Modern English biography

_Eton portrait gallery_ (1876) 195–6. MARRIOTT, WILLIAM FREDERICK. _b._ 4 June 1820; entered Bombay army 9 Dec. 1836; 2 lieut. Bombay engineers 7 Oct. 1840, lieut. col. 16 Aug. 1860; sec. to military department of Bombay 30 July 1861 to 1872; president of European railway administration; C.S.I. 25 May 1866; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; author of One Englishman’s testimony at the present crisis 1871; A grammar of political economy 1874. _d._ Cairo 17 Dec. 1879. _Guardian 14 Jany. 1880 p._ 41. MARRIOTT, _Sir William Marriott Smith-_, 4 Baronet (2 son of sir John Wyldbore Smith, 2 baronet 1770–1852). _b._ Portman st. London 31 Aug. 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1829; assumed by sign manual additional surname of Marriott 15 Feb. 1811; R. of Horsmonden, Kent 1825 to death; succeeded to baronetcy on death of his brother 3 Sep. 1862; author of The olden and modern times, with other poems. By Wm. Smith Marriott