Crisp, John

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15.11.1794 at Lister's / 14.12.1794 calls on Godwin / 17.12.1794 at his / 29.12.1794  Godwin calls on / 16.5.1795 Crisps at Lister's / 6.12.1795 G calls on/ 20.12.1795 calls on G / 4.1.1796 G calls on / 14.2.1796 G calls on / 18.2.1796 calls on G / 10.3.1796 G calls on / 21.3. 1796 calls on G / 19.4.1796 G calls on  / 28.4.1796 at RA exhibition / 28.4.1800 at RA exhibition / 8.6.1800 meet. In Godwin's 1796 list near end of 1794.

John Crisp of Dorking will PCC 1803 left rings to five friends, including Dr Lister and Christopher Terry (his guest 17.12.1794). Probably the John Crisp who was treasurer and then governor of Fort Marlborough, India from 1763 to 1794, Fellow of the Royal Society from 1788, and published a work on optics from 5 Upper Fitzroy St 10.2.1796. Another John Crisp advertised his school at 28 Long Acre in 1790, saying he was a Londoner who had studied at the University of Paris, had been assistant at the Royal Academy and at two eminent grammar schools including that of Vicesimus Knox; he may have been the schoolmaster of Hartest, Suffolk whose will PCC 1810 mentions his wife Alice nee Cocksedge, and is a possible candidate for the later Crisp entries at the RA