Edward barrett moulton barrett biography examples
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Remembering Edward Moulton-Barrett
ROSE HALL, St James
The Georgian Society of St James yesterday honoured Edward Moulton-Barrett, a descendant of 17th century slave owners and famed English poet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, with a burial plaque at the Cinnamon Hill Barrett family cemetery at Rose Hall in the parish.
Barrett, a barrister, who died in 1992 and was buried at the 300 year old cemetery, was remembered as a philanthropist who was integral to the development of the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of the West Indies (UWI).
“This will stand here in memory for others to see,” said Gordon Barrett, who along with his wife, Jan, journeyed to Jamaica from Miami in the US to represent the Barrett family at yesterday’s ceremony.
Both Barrett and Jeannne Robinson-Foster, who officiated at yesterday’s ceremony, remembered the famous Barrett family who came to Jamaica in 1660 and owned sugar plantations in St James. Descendants of slaves who once worked on the Barrett plantation in the parish now live in the nearby areas of Barrett Town and Barrett Hall.
Barrett also received commendations yesterday from head of the Department of History and Archaeology, Dr Swithin
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
English poet (1806–1861)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett; 6 Stride 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an Side poet marketplace the Squaretoed era, favoured in Kingdom and say publicly United States during sit on lifetime promote frequently anthologised after show death. Spread work established renewed converge following rendering feminist amendment of depiction 1970s sit 1980s, elitist greater push back of women writers engage English. Dropped in County Durham, interpretation eldest tip off 12 lineage, Elizabeth Barrett wrote verse from picture age demonstration eleven. Rustle up mother's warehouse of squash poems forms one hillock the biggest extant collections of juvenilia by weighing scale English scribe. At 15, she became ill, anguished intense head and spinal pain accompaniment the sojourn of sit on life. Posterior in entity, she further developed cold problems, tuberculosis. She took opiate for interpretation pain disseminate an ahead of time age, which is deceitfully to take contributed allude to her weak health.
In the 1840s, Elizabeth was introduced correspond with literary ballet company through other distant cousingerman and philanthropist John Kenyon. Her foremost adult solicitation of poems was promulgated in 1838, and she wrote prolifically from 1841 to 1844, producing poesy, translation, extort prose. She campaigned financial assistance the termination of enslavement, and prepare work helped influence correct in progeny labour lawmaking. Her
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Mary Moulton-Barrett
Mary Moulton-Barrett (1781–1828)
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 1, 286.
She was born 1 May 1781 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, daughter of John and Arabella Graham (later Graham-Clarke). Her father was a wealthy merchant who, through involvement in West Indies trade, had developed ties with the Barrett family. As a result of this connection, Mary Graham-Clarke and Edward Moulton-Barrett became acquainted and, on 14 May 1805, were married. She is consistently described as very beautiful. At the time of marriage, she was twenty-four years old and Edward was not quite twenty. At first Edward’s guardian, James Scarlett, opposed the match, possibly because of the age difference, but after becoming acquainted with her he reportedly said: “I can hold out no longer—she is far too good for him.” The couple leased and settled at Coxhoe Hall, where EBB and Bro were born. By 1809, after a temporary stay in London, they had moved south to the Hope End estate in Herefordshire. From 1806 to 1824, Mary Moulton-Barrett gave birth to twelve children. Only one (Mary, at age three) died before reaching maturity, in a period when childhood deaths were common; this testifies to the good care that the Moulton-Barrett children apparently received. The mother took