James Henry Marriott Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

James Henry Marriott Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

James Henry Marriott (1799 â€" 25 August 1886) was a New Zealand

theatre manager, actor, entertainer, playwright, songwriter, engraver,

optician and bookseller. He was born in London, England, and arrived

in New Zealand three years after the Wellington area was first

settled. In Wellington he was involved with theatrical production at

the Ship Hotel, Olympic Theatre, Britannia Saloon and Royal Lyceum. He

made himself useful in the early days of the settlement by engraving

tombstones, engraving illustrations for newspapers, and grinding

lenses for telescopes. He ran a bookshop and sold sheet music, and

contributed to the organised social and civic life of Wellington. In

New Zealand he was the first regular producer of plays, a playwright

(his play Marcilina premiered in 1848), and the first optics

professional in that country to make a telescope. He was the father of

Alice Marriott and the great-grandfather of Marriott Edgar and Edgar

Wallace.Marriott's parents were Leeds optician William Marriott and

Alice McGuinness. His wife was Sarah Bateman (died Wellington, 1885),

whom he married on 19 May 1822 in Hackney, London. The second of their

three daughters was actress Alice Marriott, born on 17 December 1824

in London, and they had two sons also. He was the great-grandfather of

Marriott Edgar and Edgar Wallace.In July 1842, Marriott left his

family and sailed through gales and wrecks with a drunken captain on

the 497-ton barque Thomas Sparks. He disembarked at Port Nicholson,

New Zealand, nearly seven months later on 31 January 1843, when

Wellington was still a new town of three years. Ten years after that,

his wife and two of their children joined him. On 25 August 1886, he

died in Wellington after a few days' illness.In London, Marriott had

"learned from his father the skills of optician and mathematical

instrument maker", and possibly also his engraving skills, but

initially became a reporter for The Times newspaper. At the same time

he was producing Shakespeare plays, and was involved in acting,

painting and music.
James Henry Marriott Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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