About Thomas Marryat
Lived 1730 – 1792 (aged 61–62). Thomas Marryat was a physician.
Thomas Marryat M.D. (1730–1792) was an English physician, medical writer and wit.
Life Born in London, he was the son of Zephaniah Marryat, a nonconformist minister, and was educated for the Presbyterian ministry. From 1747 until 1749 he belonged to a late-night poetical club. 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. It was at this club that the plan and title of the Monthly Review, subsequently used by Ralph Griffiths, were brought up.
Marryat gave up on the ministry, after a time at Southwold and Barnet, and left his family in 1760.
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