William Godwin's Diary

Lofft, Capel

  • Name: Lofft, Capel
  • Gender: Male
  • Birth Date: 14  November  1751
  • Death Date: 26  May  1824
  • Occupation: editor
  • Occupation: writer

Lofft was a radical who was involved in the movement to repeal the Test and Corporation Acts in the late 1780s and early 1790s. He was a stern critic of the Pitt regime, a noted campaigner against the death penalty, and was a prolific author.

See the letter from Lofft in the Abinger Papers, for June 1803.

Godwin records his death.

  • MS. Abinger c. 9, fol. 62: 20 ?June 1805
  • DNB

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

Name Number of Meetings
Lofft, Sarah (neé Watson) 4
Godwin, Mary Jane (Clairmont) (née de Vial) 3
Holcroft, Thomas 2
Romilly, Sir Samuel 2
Holcroft, Louisa (née Mercier) 2
Northcote, James 2
Hardy, Thomas 1
Thelwall, John 1
Miller, 1
Phillips, Sir Richard (Philip Richards) 1
Taylor, Richard 1
Barry, Major Henry 1
Scott, Thomas Hobbes 1
Turner, Thomas 1
Taylor, Susannah (née Cook) 1
Hollis, Thomas Brand 1
Boddington, Samuel 1
Burney, Captain James 1
Plowden, Francis Peter 1
Dealtry, Peregrine (Perry) 1
Perry, James (Pirie) 1
Rogers, Samuel 1
Reynolds, Frederick 1
Nicholson, William 1
Rowan, Sarah Jane (née Dawson) 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton 1
Shore, Samuel 1
Adams, President John 1
Zenobio, Count Alvise 1