Rackstrow, Frances

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F Rackstrow 9.10.1801 dines at Mitre, Oxford

Frances dau of Thomas & Ann Rackstrow bapt All Saints Oxford 1781. Her father Thomas was perhaps the Thomas Rackstrow will PCC 1814 of Hertford

Scurry

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Scurry 3.10.1901 calls  (& Countess Mountcashell) / 8.11.1801 at theatre with Lady Mountcashell

Scary was a variant of this name

 

Hill's study

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Hill's study 30.9.1801 / 1.10.1801 Fillingham's study

These entries surely referred to Thomas Hill DNB 1760-1840 and his friend William Fillingham, but the GD website has left Hill as inidentified, and coded Fillingham to te 1301, an unidentified text, although it has a person record for both of them. As they were both book collectors, study may have referred to rooms in their houses, but more probably to amateur sketches of Godwin, the sort of fun they might have enjoyed

Wilmot, Katherine

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miss Wilmot 29.9.1801 calls (& Lady Mountcashell) / 18.11.1801 at theatre with Lady Mountcashell / 21.11.1801 calls (& Lady Mountcashell)

Katherine Wilmot Dict Irish Biog c1773-1824 went to Europe with Lady Mountcashell and kept a diary

Cartwright, Rev.

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rev. Cartwright 20.9.1801 at H Tooke's

Quite likely Edmund Cartwright DNB 1743-1823, not a great radical hImself, but the brother of Major John Cartwright DNB 1740-1824 whom Godwin had met at H Tooke's in 1799

Robson

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write to Robson 16.9.1801 / 24.12.1801 write to Alex Robson / 1.1.1802 write to Robson

Maybe William Robson 1744-1824 of Newcastle. See my entry for Clennell, John & Ann

 

Aubert

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Aubert, jr 25.8.1801 at Cts (= future mrs Godwin)

Sharples

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Sharpless 23.8.1801 calls / 10.11.1801 Sharples calls / 16.11.1801 Sharples calls (sit)

James Sharples DNB 1751/2-1811 portrait painter (identified by the "sit"). The spelling Sharpless was used for his vote as portrait painter of Gerrard St Soho for Hood & Wray in 1764, and the two spellings were quite often given as alternatives for one person, surprisingly perhaps as we would now pronounce them each quite differently

Nixon

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Nixons 14.8.1801 at Reynolds's, North Cray

Quite likely Robert Nixon 1759-1837, curate of Foots Cray 1784-1804 in John Colley Nixon DNB pre 1759-1818. He exhibited at Royal Academy and was said to have talent-spotted Joseph Mallord William Turner DNB 1775-1861. He died at Kenmure Castle, New Galloway

Mitford

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Mitford 12.8.1801 at Reynolds', North Cray

Outside possibility George Mitford 1760-1842 of Bertram House, Reading in his daughter's DNB article Mary Russell Mitford 1787-1855.