A-Z of Entries

Baxter, John

15.12.1794 Richter & Baxter discharged / 26.8.1804 Baxter at Tooke's / 12.10.1806 again

The above entries have been coded in GD website to Baxter family (Baxter of Dundee). The first should belong certainly, and the other two probably, to John Baxter (fl 1794-1816 in DNB London Corresponding Society act. 1792-1799)


Bayles

Bayles 8.3.1801 adv at Godwin's dinner with M(arshall)


Bayley, Miss

HCR diary 1.5.1842 Robinson saw Miss Bayley "interesting chat only I said too much about Mrs Aders etc."

No identification at present


Bayley, printer

Nat Arch TS 11/963 examination of Thomas Hardy, who mentioned Bayley a printer with 5 or 6 journeymen. Hardy answered questions freely but perhaps not honestly, to protect comrades. This could have been Thomas Bayley printer of Petticoat Lane, but no evidence he was sympathetic to LCS, and he was dead 3 years before Hardy's exam.

Thoms Bayley printer of Petticoat Lane will proved PCC 17.5.1791 mentioned dau Mary, son Thomas, wife Susannah; John, Sarah & Jane chn of John & Sarah Jones late of Whitechapel; Elizabeth & Charles chn of Elizabeth 1st wife of James Hicks now or…


Bayley, Thomas Butterworth

Thomas Butterworth Bayley of Hope nr Manchester proposed 3.11.1780 by Thomas Bentley 2nded William Gillam. See Dictionary of National Biography 1744-1802


Bayley, William & John

see Francis Place's Autobiography ed. Mary Thale p 88 (leather stainer & dresser)

William Bayley Soho ratebooks Little Newport St south 1781 £32 1787 £34
William Bayley leatherseller Newport St Soho  voted 1784 Hood & Wray 1788 Townshend 1790 Fox

John Bayley breeches maker Duchy Lane, St Mary le Strand voted 1788 Townshend


Baylis, William

Wm Baylis of Isleworth

William Baylis bur 29.5.1835 Isleworth


Baynes, John

John baynes of grays inn proposed 29.11.1782 by James Martin 2nded Samuel Shore. Dictionary of National Biography 1758-1787


Baynes, William

William Baynes of Embsaykirk proposed 23.4.1784 by Jeremiah Batley 2nded Samuel Romilly. Embsaykirk (now generally Embsay) is near Skipton Yorks. See John Baynes DNB 1758-1757, William was probably his father. He died 1811 (Gents Mag 1811 vol2 p 663). A fine portrait of him c.1755 is on the BBC Your Paintings website. He subscribed 1787 to the Works of John Jebb


Beach

Beach's 10.3.1798 at Pump room Bath with Jones's

This may have been the family of the Bath portrait painter Thomas Beach DNB 1737-1806 who appeared in a 1784 directory as painter West-gate buildings Bath. There is a transcript of his diary at the West Country Studies Library at Exeter which might shed more light (GB/NNAF/P141256). There were also two spinster sisters of Bath, Elizabeth Beach will PCC 1785 and Anna Catharina Beach will PCC 1804 whose brother Thomas of Jamaica had died by 1778 leaving two sons Thomas and John Hynes who called themselves de la Beeche and a daughter…


Beadle

call on Beadle 5.1.1805

Could have referred to a beadle (official of a parish, court, ward, city company or other institution) but it was also a surname, fairly common in Kent, and Godwin used a capital B. James Beadle advertised his Irish Linen & Sheeting warehouse at 9 Commerce Row, Gt Surrey St (on Surrey side of Blackfriars Bridge) in Morning Chronicle 22.6.1803 and insured it Sun Fire 1803. William Beadle of Dartford was a lottery winner in 1802. Thomas Beadle was at 13 Braziers Bldgs Fleet Mkt (Sun Fire 1803) and had a butcher's shop at 29 Fleet Mkf and lived at 9 Seacoal…


Beardmore, George

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

George Beardmore 39 Poland St (Crispin) ratebooks 1790-1  / some possibles in work notes below. Name common in Staffordshire


Beaseley, John

John Beaseley, Twickenham

Olive Beazley Syon Row Twickenham 1841census  independent means age 50


Beatson, Robert

Robert Beatson of Rotherham, Secretary of Conference 1789, Committee 1790 / RB = 1.6.1778 Emley, Yorks Ann Beatson / subscr 1791 to Sullivan's Flights of Fancy / 1803 chemists, brewers & glassmen bankrupt / RB bur 7.2.1805 Ecclesfield Yorks  / 1815, 1818 oil of vitriol manufacturers (Robert, John & Thomas B) / will PCC 1827 John B, chemists, Masbrough, Rotherham / 1828 fire in premises / RB jr born 1779 died 1850


Beaufort

Beaufort 31.3.1805 at Philips / 12.5.1805 at Joseph Johnson's (& Edgworth) / 18.5.1805 dines (& Edgworth) / 9.6.1805 at Tooke's (& Edgworth) / 11.3.1808 at Joseph Johnson's (& H Edgworth) / 28.4.1809 again

Probably Daniel Augustus Beaufort DNB 1739-1821 whose daughter Frances Ann married Richard Lovell Edgeworth DNB 1744-1817 at St Anne Dublin on 31.5.1798 or perhaps his son Francis DNB 1774-1857


Beaufoy, Henry

20.4.1788 Beaufoy, Henry. Add Abinger c.1 f44-5 to bibliography


Beaumont

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Thomas Richard Beaumont of 26 Old Burlington St proposed member 9.11.1792 by William Bosville 2nded John Horne Tooke

GODWIN DIARY: 29.3.1795 mrs Beaumont at Bosville's / Beaumont 18.6.1795 at Parkinson's / 27.6.1796 at Telegraph / 28.6.1796 adv at Holcroft's / 4.10.1796 meet /13.3.1801 at Rickman's / 16.4.1801 at Lamb's (with Rickman) / 16.7.1804 Holcroft calls, on Beaumont / 29.9.1804 read Beaumont, accurante H(olcrof)t / 15.3.1805 sir G Beaumont at Northcote's / 26.12.1824 Beaumont, painter calls

Thomas Richard Beaumont 1758-1829 (…


Beaumont, George Howland

HCR diary 4.4.1823 "I met by appointment at Aders Wordsworth, Sir Geo. Beaumont and Rogers." "Sir Geo. proposed bringing Fuseli" "Sir Geo. seemed to be in particular interested by these specimens of old German art. The Perugini (3 figures in a sort of open temple) he declared to be in parts hardly distinguishable from Raphael. The great painting by Van Eyck he spent a long time in examining"

George Howland Beaumont (DNB 1753-1827)


Beausejour

Beausejour 2.6.1792 at Brand Hollis'


Beaver, James

Rev James Beaver of Corpus Christi College, Oxford proposed 27.6.1783 by  John Baynes 2nded Jeremiah Batley.  Son of Rev James Beaver (died 1777) curate of Lewknor. Oxon and his wife  Jane (died 1818) dau of Rev Thomas Skeeler (will PCC 1758). He matric at Oxford 1773 age 12, BA 1777, MA 1781, BD 1790. His younger brother was Philip Beaver DNB 1766-1813. His sister Catherine married 25.9.1794 John Gillies DNB 1747-1836. In 1800 he became rector of Childrey, Berks and on 4.1.1803 he married Henrietta Mary Halsey of St Mary Ash, Surrey there. He died 25.2.1840 at Dieppe and his obituary (…