William Godwin's Diary

Carron de La Carrière, Abbe Guy-Toussaint-Julien

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1802

10  July  1802 (V)

  • Name: Carron de La Carrière, Abbe Guy-Toussaint-Julien
  • Gender: Male
  • Birth Date: 1760
  • Death Date: 1821
  • Occupation: priest
  • Occupation: author

The Abbé Carron was well known for his charitable work and youth education. He moved to London in 1796 in order to keep the spirit of Catholicism alive. He founded the Chapel of St Aloysius in 1808 for the use of French refugees and presided over four schools. The chapel was located on Polygon square, the birthplace of Mary Shelley and residence of Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft.

Carron appears in the 1796 list for 1802, and appears once as a contact in 1802.

Carron also wrote Vies des justes dans les plus hauts rangs de la société 4 vol., 1817

  • The Gentleman's MagazineLondon, 1813
  • Caledonian Mercury, 24 March, 1821
  • http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45241 Date accessed: 12 January 2010.
  • 'Somers Town and Euston Square', Old and New London: Volume 5 (1878), pp. 340-355
  • Denis Evinson, Catholic Churches of London Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1998.

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

Name Number of Meetings
Lathrop, Murray 1
Smith, John Raphael 1
Reed, Isaac 1
Flaxman, John 1
Dawe, George 1
Townsend, Francis 1
Beccaria, J 1
Dubois, Edward 1
Braham, 1
Tassart, Philippe (Joseph) 1
Dupré, 1
Busby, Thomas 1
Fiévée, Joseph 1
Wilbraham, William (Bootle, Baron Skelmersdale) 1
de Ocheda, Tommaso 1
Polidori, Gaetano 1
Damiani, F 1
Spanky, 1
Pye, Henry James 1
Godwin, Mary Jane (Clairmont) (née de Vial) 1