Matthews

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2.10.1809 Matthews calls / 28.12.1809 call on Mathews (adv. Young) / 31.12.1809 Listons &c dine; invité Mathews / 18.4.1810 call on Mathews (not seen) / 15.11.1810 dine at Cooper's, w. Incledon, Bellamy, Matthews, Fawcett, Swartwout / 2.12.1810 Cooper &c dine; invités Mathews, Swartwout / 27.12.1810 dine at Cooper's, w. Mathews / 23.11.1813 dine at Poole's, w. Matthews / 2.5.1818 Mathews at Home / 15.4.1819 Matthews at Home / 7.5.1821 Exhibition, adv. Matthews / 13.12.1824 Matthews calls / 7.4.1825 Matthews, Memorandums

Elgin, Earl of

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13.10.1810 Elgin's w. Newtons &c

These must have been the famous Elgin marbles which Thomas Bruce 7th Earl of Elgin DNB 1766-1841 was still trying to get the nation to buy. His address was Piccadilly on the corner of Park-lane

Swartwout, Samuel

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15.11.1810 dine at Cooper's, w. Swartwout / 29.11.1810 call on Swartwout / 2.12.1810 Swartwout invited to dine / 14.2.1811 Swartwout calls: sups / 17.2.1811 Swartwout dines / 29.3.1811 Swartwout calls / 15.12.1817 letter from Swartwout / 9.1.1818 write to Swartwout

Samuel Swartwout (wikipedia 1783-1856) friend of Aaron Burr

Tollemache

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15.6.1823 dine at Hume's, w. Tollemache / 23.4.1835 again

In 1824 Joseph Hume's daughter Matilda married the Hon. Hugh Francis Manners Tollemache 1802-1890 who became rector of Harrington, Northants, where the Rectory was next to the Tollemache Arms pub. Their son Ralph 1826-1905 appears in the DNB as a "bestower of eccentric names"

Bunnett

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25.12.1819 dine at Hume's, w. Bunnet / 3.3.1822 again / 16.1.1827 sup at Aldis's, w. A Bunnet

Amelia, 1794-1861, eldest daughter of Joseph Hume married 17.5.1823 William Bunnett, of Fulham, surgeon. They had a son William Thomas Hume Bunnett. I couldn't find William Bunnett's death but Amelia was living with her father Joseph in 1841 census and listed as widow living with her son in 1851 census

Boothby, Brooke

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2.5.1816 call on Moore (not seen) : seek Boothby

Godwin went to Ashbourne, probably to see the poet Thomas Moore, but finding him out tried to find Sir Brooke Boothby DNB 1744-1824 poet and writer of Ashbourne Hall

Moore, Thomas

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2.5.1816 call on Moore (not seen)

This should be added on GD website to the person record for Thomas Moore DNB 1779-1852 poet. He was then living at Mayfield Cottage, Ashbourne and Godwin on his return journey from Edinburgh via Manchester went to Ashbourne presumably mainly to see Moore

Blanco

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11.5.1810 dine at Johnson's w. Blanco

Blanco White DNB 1775-1841 for certain

Doyle, John

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18.11.1829 tea sir John Doyle & mrs Wheeler / 23.5.1830 dine at Bulwer, w. sir John Doyle / 7.6.1830 tea M(ary) W S(helley)'s, w. Doyle, 2 Bulwers / 23.7.1831 Bulwer's, w. sir J Doyle

John Doyle DNB 1756-1834. First at tea with his niece Anna Doyle Wheeler (qv), then with Bulwer who had married A D Wheeler's daughter Rosina in 1827

Wheeler, Anna Doyle

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16.1.1821 tea Aldis's, w. mesds Wheeler (&c) / 7.3.1826 La C Lamb's, w. Bulwer, Wheeler (&c) / 12.9.1829 tea mrs Wheeler / 26.9.1829 call on mrs Wheeler (not seen) / 18.11.1829 tea sir John Doyle & mrs Wheeler