Author: Edridge, Rebecca
Biography:
EDRIDGE, Rebecca (1761-1845: ancestry.co.uk)
She was the daughter of John Edridge and his wife Rebecca Baugh, who had married at St. George’s, Hanover Square, on 7 Dec. 1758. She was born on 23 Aug. and baptised at St. George's on 20 Sept. 1761; the record gives her surname as Eldridge. Her parents had a house in Davies Street from about 1763 and a Rebecca Edridge (mother or daughter) was still recorded as living there in the 1790s. Her father died in April 1773 and was buried at St. George’s but her mother seems to have moved to Uxbridge where she died and was buried at St. John the Baptist, Hillingdon, on 7 Dec. 1803. Rebecca and her brother, the Rev. Charles Lucas Edridge, DD (1764-1826) were the principal beneficiaries of her mother’s will. She never married but her brother married Sarah Cadell, daughter of Thomas Cadell, the publisher, and received a marriage settlement of £28,000. She is recorded as living at 35 Devonshire Street, St. Marylebone, in various directories and the 1841 Census. She died there, aged 84, and was buried at All Souls, Kensal Green, on 1 Dec. 1845. Her first publication, The Lapse of Time (1803), was printed at Uxbridge where she appears to have spent her youth. She also published a collection of short prose pieces on various topics together with some poems, The Scrinium (1822). A novel, The Highest Castle and The Lowest Cave (1825), is a historical romance of the time of the Crusades. (ancestry.co.uk; findmypast.co.uk 29 July 2023; CCEd [Charles Lucas Edridge, Job Walker Baugh]; The Scrinium; contribution by SR) AA