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Author: Mendham, James

Biography:

MENDHAM, James (1761-1829: findmypast.com)

He was born on 18 Apr. 1761 and baptised on 15 May at St. Dunstan-in-the-West, London, the son of James and Mary (Dale) Mendham, who had married at Marylebone in 1759. His father (d 1813) was a wine-merchant with a shop in Red Lion St., Clerkenwell. Mendham (Jr.) dedicated his only known literary work to the politician John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland (1759-1841), claiming acquaintance as a classmate at the same “public school.” Fane attended Westminster in 1770-71 before going on to Charterhouse. Mendham’s name does not appear in the list of graduates for either school but that does not rule out a period of attendance at one or the other. After school he went into the family business. He married about 1790 and had at least five children—one who married a surgeon in Clerkenwell in 1816 and four others who are named in his will. (No records of baptism have been found for any of them.) His wife was probably Maria Rosoman Benyon of Tavistock, Devon, who married a James Mendham there on 8 Nov. 1790. Mendham died at Red Lion St. on 3 June 1829 and was buried on 11 June, leaving an estate valued at under £10,000. (ancestry.com 23 May 2023; findmypast.com 23 May 2023; SJC 26 Dec. 1816; Sun [London] 5 June 1829; G. F. R. Barker et al., The Record of Old Westminsters [1928]; charterhousearchives.org.uk)

 

 

Other Names:

  • James Mendham, Jr.
 

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