A-Z of Entries

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…


La Chausee

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)


Landaff

Landaff 29.12.1799 at Lanesborough's

The GD website has coded this to Richard Watson the Bishop of Llandaff but I think more likely it was Francis Mathew, ist Earl of Llandaff (Dict irish Biography 1738-1806). His son Francis James (Viscount Matthew) had married 10.7.1797 Gertrude La Touche,acousin of Elizabeth LaTouche who had married 17.1.1781 Robert Herbert Butler, 3rd earl of Lanesborough and Lady Lanesborough's eldest son


Lathorp

Lathorp 14.2.1802 at King's. Lathrop in Godwin's 1796 list for 1802 / 21.3.1802 again / 4.4.1802 Lathorpe at King's

The GD website has a person record for Murray Lathrop with relevant editorial notes but no diary entries are coded to it. The fullest account of Lathropp is A History of the Families of Skelt, Somerscales &c p166 though sources are not given the facts are mostly checkable, though I could find no other source for the suggestion that he was an illegitimate son of George III, something he would have been likely to have claimed and which King George would have been…


Laval

Laval 29.12.1799 at Lanesborough's / 19.1.1800 again

Perhaps Anne Alexandre &c, duc de Laval, 1747-1817 will PCC 1817 marshal of France 1783, who was certainly in England in August 1799 as the Oracle of 14.8.1799 reported his departure for Switzerland with his two sons, one of whom, Anne Pierre Adrien 1767-1837, succeeded him as duke and would have been styled marquis de Laval at the time (Hoefer, Nouvelle Biographie Generale). There are biographies of father and son in Adolphe Robert's Dictionnaire des Parlementaires Francais which I haven't yet seen


Lewis

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Sir Watkin Lewes of Kings Road, Grays Inn Lane original member 1780. took on Wales for SCI tract distribution

Watkin Lewes 1740-1821 (historyofparliamentonline 1754-1790 & 1790-1820)

GODWIN DIARY: 11.11.1788 Lewis at miss Williams' / 9.2.1790 again / 7.5.1790 again / 13.5.1791 again.

Many of the Lewis entries have been coded in GD website to Sir Watkin Lewes but I find most of these unlikely. The Lewis at miss Williams' could have been one of a number of subscribers to her 1786 Poems (T Lewis Esq, C Lewis Esq, R Lewis Esq…


Lind

mrs Lind at John King's 28.5.1798 / 14.11.1799 mrs Lind adv at theatre / 7.6.1809 Lind adv at Perry's

subs to Egerton Leigh's Munster Abbey 1797 included mrs Lind of Bruton St and mrs Lind of Stratford Place. Edward George Lind of 16 Stratford Place (will PCC 1832) had married Elizabeth Ainslie at Kendal in 1786. His brother Francis of 30 Bruton St (will PCC 1840 of Twickenham) married his cousin Anne daughter of the engraver Richard Cooper DNB 1701-1764. Mrs Lind of Bruton St was also named in Cesare Mussolini's Italian conversation book of 1800 which rather charmingly listed the…


Ling

Ling 21.3.1802 at King's

see work notes


Lovell

16.10.1794 Lovel at Newgate / 31.7.1795 at Newton's / 30.12.1795 again / 14.1.1796 again / 2.2.1796 at King's / 9.3.1796 again / 25.5.1800 at King's / 17.12.1801 mrs Lovel at Lamb's with Southey / 26.9.1811 write to and call on / 18.5.1822 call on with MJ / 25.5.1822 Lovel (Brides Passage) calls.

The first instance above must have been Robert Lovell (DNB died 3.5.1796) the friend and brother-in-law of Coleridge and Southey (M Ray Adams, Studies in the Literary Backgrounds of English Radicalism, p133; Hazlitt's Works v.3 p.278). The next five (four at Newton's and one at King's)…


Lune

Lune (with an acute accent on the e) 17.11.1799 at John King's

Next to Elisee (qv) which may be some clue. A family name from the south of France Lunet (de Malene) of Rodez (see Hippolyte Barrau, Documents Historiques &c)


Macarthy, Felix

28.3.1794 at Newgate (with Gerrald) and 2.4.1794, 29.4.1794, 30.4.1794, 23.8.1794 there, 17.2.1796 at King's. In 1794 version of Godwin's 1796 list but left out of 1796 version 

Felix Macarthy (see L Werkmeister The London Daily Press p52-5 re journalist's quarrels in 1781; Patrick O'Leary, Sir James Mackintosh The Whig Cicero p30-1 where it says he worked with Mackintosh on Oracle and introduced him to Joseph Gerrald, and was a friend of Prince of Wales via Lord Moira, and p62 where it says he was a contributor to the Albion newspaper in 1801

Felix McCarthy Esq 1793 subscr…


MacDonnell, David Evans

30.9.1794 Macdonard adv. at Gerald's. Very likely the same person who first appeared as Macdonald adv. at Frost's Newgate on 7.8.1793 and was in Godwin's 1796 list immediately after C Pigot, (whom Godwin also first met that day), as Macdonald with the 'ald' crossed out and 'nel' inserted above and then crossed out and Macdonald also crossed right through. Macdonald appeared again at Tooke's acquittal 1.11.1794 and adv. at Gerald's 12.3.1795. In my view this was David Evans MacDonnel who was editor of the Gazetteer newspaper from June 1793 to Dec 1794 and then became editor of the Telegraph…


Massygar

Massygar 25.5.1800

Nearest name I can find to this entry was the Swiss name Massuger (with umlaut on u). Jacob Massuger died 3.9.1821 at Antwerp Belgium was born 1787 Vallendas Suisse s of Benoit Massuger & Menga Pfester


Matthew

Matthew 8.1.1797 at John King's and in 1796 list for 1797 / 21.2.1799 Matthew adv at theatre

One of the three Mathew brothers, immortalised by Cruikshank as the three Mr Wiggins's, probably the eldest Francis James 1768-1833 styled Viscount Mathew (as son of Earl of Landaff), MP for Tipperary, Whig sympathies, married 10.7.1797 Gertrude Cecilia daughter & coheiress of John Latouche, (her cousin Elizabeth (died 1788) had married Robert Butler 3rd Earl of Lanesborough, the eldest son of John King's wife Lady Lanesborough) See History of Parliament. Or his brother Hon Montague…


May

 

May 3.5.1789 at Brand Hollis' / Mays 4.2.1797 at John King's with Belfast. Both May & Belfast in Godwin's 1796 list for 1797 / 28.5.1798 mrs May at King's / 7.11.1798 May at King's / 4.1.1807 adv May at King's / 1.3.1807 Mays at King's / 3.3.1807 May at King's / 8.3.1807 again / 29.5.1813 Edgworths May & Trotman call

 

(James) Edward May 1751-1827 History of Irish Parliament and W.A.Maguire Living Like A Lord. He married 1.9.1773 Elizabeth Bragg of St George Holborn and (by 1809 but after their children were born) Elizabeth daughter of Francis Lumley. He was…


Merry, Robert

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Robert Merry Esq of Osbourne's Hotel, Adelphi proposed member 3.6.1791 by John Horne Tooke 2nded Jeremiah Batley

GODWIN DIARY: 13.6.1796 call on Inchbald with My

Robert Merry DNB 1755-1798. Since he was named in full both before and after this on 13.6.1796, this My was certainly Robert Merry

LCS: attended its 3rd meeting at the Bell, 8.2.1792 (Thale p7note10)


Middleton

miss Middleton 29.12.1799 at Lanesborough's / 4.4.1805 walk to Pepper Harrow, Lord Middleton / 26.9.1805 call on Raine & Middleton, Charterhouse / 10.10.1806 sir W Middleton at Fox's funeral / 6.1.1810 call on Middleton / 6.11.1810 Middleton at Ward's (with Coleridge) / 21.12.1810 Middleton at wardmote St Bride's / 26.1.1814 call on Middleton / 31.1.1814 again / 19.5.1814 adv at theatre / 1.4.1815 call on / 4.4.1816 again

29.12.1799 for miss Middleton see Atty for relationship by marriage at Whitby. Will of Martha Middleton spinster PCC 1812. Martha Middleton dau of Robert bapt…


Milton

Milton 24.12.1799 at Lanesborough's / 19.1.1800 again

If Godwin deferentially placed the aristocrats first (Milton is followed by Landaff (qv) & Laval (qv)) this may have been a Lord Milton. But the only possibles I could find were Charles Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton DNB 1786-1857 who was probably too young to be at this dinner, and George Damer, d.1808 who had earlier been styled Lord Milton but in 1798 had succeeded to the Earldom of Dorchester. He had no sons and his heir would have been his brother Lionel but I'm not sure if a brother would use such a courtesy title. In…


Monaco, Prince Joseph of

5.2.1798 at (John) King's. In Godwin's 1796 list 

Prince Joseph of Monaco 1763-1816 see Wikipedia.  His first wife was guillotined in July 1794 and he then married Frances Margaret dau of Mark Rainsford of Saleen co Kildare and widow of Major General Welbore Ellis Doyle DNB 1758 -1798 will PCC 1798, she died 1.12.1806.


Moore, H

21.10.1795 H Moore at John King's / 26.1.1800 Moore at John King's / 8.6.1800 again

The second and third entries above are coded on GD website to Dr John Moore but were perhaps more likely the same as the H Moore of 1795