Thomas Marryat

Born in London, he was the son of Zephaniah Marryat, a nonconformist minister,[1] and was educated for the Presbyterian ministry.

It met at the Robin Hood, Butcher Row, Strand, London, and among the members were Richard Brookes, Moses Browne, Stephen Duck, Martin Madan, and Thomas Madox; members brought a piece of poetry, which if approved might be sent to the Gentleman's Magazine and other periodicals.

[2] Marryat died on 29 May 1792, and was buried in the ground belonging to the chapel in Lewin's Mead, in Brunswick Square, Bristol.

He prescribed enormous doses of drastic medicines to nonpaying patients, and, for dysentery, paper boiled in milk.

A new edition of his Sentimental Fables for the Ladies, republished from an Irish copy, appeared at Bristol in 1791.