John Sawrey Morritt

(1738 c.-1791)

LBT ID: JoMorri1791	B/BAP: 1738 DIED: 1791-08-03
SOURCES: Venn; Manchester School Register (1868) 2:86
Of Rokeby, son of Bacon Morritt; educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, he purchased Rokeby Park in 1769 and was High Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1778-1779. He was a friend of the poet William Mason.
REFERENCES TO John Sawrey Morritt: Robert Southey to Edith Southey, 23 July 1812 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XI 1826 Found 3: ¶ n1 ¶ 3 ¶ n1 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XVII. 1812