Author: Mant, Alicia Catherine
Biography:
MANT, Alicia Catherine, later PHILLOTT (1788-1869: ancestry.co.uk)
She was born on 15 July 1788 at Southampton, the youngest of nine children of the Rev. Richard Mant (1745-1817), Headmaster of King Edward’s Grammar School and Rector of All Saints, and his wife Elizabeth Roe (1746-1826). Richard Mant (1776-1848, q.v.) was her brother. She married the Rev. James Russell Phillot (1802-1865) on 4 Feb. 1835, at St. James’, Bath, with her sisters Frances (1784-1871) and Amelia (1778-1862) as witnesses. He was then required to resign his Fellowship at Magdalen, Oxford (1829-1835). Alicia Catherine published before her marriage Rhymes for Ellen (1825) and much later, The Rectory Garden and Other Poems (1866). (Her husband had received the living at the Rectory, Ballymoney, which was in the gift of her brother Richard Mant, q.v. [1776-1848], Bishop of Down and Connor.) Her other works consist of minor novels and tales, largely for younger readers, such as Ellen (1812), Caroline Lismore (1815), The Canary Bird (1817), Montague Newburgh (1817), Margaret Melville (1818), The Cottage in the Chalk Pit (1822), The Young Naturalist (1824), and Harry the Peasant (1825). Her husband died on 24 May 1865, leaving an estate of £5,000. She died on 26 Feb. 1869. They were both buried at Church Street Cemetery, Ballymoney. (ancestry.co.uk 19 Sept. 2020; GM Feb. 1817, 184 and July 1826, 93; Bath Chronicle 5 Feb. 1835; Belfast News-Letter 25 May 1865, 27 Nov. 1862, 27 Feb. 1869) AA