Author: Shilton, Richard Phillips
Biography:
SHILTON, Richard Phillips (1759-1834: ancestry.co.uk)
He was baptised on 17 July 1759 at St. Peter’s, Derby, the son of John Shilton, linen draper, and his wife Ruth Gell, who had married in the same church the previous year. Nothing is known of his education. He married Mary Daubney on 6 Dec. 1782 at St. Mary’s, Southwell. They had three children. He was first a writing-master (schoolmaster) at Kirlington, then Thurgarton, and finally Southwell (all in Nottinghamshire). In 1786, he formed a musical society with three friends which met at the George and Dragon in Easthorpe, Southwell. All his books of poetry are extremely rare and exist in single copies, with two at Stanford and one in the Kohler Collection, UC Davis, California. He was better known for his historical works: The History of Southwell (1818), The History of the Town of Newark Upon Trent (1820) and The Battle of Stoke-Field, Or, Burham Fight (1828). He died on 15 Aug. 1834 and was buried on 19 Aug. at St. Mary’s, Southwell. His wife Mary had predeceased him in 1809 and was also buried there. (ancestry.co.uk 23 Jan. 2023; findmypast.co.uk 23 Jan. 2023; Stamford Mercury 27 Jan. 1809, 22 Aug. 1834) AA
Other Names:
- R. P. Shilton