The son of Reverend James Powell Marriott,[1] he was born in October 1855 at Cotesbach, Leicestershire.
[2] After graduating from Oxford, he attended the Leeds Clergy School in 1881.
He took holy orders in the Church of England the following year, with him obtaining his first ecclesiastical post as curate of Kirkstall from 1881–83.
[3] He returned to his hometown in 1886, where he held the post of rector until 1897.
[4] Moving to Norfolk, he held the posts of rector of Beighton and vicar of Moulton from 1897–99, before becoming the rector of Sigglesthorne in the East Riding of Yorkshire until his death there in October 1905.