Robert Lovell

Background

He was born in Bristol, the son of a wealthy Quaker, and probably followed some business.

Career

He estranged himself from his original circle by marrying, in 1794, Mary Fricker, a girl of much beauty and some talent, who had gone on the stage. The plan had largely collapsed before Lovell"s death in April 1796 from a fever. Edith Southey, in Southey"s absence, nursed him.

The son, Robert Lovell the younger, settled in London as a printer in 1824.

Some years afterwards he went to Italy and then disappeared. Henry Nelson Coleridge journeyed in quest of him, but no trace was discovered.

Connections

sister-in-law:

Samuel Taylor