Author: Davis, Mary Anne
Biography:
DAVIS, Mary Anne (c. 1783-1874: ancestry.co.uk)
There is no positive confirmation of her identity but likely she was Mary Anne Holton, born in about 1783 in Middlesex, who married William Davis (d 1848), an attorney, on 6 May 1810. They lived in Frome Selwood, Somerset, and had no children. After his death she continued living in Frome with several servants; she died there on 19 Mar. 1874 and was buried in the churchyard of St. John the Baptist, Frome. There are memorials in the church to her and her husband. She was recorded as a landed proprietor living in Willow Vale, Frome, in the census records for 1851, 1861, and 1871. She published Helps to Devotion (1822), The Divine Economy of Human Life (1823), and A Selection from the Parables of the New Testament (1836, published for the benefit of the proposed Free Church in Frome). She edited Sixteen Sermons by Lancelot Andrewes (1666-1626; Bishop of Winchester), and published Michael, or Salvation by Grace (1851), a translation from Italian. A poem by her is in Johnson Grant, A Memoir of Miss Frances Augusta Bell. (ancestry.co.uk 23 June 2024; WorldCat; RPW)