A-Z of Entries

Kilkenny

Kilkenny 25.9.1800 at mrs Plunket's

Perhaps Edmund Butler 1771-1846 who married 1793 Mildred dau of Robert Fowler (DNB 1724-1801 archbishop of Dublin) and was created Earl of Kilkenny 1793, but he was said to have been insane by 1799. Mary Kilkenny widow of St Pancras will PCC 1843


Kimberley

Kimberley 31.12.1800 at Mary Robinson's funeral, Old Windsor

PCC wills William Kimberley of Windsor 1809 (mentioned sons William Lewin & Avery, grandsons George & James, nephews Thmas saddler of Windsor and his brother a cooper in London, Mrs Huguenin 33 Haymarket London, her brother John Kimberley late grocer of Windsor, Mrs Keppel, friends Stephen Kinsey & wife, Joseph Cutting & wife, 10 Bartletts Bldgs Holborn, Mr Charles March late of Salt Hill but now of Dover St, Piccadilly) Thomas Kimberley 1812 Avery Kimberley grocer of Windsor 1813 wife Judith. Possibly one…


King

1.12.1793 dine at Jennings with Holcroft & King / 22.4.1795 King at Holcroft's / 14.5.1796 tea Reveley's with Woodford & King / 21.9.1796 dine at Reveley's adv C King / 7.3.1797 3 Kings call / 30.4.1797 Opie & King call (not in) / 7.11.1797 dine at Reveley's with King & Lowrys / 13.12.1797 King at Aldis's / 3.5.1800 Bedford House adv C King / 16.10.1800 meet (Shd) King / 7.12.1804 meet Marshall, (J King) & Lamb / 11.9.1805 (from Ipswich) coal coach with King, Waterhouse, & capitaine / 17.2.1812 mrs King calls / 13.1.1814 seek King / 14.1.1814 call on King / 17.1.…


King, C

C King at Reveley's 21.9.1796 / 3.5.1800 C King at Bedford House

Could be Charlotte Byrne (nee King) DNB 1782?-1825 dau of John King, or his son Charles


King, George

19.4.1802 write to Geo King / 20.4.1802 again

Abinger c7 f115-20 has George King's letter to Godwin of 17.4.1802 from Liverpool and his two further letters of 21.4.1802 and 22.4.1802. He was clearly a son of John King DNB c1753-1824, perhaps by a Scotch woman (Mary Barbara Mackay?), and claimed to have had no education but reading and writing and to have spent 9 months in a school in Yorkshire where the pupils were put to farm work. He had got into debt in London, gone to sea and ruptured his groin. In the first letter he said his father had discarded him, but by the second he had…


Kingden

19.12.1801 meet, at Fenwick's, Kingden, &c, £75

The surname spelt Kingden is virtually nonexistent, so this was probably Kingdon, common in Devon particularly, or Kingdom, less common. The only other amounts of money noted in Godwin's diary around this time were 4.9.1801 £30 to Ht (=Holcroft) and 11.12.1801 £262 (which had Ht beneath it in very small letters). Thomas Holcroft's letters to Godwin show that Godwin and James Marshall were looking after his financial affairs in London while he was in Europe. In his letter from Paris dated 1.1.1802 (Bodleian Abinger c7 f80-1) he…


Kingslake

7.1.1798 Kingslake at Holcrofts

Kingslake is a rare name but may have been an alternative spelling of Kinglake, as both are found chiefly around Taunton, Somerset in this period. The Coles and the Braddocks who were also at Holcroft's that night had West Country connections. Robert Kinglake (DNB 1765-1842) according to Farington's diary p630 met Richard Duppa (DNB 1768-1831) by arrangement in Dresden and they travelled together perhaps to Vienna, Constantinople and Rome. If this was him he was probably newly returned from Europe and soon to set up practice as a doctor at Hot Wells,…


Kingsman

On 13.3.1794 Godwin dined at Wedgwood's where Kinsman was present. On 26.9.1798 he met miss Kinsman near Watford. In (Abinger c.17 f66-7) is a copy of Godwin's letter to her about that meeting. In reply he got a letter from her brother H Kingsman who said he knew Godwin (Abinger c.4 f47-8). In the 1796 list E Kingsman is towards the end of 1798, and D Kingsman near the start of 1799. On 8.5.1799 at Langley-berry he saw Mrs and Misses Kingman. Dorothea and Emily were the daughters of William Long Kingsman of Langleybury, Herts. Dorothea died in 1800 (her will Nat Arch PROB11/1348). Emily…


Kingston

22.6.1810 Kingston &c call

Godwin rarely shortened a list of callers with a &c (I sometimes shorten Godwin's lists with &c). In this case he did the same the day before, and on this day he followed it with a colon and a further list of callers. All of which suggests a number of undesired callers, or ones whose names were not worth remembering?

 


Kingston, John

2 Kingstons 24.2.1803

See Cooper, Elizabeth Priscilla. John Kingston MP (1735-1820) Oporto wine merchant, and director of Sierra Leone Company, lived at Oak Hill, Barnet, and at Stratford Place (History of Parliamnet: will Nat Arch PROB11/1639)
 


Kinnaird, George

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION Rt Hon Lord George Kinnaird proposed member 17.5.1782 by Edward Hall 2nded John Jebb

GODWIN DIARY lord Kinnaird 17.3.1795 at Bosville's, 6.11.1807 Kinnaird at Johnson's, 16.5.1828 Kinnaird at Reynolds'. In 1796 list.

George Kinnaird born 1754 succeeded as 7th Earl 1767 died 1805 so was presumably the first Godwin diary entry and the entry in 1796 list, also the SCI member, see Wikipedia.  His sons Charles DNB 1780-1820 and Douglas DNB 1788-1830 were both possible for the other two entries which didn't mention any title, Ds Kinnaird is…


Kinsman

See Kingsman


Kippis, Andrew

GODWIN DIARY see his person record in GD website

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION Rev Dr Andrew Kippis of Crown St, Westminster original member May 1780

Andrew Kippis (DNB 1728-1795)


Kirkley, Ralph

Godwin took tea at Kirkley's on 9.8.1799, followed by a call on Elkins. This was Sir Joshua Reynolds' servant Ralph Kirkley, one of whose daughters married at St Marylebone 22.12.1798 William Elkins, a bookseller who went bankrupt in 1800.
 


Kirkman

Kirkmans 5.4.1795 adv at Batty's /  21.8.1810 & 11.9.1810 call on Kirkman

Joseph Kirkman, Esq London subscribed to Robert Robinson's Ecclesiastical Researches 1792. See DNB for Jacob & Abraham Kirkman harpsichord makers who were both dead by 1795. Their successor Joseph K PCC 1830 and a relative Jacob K DNB composer (perhaps PCC 1812). There was also a Joseph K brewer of St Giles PCC 1804, a Rev Lemuel K, Islington PCC 1820 and a Patrick K gentleman Ealing PCC 1823


Kirkman

21.8.1810 Guildhall; Tabart, Kirkman &c / 11.9.1810 Baptist C H; Tabart, Kirkman &c

Kirkman only appeared in Godwin's diary at two of the sessions for Tabart's bankruptcy, but I couldn't find anyone of the name Kirkman in the book trades or legal profession.. Since Tabart had a long association with Soho it may have been the piano maker Joseph Kirkman (his will PCC 1830) of 19 Broad-st, Soho, son of Abraham Kirkman DNB 1737-1794 who may have been one of Tabart's creditors


Kirwan

Kirwan 23.7.1800 dines. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1800 / 26.7.1800 call on with Curran, adv two priests / 27.7.1800 at Curran's (talk of Eloise and Hume) / 1.8.1800 call on

Probably Walter Blake Kirwan DNB 1754-1805 friend of Grattan & Drennan, former Catholic, Curch of Ireland preacher. Consider also Richard Kirwan DNB 1733-1812 scientist / Owen Kirwan c1770-1803 radical / Thomas Kirwan Dict Irish Biog 1772-1852 & his father (died 1807?) Catholic merchants / Edward Kirwan Hist Irish Parl 1747-1807 son of Alexander Kirwan attorney of Dalgan, co. Mayo / John Kirwan barrister…


Klugh, George

15.3.1806 call on Klugh / 19.3.1806 again

George Klugh tailor Ryders Court Soho SunFire 1802. He was apprenticed for 7 years from 6.6.1785 to Lewis Pfancock taylor of St James Westminster premium £12. George Klugh shoemaker 1790 Directory Ryders Court (presumably his father?) buried Soho 21.5.1796 age 56 of Ryders Court. George Klugh rates Ryders Court 1774 to 1803. George Klugh otp = St Geo Hanover Sq 4.7.1802 Hannah Reader otp banns sigs. Their daughter Johanna Elizabeth bapt 9.1.1804 Soho. George Klugh tailor of Ryders Court took apprentice John Cotencin 1803. George Klugh rates…


Knapp, barrister

11.8.1807 call on Knapp; barrister, w. T(homas) T(urner) / 9.11.1807 dine at Guildhall; adv. Knapp

Jerome William Knapp admitted Middle Temple 1776, called to bar 1787, eldest son of Jerome Knapp barrister (admitted Middle Temple 1737 died 1792 son of Jerome Knapp of Haberdashers Hall). J W Knapp's will PCC 7.1.1816


Knapp, Leonora

10.12.1800

The GD website discusses the coding of LK in its editorial notes for the person record of Leonora Knapp, suggesting that apart from one entry on 29.5.1830, Leonora Knapp didn't appear in Godwin's diary after 1815, with which I agree. However there are many LK entries after 1815 coded to Leonora Knapp and they should all be transferred to Louisa Holcroft/ (Kenney) nee Mercier. In the period between Louisa Holcroft's marriage to Kenney in March 1812 and the end of 1815 Godwin gradually shifted his use of LK from Knapp to Kenney. Two of those entries I think GD website has…