John Marriott

MARRIOTT, John. b. Cotesbach, near Lutterworth, Leicestershire, 1780 (baptised 11 September); d. London, 31 March 1825. He was educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford (BA 1802, MA 1806). He was ordained priest in 1805. He was briefly a Student (i.e. Fellow) of Christ Church, but moved to Dalkeith, south of Edinburgh, where he was employed by the Duke of Buccleuch as private tutor to his younger brother, George Henry, Lord Scott, and as the Duke’s domestic chaplain. It was at this time that he met Walter Scott*. Marriott, who threw himself into Scottish life with enthusiasm, wrote three poems for Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802-03), and they hunted together. Scott...