ROBERT POCOCK. 9 



The period dating from our author's first marriage, 

 and of his probable greatest domestic felicity, was 

 drawing to a close, since, in the month of March, 1791, 

 he lost the wife of his early manhood, whom he fol- 

 lowed to the grave on the 20th of that month. 



It was not probably until the end of the following 

 year that he remarried, when he was united to a lady 

 whose social position was in advance of his own, and 

 by whose family the alliance was consequently deemed 

 unsatisfactory. She was a daughter of John Hinde, 

 Esq., solicitor and coroner for Kent, living at Sitting- 

 bourne in that county ; and whilst of his first marriage 

 there was issue two daughters and one son, of this, 

 his second marriage, there were ultimately four sons 

 and three daughters. 



Side by side, however, with his efforts in behalf of 

 elementary education, he had devotedly utilized his 

 spare hours in compiling a Chronology (1790) of local 

 events connected with his dear native town, with a 

 list of its successive mayors from A.D. 1632. The list 

 is not, however, very complete, as he plaintively 

 states in the preface to this Chronology " that he only 

 laments that it is not in his power, at present, to 

 render the Chronology more complete and copious, 

 having been denied access to the records of the town, 

 whereby much information might have been gained. 

 Thus cut off from the grand magazine of intelligence, 

 he now only offers his gleanings from others, in minia- 

 ture, as a prelude to a future work (whenever he shall 

 be favoured with the names of 300 subscribers) to be 

 called ' The History of Gravesend and Milton/ and 

 wherein his utmost endeavours shall be used to make 

 such a local publication useful, entertaining, and in- 

 structing." 



