William Godwin's Diary

Dyer, George

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This person is mentioned in the diary a total of 88 times, but was not at home (N) 9 times, and was a venue (V) 12 times.

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1793

26  February  1793

1794

10  March  1794 27  March  1794 19  April  1794 24  October  1794

1795

2  January  1795 (V) 17  January  1795 25  January  1795 27  February  1795 30  March  1795 31  March  1795 5  April  1795 10  May  1795 14  May  1795 17  June  1795 (V) 17  July  1795

1796

4  January  1796

1799

12  May  1799

1800

19  February  1800 18  May  1800 3  December  1800 25  December  1800

1801

1  April  1801 28  June  1801 21  July  1801 22  July  1801 (V) 22  July  1801 14  August  1801 (N) 6  November  1801 11  November  1801 17  December  1801

1802

24  April  1802 25  June  1802 (V) 25  November  1802 10  December  1802

1804

17  November  1804 6  December  1804

1805

19  January  1805 13  April  1805

1807

17  January  1807 27  May  1807

1808

27  February  1808 18  March  1808

1809

7  April  1809

1811

5  April  1811 9  April  1811 25  November  1811

1813

12  May  1813 24  November  1813 10  December  1813 23  December  1813

1814

25  August  1814 8  December  1814 10  December  1814

1815

14  March  1815 6  April  1815

1817

16  May  1817 28  July  1817 2  August  1817 (V)

1818

1  June  1818

1819

27  January  1819

1821

26  May  1821 1  June  1821 (V) 27  August  1821

1822

26  February  1822 (NV) 11  March  1822 4  September  1822

1823

30  December  1823

1824

17  May  1824 23  May  1824 (NV)

1825

17  May  1825

1826

10  May  1826 (V)

1828

7  April  1828 28  July  1828 (N)

1833

20  May  1833 (N) 4  September  1833

1834

2  July  1834 (N) 21  August  1834 (V) 10  September  1834 28  October  1834 (N) 3  November  1834 (V) 1  December  1834

1835

4  April  1835 10  April  1835 (V) 23  July  1835 3  August  1835 14  August  1835 (N) 15  September  1835 (N)

  • Name: Dyer, George
  • Gender: Male
  • Birth Date: 15  March  1755
  • Death Date: 2  March  1841
  • Occupation: author
  • Occupation: advocate of political reform

George Dyer was an influential Unitarian and Cambridge Dissenter. He was an associate of William Frend and Benjamin Flower, and an advocate of reform, both in relation to the Test and Corporation Acts and the French Revolution, publishing An Inquiry into the Nature of Subscription to the Thirty-Nine Articles in 1789 and a revised edition which appeared in 1792. He also wrote The complaints of the poor people of England: containing remarks I. On government, II. On the defects in the ... government, as to representation ... (1793); A dissertation on the theory and practice of benevolence (1795). He was at William Frend's house in 1795 when Godwin met William Wordsworth. After his political activities in the early and mid-1790s, Dyer devoted himself to scholarship and produced several important publications.

  • MS. Abinger c. 13, fols. 8-9: 12 March 1822
  • DNB
  • A Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors, London, 1816.

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

Name Number of Meetings
Lamb, Charles 13
Lamb, Mary Anne 11
Holcroft, Thomas 6
Frend, William 6
Hazlitt, William 5
Wilson, 4
Hollis, Thomas Brand 3
Robinson, Henry Crabb 3
Godwin, Mary Jane (Clairmont) (née de Vial) 3
Thelwall, John 3
Rickman, John 3
Alderson, Amelia (Opie) 3
Batty, Robert 2
Scott, Thomas Hobbes 2
Disney, John 2
Northcote, James 2
Opie, John 2
Stoddart, John 2
Losh, James 2
Perry, James (Pirie) 2
Horne Tooke, John 2
Northmore, Thomas 2
Bosville, William 2
Tooke, William 2
Harvey, Thomas 1
Gawler, Charles Henry Bellenden (Ker) 1
Southey, Robert 1
Gawler, Captain John Bellenden (Ker) 1
Cristall, Joshua 1
Planta, Joseph 1
Ellis, Sir Henry 1
Hazlitt, John 1
Booth, David 1
Manning, James 1
Payne, John and Sarah 1
Ayrton, William 1
Burney, Martin Charles 1
Hill, (Thomas) 1
Collier, John Dyer 1
Collier, John Payne 1
Dawe, Mary Margaret (Wright) 1
Dawe, George 1
Turner, Sharon 1
Lawrence, James Henry (Chevalier) 1
Botwright, 1
Clairmont, Charles 1
Hume, Joseph 1
Burdett, William Jones 1
Burdett, Sir Francis (fifth baronet) 1
Scott, William 1
Higgins, Godfrey 1
Wordsworth, William 1
Raine, Jonathan 1
Tweddell, John 1
Fawcett, Joseph 1
Lee, Richard ('Citizen') 1
Manning, 1
Iliff, Edward Henry 1
Powell, James 1
Williams, Edward (Iolo Morganwg) 1
Porson, Richard 1
White, 1
Wakefield, Gilbert 1
Mackintosh, Sir James (of Kyllachy) 1
Heywood, Samuel 1
Barbauld, Anna Letitia (née Aikin) 1
Barbauld, Rochemont 1
Harley, Jane Elizabeth (Lady Oxford, née Scott) 1
Plumptre, Annabella (Bell) 1
Plumptre, Anne 1
Alderson, Dr James 1
Lawrence, Sir Thomas 1
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 1
Cline, Henry 1
1
Gurney, Sir John 1
Taylor, John 1
Hays, Mary 1
Richter, Henry James 1
Ritson, Joseph 1
Smith, George 1
Geddes, Dr Alexander 1
Booth, Isabel (née Baxter) 1