William Godwin's Diary

Rees, Owen

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This person is mentioned in the diary a total of 67 times, but was not at home (N) 2 times, and was a venue (V) 52 times.

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1801

31  March  1801 (V)

1815

2  February  1815 (V) 4  February  1815 (V) 10  February  1815 (V) 25  March  1815 (V) 27  March  1815 (V) 28  April  1815 (V)

1816

11  January  1816 (V) 24  January  1816 (V)

1817

27  November  1817 9  December  1817

1818

18  March  1818 (V) 30  March  1818 (V) 13  April  1818 18  April  1818 20  May  1818 (V)

1819

22  January  1819

1820

10  April  1820 (V) 28  August  1820 (V) 17  October  1820 (V) 27  October  1820 (V) 31  October  1820 14  November  1820 (V) 13  December  1820 (V)

1821

16  January  1821 19  January  1821 (V) 23  January  1821 (V) 3  March  1821 (V) 22  March  1821 17  April  1821 (V) 19  April  1821 (V) 4  May  1821 (NV) 9  June  1821 (V) 13  September  1821 (V) 14  September  1821 (V) 12  October  1821 16  October  1821 22  October  1821 5  November  1821 (V) 19  November  1821 (V) 21  November  1821 (V) 27  November  1821 5  December  1821 (V) 10  December  1821 (V) 22  December  1821 (V)

1822

15  February  1822 (V) 6  May  1822 (V) 6  July  1822 (V) 26  October  1822 (V)

1823

24  April  1823 (V) 6  June  1823 (V) 16  June  1823 30  December  1823 (V)

1824

29  March  1824 (V) 21  April  1824 (NV) 22  April  1824 (V) 29  October  1824 (V) 31  December  1824 (V)

1825

3  February  1825 (V)

1826

11  November  1826 (V)

1828

9  April  1828 15  September  1828 (V)

1829

10  February  1829 (V) 8  July  1829 (V)

1830

28  January  1830 (V) 25  September  1830

1832

9  April  1832 (V)

  • Name: Rees, Owen
  • Gender: Male
  • Birth Date: 1770
  • Death Date: 5  September  1837
  • Occupation: bookseller
  • Occupation: publisher

The likely attribution is Owen Rees, a partner of Thomas Norton Longman from 1793 to 1804, and then with Longman, Thomas Hurst and Cosmo Orme from 1804-1810; then with the addition of Thomas Brown to 1823, then plus Green to 1837. The records of the book trade give his dates as 1770 - 1837 and identify him as the son of Josiah Rees, minister. See his brother's DNB entry, Thomas Rees (1777–1864).

The vast majority of these entries are for O. Rees, but many of those that are plain Rees are also associated with Longman's, so that there is a high level of confidence that those that appear as Rees are in fact Owen Rees entries. One possibly competing identification is Abraham Rees, but the contexts provide a reasonable basis for differentiating their entries.

  • DNB.

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

Name Number of Meetings
Longman, Thomas Norton 5
Aldis, Charles 2
Aldis, Lady Mary Frances (née Berridge) 2
Marshall, James 1
Moore, Thomas 1
Hill, (Thomas) 1
Botwright, 1
Orme, Cosmo 1
Grenville, William Wyndham (Baron Grenville) 1
Talfourd, Sir Thomas Noon (Talford) 1
Campbell, Thomas 1