Andrew Marvell (1621 - 1678)

Born 31 Mar 1621 in Winestead-in-Holderness, Yorkshire, England

Died 16 Aug 1678 at age 57 in London, England [uncertain]

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Biography

Andrew Marvell is Notable.

Andrew Marvell was a poet, baptised on 5th April 1621 Winestead^[1] and buried in the church of St Giles in the Fields, London.^[2] It was rumoured that he was poisoned.^[3]

Monumental Inscription:
Near this place lyeth the body of Andrew Marvell, Esq., a man so endowed by Nature, so improved by Education, Study, and Travel, so consummated by Experience, that, joining the peculiar graces of Wit and Learning, with a singular penetration and strength of judgment; and exercising all these in the whole course of his life, with an unutterable steadiness in the ways of Virtue, he became the ornament and example of his age, beloved by good men, feared by bad, admired by all, though imitated by few; and scarce paralleled by any. But a Tombstone can neither contain his character, nor is Marble necessary to transmit it to posterity; it is engraved in the minds of this generation, and will be always legible in his inimitable writings, nevertheless. He having served twenty years successfully in Parliament, and that with such Wisdom, Dexterity, and Courage, as becomes a true Patriot, the town of Kingston-upon-Hull, from whence he was deputed to that Assembly, lamenting in his death the public loss, have erected this Monument of their Grief and their Gratitude, 1688.

An 1812 whaling ship was named after Andrew and the jawbones from one of its catches was sent to Thomas Beale Cooper (bef.1774-1854) where it can still be seen at Thomas' old residence which is now the Evesham hotel.^[4] A school in Hull is also named after him.^[5]

Bibliography

for complete bibliography, please see freespace page

• A Dialogue, between The Resolved Soul, and Created Pleasure
• On a Drop of Dew
• The Coronet
• Eyes and Tears
• Bermudas
• Clorinda and Damon
• Two Songs at the Marriage of the Lord Fauconberg and the Lady Mary Cromwell
• A Dialogue between the Soul and Body
• The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn
• Young Love
• To His Coy Mistress
• The unfortunate Lover
• The Gallery
• The Fair Singer
• Mourning
• Daphnis and Chloe
• The Definition of Love
• The Picture of little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers
• The Match
• The Mower, against Gardens
• Damon the Mower
• The Mower to the Glo-Worms
• The Mower's Song
• Ametas and Thestylis making Hay-Ropes
• Musicks Empire
• The Garden
• The Second Chorus from Seneca's Tragedy, Thyestes

Sources

1. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J332-849 : 11 February 2018, Andrewe Marvell, 05 Apr 1621); citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 496,806.
2. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8260/andrew-marvell : accessed 13 February 2022), memorial page for Andrew Marvell (31 Mar 1621–16 Aug 1678), Find a Grave Memorial ID 8260, citing St Giles in the Fields Churchyard, Holborn, London Borough of Camden, Greater London, England ; Maintained by Find a Grave .
3. ↑ https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Marvell,_Andrew_(1621-1678)
4. ↑ https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/6535254.ancient-whale-bone-gets-a-make-over/
5. ↑ https://www.themarvellcollege.com/

See Also:
Dictionary of National Biography
Andrew Marvell, by Augustine Birrell
Andrew Marvell on Wikipedia