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Author: Quested, John

Biography:

QUESTED, John (1799-1867: ancestry.co.uk)

He was born on 13 Dec. 1799 and baptised at Deal (Independent), Kent, one of at least seven children of George Quested, farmer, and his wife Sarah Long, who had married in 1785. Nothing is known of his education but as a young man he published the volume of poetry listed here and trained as a land surveyor. At the time he was living at Willesborough, near Ashford, Kent, and remained there several years. He married Margaret Minter on 20 Mar. 1827 at Folkestone. They had two daughters. After his wife’s death, probably in 1836, he married a widow, Mary Handcock, on 19 Apr. 1843 at St. Paul’s, Shadwell (now in east London). In the 1851 Census, they were recorded living at St. Margaret’s at Cliffe, with a daughter each from their previous marriages. He was still a practising land surveyor and teacher of surveying. The Art of Land Surveying (1843) went through several editions and A Treatise on Railway Surveying and Levelling (1846) was also a standard text. His second wife died in 1855 and thereafter he lived with his unmarried daughter. Age and ill health forced him to apply to the RLF in Feb. 1861 but no award appears to have been made. He died at Dover on 25 Mar. 1867. (ancestry.co.uk 25 Oct.; findmypast.co.uk 25 Oct.; RLF, 1/1549; Public Ledger 2 Apr. 1827; Dover Telegraph 30 Mar. 1867) AA

 

Other Names:

  • J. Quested
 

Books written (2):

2nd edn. Canterbury: printed by G. Wood, 1825