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Author: Ducarel, Philip John

Biography:

DUCAREL, Philip John (1778-1855: ancestry.co.uk)

He was baptised on 11 June 1778 at Calcutta, the natural son of Gerard Gustavus Ducarel (1745-1800), senior merchant in the EIC, and the daughter of the Rajah of Purnea, Elizabeth Sherpennissa (anglicised) (c. 1758-1822). They had six children (five of whom were born in India) and went to England where they married on 22 Feb. 1787 at St. Katherine by the Tower, London. They retired to Exmouth, Devon, and after her husband’s death, she lived with her sole surviving son, Philip John. He married Catherine Jane Hyde Shaw (1786-1802) on 15 Mar. 1802 at Littleham, Devon. She went to Italy with her mother later that year to recover her health but died at Pisa on 12 Dec. He then married Lucy Crossman (1785-1846) at West Monckton, Somerset, on 29 Aug. 1808. They had a son, Henry, born the following year, who died in 1815. In 1813 Ducarel bought Newland House, near Coleford, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. His mother died there in 1822. By 1841 his widowed sisters, Jane Bevan and Mary Simpson, were also living there. For many years he was a magistrate for Gloucester: he read the riot act in the 1831 Forest of Dean riots and was on the Grand Jury for the trial of the Chartists in the Newport rebellion of 1839. Besides the three publications listed here, he became better known with the publication of De Wyrhale: A Tale of the Dean ForestIn Five Cantos (1836). He died, aged 77, on 16 Dec. 1855 and was buried in All Saints Newland churchyard. (ancestry.co.uk 28 Aug. 2021; findmypast.co.uk 28 Aug 2021; "Ducarel, Gerard Gustavus," ODNB 28 Aug. 2021; Morning Post 18 Mar. 1802, 12 Jan. 1803, 2 Sept. 1808; Sun [London], 21 Feb. 1822; Morning Herald 1 July 1846; LES 19 Dec. 1855) AA

 

Other Names:

  • P. J. Ducarel
 

Books written (3):

London: Carpenter, 1805
London: Carpenter, 1807