William Godwin's Diary

Boddington, Samuel

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This person is mentioned in the diary a total of 11 times, and was a venue (V) 0 times.

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1798

29  July  1798

1800

16  February  1800

1802

12  February  1802

1805

9  June  1805

1806

9  January  1806 10  October  1806

1807

9  November  1807

1811

3  August  1811

1813

25  February  1813

1814

19  May  1814

1832

1  April  1832

  • Name: Boddington, Samuel
  • Gender: Male
  • Birth Date: 19  June  1766
  • Death Date: 19  April  1843
  • Occupation: West Indies Merchant and Irish Politician

Married to Grace Ashburner, whom he met at George Cadogan Morgan's home; she later eloped with his cousin Benjamin Boddington. After Grace's departure, their children lived for a time with the Morgans.

The Boddington family held large estates in the West Indies and Samuel had been left a fortune by his father who had been a director of the South Sea Company as well as a West India merchant with offices at Mark Lane. After his wife left, Samuel approached his friend, Richard Sharp (politician), a fellow Dissenter, fellow member of the Fishmongers' Company, and both mutual friends of Samuel Rogers, asking if he would join him in business, and eventually a West India company of Boddington, Sharp and Philips (George Philips) was established at 17 Mark Lane. Both Boddington and Philips (later Sir George Philips) followed Sharp's example and became dissenting Whig members of Parliament. Boddington was Member of Parliament (MP) for Tralee from January to May 1807.

There is a question about the relationship between John Boddington and Samuel. Occasions linked to Amelia Alderson have been coded for John; occasions linked to Morgan, Sharp and Rogers have been linked to Samuel.

  • Mary Ann Constantine and Paul Frame (eds) A World of New Ideas: The Travels of George Cadogan Morgan in France and of Richard Price Morgan in America, Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2012

This table lists the people this person is most frequently noted with in the diary.

Name Number of Meetings
Horne Tooke, John 3
Sharp, Richard (Conversation Sharp) 3
Scott, Thomas Hobbes 2
Phillips, Sir Richard (Philip Richards) 2
Perry, James (Pirie) 1
Dealtry, Peregrine (Perry) 1
Plowden, Francis Peter 1
Burney, Captain James 1
Hardy, Thomas 1
Thelwall, John 1
Miller, 1
Taylor, Richard 1
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 1
Dignum, Charles 1
Tooke, William 1
Goodbehere, Alderman Samuel 1
1
Robinson, Henry Crabb 1
Robinson, Anthony 1
Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer (first Baron Lytton) 1
Roy, Rammohun 1
Jerdan, William 1
Rogers, Samuel 1
Lofft, Capel 1
Gurney, Sir John 1
Tooke, William 1
1
Warner, John 1
Frend, William 1
Bonney, John Augustus 1
Burdett, Sir Francis (fifth baronet) 1
Gawler, Captain John Bellenden (Ker) 1
Gawler, Henry 1
Sharp, 1
Morgan, William 1
Malkin, Benjamin Heath 1
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 1
Tuffin, 1
Bosville, William 1
Edgeworth, Richard Lovell 1
Scott, William 1
Fenwick, Elizabeth (Eliza) (née Jaco, pseudonym Reverend David Blair) 1
Godwin, Mary Jane (Clairmont) (née de Vial) 1
Dawe, George 1
Moore, Thomas 1