Author: Waring, Samuel Miller
Biography:
WARING, Samuel Miller (1792-1827: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 28 Mar. 1792, at Alton, Hampshire, the youngest of four children of Jeremiah Waring (q.v.), draper, merchant, and author, and his wife Lettice Miller, both Quakers, who had married in 1783. Nothing is known of his education. With his sister Sarah (q.v.), he conformed in 1824 and was baptised into the Church of England at Ropley, Hants. He undertook a tour of Switzerland in 1818 and wrote up his experiences in a travel guide, The Traveller’s Fire-Side (1819). He wrote Sacred Melodies (1826) at Widcombe, Bath, Somerset. A few hymns entered the Victorian hymnary. He later lived at Grosvenor Place, Bath. He died on 19 Sept. 1827, at Kelston, near Bath, when he leapt from a carriage after the horse had bolted. He suffered a fractured skull and died at the scene. He was buried at Bath Abbey. (ancestry.co.uk 14 Jul. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 14 Jul. 2022; Friends’ Books 2: 859; MH 4 Dec. 1819, 27 Sept. 1827; Julian, 1234; Spenserians) AA