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Author: Drayton, John Box

Biography:

DRAYTON, John Box (1778-1857: ancestry.co.uk)

The son of George Drayton and Sarah (Box) Drayton, he was baptised (with a twin sister) at Cheltenham on 14 July 1778. Little is known about his life but he was independently wealthy and seems always to have lived at Cheltenham, owning a house at 18 Montpelier Terrace. He never married. (ancestry.co.uk 25 Oct 2018) SR

 

Other Names:

  • J. B. Drayton
 

Books written (4):

Poems.

London/ Cheltenham: Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, James Black, Robert Jennings, and John Martin/ Henney, 1813

The Early Minstrel: Or, a Sketch from Rural Nture, Descriptive of a Spring Morning; with Other Poems .

2nd edn. London/ Cheltenham/ [Edinburgh]: Gale and Fenner, James Black, Robert Jennings, and John Martin/ T. Henney/ printed by [James Ballantyne and Co.], [1815]

Poetic Sketches from Bunyan: Comprising Some of the Leading Incidents in the First Part of the Pilgrim's Progress . . . ..

Cheltenham: S. Bettison and G. A. Williams, 1821

A Free Poetic Version of the First Part of the Pilgrim's Progress, in Ten Books.

Cheltenham: S. Bettison, G. A. Williams, T. E. Weller, and the other libraries, [1825?]