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