 8.12.1790 at Holcroft's, with Fenwick and Bishop. May be George Bond as above, or the singer below if Bishop (QV) was the musician

Nicholas B Esq Boyle's 1792 44 Sloane St / John B singer Worcester & London (Highfill, Burnim & Langhans)  / Oliver B (Trials…

14.9.1810 Bond (on sir R Corbett) calls

Sir Richard Corbett will PCC 1815 claimed to be the heir to Sir Richard Corbett 4th baronet will PCC 1774 but the books of baronetcy say the 4th baronet died unmarried and the baronetcy became extinct with him. The claimant was a son of Charles Corbett, a bookseller who went bankrupt and was therefore excluded from the estate in the 4th baronet's 7th codicil.. Public Ledger 14.3.1810 reported the claimant's Chancery case against Archdeacon Corbett formerly Joseph Plymley, and the case by archdeacon Corbett that the claimant should not be…

31.1.1795 at Powel's / 16.10.1801 calls / 11.8.1802 call with M(ary) J(ane)on E Bone / Godwin calls on 27.9.1809 / adv at Place's 14.7.1813.

John Bone, bookseller and muslin cleaner, member of London Corresp Socy, went bankrupt with William Hone in 1810. Bone & Hone booksellers &c 331 Strand. At 180 Fleet St (Holden's 1802) which was the address of J S Jordan, who published 1808 Bone's weekly journal The Reasoner. The Making of the Modern World database has no.13 online, the Bodleian have a copy, not seen by me, See work notes below

Elizabeth d c1830 wife of Henry…

GODWIN DIARY 4.1.1795 &c

John Augustus Bonney of Percy Street, Rathbone Place proposed 8,4.1791 by John Frost 2nded Joseph Adams. Born 1763 youngest son of Thomas Bonney rector of Ockham, Surrey 1710-1764 (son of Charles Bonney d.1744 woolstapler of Reading and his wife Elizabeth nee Armington d.1756) and Grace d.1776 dau of Chrstopher Key, receiver-general. Apprenticed 31.3.1779 to John Frost (DNB 1750-1842) attorney of St Pancras for 5 yrs premium £200. Married 23.9.1787 St Pancras Mary Johnson widow, wits Charles Tomkins, Tom Hague. She was probably born Mary Hague about 1762…

3 Bonnors 7.3.1802 at Perry's

Two people of this name in DNB either could have been at Perry's. Charles Bonnor DNB d1829? actor & civil servant and Thomas Bonnor DNB 1743-1807x12 draughtsman & engraver. Other Bonnors Thomas B paymaster of 15th foot will PCC 1801 mentioned Marianna B spinster of Gloster, John B of GPO London, Thos B of Pentonville engraver, William Gillies of Throckmorton St corn merchant and his wife Charlotte Hester / PCC 1823 Thomas Bonnor late of Spring Gardens Westminster and now of Lindsay Pl Chelsea / PCC 1833 Jane B wife of John B of Doughty St, St…

In Godwin's 1796 list for 1796 but not coded to his person record in GD website

4.8.1807 dine at Johnson's, w. Bonnycastle & son, &c / 29.12.1808 Hommey, & misses Bonnycastle & Yeates call / 7.1.1809 Knowles & miss Bonnycastle dine / 20.1.1809 dine at Johnson's, w. Bonnycastle & fille, &c

Charlotte born 1788 Lewisham = 1813 Henry Gritten, Lt. Royal Marine, wits. M F Hommey, W Hommey. Bonnycastle's only daughter, he had three sons Richard Henry, Capt. Royal Engineers, Humphrey born 1795, Charles b. 1796. Bonnycastle's wife was Bridget Newell (not…

5.2.1810 call on Bonsor / 9.2.1810 again / 2.11.1813 again / 1.8.1823 again / 18.8.1823 seek Bonsor / 10.8.1823 again / 22.8.1823 call on Bonsor / 2.10.1823 again / 28.10.1823 again / 5.4.1825 Guildhall; Bonsor &c / 25.5.1825 call on Bonsor

Joseph Bonsor printer & stationer 132 Salisbury-sq, Fleet-st (1768-1835 bbti)

27.9.1809 call on Boosey / 17.11.1809 again

Thomas Boosey bookseller 4 Old Broad-st

Boot's Atherston nr Stratford 5.6.1797

In GD website Atherston is wrongly transcribed Albertson. In a letter to Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin described Boot as a country farmer. John Boote gamekeeper and yeoman of Atherston from 1774, subscribed (along with Samuel Parr and many of his local friends) to History & Antiquities of Stratford upon Avon 1806, Jackson's Oxford Journal 22.3.1823 J Boote of Cricklade Wilts formerly of Atherston upon Stour died age 75. There were other Bootes in the vicinity, Mr Boote of Lapworth also subsribed in 1806 to the same work, and JOJ recorded on 8.…

20.9.1795 Booths at Holcroft's / 29.8.1797 walk to Booth's, with Wollstonecraft, read, en famille, Werter p127. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1795, Booth crossed out after Dudley and inserted above before Dudley (which probably referred to 23.9.1795)

12.7.1809 write to Booth &c / 1.8.1809 write to Booth (Norwich) &c / 9.8.1809 write to Booth & Frizac / 19.1.1810 write to Booth &c / 23.2.1810 write to Franklin, Baker & Booth / 28.7.1810 write to Booth (Norwich) / 30.10.1810 write to Upham & Booth / 1.12.1810 write to J Taylor, Booth & Berry / 20.12.1810 write to Gillet & Booth

The above entries have all been coded on GD website to David Booth DNB 1766-1846. Those where Norwich was specified were very likely William Parkinson Booth bookseller of Norwich 1790 to 1825 (bbti). Also probably 12.7.1809…

2.5.1816 call on Moore (not seen) : seek Boothby

Godwin went to Ashbourne, probably to see the poet Thomas Moore, but finding him out tried to find Sir Brooke Boothby DNB 1744-1824 poet and writer of Ashbourne Hall

Borcham 16.4.1792 at miss Godwin's.

Ann Godwin's letter (Abinger c.1 f78) says she missed Burcham so had to send by post. All 6 Borchams in the Apprenticeship Tax records (National Archives IR1) lived in Suffolk or Essex

Borman 26.4.1795 at King's / 20.7.1810 Borman calls / 23.7.1810 again

Bosse 29.6.1788 at Holcroft's. Cesare Bosse d. 1802 (Highfill, Burnim & Langhan's Biog Dict of Actors &c) was a composer. Godwin noted him again at Shield's on 17.7.1788, then as Bossy at Holcroft's on 5.4.1791 and 7.7.1791 and finally Godwin dined at Bosse's on 9.11.1791
 

misses Bosville 30.12.1792 at Paradise's

Possibly natural daughters of William Bosville (DNB 1745-1813) or of his father

Godfrey Bosville will PCC 1784 was William Bosville's father. His will mentioned his wife Diana (her will PCC 1795) & children William (his will PCC 1814 unmarried and no natural children mentioned), Thomas Blackett (his will PCC 1793), Diana Elizabeth wife of Alexander Baron Macdonald & Julia (her will PCC 1833) wife of John Viscount Dudley & Ward (his will PCC 1788).

Boyle's 1792 Lt Col Bosville & Thomas Bosville 16 Clarges St /…

William Bosville of Maddock Street proposed Socy for Const Info 3.6.1791 by John Horne Tooke 2nded John Augustus Bonney. William Bosville DNB 1745-1813. Will PCC 1814 of Thorpe Hall Yorks. He died unmarried and his will mentioned no natural children but see Bosville, Misses.

BONNEY DIARY  14.11.1794 / 15.11.1794 / M Bosville 18.11.1794

1806 Bosville chair of Middlesex freeholders club, who resolved Mr Byng's letter was an insult and in violation of a pledge made in 1805 to celebrate the return of Burdett & Byng in 1802