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Author: Marriott, John

Biography:

MARRIOTT, John (1762-97: ancestry.com)

He was born on 23 Sept. 1762 in a house named Clare Green near Colne, Lancs, to Tabitha (Ecroyd) and Richard Marriott. His parents, Quakers and members of the Marsden Meeting, both died in 1786. John owned a corn mill and continued to live at Clare Green. In 1795 he married Ann Wilson. They had two children but Marriott died on 11 Aug. 1797 after a year of illness and is buried at Marsden with his parents. One of the children died in infancy; Ann Marriott remarried. Marriott's poems were published posthumously with letters and a short biographical notice; according to Smith, the editor was Marriott's cousin Mary Camm. (ancestry.com 6 Jan. 2020; Edwin H. Alton, "An Eighteenth-Century Quaker Poet," Journal of the Friends Historical Society 52:4 [1971] 292-306; H. E. Smith, Annals [1878], 125-6; contributions by AA)

 

 

Books written (3):

Doncaster/ London/ Warrington/ Coln/ York: D. Boys/ W. Phillips; Darton and Harvey/ W. Leicester/ H. Earnshaw/ W. Bleckley, 1803