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

Moore, C[harles]?

  • Name: Moore, C[harles]?
  • Gender: Male
  • Birth Date:
  • Death Date:
  • Occupation: barrister

Son of Dr John Moore, brother to James, and Graham (see 1 Nov 1794 where C. and G. Moore appear together)? or relation of M Moore (see 28 Dec 1794 - 'H, C, M and M Moore call')?
All Cha. and C. Moores 1789-1807 (51) have been coded as MOO06.
1 Mar 1796 - Godwin records calling on Moore, Ja, and C. Moore'
24 Feb 1800 - 'adv. Jas. and C. Moore' (at the theatre)
2 May 1800 - Exhibition, adv. Jas. and C. Moore

See the discussion in the entry for Dr John Moore.

  • Frederick Reynolds,The Life and Times of Frederick Reynolds, written by himself (London, 1826)

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

Name Number of Meetings
Reynolds, Frederick 5
Reynolds, Elizabeth (née Mansel) 5
Moore, James (Carrick-Moore) 3
Fenwick, John 2
Fillingham, William 2
Inchbald, Elizabeth 2
O'Bryen, Dennis (O'Brien) 2
Williams, Helen Maria 2
Alderson, Amelia (Opie) 2
Moore, John 2
Kemble, Charles 2
Fenwick, Elizabeth (Eliza) (née Jaco, pseudonym Reverend David Blair) 2
Lawrence, Sir Thomas 2
Marsh, Charles 2
Hazlitt, William 2
Taylor, John 1
Perry, James (Pirie) 1
Batty, Robert 1
Carlisle, Sir Anthony 1
Marshall, James 1
Northcote, James 1
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Baillie, Matthew 1
Jerningham, 1
Fenwick, Eliza Anne 1
Godwin, Mary Jane (Clairmont) (née de Vial) 1
Hoare, Prince 1
Allen, Lancelot Baugh 1
Wedgwood, Thomas 1
Foulkes, John 1
Holcroft, Thomas 1
Hazlitt, John 1
Thelwall, John 1
Losh, James 1
Moore, Matthew (Mathew) 1
Maitland, James (eighth earl of Lauderdale) 1
Mackintosh, Sir James (of Kyllachy) 1
MacDonnell, D. E. 1
Boaden, James 1
Kemble, Maria Theresa (née De Camp) 1
Cooper, Grace Mary Rae 1
Cooper, Elizabeth Priscilla 1
Wollstonecraft, Mary (Godwin) 1
Reveley, Maria (Gisborne) (née James) 1
Reveley, Willey 1
Hamilton, Samuel 1
Phillips, 1
Adair, Robert 1
Wedgwood, Josiah (jr.) 1
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