A-Z of Entries

Ward, William (lord Dudley)

23.3.1795 lord Dudley at Bosville's / 23.9.1795 Dudley at King's / 4.10.1811 meet B Dudley / 28.12.1820 adv L Dudley Stuart at Nash's / 23.6.1823 letter for Mackintosh (L Dudley), 1827/8 calls & letters L Dudley. (Dudley in Godwin's 1796 list for 1795 but place in sequence implies the Dudley at King's, who was perhaps the B Dudley 0f 1811)

William Ward, 3rd Viscount Dudley & Ward 1750 - 25.4.1823, married 1780 William Bosville's sister Julia. See Female Jockey Club p151

Their son John William Ward (DNB 1781-1833) born 9.8.1781 became 4th Viscount 1823, Foreign…


Wardle, Thomas

4.1.1796 at Tooke's / 27.11.1796 at Crown & Anchor / 20.3.1796 at Tooke's / 3.9.1796 at theatre / 12.2.1797 / 2.9.1798 / 16.2.1800 / 18.5.1800 all at Tooke's

Thomas Wardle of 9 Trump St, Cheapside proposed Society for Constitutional Information 23.11.1792 by George Williams 2nded John Horne Tooke

Perhaps Thomas Wardle Esq steward of Derbyshire Society dinner at Crown & Anchor 1791. Steward of SCI dinner 2.5.1794. Indicted in treason trials 6.10.1794 but "evaded the warrants" (Thale,, Selections p167). Steward of Friends of Parliamentary Reform 18.5.1797. In Kings…


Waring

Waring 17.8.1802 sups at H(annah) G(odwin)'s with Godwin, Jo G &c, Littlewood & Forsyth / 3.4.1803 miss Waring sups at Godwin's with H G.

Probably an apprentice of Hannah Godwin, not in Nat Arch IR1 so probably taken on without a premium. For the later Warings in 1805-7 see Hughes, Maria
 


Warne

Warnes 11.11.1802 at R(aphael) Smith's

Peter Warne boot & shoe maker of 14 King St Covent Garden was a near neighbour of John Raphael Smith DNB 1751-1812. His will PCC 1814 requested he was buried Bunhill Fields with his father, and mentioned his wife Ann, sons William & John Antrobus, and daus Ann McLellan, Jane Preston, & Isabella, Frances & Elizabeth Warne. The daughter Frances will PCC 1816 Clarendon St Somers Town mentioned her sisters Isabella & Elizabeth spinsters of the same address. There were quite a few other people of the name Warne around in London…


Warner, John

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION Rev Dr John Warner proposed member 25.5.1792 by Robert Merry 2nded John Frost

GODWIN DIARY Dr Warner 25.12.1796 at H Tooke's. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1796 as dr Warner. In GD website his person record seems to be blank or missing and the entry in the 1796 list is not coded.

John Warner DNB 1736-1800 and see Courtenay, Philip


Warner, Philip

30.9.1795 Philip Warner at Tooke's

see Courtenay, Philip


Warner, Richard

Warner 5.3.1798 Pump-room at Bath / 27.1.1804 Alvanley's chambers, bail w. Warner (trial) / 1.2.1804 Westminster Hall w Warner adv Morris & Agar 

Richard Warner DNB 1763-1857 was minister of St James', Bath 1795-1817. The first entry above is coded to John Warner DNB 1736-1800 in GD website


Warren

31.10.1795 mrs Warren at Foulkes' / 12.6.1795 Warren at Thelwall's / 15.2.1796 sup at Warren's (with Bewgo & Smith)

Charles Warren 1764 -1829 (eldest son of Dr Richard Warren DNB 1731-1797) Jesus Coll Cambr 1780, Lincolns Inn 1781, called to bar 1790, Whig Club 1790, Friends of People 1792, witness in Lord Thanet's case re Maidstone courtroom fracas 1799, counsel in Horne Tooke's libel case 1799, mentioned (with many of Tooke's circle) in Dr John Warner's will PCC 1800, was MP for Dorchester 1819-1826, and was married to Amelia dau of Wm Chas Sloper of Sundridge Kent, in the…


Warrington

Warrington 31.12.1800 at Mary Robinson's funeral, Old Windsor

Rev William Warrington vicar of Old Windsor Berks see Dictionary of Welsh Biography, dramatist and historian (1735-1824) will PCC 1828, St James Chronicle 5.3.1789 Rev William Warrington chaplain to the Earl of Bessborough presented to vicarage of Old Windsor. Not found in Alum Ox or Cantab, or Foster's Index Eccles 1800-40. William Warrington = Prestwich, Lancs 28.4.1761 Dorothy Lever. See will of her mother Dame Dorothy Robinson PCC 1789. Godwin took the Exeter mail with James Marshall the night before and supped at…


Warton, Thomas

22.1.1789 at Robinson's / 24.1.1789 at Hamilton's with almost the same company. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1788 as Tho Warton and as Warton in 1794 version.

Thomas Warton DNB 1728-1790


Warwick

2.6.1810 Warwick calls

Holdens 1811 directory: James Warwick jeweller & seal maker 10 King-st Goswell-st / John Warwick seal engraver 145 Strand (will PCC 1828) / Wm Warwick working jeweller, engraver &c Tooks-court, Castle-st, Holborn / Wm Warwick goldbeater 120 Fetter-lane (SunFire 1824) / John Warwick vellum maker 28 Silver-st Falcon-sq / Warwick coal merchant 4 Theobalds-rd (John SunFire 1834) / John Warwick hop merchant 5 Three Crown-sq Borough / Guy Warwick Esq conveyancer 9 Lincolns Inn New-sq / Wm Warwick Esq 2 Queens-bldgs Brompton / Mr Wm Warwick Brabant-court / Mr…


Waterhouse

sup at Ipswich: coach with King, Waterhouse & capitaine 11.9.1805

William Waterhouse at the Swan with Two Necks Lad Lane, London was a stagecoach proprietor (Morning Chronicle 24.11.1800, Holdens 1811, Caledonian Mercury 24.8.1818). John Waterhouse of Ipswich was presumably his relation and was named in a newspaper of 1807 as the victim of a theft, and in 1826 as selling off "superspeed" horses that had served on the Norwich Mail & Yarmouth Telegraph. He appeared in the 1841 census at Tavern St Ipswich as a coach proprietor age 65, also in an 1844 directory there. His will…


Wateridge

wateridge 11.11.1793 at Perry's & 8.2.1795 there, both times with Calland

Joseph (or John) Wateridge of King St Covent Garden haberdasher 1779, 1784

John Wateridge of Spring Row, Kentish Town died 1823 aged 81


Watford

call, on Masters, Watford 25.9.1798

Underlined as unidentified person in GD website but clearly refers to the place where Masters lived, Godwin had stayed at Joseph Fawcett's, Hedge Grove, Edgware the previous night


Wathen

Wathen 19.5.1793 see Wharton, John


Watkins

Watkins 1.6.1805 at Philips

Perhaps John Watkins DNB fl1786-1831 whose Universal Biographical & Historical Dictionary was printed in 1800 for Richard Phillips, a second edition came out in 1808


Watkinson

call with M(ary) J(ane) on Watkinson 13.9.1805 / 11.12.1809 call on Watkinson / 20.8.1810 Watkinson at examination of Sir R(ichard) P(hillips) / 5.10.1810 Watkinson adv at Raine's / 8.10.1810 call on Watkinson / 22.10.1810 write to Blackhall. Watkinson calls / 2.11.1810 call on Watkinson / 17.11.1810 again / 8.5.1811 Watkinson adv at Raine's / 26.8.1814 seek Russell & Watkn

Rev Robert Watkinson born 18.10.1775 died 21.2.1869 (see Boase & Alum Cantab) was assistant master at Charterhouse school 1799-1826 and housemaster there 1805-1826. His address in Holdens 1811 was given…


Watley

Watley 28.12.1794 at Foulkes' (with Hutchinson), & Watley jr 21.6.1795, 17.7.1795, 7.8.1795 there & Watley 8.5.1796 at Foulkes' (with Hutchinson).

Joseph Clifford Whatley attorney at Fairford, Glos in 1800 Law List, agent J Foulks (Foulkes was agent for only 3 or 4 out of hundreds of country attorneys) may well be Watley jr; a John Whatley married Elizabeth Clifford at Leyton, Essex in 1778. The Rev George Kemble Whatley of Hones Green, Wokingham, Berks (will PCC 1840) subscribed to Robert Robinson's Researches 1792 and Winterbotham's America 1795
 


Watson

mrs Watson 1.5.1796 at John King's, between mrs Grattan & miss Edgworth / 25.6.1799 Watson at Sarah Elwes / 9.7.1799 Watson adv at Sarah Elwes' & mrs Sims & mrs Holcombe / 11.11.1802 general Watson at Raphael Smith's / 27.12.1810 call on Watson with T(homas) T(urner) / 9.6.1817 trial of Watson senior / 16.6.1817 Watson acquitted  / 14.12.1817 Watson of the Stuart Papers adv at Hayward's / 18.1.1818 Watson adv at Hayward's / 19.4.1819 dr Watson calls / 26.4.1819 call on dr Watson

The first three entries above were possibly the same woman but it seems more likely the…


Watson, George

2.7.1794 at Barnard's / 11.7.1796 there

Mr George Watson of Norwich Socy for Const Inf "wealthy miller & Baptist" (Trials for Treason & Sedition 6.483). He married Mary Barnard 28.10.1779 at St George Colegate. Bury & Norwich Post died 5.10.1827, buried 9.10.1827 Saxlingham Thorpe aged 69. Subscribed 1788 to Wm Gordon's America. His mill and home were at Saxlingham, he was a member of St Mary's Baptist church Norwich (Norfolk Chronicle 5.1.1793,; Jewson p 29,38, 98, 138)

1761 John Burton appr to George W Saxlingham miller / George W buried 7.9.1761 Saxlingham…