Jul 10
Frederick Marryat, portrait by John Simpson (NPG).
Frederick Marryat was born in the City of London on 10th July, in the year of the September Massacres in Paris. He died in a time of revolutions, and in the fifty-six years which lay between 1792 and 1848 the political map of the world changed more than it has ever done again, until our own time. He was a few weeks older than Shelley, and a few months older than Edward Trelawney, to whom, indeed, he was far more akin.
— Oliver Warner, Captain Marryat: a Rediscovery.
