• Name: Meyler, Anthony
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date:
• Death Date:
• Occupation: lecturer
• Occupation: scientist,

Closely associated with Curran. Godwin seems to use Meyler/Dr Meyler interchangeably, he reads a text by him ('Meyler, cala'), and the contacts peak 1816-17. First seven contacts, 1809-12, are all letters. These are not in MS Abinger scans. None of the evidence points to this being Richard Meyler, M.P.

This is someone who is not usually resident in London, but who Godwin corresponds with and then who spends time in London autumn 1816-17. Given the frequent conjunction with Curran and Denis Lubé, it is perhaps likely to be someone Irish. Tentatively, we might identify this person as Anthony Meyler, who seems to have had diverse interests: in 1815 he lectured on electrochemistry at the Dublin Institution (Enda Leaney, '“Evanescent Impressions”: Public Lectures and the Popularization of Science in Ireland, 1770–1860', Éire-Ireland), 'in 1819, Dr. Anthony Meyler delivered a course of lectures on ventilation, and was invited to deliver another on meteorology' (A History of the Royal Dublin Society, 1915), he published Observations on Ventilation (1822) and in 1838 published Irish Tranquillity Under Mr O'Connell. Meyler is clearly in the UK in 1816 and 1817. In 1816 he was appointed to give a course of lectures on the Philosophy of Chemistry at the Russel Institution (see The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Monday, December 23, 1816). The first was delivered on Friday 7 February 1817 to be followed by regular lectures on Tuesdays and Fridays. Godwin does not seem to have attended, perhaps because of the guinea and a half subscription required. The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Monday, April 14, 1817, declared the lectures a great success.

• Morning Chronicle
• Enda Leaney, ‘“Evanescent Impressions”: Public Lectures and the Popularization of Science in Ireland, 1770–1860’ in Éire-Ireland, 43.3/4 (Fall/Winter 2008) 157-82
• Henry Fitzpatrick Berry, A History of the Royal Dublin Society (London, 1915).

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