Whitefield, John
1.6.1796 Whitefield adv at Inchbald's
Quite likely the actor John Whitefield 1782-1814 (Highfill, Burnim & Langhans)
Research tutorial
Full article but not updated since 2012
These are notes on my methods of researching unidentified people in Godwin's diary, (which I guess could also be useful for all research on individuals from that era about whom information is scarce). The real art is in being familiar with all the different sources and cross-checking them until a picture starts to emerge.
Overview of my history project
Complete short article
My dad, who died when I was 19, back in 1967, had showed me the Pope family tree, mostly researched by his father. He let me pore freely over the 1911 edition of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica, from which I copied out lists of Egyptian pharaohs. And he sent me to St Neots' School, Eversley, Hants, where at the age of 10 I came top in a school of 8 to 13 year old boys in a history test sat by the whole school. I've always liked history and it came naturally to me, but it has come and gone in different phases of my life.
Warner, John
SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION Rev Dr John Warner proposed member 25.5.1792 by Robert Merry 2nded John Frost
GODWIN DIARY Dr Warner 25.12.1796 at H Tooke's. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1796 as dr Warner. In GD website his person record seems to be blank or missing and the entry in the 1796 list is not coded.
John Warner DNB 1736-1800 and see Courtenay, Philip
Pratt, Samuel Jackson
In Godwin's 1796 list near end of 1796 but not coded to his person record in GD website. For Pratts 15.7.1796 at Astleys in Norfolk, wrongly coded to him, see Pratt, Edward Rogers. For Pratt 3.9.1804 and 15.8.1813 both probably wrongly coded to him, see my entry Pratt. Samuel Jackson Pratt was in the Kings Bench prison from 24.4.1799 to 13.9.1799 at the suit of John Comerford and Hanway Hanway (qv)
De Camp
In Godwin's 1796 list for 1796 but not coded to her person record in GD website / 22.1.1802 mr Decamp at theatre / 5.12.1803 meet miss Decamp
see GD website for De Camp. Maria Theresa Kemble.DNB 1777-1838 married Charles Kemble in 1806. Her brother Vincent 1779-1839 (Highfill Burnim & Langhans) was also an actor and probably the mr Decamp of 1802, their father George Lewis De Camp died in 1787
Bonnycastle, John
In Godwin's 1796 list for 1796 but not coded to his person record in GD website
4.8.1807 dine at Johnson's, w. Bonnycastle & son, &c / 29.12.1808 Hommey, & misses Bonnycastle & Yeates call / 7.1.1809 Knowles & miss Bonnycastle dine / 20.1.1809 dine at Johnson's, w. Bonnycastle & fille, &c
Fuseli, Henry
In Godwin's 1796 list for 1796 but not coded to his person record in GD website
Harvey, Thomas
29.9.1795
In Godwin's 1796 list for 1796 but that entry not coded to his person record in GD website
Dermody, Thomas
In Godwin's 1796 list for 1796 inserted above but this entry not coded to his person record in GD website