19.5.1808 G Walker calls / 21.5.1808 write to G Walker / 23.5.1808 G Walker calls (not seen) / 24.5.1808 G Walker calls

Holdens Directory 1811; George Walker, publisher of music at half price, and warehouse for Hope's Hectic Pills, 106 Gt Portland-st, his will PCC 1847 / George Walker, attorney, 15, Craven-st, Strand

A very common name so no identity suggested, but an interesting outside possibility is that this was George Walker DNB 1772-1847 gothic novelist who satirised Godwin in The Vagabond 1799 and Timothy Thoughtless 1813

19.5.1808 call on R Taylor; adv. J H, advertiser / 23.6.1808 Advertising calls

16.5.1808 M(arshall) calls from Macmurdo

Only instance of this name in Godwin's diary, but I have quite a good candidate. Edward Longdon Mackmurdo 1757-1817 of Clapton will PCC 1817 mentions wife Elizabeth, 3 sons, 8 daughters & nephew Robert Stark Mackmurdo. He was buried at Bunhill Fields, calico printer. One of his sons' birth registered 1798 Gilbert Wakefield Mackmurdo at Kings Weigh House Chapel, Whites Row. 1798 was when Gilbert Wakefield DNB 1756-1801 was tried and imprisoned for writing a book.

3.5.1808 call on Sturley, Swaffham: Bradenham, with do.: meet P(hilip) H(ull) G(odwin): Sturley dines

2.5.1808 coach, w. Mayes, &c (via Cambridge to Swaffham, Norfolk)

Only time this name occurs in Godwin's Diary so I'll resist the temptation to guess, except to mention Mr Mayes, farmer of Gresham, Norfolk will PCC 1821

8.11.1821 H M & Rosser sup / 28.12.1821 H Marshal & H(arwoo)d H(olcrof)t sup / 7.2.1822 H Marshal at tea / 28.2.1822 H M sups / 13.3.1822 again / 27.5.1822 again / 5.6.1822 Hudson sups: adv. H M / 10.6.1822 P(eter) P(ilcher) & H M at tea / 3.8.1822 H M sups / 23.8.1822 again / 24.10.1822 H M & H(arwoo)d H(olcrof)t sup / 5.12 H M sups / 9.12.1822 M(arshall), & H M, & M(ary) Lamb call / 17.1.1823 Hudsons & H M at tea / 25.3.1823 Lambs & H M sup / 18.4.1823 Kenney & H M sup / 5.5.1823 H M sups / 12.5.1823 theatre, w.

10.4.1808  F(enwic)k & Orlando dine; adv. Plant

No clue

22.4.1808 Mellon dines at Joseph Johnson's

Not likely to be actress Harriet Mellon DNB 1777?-1837 as very few women attended Johnson's dinners. But no other clues

22.4.1808 Rosiere dines at Joseph Johnson's

No clues. Rosier quite a common English name but spelling with an e suggests a Frenchman

16.2.1808 Peto calls / 21.11.1812 again / 23.11.1812 again / 18.11.1813 again

Possibly Henry Peto DNB 1774-1830 builder and contractor. The two calls in 1812 coincide with mentions of the (Sun) Fire Office, though not clearly linked to them. Godwin is in Fire Office records for Skinner Street 14.12.1812