Author: MARRIOTT, William
Biography:
MARRIOTT, William (c. 1780-1839: findmypast.com)
William Marriott was a young clergyman, curate of Disley, Cheshire, when he wrote The Festival of Win (1811) to commemorate a celebratory dinner at nearby Winwick (historically part of Lancashire), but he was already the author of a book about a local estate, The Antiquities of Lyme (1810). He had been ordained deacon and priest at Chester in 1805; Disley was his first and last parish. CCEd does not include any record of academic qualifications and he does not appear in the Oxford or Cambridge alumni lists. He was probably the son of Ann Dutton and William Marriott, a land surveyor, who married at Holy Trinity, Chester, on 26 Feb. 1781 and had their baby baptised in the same church on 2 Sept. of the same year. Although there are other public records that might refer to him, none can be corroborated and none is compelling. He does not appear to have married. He was buried at Disley on 7 Sept. 1839, newspapers reporting his death as of "a few days ago." There are no other known publications. (findmypast.com 21 Mar. 2023, 15 July 2026; ancestry.com 21 Mar. 2023; CCEd 21 Mar. 2023; Henry Fishwick, The Lancashire Library [1875], 288; Manchester Times 7 Sept. 1839; information from AA) HJ