Author: Monney, William
Biography:
MONNEY, William (1760-1837: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 29 Mar. 1760 and baptised on 6 Apr. at St. Giles, Norwich, the son of John Money (sic), attorney and money scrivener, and his wife Alice, whose maiden name may have been Gibson. A couple of that name married at St. James’s, Piccadilly, London, on 17 Aug. 1758. A daughter, Barbara, had been born on 10 Mar. 1758, and also baptised at St. Giles, which would make the subsequent marriage irregular but not very unusual. Barbara was a beneficiary of William’s 1837 will which has enabled identification. There is no record of his education and he was probably articled to his father. From 1773 until his death in 1786, his father John Money went through a lengthy bankruptcy process. Barbara Money married in 1782, and William went to London, where he married Frances Sprake on 19 June 1784 at St. Mary, Islington. They had one son. Frances died in 1809 and the son died in 1812, aged seventeen. Monney then married Elizabeth Jane Deadley on 14 Feb. 1810 at St. Alban, Wood Street, City of London. There does not appear to have been any issue. She died on 22 June 1833. He then married Mary Whiting on 22 May 1834 at St. Mark’s, Kennington, Lambeth, south London. They had one son. Monney died on 29 Mar. 1837 at Fetcham Cottage, near Leatherhead, Surrey. Mary, his widow, remarried in 1846. He published first Considerations on Prisons, with a Plan for their Better Regulation, the Treatment of Criminal Prisoners, and the Prevention of Crimes (1812). His verse play, Caractacus, A New Tragedy (1816) was widely advertised but attracted little attention. (ancestry.co.uk 28 Mar. 2023; MH 29 June 1833; LE 4 Apr. 1837; Evening Mail 4 Sept. 1846; Norfolk Chronicle and London Gazette [various issues] for father’s bankruptcy) AA