Godwin Diary

Sandwich 29.5.1797 adv at Bail M(arshall)

John Montagu 5th Earl of Sandwich died 1814. See Templeton, John Henry for explanation

mrs Rodburgh 28.5.1797 at (Thomas) Knight's

sir Robert Smyth 9.5.1797 at Joseph Johnson's / 18.5.1797 sir Rob Smyth at or after theatre / 22.5.1797 sir R Smyth calls / 23.5.1797 meet Smyth / 27.7.1798 sir Robt Smyth calls

Identified in GD website but the Smyth on 23.5.1797 has been left uncoded

Clifford 21.5.1797 at Horne Tooke's / 25.6.1797 meet / 16.6.1799 Cliffords at H Tooke's / 14.11.1799 meet Clifford / 16.2.1800 at H Tooke's / 18.5.1806 again / 11.8.1807 adv at Bow Street

Hemry Clifford DNB 1768-1813 Catholic radical lawyer active supporting Burdett in 1802 Middlesex election and in 'Old Price' theatre riots 1808. His parents were dead by 1787 and he didn't marry till 1813 so the plural at Tooke's 16.6.1799 may include a brother, perhaps Thomas Hugh Clifford his older brother

Suet 19.5.1797 at Amelia Alderson's / 29.4.1799 dine at G's Head

Richard Suett (Highfill, Burnim & Langhans 1758-1805) acior

Toulmin 16.5.1797 at Barbauld's

Seems likely to have been Joshua Toulmin DNB 1740-1815

Willis's 12.5.1797 after theatre

This may have referred to Willis's coffee house, or to Charles Willis (qv) who first appeared in the diary on 16.7.1797, or to Willis Webb (qv), as Godwin had met a Webb earlier the same day (it seems unlikely Godwin would use his first name although he may have referred to him as Willis on 25.6.1788 when Webb was his pupil - or that may have been someone of the surname Willis)

C Smith 2.5.1797 at John King's

The GD website has coded this entry to Charlotte Smith, but her position in the sequence of Godwin's 1796 list for 1797, after Bage (met 14.6.1797) and G Fordyce (met 7.7.1797), suggests that her taking tea at Godwin's on 13.7.1797 was their first meeting. The 1796 list also put sir Robert Smyth and Carrington Smith in that order immediately before Bage, and the diary noted them both at Joseph Johnson's on 9.5.1797, a week after the C Smith entry above. So it may have been Carrington Smith or some other C Smith at King's (see Smith, Carew).

Cockburne 2.5.1797 at John King's

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Mr Swainson of Frith St Soho proposed member 8.2.1793 by Thomas Holcroft 2nded William Harwood

GODWIN DIARY: Swainson 2.5.1797 at John King's