Author: Pasmore, George
Biography:
PASMORE, George (fl 1781-92)
The two fixed points in Pasmore’s life are his two books, The Contest (1781) which describes him as “a Poet innocent and young” and contains details that associate him with a Devon landscape; and Winter (1792) which identifies him as a schoolmaster in Kensington, London. His name is not uncommon in the West Country, especially Devon, and his could be one of several baptisms in the 1750s. The Kensington connection might have been temporary but there are records of a George Pasmore of Kensington who carried on business as a stationer in Kensington about 1800-1805, with a bankruptcy in 1802 but dividends paid out in 1804-5. A George Pasmore married Elizabeth Hopkins at St. Margaret, Westminster, in 1786 and had a son named George with her, who was baptised on 26 June 1787 also in Westminster. But nothing certain is known of him beyond his two titles. Watkins included him as a “living” author in 1816 but offered no further biographical details—and not all Watkins’s authors were in fact still living by the time his book went to press. (ancestry.com 9 Sept. 2023; findmypast.com 9 Sept. 2023; Daily Advertiser 9 June 1802; Sun [London] 24 Sept. 1804; Watkins) HJ