20.11.1789 Peysonnel talk of with Robinson.

Probably Charles Peysonnel 1727-90 French consul in Smyrna and colleague of Condorcet as writer (though others of his family also enjoyed some fame)

 

20.11.1789 Mirabeau talk of with Robinson / 22.12.1789 Ml Mu talk of at B Hollis.

Surely Marechal Comte Honore de Mirabeau 1749-91

 

20.11.1789 Homer at Timothy Hollis'.

Perhaps Henry Homer DNB 1752-91 or his father Henry Sacheverell Homer DNB 1719-91 or one of his brothers, all were friends of Samuel Parr



 

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Samuel Miller of Snow Hill proposed member 30.11.1792 by George Williams 2nded John Williams

Samuel Miller directory 1785 boot & shoe maker 34 Snow Hill. Steward of Friends of Freedom 1796. His will PCC 1821 shoemaker of Skinner St (this was the Miller identified in GD website for 7 entries 1795-1799)

GODWIN DIARY:11.11.1789 Godwin calls on Miller, (the name not mentioned again till 1.3.1795 at Tooke's)

10.11.1789 Swinney at Robinson's.

Myles Swinney printer and bookseller of Birmingham since 1770s, PCC will 1812

 

10.11.89 Nicolovius at Robinson's. Ludwig N. born 1767 or Matthias Friedrich N. born 1768. 1791 Friedrich N. publisher at Konigsberg

 

10.11.1789 Wendeborn at Robinson's.

Gebhard Friedrich August Wendeborn (PCC wills 1813 Hamburg) born Magdeburg, in England 1767-93 then went to Hamburg and couldn't return to England because of the war. Minister of German chapel on Ludgate Hill, wrote 'A View of Great Britain' and a German Grammar, both published by Robinson in 1790/1. Leeds Archives letter to Rd How Aspley 1792 (not seen)



 

5.11.1789 B Wits at Rev Socy. Broome Philip Witts 1767-1845 of Champion Hill, Camberwell, is the most likely candidate, though there were two other cousins of his called Broome Witts living in Berkshire and Wiltshire at the time. Broome Philip Witts married Jane Lake, was partner in 1794 in Witts & Rowley, silk mercers & muslin warehouse, 21 Friday St, and moved to a large house in Brunswick Sq about 1800

 

5.11.1789 Forsaith at Rev Socy.

Robert Forsaith (Surman index) 1749-97 was an assistant minister at Norwich 1770-82 so Godwin may have recognized him from then. Then Classics tutor at Daventry 1785-9 and at Northampton 1790-7

 

25.9.1789 Montgomery at T Hollis' / 14.9.1790 again.

James Montgomery mariner (1726-93) of Stepney buried Bunhill Fields 7.2.1793 age 66, married Susan Anthony of Beaconsfield 20.1.1774 St Olave Hart St London. The will of John Anthony PCC 1800 (see his entry for his relation to Hollis) mentioned his sister Susanna Montgomery and her children James, Susanna (died Paris 1851) and Margaret. Kedrick Sharp of Orford, Suffolk appr 1782 to James Montgomery mariner of Whitechapel