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Author: Mosby, John Newby

Biography:

MOSBY, John Newby (1802-40: ancestry.co.uk)

He was born on 7 Sept. 1802 at Burringham, North Lincolnshire, and baptised in Epworth Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, the third of four children of William Mosby and his wife Jane Newby, who had married at Epworth in 1797. He was educated in local village schools and then went to Robert Graham’s Prospect House academy in Doncaster in 1818 for about a year. (He later dedicated The Fall of Algiers to his contemporaries at the academy.) He was then placed with William Sheardown, printer and postmaster of Doncaster, and worked as a clerk in the Post Office for twenty years. He moved to Pollington, Yorkshire, in 1839 for health reasons but died there of smallpox on 6 Oct. 1840. He appears not to have married. (ancestry.co.uk 25 Jul. 2022; Newsam, 186-8; Hull Advertiser 16 Oct. 1840; Yorkshire Gazette 22 Nov. 1851) AA

 

Books written (1):

Doncaster: Brooke and Co., and C. and J. White, 1831