Godwin Diary

Purkis 3.1.1800 at Coleridge's / 26.1.1802 again / 22.3.1816 at Hardwick's

Samuel Purkis tanner of Brentford (Sun Fire 1781) his will PCC 1782. See Letters of STColeridge, he was a friend of Coleridge's friend Thomas Poole.

mrs Gurney 1.1.1800 at O Fancourt's

Perhaps the wife of John Gurney DNB 1768-1845 who was Maria daughter of William Hawes DNB 1736-1808. They were married at St Botolph without Bishopsgate on 11.12.1797, her first child was born 27.4.1799 and her second 16.8.1800. Most of the other Gurney wives would more likely have been in Norfolk. It could have been her mother-in-law Rebecca (nee Brodie) 1747-1814, but given the context of mrs Fancourt's the younger wife seems more likely. See Hawes for the visit of the miss Hawes' to Thelwall's in 1795, which suggests an adventurous spirit

Litchfields 1.1.1800 at O Fancourts / 27.6.1801 Litchfield at Reynolds' / 23.11.1813 Litchfield at Poole's / 9.7.1826 call on Northcote & Litchfield

John Litchfield (Highfill, Burnim & Langhans 1774-1858) actor who on 14.9.1795 at St Martin i t F married Harriet (1777-1854) dau of John Sylvester Hay son of Robert Hay vicar of Maldon, Essex will PCC 1771. The entries at Reynolds' and Poole's (both playwrights) have a theatre connection, the other two are possibles

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

Atty 29.12.1799 at Lanesborough's

James Atty of Whitby (sailmaker Sun Fire 1781) his will PCC 1814 married Hannah dau of Robert Middleton in 1768. They had three sons / James 1768-1816 married Catherine sister of Rev Robert Hall / Robert Middleton 1770-1833 of 55 Devonshire St, St Marylebone Land Tax 1798, who married 24.11.1807 Margaret Ann Lucy Willes / and George 1772-1797 unmarried Alum Cantab. The presence of miss Middleton at the same dinner makes the identification more likely

Gore 29.12.1799 at Lanesborough's / 19.1.1800 again / 21.1.1800 Goire at John King's

Milton 24.12.1799 at Lanesborough's / 19.1.1800 again

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

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

Lanesborough's 29.12.1799 / 19.1.1800 again / 12.6.1802 meet Lanesborough,SM, EBD / 3.3.1807 King, L Lanesborough at mrs Hippisley's ? 8.3.1807 dine at Plunket's, w. King, L Lk