James Norris Brewer

James Jupp Norris Brewer (11 September 1777 – March 1839) was an English topographer and novelist.

He wrote many romances and topographical compilations, he also contributed to the series called the Beauties of England and Wales.

[2] He was baptised on 8 October 1777 at St Sepulchre Church in Holborn,[3] where his parents James Brewer and Sarah Sparrow had been married on 4 May the previous year.

[7] Four further children, Mary Ann, Sarah Hanscomb, Emily, and Louisa, born between 1804 and 1812, were all christened at Hurst, Berkshire,[8] from where Brewer also addressed the dedication of his first topographical book, dated February 1810.

[11] According to a notice of the death of Brewer's widow Mary, which appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine in November 1851, the couple had also lived for a time at Pillaton House, Warwickshire, as well as Jersey.