Author: Marriott, George
Biography:
MARRIOTT, George (c. 1738-93: findmypast.com)
The burial record that gives his age as 55 on 1 Dec. 1793 implies a birth date of c. 1738. His name is not uncommon but he was most probably the boy born to Richard and Henrietta Marriott who was baptised at St. Andrew’s, Holborn, London, on 24 June 1740. He was almost certainly not a son of the Hatton Garden solicitor Benjamin Marriott and his wife Esther Chambers of Twinstead, Essex, although he did end his career in the Church as Rector of Twinstead and it has been suggested that he was a brother of their eldest son, the incumbent lord of the manor Sir James Marriott. There may nevertheless have been a family connection. He did not have a university degree when he was ordained deacon in 1763 and priest in 1764: he qualified simply as “literate.” He held three curacies in or around Bridlington, Yorkshire, in 1763. On 29 Dec. 1765 he married Ann Bond at St.Paul’s, Deptford, Kent (now London); they had at least one daughter, Angelina, baptised in Hackney, London, in 1774. He appears to have gone from Yorkshire to Sweden, where he was Chaplain to the English congregation in Gothenburg: he used this appointment among others on his title-pages. Others included Lecturer at St. Luke’s, Old Street, and occasional preacher at other London churches. From 1774 until his death he served congregations in Essex as Rector first of Alphamstone (1774-80) and then of Twinstead (1780-93). His first poems were written in Sweden but published in London: The Primate. An Ode (1767) and The Birth of the Jesuit (1768). He also published several sermons and discourses between 1770 and 1776. He died in Islington and was buried at St. James, Pentonville, on 1 Dec. 1793. (findmypast.com 20 Mar. 2023; CCEd 20 Mar. 2023; “Marriott, Sir James,” ODNB 20 Mar. 2023; Annual Register 35 [1793], 73; Derby Mercury 4 Dec. 1793) HJ