The Tree - Person Sheet
The Tree - Person Sheet
NameMartin Farquhar Tupper
Birth17 Jul 1810, No. 20 Devonshire Place, Marylebone, London, England
Death29 Nov 1889, Albury, Surrey, England
OccupationAuthor/poet, barrister did not practise D.C.L F.R.S.
FatherMartin Tupper (1780-1844)
MotherEllin Devis Marris (1785-1847)
Misc. Notes
Name, year and place of birth (London England) and death, occupation as poet, from:
https://www.geni.com/people/Martin-Tupper-Poet/6000000045381183854

Occupation of famous author/poet, barrister did not practise D.C.L F.R.S., date and place of marriage, from the “Devis Family Tree” kindly shared by Julie Bourke (nee McColl) received in the post on 3 May 2017. This information is based on original research, including that of Wills, by Linda Burge and Julie Bourke. Linda is the great-great-granddaughter of Emma Frances Devis b. 1814. Julie is the great-great-granddaughter of Emma Frances Devis. Brian of nzolivers.com is a x3-great grandson of Emma Frances Devis.

The Devis Tree states: Martin Farquhar Tupper had nine children. the eldest were three girls, and then four boys. The 8th child, Alice, had a paralysed spine. Henry de Beauvoir died of an accident in South Africa - a Bullock wagon wheel ran over him.

Brian of nzolivers.com has found on the Internet Martin’s autobiography, “My Life as an Author”:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17558?msg=welcome_stranger
Downloads of the book are available free-of-charge here.

Full place of birth from, “My Life as an Author”.
Spouses
Birth1811
FatherArthur William Devis (1762-1822)
MotherMargaret Lanchester (ca1784-1818)
Marriage26 Nov 1835, Old Church St Pancreas, London
ChildrenEllen Isabella (1836-1924)
 Mary Frances (1838-)
 Margaret Elenora (1840-1894)
 Martin Charles Selwyn (1841-1879)
 William-Knighton (1844-1930)
 Henry de Beauvoir (1847-1871)
 Walter F (1849-1905)
 Alice Evelyn (1851-1854)
 no name (Died as Infant) (1854-1854)
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