MARRIOTT, J. H. b. 1799; a reporter on The Times, London; connected with theatres; an optician and mathematical instrument maker at Wellington, New Zealand; an actor at Wellington; managed the amateur military performances in which he took a leading part; helped to build the Olympic theatre, Wellington, executed the scenery and decorations and assisted in manufacturing from whale oil the gas for the lighting 1844, the first gas used in Wellington; author of a volume of poems; he was father of Alice Marriott actress, who married Robert Edgar actor who d. 25 May 1871. d. Wellington 25 Aug. 1886. bur. in the Episcopalian cemetery 29 Aug., when 600 persons attended the funeral.
MARRIOTT, John (son of John Marriott of Stowmarket, Suffolk, solicitor). b. about 1830; ed. at St. Peter’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1851; barrister M.T. 17 Nov. 1853; advocate general of Bombay 1863 to death; an acting puisne justice Bombay 25 Nov. 1873. d. Bombay 7 Jany. 1884.
MARRIOTT, Thomas Beckett Fielding. b. 25 June 1813; 2 lieut. R.A. 20 Dec. 1832, lieut.-col. 6 Jany. 1855, colonel 27 June 1863; col. on staff commanding R.A. in Ireland 1866–9; col. commandant 7 Aug. 1879 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. d. Avonbank, Pershore 25 Nov. 1880.
MARRIOTT, Wharton Booth (7 son of George Wharton Marriott, barrister). b. 32 Queen sq. Bloomsbury, London 7 Nov. 1823; ed. at Eton 1838–43 and Trin. coll. Oxf., scholar 1843–6; Petrean fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1846 to 22 April 1851; B.C.L. 1851, M.A. 1856, B.D. 1870; select preacher at Oxf. 1868 and Grinfield lecturer on the Septuagint 1871; an assistant master at Eton 1850–60; F.S.A. 30 May 1857, member of council 1871; edited The Adelphi of Terence with English notes 1863; Selections from Ovid’s Metamorphosis with English notes 1862, 2 ed. 1868; author of Vestiarium Christianum: the origin of the dress of holy ministry in the church 1868; The vestments of the church, an illustrated lecture 1869. d. Eton college 16 Dec. 1871. Hort’s Memorials of W. B. Marriott (1873), portrait; Eton portrait gallery (1876) 195–6.
MARRIOTT, William Frederick. b. 4 June 1820; entered Bombay army 9 Dec. 1836; 2 lieut. Bombay engineers 7 Oct. 1840, lieut. col. 16 Aug. 1860; sec. to military department of Bombay 30 July 1861 to 1872; president of European railway administration; C.S.I. 25 May 1866; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; author of One Englishman’s testimony at the present crisis 1871; A grammar of political economy 1874. d. Cairo 17 Dec. 1879. Guardian 14 Jany. 1880 p. 41.
MARRIOTT, Sir William Marriott Smith-, 4 Baronet (2 son of sir John Wyldbore Smith, 2 baronet 1770–1852). b. Portman st. London 31 Aug. 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1829; assumed by sign manual additional surname of Marriott 15 Feb. 1811; R. of Horsmonden, Kent 1825 to death; succeeded to baronetcy on death of his brother 3 Sep. 1862; author of The olden and modern times, with other poems. By Wm. Smith Marriott 1855. d. Horsmonden rectory 4 Oct. 1864. G.M. xvii 662 (1864).
MARRYAT, Horace (youngest son of Joseph Marryat, M.P. Sandwich, d. 1824). b. 1818; author of A residence in Jutland, the Danish isles and Copenhagen 2 vols. 1860; One year in Sweden, including a visit to the isle of Götland 2 vols. 1862. d. Jermyn st. London 10 March 1887.
MARRYAT, Joseph (brother of preceding). b. 1790; M.P. Sandwich 1826–35. d. Warwick st. Eccleston sq. London 24 Sep. 1876.
MARRYAT, Joseph Henry. b. 1830; captain R.N. 23 June 1862; retired R.A. 9 March 1878; C.B. 2 June 1877. d. the cottage, Earlswood common, Redhill, Surrey 29 Nov. 1881.
MARRYAT, Samuel Francis (youngest son of Frederick Marryat, captain in the navy and novelist 1792–1848). b. 1826; midshipman of H.M. ship Samarang; a goldhunter in California 1850; returned to England 1853; author of Borneo and the Indian archipelago, with drawings from sketches by the author 1848; Mountains and molehills: or recollections of a burnt journal, with drawings from sketches by the author 1855. d. Kensington Gore, London 12 July 1855.