A-Z of Entries

In Godwin's 1796 list for 1780 and also in the 1794 version, between Munnings and Harmer. There is a person record in GD website for 'generic' White but the entry in the 1796 list has not been coded to it. 22.1.1789 White (after Warton and before Kippis) at Robinson's / 24.1.1789 White (after Warton and before Kippis) at Hamilton's / no more for 3 years

I have done some research on the White entries in Godwin's diary but I'm still some way from identifying them all, I will probably add to this entry later but for now I'll discuss who the White in 1780 and the White in 1789…

11.8.1810 Guildhall; Tabart, White &c / 20.8.1810 Examination of sir R(ichard) P(hillips); White &c / 21.8.1810 Guildhall; Tabart, White &c

These entries are coded on GD website to a generic White person record. While the other White entries in 1810 and adjacent years may all belong to James White DNB 1775-1820, these three entries were likely a creditor or friend of Benjamin Tabart whose bankruptcy proceedings they were part of. This could have been James White in his business as newspaper agent or perhaps a friend of Tabart's, but some other possibles were John White (…

Ant. White 25.6.1833 calls

Seems very likely to be the surgeon (DNB 1781-1849). For example on 18.3.1835 Godwin calls on him ", confined one week". Though the DNB doesnt mention his wife, his will (Nat Arch PROB11/2090) mentions the portrait "of my late dear wife". (This portrait was said to have won George Dawe his election to the Royal Academy). Though Godwin dined or supped 4 times at Ant White's where Geo White was present each time, they were not brothers. James White of Isleworth was born at Richmond in 1771 and his brother George at Richmond in 1785, children of James and…

10.5.1793 &c. Has now been given person record on GD website since I researched him but 5.11.1798 missed

A soldier serving in India who called on Godwin perhaps paying him to write for him. Godwin wrote to Maj White on 10.5.1793, which may not have been him as his promotion to Major was in 1798, though officers on half pay were often given the honour of one extra rank. Then Maj White called on 20.7.1798, 25.10.1798, 29.10.1798, 9.11.1798, 11.11.1798 and 13.11.1798. On 23.1.1799 Godwin called on him, then he called on 28.1.1799, 9.2.1799, 21.2.1799, 25.4.1799, 9.7.1799, 18.10.…

miss White 18.1.1801 at Charles Lamb's / 18.2.1801 White at Lamb's / 4.3.1801 again / 18.5.1801 at his with Lamb

Miss White was perhaps a sister of Lamb's friend James White DNB 1775-1820 who was probably the White of the next entries above, and many later ones. (The GD website has different Whites coded to one generic person record White). He was born in Bewdley, Worcs and his siblings may have been Joseph b1772, Sarah b1777 & Polly b1779. Polly may have been a Margaret White who died 1864. Lamb also mentioned the Whites of Bishopsgate St in a letter to Barron Field of 1820.…

see Poland Street 1 to 9 & 49 to 62 in London Addresses dataset

John White ratebooks 9 Poland St 1797 / SunFire John White cabinet maker 9 Poland St 1798 / John White cabinet maker Poland St voted Paull 1806 / Sun Fire John White cabinet maker and Elizabeth White his wife 12 Poland St 1821 / John White = St James 16.1.1813 Elizabeth Croft (QV*)  (3 Poland St  1788) this may be just a coincidence of name

call on dr White 13.10.1794

Joseph White (DNB 1746-1814) was called Dr White in the diary. He appeared in Godwin's 1796 list as Dr White in 1787, the year he received his doctorate (also in 1794 version as White). Godwin called on him at Oxford 13.10.1794 but he was 'nah' (not at home), and finally got to meet him again at Oxford on 9.10.1801, by which time they would have had very different political views but Godwin was probably attracted by his scholarship and his humble origins. The 'talk of White' with Dr Parr on 3.7.1795 most likely refers to him as he was a protege…

mrs White 29.4.1800 at Foulkes's / 30.4.1800 at mrs Foulkes'

Dorothea Susanna White widow of Laugharne age 50 plus in 1802 witness in divorce case of John and Philippa Foulkes London Metropolitan Archives DL/C/288 f239). John White = Dorothea Susanna Tago 11.10.1770 Snitterfield Warwicks

Dr White of Nottingham proposed Society for Constitutional Information 28.7.1780 by George Walker 2nded John Jebb

His father Snowden White married Sarah Latham on 21.8.1728 at Hartshorne, Derby / will PCC 1754 of Ebenezer Latham Doctor of Physic of Derby mentioned son-in-law Snowden White / London Evening Post 28.2.1775 Snowden White Doctor of Physic at Derby died 19.2.1775, his will PCC 1775 mentioned son Snowden / Derby Mercury 14.7.1824 Snowden White in list of pupils at Derby Free School between 1760 and 1770 / MD 1769 Edinburgh On Venereal Ulcers / SunFire 1778 Snowden White MD…

H White at Debrett's 1.4.1797

Nephew of Gilbert White of Selborne, he had a twin brother Henry Holt White who moved in similar circles but was less prominent as a radical. Thomas's letters to Major John Cartwright are at Hampshire Archives 16M97. On 7.6.1801 and 27.4.1824 Godwin called him Holt White, but he was probably also the H White of 1.4.1797 at Debrett's, of 29.11.1801 and 28.2.1802 at Tooke's and of 10.9.1802 'meet H White'. On 21.6.1802 there was a curious entry "call on White, FTC incog". Though it seems strange that Godwin should have called incognito on someone he had…

William White of George St, Manchester Sq proposed Society for Constitutional Information 9.11.1792 by Joseph Gerrald 2nded Charles Sinclair

Perhaps William White of King St, Portman Sq who joined Whig Club 5.4.1791, and perhaps the author of A Dissertation on Government by William White Esq printed for J Ridgway, York St, St James 1792 / World 11.1.1793 Old Bailey 10.1.1793 William White Esq gave evidence as a victim of theft against his former servant George Plater. White stated that he lived with his mother, a widow of fortune, at George St, Manchester Sq /  Mary White Land…

write to Poole & W L White 5.6.1802 / 5.3.1803 call on Gascoyne, & Northcote, with W L White / 7.3.1803 W L White adv at theatre / 10.3.1803 W L White & E Napier dine / 3.3.1805 W L White calls / 15.12.1805 again / 9.2.1806 again / 15.3.1807 again / 22.3.1807 again / 30.1.1810 again

William Lambert White of Yeovil will PCC 1845. Master Extraordinary in High Cort of Chancery 6.12.1791 London Gazette. Captain Yeovil Gentlemen & Yeomanry 21.7.1798 London Gazette. Died 17.4.1845 at New Hummums Hotel Covent Garden aged 78. See Burt, Miss

1.6.1796 Whitefield adv at Inchbald's

Quite likely the actor John Whitefield 1782-1814 (Highfill, Burnim & Langhans)

Whiteford 29.4.1799 at Royal Academy exhibition / 9.3.1827 C Whitefoord

Caleb Whitefoord DNB 1735-1810 may well have been at the RA exhibition in 1799. His son Charles was born 1797 before his marriage, after which he had a son Caleb born 1805 who became rector of Dunford, and twins Charles & Harriet born 1807

Whitehead 4.8.1794 at Jennings'

 

19.11.1810 tea Newton's, w. Whitelocke

Possible this could have been John Whitelocke DNB 1757-1833, a general who had been court martialled in 1808. Benjamin Whitelock was a merchant of 26 Gt Charlotte-st Blackfriars-rd (Holdens directory 1811). Miles Whitelock was a merchant of Doctors Commons will PCC 1817

9.6.1807 Whiteside at Johnson's

No good identification but some possibles. George Whiteside linendraper of 170 Fleet-st in partnership with John & Michael Turner, later merchant of Guilford-pl St Pancras, will PCC 18.11.1812 wife Elizabeth daughter of William Owen of Fleet-st bookseller (his will PCC 17.12.1793). He was a governor of Royal Bridewell hospital. Edward & Henry Whiteside cabinetmakers 176 Oxford-st in partnership with William Ferguson & Leonard Redmayne (SunFire 1813 to 1828). Edward Whiteside of Hampstead will PCC 9.12.1833 wife Maria sister Ellen son henry…

Whitfield 1.2.1795 at Foulkes'



 

31.10.1808 call on Whitford / 5.11.1808 again

Whitfords in Holdens 1811 Trades Directory: Helena Whitford, establishment for young ladies' private education, 6, South Ville, nr. Clapham (DNB 1761?-1824) / John Whitford haberdasher 95 Charlotte-st, Oxford-rd / Jno Whitford surgeon's instrument maker, cutler &c, Bartholomew's Hospital & 27 Lombard-st (ad in London Courier 20.11.1809 J Whitford Truss Maker to the City Truss Society for thr Relief of the Ruptured Poor for his new invented Serpentine Curved Elastic Steel Trusses at his manufactory under the central hospital gate…

2.11.1807 call on Nicholson & Whitworth, draper / 3.11.1807 call on Whitworth, & Nicholson / 22.12.1807 call on Nicholson, & Rodwell



SunFire 1797 James Whitworth & Godfrey Bower Rodwell linen draoers 6 James-st Covent-garden. Whitworth voted 1796 Fox & Tooke 1802 Fox & Gardner. Godfrey Bower Rodwell bapt 29.12.1768 Rearsby, Leics of William & Ann, voted 1796 Fox, 1818 Burdett & Romilly, SunFire 1823 6 James-st (without Whitworth), bankrupt 1831, SunFire 1839 6 James-st, died 1844

They may have been creditors or friends of William…