Author: Bartlett, J. M.
Biography:
BARTLETT, John Mark (fl 1817-20)
He published as J. M. Bartlett and lived in Buckingham but very little more is known. He married Patricia (Patty) Russell on 5 Jan. 1817 in Saint Mary’s church, Aylesbury; their one child, Louisa, was baptised in Buckingham on 27 Feb. 1818. He identified himself as a “gentleman” and a John Edward Bartlett was a prosperous banker in Aylesbury; he may have been his father. Although clearly well-educated, he is almost certainly not the John Bartlett who matriculated at Queen’s College, Cambridge, in 1811 and went on to become a clergyman. J. M. Bartlett’s “The Soldier’s Return: a Musical Farce” was serialised in the Ladies Monthly Museum in 1817; it has the same title as an 1805 comic opera by T. E. Hook. Some of the songs from Bartlett’s play are reproduced in The Emigrant’s Return. In 1819 a letter by him advocating the use of muslin face masks to ward off infection was printed in the Annals of Philosophy. Nothing more is known. (findmypast.co.uk 30 May 2023; Annals of Philosophy 14 [1819], 71) SR