Author: Cabanel, Daniel
Biography:
CABANEL, Daniel (1763-1857: findmypast.co.uk)
pseudonym Martin Matter-of-fact
He was baptised on 21 Jan. 1763 at St. James’s, Audley, Staffordshire, the only son of Daniel Cabanel and his wife Elizabeth Wood who had married in 1762. The family likely moved to Farningham, Kent, in 1785 after the death of Cabanel's great uncle, Benjamin Crayker who, in his will, had left property to Cabanel's father and his heirs. In his will of 1781, his father left provision for his education under the guardianship of the Rev. Richard Williams, Vicar of Horton Kirby, Kent. He was educated at Charterhouse and Queen’s College, Oxford (matric. 1780, MA 1784). He was admitted to Lincoln’s Inn in 1781 and practised as an attorney thereafter. Judging by his British Scenery (1811) he seems to have toured widely in England. He toured Europe at least twice in 1786 and 1807 with his later volume Poems and Imitations (1814) including topographical poems on various Italian cities and English coastal towns. He published a few more poems in the Gentleman’s Magazine in 1817. He married Margaret Anne Lee (1766-1846) of Louth, Lincolnshire, at Bath Abbey, on 15 June 1790. They appear to have spent most of their life there. She died on 2 June 1846, aged 79. They probably had no children. He died, aged 94, at their house, 9 Somerset Place, Bath, on 22 Aug. 1857. His will mentioned no children but left provision for his wife’s sisters. (Her brother, Robert Newton Lee [1755-1837] married one of the daughters of Joseph Warton [q.v.].) (findmypast.co.uk 8 Aug. 2021; ancestry.co.uk 8 Aug. 2021; New Lady’s Magazine July 1790, 391; GM June 1790, 570 and Oct. 1857, 468; LES 29 Aug. 1857; Hampshire Chronicle 13 June 1846) AA
Other Names:
- D. Cabanel