GODWIN DIARY 4.1.1795 &c

SOCY for CONST INFO : George Bond Esq of the Temple proposed 7.2.1783 Alured Shove 2nded Samuel Shore. In 1792 he was a signatory to the Friends of the People and to the Friends of the Liberty of the Press. DNB 1750-1796. See Ride, Ann in Greater Soho dataset for more on his personal life.

GODWIN DIARY:  Bond 8.12.1790 at Holcroft's, with Fenwick and Bishop. May be George Bond as above, or the singer below if Bishop (QV) was the musician

Samuel Boddington proposed Socy for Const Info by Richard Price 19.3.1790 2nded Thomas Brand Hollis. West India merchant History of Parliament 1766-1843. See Godwin Diary website entry which I haven't examined though there is some uncertainty about distinguishing between Samuel and John Boddington.

John Blunt of Great Ayliff Street, Goodmans Fields proposed SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION 8.11.1782 by Thomas Hinton Burley Oldfield 2nded Joseph Brown.

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Joseph Benwell of Battersea proposed 10.9.1784 by Michael Pearson 2nded James West.

Thomas Bentley of Turnham Green DNB 1731-1780 founding member attended 19.5.1780 died 2.12.1780

Rev William Beville at Mr Barrell's Gt Queen St proposed 9.5.1783 by John Cartwright 2nded Jackson Barwis. Born 1755 Hempswell, Lincs, his mother Ann was a widow by 1774. Fellow of St Peter's Cambridge. In 1782 he published "Observations on Dr Johnson's Life of Hammond" in which he defended the poems of James Hammond DNB 1710-1742 against Samuel Johnson's dismissal. Hammond's poems had been written to Catherine Dashwood (d.1779) whose niece Ann had married John Cartwright in 1780, see note on p8 of Beville's pamphlet.

Rev Thomas Bennett of Westminster proposed 9.11.1781 by Thomas Brand Hollis 2nded John Jebb. Regular attender at first but resigned by 1783. Son of Thomas of Westminster, Westminster School, Trinity Cambridge BA 1776, DD 1801. 1775 public lectures on apostles' creed. SunFire 1779 Rev TB of Barton St Westminster.  Minor canon of Westminster 1782, of St Pauls 1783. Master of the Free School Highgate. Died 24.8.1816 age 73, his will PCC 1816 Hornsey Middlesex

George Bellas of Doctors Commons proposed 8.3.1782 John Horne Tooke 2nded John Redman. Father of George Bellas Greenough DNB 1778-1855. Born 16.11.1750 bapt 17.12.1750 St Gregory by St Paul of George & Elizabeth / He married Sarah Greenough 16.5.1776 at St Bride Fleet St. Proctor of Doctors Commons, active in Common Council, notary public, Bill of Rights supporter, died 12. 7.1784 at Bristol Hot Wells in his 34th year no PCC will buried Clifton, Glos 15.7.1784. Public Advertiser 17.9.1784 widow of George Bellas died 2 months after her husband.

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.