William Godwin's Diary

Cole,

  • Gender: Male
  • Birth Date:
  • Death Date:

Husband of Thomas Holcroft's daughter Sophie (marr. c. 1794). Cole was a merchant in Exeter, but seems to have transferred his business to Hamburg by 1799 so that Holcroft and his family stay with them briefly when they first arrive in Hamburg.

Godwin's contacts with Cole are entirely at Holcrofts, save for a few entries in 1802 and 1814; but the 1830 entry is linked to the Kenneys.

  • Thomas Holcroft, The life of Thomas Holcroft, continued by William Hazlitt, ed. by Elbridge Colby, 2 vols (London: Constable and Co., 1925), p. 40 and p. 285.

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

Name Number of Meetings
Holcroft, Thomas 20
Holcroft, Sophia (Cole) 3
Holcroft, Louisa (née Mercier) 2
Parry, 2
Tobin, James Webbe 2
Reveley, Maria (Gisborne) (née James) 2
Fenwick, Elizabeth (Eliza) (née Jaco, pseudonym Reverend David Blair) 2
Fenwick, John 2
Foulkes, John 1
Nicholson, William 1
Wolcot, Dr John (pseudonym Peter Pindar) 1
Hume, Joseph 1
Hume, Alexia 1
Hazlitt, Sarah (née Stoddart) 1
Clairmont, Charles 1
Marshall, James 1
Kenney, James 1
Banks, Thomas 1
Tuthill, Sir George Leman 1
Alderson, Amelia (Opie) 1
Kemble, Maria Theresa (née De Camp) 1
Parry, Dr Caleb Hillier 1
Parry, Charles Henry 1
Perry, James (Pirie) 1
Shield, William 1
Thelwall, John 1
Merry, Robert 1
Allen, Robert 1
Stoddart, John 1
Barry, Major Henry 1
Morton, Thomas 1

Holcroft, Sophia (Cole)

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This person is mentioned in the diary a total of 15 times, and was a venue (V) 0 times.

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1792

1  February  1792

1796

30  January  1796 14  February  1796 28  February  1796

1797

28  December  1797

1798

2  January  1798 7  January  1798 10  January  1798 29  January  1798 18  May  1798

1799

16  March  1799

1820

1  April  1820 4  April  1820 9  April  1820

1828

8  August  1828

  • Name: Holcroft, Sophia (Cole)
  • Gender: Female
  • Birth Date:
  • Death Date: 8  January  1850

Holcroft's daughter by his second marriage. Coded as part of the plural Miss Holcroft's Godwin records in the 1790s. She marries William Cole in 1794 and is entered as S Cole or Mrs Cole, or as part of Coles. After Cole's death she maries Georges Nicholas Mergez, a Napoleonic General, and appears in the diary as Mme Mergez. Mergez (as Merget) appears in the diary in 1792-3, in association with Holcroft on several occasions.

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

Name Number of Meetings
Holcroft, Thomas 6
Mergez, Georges Nicholas 4
Cole, 3
Holcroft, Louisa (née Mercier) 2
Holcroft, Ann (Harwood) 1
Godwin, Mary Jane (Clairmont) (née de Vial) 1
Clairmont, Charles 1
Dawe, George 1
Morton, Thomas 1
Kenney, James 1
Chalmers, Alexander 1
Opie, John 1
Alderson, Amelia (Opie) 1
Perry, Anne (née Hull) 1
Perry, James (Pirie) 1
Merry, Robert 1
Tobin, James Webbe 1
Reveley, Maria (Gisborne) (née James) 1
Fenwick, Elizabeth (Eliza) (née Jaco, pseudonym Reverend David Blair) 1
Fenwick, John 1
Holcroft, Fanny Margaretta 1