Author: Munnings, John Spelman
Biography:
MUNNINGS, John Spelman (1770-1817: ancestry.com)
He was born in 1770 and baptised on 10 Aug. that year at East Bilney, Norfolk, where his father Christopher Munnings (1725-1805) was Rector from 1756 to 1782. His father and his mother Mary Jempson (1734-74) had married at her parish of Great Fransham, Norfolk, on 2 Nov. 1755. In 1787 at Kingston upon Thames where the family was by then living, John was articled for five years as a clerk to James Graham of Lincoln’s Inn, London. He himself joined the Inner Temple and became a solicitor in partnership in London. This was the “laborious” profession that he refers to in the preface to Cromer, from which he sometimes sought release in poetry. On 30 Aug. 1814 he married Anne Agnes Jackson (1785-1879) at St. Pancras Old Church, London; they appear not to have had children. He died at their home on Guildford St. “after a short illness” on 10 Jan. 1817 and was buried at St. Pancras a week later. (ancestry.com 16 Mar. 2023; ACAD [father]; CCEd 16 Mar. 2023; London Courier and Evening Gazette 17 Jan. 1817)
Other Names:
- I. S. Munnings