Author: Fallow, Elizabeth
Biography:
FALLOW, Elizabeth, formerly JONES (1802-33: ancestry.co.uk)
She was the second daughter of Jacob Jones (1775-1830), a surgeon, and his wife Elizabeth Eleanor Keysall (1769-1839), and was baptised on 28 Oct. 1802 at St. Luke, Finsbury, London. The family was Wesleyan but not hostile to the established church. On her father’s death in 1830, she was left an annuity of £20 and continued to live with her mother and her unmarried sisters at 1 Barnsbury Terrace, Liverpool Road, London. She married the Rev. Thomas Mount Fallow (1801-1847) on 1 May 1832 at St. Mary, Islington. He was originally from Newcastle and was baptised at the High Street, Scotch Presbyterian church, but later attended St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, conformed, and became the curate at All Souls, Marylebone, before moving to St. Mary, Islington. They lived at Park Place West but the marriage was short-lived: she died the following year and was buried on 21 Mar. 1833. Her husband had originally intended to write a memoir but in the end simply edited her poems without identifying her, as Poetical Remains of a Clergyman’s Wife (1833). These included poems on her childhood home in Finsbury Square, translations from Petrarch, a poem on Palmyra, and short religious verse. Her younger sister Martha died in 1835, her older sister Eleanor in 1837, and her mother in 1839. Her husband remarried in 1847 but died shortly afterwards. (ancestry.co.uk 19 Nov. 2020; CCEd; London Evening Standard 17 June 1830; Morning Post 3 May 1832; GM Nov. 1847, 549) AA