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This person is mentioned in the diary a total of 240 times, but was not at home (N) 15 times, and was a venue (V) 90 times.
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1 September 1790 4 November 1790
4 February 1792 19 February 1792
22 January 1793 18 August 1793 15 September 1793 (V) 22 September 1793 29 September 1793 13 October 1793 3 November 1793 (V) 10 November 1793 (V) 24 November 1793 (V) 30 November 1793 4 December 1793
26 January 1794 (V) 4 February 1794 (V) 10 March 1794 16 April 1794 (V) 27 April 1794 (V) 24 October 1794 (V) 5 November 1794 (V) 1 December 1794 (V) 30 December 1794
8 February 1795 (V) 2 March 1795 10 April 1795 11 May 1795 20 May 1795 31 May 1795 (V) 1 June 1795 (NV) 2 June 1795 (V) 5 June 1795 (NV) 9 June 1795 (NV) 10 June 1795 (V) 19 July 1795 19 July 1795 (V) 16 August 1795 (V) 30 August 1795 20 September 1795 11 October 1795 26 October 1795 6 November 1795 11 November 1795 (V) 20 November 1795 (V) 23 November 1795 (V) 30 November 1795 10 December 1795 27 December 1795
31 January 1796 (V) 14 March 1796 17 March 1796 (V) 2 April 1796 16 April 1796 (V) 28 April 1796 10 May 1796 6 June 1796 (V) 28 August 1796 2 November 1796 (V) 14 December 1796 31 December 1796
10 January 1797 2 February 1797 26 February 1797 1 March 1797 29 March 1797 26 April 1797 (V) 24 May 1797 2 June 1797 28 July 1797 8 August 1797 8 November 1797
15 February 1798 19 February 1798 (V) 2 April 1798 (V) 22 June 1798 14 September 1798 (V) 16 November 1798 (V)
3 February 1799 (V) 16 March 1799 (V) 29 April 1799 17 July 1799 (NV) 13 September 1799 (V) 7 October 1799 14 November 1799 (V) 22 November 1799 1 December 1799 (NV) 9 December 1799 19 December 1799
6 January 1800 21 January 1800 2 February 1800 10 March 1800 19 April 1800 (NV) 28 April 1800 17 May 1800 (V) 18 May 1800 3 September 1800 28 September 1800 (V) 18 October 1800 (V) 29 October 1800 21 December 1800 (V)
19 May 1801 (V) 16 June 1801 (V) 3 July 1801 (V) 5 July 1801 (V) 3 October 1801 25 October 1801 (V) 22 November 1801 (V) 9 December 1801
8 January 1802 1 March 1802 (V) 5 March 1802 7 March 1802 (V) 18 April 1802 (NV) 3 May 1802 20 August 1802 (NV) 17 September 1802 (V) 18 September 1802 (V) 24 November 1802
13 January 1803 (V) 4 March 1803 (V) 5 July 1803 (V) 7 September 1803 21 October 1803 26 October 1803
29 January 1804 2 February 1804 8 February 1804 19 March 1804 11 April 1804 27 August 1804 (V) 3 December 1804 10 December 1804
1 April 1805 (V) 29 April 1805 16 June 1805 10 October 1805 19 October 1805 (V) 20 October 1805 24 October 1805 (V)
5 May 1806 13 May 1806 13 June 1806 (V) 15 June 1806 (V) 9 July 1806 8 September 1806 (NV) 18 September 1806 10 October 1806 16 October 1806 22 October 1806 (V) 24 October 1806
8 April 1807 25 April 1807 4 May 1807 28 September 1807 12 October 1807 17 October 1807 (V) 17 November 1807 11 December 1807
14 June 1808 29 June 1808 30 June 1808 1 July 1808 (V) 6 July 1808 18 August 1808 3 September 1808 3 November 1808 (V) 19 November 1808 (N)
11 January 1809 24 February 1809 6 April 1809 (V) 21 May 1809 (NV) 7 June 1809 (V) 21 September 1809 7 December 1809 13 December 1809
3 January 1810 (V) 8 February 1810 17 April 1810 30 April 1810 6 August 1810 28 December 1810
4 May 1812 20 July 1812 6 September 1812
16 February 1813 3 May 1813 5 May 1813 14 August 1813
7 January 1814 16 January 1814 (V) 18 January 1814 (V) 27 January 1814 11 June 1814 (V) 5 July 1814
1 May 1815 23 May 1815 26 May 1815 20 June 1815 26 June 1815 4 September 1815 (N) 7 September 1815 (N) 9 September 1815 (NV) 10 September 1815 (V) 12 September 1815 (N) 13 September 1815 (V) 18 October 1815
16 March 1816 (V) 16 August 1816 26 August 1816 (V) 27 August 1816
13 February 1817 20 February 1817 19 April 1817 5 May 1817 11 May 1817 24 June 1817 29 July 1817 12 September 1817 13 December 1817
30 March 1818 17 April 1818 (V) 4 May 1818 5 June 1818 (V) 16 July 1818 (V) 20 July 1818 (V)
10 January 1819 (V) 14 February 1819 (V) 10 March 1819 (V) 14 October 1819
27 August 1820 28 October 1820 28 October 1820
James Perry was the proprietor of the Morning Chronicle and an associate of Godwin's and Holcroft's from the 1780s. Perry moved to London in 1777 aged 21. He went to Paris in summer 1791 as a deputy of the London Revolution Society and reported from there for almost a year (DNB) - this suggests that the 2 refs in Feb 1792 may not be to Perry, but they are to dinners with the Holcroft/Crosdil/Shield/Nicholson circle, and so are very much Perry's milieu. This suggests that Perry may have returned briefly from Paris - had it been a different Perry (such as Sampson Perry) we might reasonably have expected a wider range of contacts than the two meetings in February 1792.
Perry spent three months of 1798 in Newgate for pblishing a libel on the House of Lords. He married Anne Hull in 1798 (she dies in Feb 1815). In August 1802, during the Peace of Amiens, when Perry is in England, Godwin seems to have asked him if he would write a letter in support of Holcroft's application for a passport - but Perry replied that it would be unwise given his own standing and Holcrofts (MS. Abinger c. 8, fol. 2: 24 Aug. 1802).
In 1817 Perry became ill and and semi-retired. Godwin notes Perry's death in 1821 (Sampson Perry dies in 1823). 'Perry's, Merton' refers to Merton, London (near Wimbledon) .
In 1834 a William Perry appears (see M. Shelley's Journals, Appendix III, p. 616 - which quotes a letter from Godwin to Mary Jane - having met W Perry at M Shelley's on 18 August 1834: 'I have been pestered with application from William Perry, the man that several years ago did no good to the portrait of Bradshaw for the lives of the Philipses. He was in the last degree of distress, without a short. I gave him three shillings....He fomerly made a portrait of Joseph Johnson, and another of first mamma. (From MS. Abinger c. 43, fols. 37-8: 20 Aug. 1834). This suggests that the 'Perry painter' entries might refer to W Perry, but they are not coded as such. See the biographical note in the Mary Shelley Diary (616-7) for other Perrys.
There are several entries for Perrys and four for Mrs Perry (1802,1803, and 1806)
This table lists the people this person is most frequently noted with in the diary.
| Name | Number of Meetings |
|---|---|
| Holcroft, Thomas | 25 |
| Perry, Anne (née Hull) | 20 |
| Debrett, John | 10 |
| Porson, Richard | 10 |
| Boaden, James | 7 |
| Horne Tooke, John | 7 |
| Weld, | 6 |
| Este, Reverend Charles | 6 |
| Barry, Major Henry | 6 |
| Taylor, John | 6 |
| Fergusson, Robert Cutlar | 5 |
| Dawe, George | 5 |
| Adair, Robert | 5 |
| Godwin, Mary Jane (Clairmont) (née de Vial) | 5 |
| Fenwick, John | 5 |
| Parry, | 5 |
| Gillies, John | 5 |
| Shield, William | 5 |
| Hill, (Thomas) | 5 |
| Burdett, Sir Francis (fifth baronet) | 5 |
| O'Bryen, Dennis (O'Brien) | 5 |
| Mackintosh, Sir James (of Kyllachy) | 5 |
| Bosville, William | 4 |
| Curran, John Philpot | 4 |
| Maxwell, William | 4 |
| Webb, | 4 |
| Wolcot, Dr John (pseudonym Peter Pindar) | 4 |
| Hayward, Richard | 4 |
| Opie, John | 4 |
| Tarleton, Sir Banastre (baronet) | 3 |
| Hanger, George (Baron Coleraine) | 3 |
| Fell, Ralph | 3 |
| Tierney, George | 3 |
| Hazlitt, William | 3 |
| Knight, Robert | 3 |
| Lawrence, Sir Thomas | 3 |
| Scott, Thomas Hobbes | 3 |
| Miller, | 3 |
| Phillips, Sir Richard (Philip Richards) | 3 |
| Northcote, James | 3 |
| Thelwall, John | 3 |
| Cooper, Thomas (Abthorpe) | 3 |
| Carlisle, Sir Anthony | 3 |
| Crosdill, John | 2 |
| Richter, Henry James | 2 |
| Dealtry, Peregrine (Perry) | 2 |
| Mulready, William | 2 |
| Turner, Thomas | 2 |
| Price, Richard | 2 |
| Taylor, William | 2 |
| Dawe, Mary Margaret (Wright) | 2 |
| Morton, Thomas | 2 |
| Shee, Sir Martin Archer | 2 |
| Grey, Charles | 2 |
| Fuseli, Henry (Johann Heinrich Füssli) | 2 |
| Batty, Robert | 2 |
| Kemble, John Philip | 2 |
| Campbell, Thomas | 2 |
| Reynolds, Frederick | 2 |
| Manning, Thomas | 2 |
| Dyer, George | 2 |
| Inchbald, Elizabeth | 2 |
| Kentish, John | 2 |
| Alderson, Amelia (Opie) | 2 |
| Dyson, George | 2 |
| Moore, Sir Graham | 2 |
| Stoddart, John | 2 |
| Reynolds, Elizabeth (née Mansel) | 2 |
| Sharp, William | 2 |
| Robinson, George | 2 |
| Stanley, Earl of Derby Edward | 2 |
| Wilson, | 2 |
| Banks, Thomas | 2 |
| MacDonnell, D. E. | 1 |
| Davison, Thomas | 1 |
| Banks, John Cleaver | 1 |
| Wilkie, Sir David | 1 |
| Frend, William | 1 |
| Paull, James | 1 |
| Taylor, Richard | 1 |
| Reveley, Maria (Gisborne) (née James) | 1 |
| Dignum, Charles | 1 |
| Rowan, Sarah Jane (née Dawson) | 1 |
| Hardy, Thomas | 1 |
| Trotter, John Bernard | 1 |
| Burney, Captain James | 1 |
| Plowden, Francis Peter | 1 |
| Rogers, Samuel | 1 |
| Lofft, Capel | 1 |
| Moore, James (Carrick-Moore) | 1 |
| Boddington, Samuel | 1 |
| Finnerty, Peter | 1 |
| Carey, Captain Charles John (Cary) (ninth Viscount Falkland) | 1 |
| Hollis, Timothy | 1 |
| Lindsey, Theophilus | 1 |
| Disney, John | 1 |
| Kippis, Andrew | 1 |
| Sharp, Richard (Conversation Sharp) | 1 |
| Rees, Abraham | 1 |
| Watson, Richard | 1 |
| Towers, Joseph | 1 |
| 1 | |
| Nicholson, William | 1 |
| Goldsmith, Lewis | 1 |
| Taylor, Jeremiah | 1 |
| Cole, | 1 |
| Flather, John | 1 |
| Collier, John Dyer | 1 |
| Collier, Jane (Payne) | 1 |
| Boinville, Alfred | 1 |
| Murray, John Samuel | 1 |
| Burney, Martin Charles | 1 |
| Harlow, George Henry (Harlowe) | 1 |
| Gifford, William | 1 |
| Wallace, | 1 |
| Flower, Benjamin | 1 |
| Reveley, Willey | 1 |
| Harvey, Thomas | 1 |
| Burdett, William Jones | 1 |
| Scott, William | 1 |
| Harley, Jane Elizabeth (Lady Oxford, née Scott) | 1 |
| Allen, Robert | 1 |
| Barry, James | 1 |
| Parr, Samuel | 1 |
| Biddulph, Robert Myddleton | 1 |
| Marsh, Charles | 1 |
| Frost, John | 1 |
| Blake, Arthur | 1 |
| Ritson, Joseph | 1 |
| Chalmers, Alexander | 1 |
| Holcroft, Sophia (Cole) | 1 |
| Holcroft, Louisa (née Mercier) | 1 |
| Taylor, (Taylor Lanc) | 1 |
| Russell, Francis (fifth duke of Bedford) | 1 |
| Coke, first earl of Leicester (1837) Thomas William | 1 |
| North, Dudley (Long) | 1 |
| Tufton, Ninth earl of Thanet Sackville | 1 |
| Greatheed, Bertie | 1 |
| Tooke, William | 1 |
| Courtenay, John (Courtney) | 1 |
| Macleod, Norman | 1 |
| Taylor, 'Opera' | 1 |
| Grattan, Henry | 1 |
| Rous, George | 1 |
| Bankes, Henry | 1 |
| Wake, | 1 |
| Marshall, James | 1 |
| Hoare, Prince | 1 |
| Flaxman, John | 1 |
| Agar, James | 1 |
| Sharp, | 1 |
| Moore, Sir John (Jack) | 1 |
| Vaughan, | 1 |
| Fenwick, Elizabeth (Eliza) (née Jaco, pseudonym Reverend David Blair) | 1 |
| Godwin, Hannah | 1 |
| Moore, Thomas | 1 |
| Moore, C[harles]? | 1 |
| Hays, Mary | 1 |
| Fillingham, William | 1 |
| Smith, | 1 |
| Lamb, Charles | 1 |
| Raine, Matthew | 1 |
| Hume, Joseph | 1 |
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