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Arabella Jane Sullivan (née Wilmot; 1 May 1796 – 27 January 1839)[1] was a British writer.
Biography
[edit]Arabella Jane Wilmot was born on the 1 May 1796 in Great Britain to Valentine Henry Wilmot (c. 1764–1819), an officer in the Foot Guards, and Barbarina Wilmot (née Ogle; later Barbarina Brand, Lady Dacre), a poet, playwright and translator.[2][3][4] On 20 June 1796 Sullivan was baptised at St Marylebone Parish Church.[5]
She wrote Recollections of a Chaperon (1831) and Tales of the Peerage and Peasantry (1835), both collections of stories credited to her mother, but were written by her and only edited by her mother.[3]
Personal life
[edit]On 3 January 1821, Sullivan married The Rev Frederick Sullivan, a cricketer and vicar of Kimpton, Hertfordshire.[3][6][7]
Sullivan had three children, including the writer Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey and Sir Francis Sullivan, 6th Baronet, a Royal Navy officer.[7] Sullivan was the daughter-in-law of Sir Richard Sullivan, 1st Baronet, and the mother-in-law of Sir Frederick Grey.[7]
On 1 March 1839, Sullivan died in Hertfordshire.[1][8]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Grey, Lady Barbarina Charlotte Sullivan (1 January 1908). Lyster, Gertrude (ed.). A Family Chronicle. John Murray.
- ↑ "No. 13252". The London Gazette. 2 November 1790. p. 660.
- 1 2 3 Cooper, Thompson; Mills, Rebecca (23 September 2004). "Brand [née Ogle], Barbarina, Lady Dacre (1768–1854), poet and playwright". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3249. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ Moens, William J. C. (1893). "Valentine Henry Wilmot and Barbarina Ogle". Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences Granted by the Bishop of Winchester, 1689–1837. 2. London: The Harleian Society: 358.
- ↑ "Arabella Jane Wilmott [Baptismal Record]". Church of England Parish Registers, 1538–1812; Westminster; St Marylebone: Marylebone Road; 1793–1810. London: The London Archives. 20 June 1796.
- ↑ "Rev Frederick Sullivan and Arabella Jane Wilmot [Marriage Register]". Westminster Church of England Parish Registers; St George, Hanover Square; 1817–1822. Westminster, London: City of Westminster Archives Centre. 3 January 1821.
- 1 2 3 "THE LATE REV. FREDERICK SULLIVAN". Hertfordshire Mercury. Hertford, Hertfordshire. 2 August 1873. p. 5. Retrieved 25 January 2026.
- ↑ "Isabella [Arabella] Jane Sullivan [Death Index]". England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. 6. London: General Register Office: 369. 1839.
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