William Godwin's Diary

Boinville, Alfred

Hover over a bar to see number of appearances/year.
Click on a bar to jump to that year.

This person is mentioned in the diary a total of 19 times, and was a venue (V) 0 times.

You may also examine their meals and meetings in more detail.

1810

6  August  1810 9  August  1810 21  December  1810 21  December  1810

1811

28  March  1811 27  April  1811 7  July  1811 19  October  1811

1812

4  May  1812

1820

3  February  1820

1822

7  January  1822 13  January  1822 8  February  1822 10  March  1822 20  March  1822 2  April  1822

1823

22  March  1823

1827

16  January  1827 20  April  1827

  • Name: Boinville, Alfred
  • Gender: Male
  • Birth Date:
  • Death Date:

The Boinville family had a long association with the Godwins. Alfred was the son of Chastel and Harriet. The Godwins and the Boinvilles became close in the 1800s. The Boinvilles were close friends of the Newtons, another family of fervent Godwinians.

  • MS. Abinger c. 43, fols. 46-7: not dated
  • Letters of Mary W. Shelley, mostly unpublished, ed. Henry Howard Harper (Minneapolis, 1918).
  • St Clair

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

Name Number of Meetings
Boinville, Cornelia (Turner) 4
Boinville, Harriet 4
Newton, John Frank 3
Lambe, Mary 3
Hopwood, 3
Turner, Thomas 3
Lambe, Dr Lacon William 3
Godwin, William 2
Booth, David 1
Lawrence, James Henry (Chevalier) 1
Constancio, Dr 1
De Boinville, Chastel 1
Godwin, Mary Jane (Clairmont) (née de Vial) 1
1
Hume, Alexia 1
Hume, Joseph 1
Fenwick, Orlando 1
Collier, Jane (Payne) 1
Collier, John Dyer 1
Hayward, Richard 1
Dawe, George 1
Taylor, John 1
Perry, James (Pirie) 1
Flather, John 1

Boinville, Cornelia (Turner)

  • Name: Boinville, Cornelia (Turner)
  • Gender: Female
  • Birth Date:
  • Death Date:

The Boinville family had a long association with the Godwins. Cornelia was the daughter of Chastel and Harriet and the family became close to the Godwins in the 1800s. Cornelia married Thomas Turner, another longtime advocate of Godwin, in 1812. In the spring of 1814, before Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin became close, Shelley, according to his wife Harriet, had been very attentive to Cornelia in her husband's absence. Godwin told Turner, who took his wife to Devon, ensuring she did not see Shelley again. (St Clair, p. 360)

For a fuller discussion see Harriet Boinville

  • St Clair

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

Name Number of Meetings
Turner, Thomas 23
Boinville, Harriet 9
Godwin, William 6
Godwin, Mary Jane (Clairmont) (née de Vial) 5
Lamb, Mary Anne 4
Boinville, Alfred 4
Curran, William Henry 2
Flather, John 2
Smith, James 1
Northcote, James 1
Mulready, William 1
Irving, Washington 1
De Boinville, Chastel 1
Newton, John Frank 1
Lamb, Charles 1
Buchan, Dr Alexander Peter 1
Booth, David 1