William Godwin's Diary

Moore, Matthew (Mathew)

  • Name: Moore, Matthew (Mathew)
  • Gender: Male
  • Birth Date:
  • Death Date:

All M Moores 1795-1799 (23) have been coded as Matthew Moore, the political reformer who was part of a secret committee in the London Corresp[onding Society which met to plan a convention in the light of a threat to mobilise Hessian troops against the popular reform movement in 1794. Moore was named in the bill indicting members of the LCS and the Society for Constitutional Information for Treason in 1794 but managed to escape arrest.

On the other Moores in the diary see Dr John Moore's entry.

  • Albert Goodwin, The friends of liberty: the English democratic movement in the age of the French Revolution (London: Hutchinson, 1979).
  • Mary Thale, Selections from the Papers of the London Corresp[onding Society, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1983

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

Name Number of Meetings
Moore, C[harles]? 1
Fuseli, Henry (Johann Heinrich Füssli) 1
Johnson, Joseph 1
Parry, 1
Barry, Major Henry 1
Adair, Robert 1
Weld, 1
Fergusson, Robert Cutlar 1
Maxwell, William 1
Burdett, Sir Francis (fifth baronet) 1
Debrett, John 1
Hewlett, Reverend John 1