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Author: Chamberlin, Mason

Biography:

CHAMBERLIN, Mason (1767-1836: ancestry.co.uk)

He was baptised on 23 Dec. 1767 at St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, London, the only child of Mason Chamberlin (1722-87), a well-known portrait painter, and his wife Susanna Moore (1749-1832), who had married at St. Sepulchre, Holborn, in 1766. Nothing is known of his education. He married Elizabeth Shaw (1776-1832) on 10 Mar. 1796, at St. Olave, Hart Street, City of London. They went on to have eight children. Four daughters and three sons predeceased him. In 1831 he applied for assistance to the Royal Literary Fund and stated that he had obtained a pension of £75 a year for his mother from the Royal Academy but lamented that he had not done it earlier. (His father had died in 1787.) He further claimed that the school he ran in Dorchester with his wife had suffered from the economic downturn after 1815 and was forced to close. The RLF made two awards of £25 (1831) and £15 (1832). A note in the RLF file states that following his applications he “had been afflicted with derangement.” This may possibly have been due to depression following the deaths of his mother, Susanna, in June 1832, and his wife, Elizabeth, in Aug. His sole surviving daughter, Ellen, who seems to have managed his affairs after his wife’s death, died in 1833. He died in obscurity and was buried 26 May 1836 at Blandford Forum, Dorset. (ancestry.co.uk 7 Apr. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 7 Apr. 2022; “Chamberlin, Mason” [father], ODNB 7 Apr. 2022; RLF 1/704; Salisbury and Winchester Journal 11 June 1832, 20 Aug. 1832) AA

 

Books written (4):

London: W. Clarke, 1800
[London]: Clarke, 1800
London: Clarke, 1801
Blandford/ London: J. Shipp/ Nichols, Son, and Bentley, and W. Clarke, 1818