Author: Roscoe, Robert
Biography:
ROSCOE, Robert (1790?-1850: ancestry.co.uk)
He was the fourth son of William Roscoe (q.v.) and his wife Jane Griffies. Nothing is known about his early education but on 29 Apr. 1805 at the age of fifteen he became clerk to John Fritchett (q.v.), an attorney whose multi-volume King Alfred he later completed and had printed. He matriculated at Peterhouse College, Cambridge at Easter 1811 and was admitted to Lincoln’s Inn in Nov. of the same year. On 1 May 1819 he married Martha Walker in London; they had a number of children but full details of these have not been found. He worked as a lawyer in London where the family lived in Holborn but he retired early because of ill-health. He died at Englefield Green, Surrey, on 1 Dec. 1850 and was buried at Kensal Green. His will left his estate to his wife. At least one of his sonnets is included in the family collection, Poems for Youth. (ancestry.co.uk 6 Sept. 2021; Athenaeum 14 Dec. 1850; The Records of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn 2 [1896] 45; Liverpool Mail 7 Dec. 1850)