Captain Frederick Marryat RN
(1792-1848)

Died aged c. 56

Captain Frederick Marryat CB FRS (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) was a Royal Navy officer, a novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens. He is noted today as an early pioneer of nautical fiction, particularly for his semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836). He is remembered also for his children's novel The Children of the New Forest (1847), and for a widely used system of maritime flag signalling known as Marryat's Code.

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Captain Frederick Marryat 1792-1848 novelist lived here

3 Spanish Place, Westminster, W1, London, United Kingdom where they lived

Capt Frederick Marryat 1792-1848 Novelist was educated at “Holmwood” on this site

470 Baker Street N2, London, United Kingdom where they was educated

Here lived Capt. Frederick Marryat RN 1792-1848 novelist

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