A-Z of Entries

call on Knight, com 12.4.1804 with M(arshall)

The com probably stood for comedian so this entry should be added to the person record for Thomas Knight DNB d.1820 on GD website

12.12.1808 Knight, engr calls

Charles Parsons Knight DNB 1743-1826 1805 Webb's-la Hammersmith

Robert Knight 1805 18 Little Canterbury-pl Lambeth

1.10.1806 Mrs Knight at Wolcot's / 18.5.1807 Knight (Camden Town) calls / 17.6.1807 Knight jr calls / 27.6.1807 Knight v. Wolcot
Morning Post 29.6.1807 reporting the trial at Kings Bench 27.6.1807 for criminal conversation (adultery) of Dr John Wolcot. Wolcot lived on 2nd floor of house where Mr Knight (his landlord? a naval officer? steward of a ship's captain? according to different press reports) lived on 1st floor and Wolcot was coaching his wife to be an actress. She was 25 and Wolcot was about 70 and was found not guilty on account of his age. Mrs Dyke the housekeeper gave…

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION; Robert Knight of Welbeck Strret, Cavendish Square proposed member 24.1.1794 by Count Alvise Zenobio 2nded John Horne Tooke

GODWIN DIARY: Knights 27.6.1795 at Lord Dormer's & 28.6.1795 Knight calls

these need adding in GD website to Robert Knight, 1768-1855 (History of Parliament) illegitimate son & heir of Lord Catherlough (DNB 1702-1772) of Barrellls Hall, Henley-in-Arden married 12.6.1791 Hon Frances Dormer dau of Charles 8th Baron Dormer. Stood as MP for Warwick 1792. Sheriff of Warwickshire 1797. Awarded £7000 in 1805 from…

Knighton 28.5.1803 / 3.3.1809 Dr Knighton at Joseph Johnson's / 2.2.1810 again / 14.12.1810 Knighton at Johnson's / 12.3.1827 Knighton adv at Northcote's / 3.6.1827 Lady Knighton & fils at Northcote's / 10.6.1827 letter to Knighton / 11.6.1827 write to Knighton / 5.7.1827 again / 1.8.1827 call on Knighton & secretary of state / 3.8.1827 call on Knighton / 26.10.1830 call on Nortcote adv Knighton

Very likely  William Knighton DNB 1776-1836 courtier and physician, moved to London 1803, made a baronet 1812 and became advisor to George IV (which fits Godwin's writing to him) and…

28.3.1809 Lambs & R Lloyd sup / 30.3.1809 tea Ward's, w. Knotts & R Lloyd / 13.7.1809 write to Knott & Lloyd / 11.10.1809 write to Knott / 19.1.1810 write to Knott & Lloyd / 22.7.1811 write to Wedgwood & Knott

Jonathan Knott c.1767-1814 bookseller and stationer of Birmingham in 1808 took into partnership Robert Lloyd son of Charles Lloyd DNB 1748-1828. Robert Lloyd and his brother Charles Lloyd DNB 1775-1839 were friends of Charles Lamb. Robert Lloyd married Hannah Hart at Nottingham in 1804 and died in 1811

mrs Knowles 8.12.1794 see at Thelwal's trial / 18.12.1794 at Foulkes' / 22.11.1800 at Carlisle's / 26.9.1804 meet. In 1796 list near end of 1794.

Mary Knowles DNB 1733-1804 poet, widow since 1784 (tagged as identified in GD website but no data in person record). Maybe also 6.6.1796 hustings, presently coded to John Knowles, if she had here "earned" the plain surname Godwin used for independent women like Wollstonecraft and Mansel. Her interest in the trial suggests a possible interest in the election

Dr Knox 9.11.1791 at Bosse's / Knox 13.1.1802 at Wycombe's / 6.9.1821 Knox dies / 27.6.1828 call on Dr Knox

The 1791 and 1821 entries above have been coded on the GD website to Vicesimus Knox DNB 1752-1821, correctly in my view. The 1802 entry (which is uncoded in GD website) may have been him also but no special reason to think so. Of the Knox entries in the Dictionary of Irish Biography the one with the most radical sympathies was George Knox 1765-1827, the others were stong government supporters. The 1802 entry could well have been him. The Dr Knox of 1828 was certainly Thomas…

Knyvet's 21.4.1799 / 23.6.1830 Knyvet adv at Bain

Charles Knyvett DNB 1752-1822 organist of Chapel Royal from 1796, married 1772 Rose Alloway who d.1807 / his sons Charles Knyvett DNB 1773-1852 married 1795 Jane Laney, William Knyvett DNB 1779-1856 married 1801 Sarah Laney (see Laney), & Henry Knyvett 1773-1844 army officer

M(arshall) dines; agreement for Krimee 26.3.1802

See Bodleian Abinger c7 f95 and c7 f101, letters from Thomas Holcroft in Europe to Godwin. Holcroft sent Voyage dans le Crimee to give Marshall a book worth translating, it had already been translated from Russian to German to French, and was published by Robinson in 1802 as Travels in the Crimea, by a secretary to the Russian embassy. It had to compete with two other travel books on the Crimea issued in England in 1802

Kyan 16.8.1800 on post coach Chirk to Shrewsbury

Perhaps John Howard Kyan DNB 1774-1850, his father John Howard Kyan of Mount Howard, Ballymutagh, co. Wicklow who died 1804, or Esmonde Kyan DNB 1750-1798. Not everyone Godwin met accidentally got into the DNB but a remarkable number did and Kyan is not a very common name even in Ireland

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION; Stewart Kyd of Middle Temple proposed member 23.11.1792 by John Balmanno 2nded John Horne Tooke

Stewart Kyd (DNB d.1811). Bapt 3.7.1758 Arbroath, Angus of Harry Kid and Helen née Fullerton. Admitted Middle Temple 15.6.1782 called to bar 22.6.1787. His younger brother Henry was admitted Middle Temple 1786.

la Chausee 19.1.1800 at Lanesborough's

Major La Chausee, le comte de la Chaussee "Memoire militaire sur Bantry" 26.4.1797 (Kent History Centre / photopol.com/articles/bm_corr.html). La Chaussee had to show Thomas Pelham 2nd Earl of Chichester how to load a mortar 13.8.1797. Not in British Army Lists. Probably Charles de la Chaussee, Seigneur de St Aubin (Dictionnaire de la Noblesse Francaise)

Lacy 13.7.1799 at Sheridan's

Willoughby Lacy 1749-1831 (Highfill Burnim & Langhans) was partner with Sheridan in Drury Lane Theatre

call on Lahee 12.8.1805 with Dawe

Because Godwin called on Jones copperplate printer with Dawe two days before, this was probably James Lahee, copperplate printer of 30 Castle St East who appeared in Pigot's Directory 1822 though not in Brititsh Book Trades Index. He had married Esther  Kirton 13.8.1804 at St George Bloomsbury

Laing 3.2.1799 adv at Mackintosh's / 28.7.1807 Johnson's w Laing, bookseller / 30.6.1809 at Johnson's Laing, br, & son / 27.7.1810 at St Paul's with Laing & two

Malcolm Laing DNB 1762-1818 (or perhaps his brother Samuel DNB 1780-1868) may well have been the Laing at Mackintosh's. The three entries at Joseph Johnson's (the last after his death but at his shop at St Paul's) may have  referred to William Laing DNB 1764-1832 bookseller & publisher. He lived in Edinburgh and travelled abroad, the DNB mentions his sons and the br may have stood for bookseller (see Hayes, Major…

Lang at miss Godwin's 23.7.1795

Because Hannah Godwin seems to have been friends with the Andersons (see Anderson, James) and particularly with his son George, I speculate that this Lang entry may have referred to Charles Laing 1771-1826 mentioned in George Anderson's will PCC 1817 as his partner.

Probable events of his life were / born 21.1.1771 bapt Perth 27.1.1771 son of James Laing & Elizabeth Broun / married St Mary Portsea, Hants 4.9.1799 Mary Barton / brazier, ship chandler & merchant 1805-1817 305 Wapping; 8 Bennett's Wharf nr church Rotherhithe; Limehouse…

gen Lake 12.9.1800 on boat from Dublin

Gerard Lake DNB 1744-1808

18.3.1796 Lally at Debrett's

Gerard de Lally Tolendall 1751-1830 Wikipedia. Came to UK 1789 returned to France 1799.

chez lui 25.12.1800

lui is underlined (unidentified person) in GD website but clearly referred to Charles Lamb