Beuth, Peter

Submitted by edpope on

HCR diary 8.6.1826 at Aders "A Prussian, Beuthe, a finance minister, who has the air of a superior man"

Christian Peter Wilhelm Friedrich Beuth (1781-1853) see Marquardt II p109 n304, Karl Friedrich Schinkel (DNB 1781-1841) and Peter Beuth in de.wikipedia, and Schinkel in Crabb Robinson Diary dataset

Betham, Matilda

Submitted by edpope on

HCR DIARY 26.6.1820 Miss Beetham, poetess and radical at Charles Lamb's

(Mary) Matilda Betham (DNB 1776-1852)

GODWIN DIARY 16.11.1810 call on Montagu; adv. Tuthill & Betham / 10.11.1821 Betham calls / 26.11.1821 au soir Betham & Grave / 18.1.1822 Betham calls / 2.12.1822 Betham sups / 12.12.1822 call on Betham / 24.1.1823 Betham calls / 26.1.1823 call on Betham / 9.9.1824 Betham calls

Bent, Jane Mary

Submitted by edpope on

HCR diary 2.4.1838 "I was glad to perceive Mrs Aders house nearly full - Miss Lawrence, Mrs Bent a widow gentlewoman and a young German must render their living now very litle expence to them"

                 12.6.1839 "went on to the Aders - a friendly reception, but a little constraint. I am afraid to ask questions - Nothing about Ellen, nor their loss of their lady inmate - nor Miss Lawrence - they are now quite alone"

Benecke

Submitted by edpope on

HCR diary 17.2.1822 "dined late at Sievekings. The Aders, Jenkins and Benickes there - a very agreeable evening"

                    7.11.1836 at Benecke's re: Mr Aders "I found that A: had obtained from Souchay a promise of £100 but he had represented to S: that he wanted £2000!!!"

Beechey, William

Submitted by edpope on

HCR diary 18.12.1820 Mrs Aders talking of her father John Raphael Smith "Sir W Beechey used to receive half a guinea of S: and when he went into the country to paint his wife came for the money, but B: did not recollect the kindness of his friend"

William Beechey (DNB 1753-1839). For J R Smith see my background article "3 Wives, 3 Husbands Living"

Beckford, William

Submitted by edpope on

HCR diary 5.6.1834 re: Aders' pictures "Beckford is after some of the pictures and I have more hope of him than of anyone else"

William Thomas Beckford (DNB 1760-1844)

Becher

Submitted by edpope on

HCR diary 26.10.1817 "Poor Becher has had the misfortune to be, tho' innocently, involved in the late great Liverpool smuggling fraud".

                        3.1.1818 "called on Mrs Meyer to excuse myself from going to Mr Becker's with her this evening, but she was herself unwell" (Mrs Meyer was the future Mrs Aders)

Beaumont, George Howland

Submitted by edpope on

HCR diary 4.4.1823 "I met by appointment at Aders Wordsworth, Sir Geo. Beaumont and Rogers." "Sir Geo. proposed bringing Fuseli" "Sir Geo. seemed to be in particular interested by these specimens of old German art. The Perugini (3 figures in a sort of open temple) he declared to be in parts hardly distinguishable from Raphael. The great painting by Van Eyck he spent a long time in examining"

George Howland Beaumont (DNB 1753-1827)

Bayley, Miss

Submitted by edpope on

HCR diary 1.5.1842 Robinson saw Miss Bayley "interesting chat only I said too much about Mrs Aders etc."

No identification at present

Baur

Submitted by edpope on

HCR diary 20.6.1818 a musical party at Aders "Two Germans - Baur (brothers?) performed on the violin and violincello in so exquisite a style as to delight everyone -such sounds were bought from the violincello as I have never heard". The two musicians walked back with Robinson and complained that the French appreciate merit in music but the English not.

The only Baur alive then in music dictionaries was Charles-Alexis Baur who was a harpist, so these remain a mystery to me