. George Meredith; his life and friends in relation to his work. ame on two of his unfortunate children, to theutter rout of the spelling powers of the clerks atSt Thomass Church, whose entries in the registersvaried from Mellchisidick to other original andclerkly phonetic versions. The youthful Melchize-deks, however, seem to have found the ponderousburden of their second name more than they couldbear, for, by a curious coincidence, both died young :Charles Melchizedek, the elder son, died as a smallboy in 1794, and Caroline Melchizedek only survivedto the age of twenty-four, dying three year
. George Meredith; his life and friends in relation to his work. ame on two of his unfortunate children, to theutter rout of the spelling powers of the clerks atSt Thomass Church, whose entries in the registersvaried from Mellchisidick to other original andclerkly phonetic versions. The youthful Melchize-deks, however, seem to have found the ponderousburden of their second name more than they couldbear, for, by a curious coincidence, both died young :Charles Melchizedek, the elder son, died as a smallboy in 1794, and Caroline Melchizedek only survivedto the age of twenty-four, dying three years afterher marriage, in 1809, with William Price Read(who, it is believed, held a post in the Dockyard).In the same year, 1809, her eldest sister, AnneElizabeth Meredith, was married to Thomas Burbey,a prosperous banker and wholesale grocer, who livedat No. 46 High Street, a large house on the oppositeside of the way : Mr Burbey was Mayor of Ports-mouth in 1833. As Kilne, the publican, observes, in Evan Harring-ton, of the Great beautiful daughters, they. V ^^ *•.( CfeaSI K> wss firSI St. Thomass Church, Portsmouth MELCHIZEDEK MEREDITH 23 were a fine family, all of them, and married this remark may be particularly applied to thethree remaining daughters, Louisa, Harriet, andCatherine, Possibly, as their nephew suggested inEvan Harrington, the marriages had happened bymeans of the balls that are given in country towns,where the charms of tradesmens daughters can beseen and admired by others than tradesmen. But it must also be borne in mind that the fatherof the girls had an extensive social Merediths aspirations were not centredin his shop. He was on friendly terms with manyof his distinguished naval patrons, and was awelcome guest in some of the best houses of thelocality and further afield in Hampshire. In thosedays the upper classes were very reluctant to admitthat a tradesman could also be a gentleman, so it isvery evident that Me
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