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rescued 27 men who had fallen overboard; he early received the medal of the 

 Humane Society for this. His son Frederick went overboard to rescue men in 

 the same way. On one occasion when, off New York harbor, the ship was on her 

 beams end, Maryatt alone had the courage to cut away her main yards. He was 

 restless. Probably there was a nomadic tendency on the mother's side, as her 

 father was a Hessian who had emigrated to Boston, England. 



Marryat had the impulse to write and the ability to write well. Novels, 

 books of travel, poems even, flowed from his pen. Several of his brothers and 

 sisters were authors, partly of travels. His father wrote political pamphlets. 

 The father's father was a physician, author of "Therapeutics, or the art of healing, " 

 and "The Philosophy of Masons"; also verse. Moreover, a cousin, Sir Edward 

 Belcher, wrote two books of travel and a book on surveying. Marryat's son 

 Frank had begun to write books of travel before his untimely death. 



Marryat was a visualist and very skillful in sketching and caricaturing. Dur- 

 ing the Burmese war he made a series of sketches representing scenery, people, 

 and engagements of the war. His son Frank, who died young of yellow fever, 

 had his father's ability to draw. Marryat's eldest brother collected china and 

 wrote a book on the subject; a sister wrote a "History of Lace." Doubtless this 

 family appeal of the beauty of form was one of the things that made ships fasci- 

 nating. He was also something of an inventor. He worked out a signal code 

 for merchant vessels and invented a cipher for secret correspondence. He was 

 very resourceful in bridge-building while at Rangoon. 



FAMILY HISTORY OF FREDERICK MARRYAT. 



I 1 (F F), Thomas Marryat, a physician and an author. 13 (M F), Frederick von Geyer, 

 a Hessian settler in Boston; a loyalist. 



II 1 (F), Joseph Marryat, member of Par- 

 liament; author of political pamphlets. II 2 I 

 (M), Charlotte von Geyer. II 3 (consort's F), Sir 

 Stephen Shairp, counsel general at the court of 

 Russia. 



Fraternity of the Propositus: III 1, Joseph 

 Marryat, a collector of china; author of "Pottery 

 and Porcelain." Ill 2, Horace Marryat, author of 



"One Year in Sweden." Ill 3, Marryat, wrote 



"Nature and Art" and "History of Lace." Ill 4, 

 Bury Pattison. Ill 7 (Propositus), FREDERICK 

 MARRYAT. Ill 8 (consort), Catherine Shairp, had 

 talent and literary taste. 



Children of the Propositus: IV 1, Frederick Marryat, a lieutenant in the navy who was 

 lost in the wreck of the Avenger, in 1847. IV 2, Frank Marryat, died a midshipman in the navy. 

 IV 3, Emily, Augusta, and four other sisters. IV 4, Florence Marryat, novelist and author 

 of "Life and Letters of Captain Marryat." IV 5, Ross Church. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 

 MARRYAT, F. 1872. Life and Letters of Captain Marryat. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 



