Zephaniah Marryat

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Zephaniah Marryat (1684–1754) was an English Nonconformist minister. He was a strict Calvinist.{{cite book |author=Nicholas Hans|title=New Trends in Education in the 18th Century |year=1998|publisher=Routledge|isbn=0-415-17611-5|page=57}}

Career

Marryat was a tutor at dissenting academies funded by the King's Head Society. Between 1743 and 1744 he was a tutor at Stepney Academy;{{cite web| title = Marryatt, Zephaniah (c.1684-c.1754) |year= 2011|publisher=Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies | url= http://dissacad.english.qmul.ac.uk/new_dissacad/phpfiles/sample1.php?parameter=personretrieve&alpha=1689| access-date=21 December 2013}} he then taught at Plaisterer's Hall Academy.{{cite web| title = Plaisterer's Hall Academy (1744-1754)|year= 2011|publisher=Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies | url= http://dissacad.english.qmul.ac.uk/new_dissacad/phpfiles/sample1.php?parameter=academyretrieve&alpha=130| access-date=21 December 2013}} At Plaisterer's Hall, he was the educator of Robert Robinson{{cite DNB|wstitle=Robinson, Robert (1727?-1791)|volume=49}} and Thomas Williams.{{cite web| last = Harvey-Williams | first = Nevil | title = The Williams Family in the 18th and 19th Centuries - Part 1|date=March 2011| url= http://www.williams.gen.nz/18and19a.html#thogos| access-date=21 December 2013}} Joseph Priestley was also sent to him, but Priestley 'resolutely opposed' the condition of subscribing every six months to 'ten printed articles of the strictest Calvinistic faith.'{{cite DNB|wstitle=Priestley, Joseph|volume=46}} After Zephaniah Marryat suddenly died, John Conder filled his place as theological tutor in this academy,{{cite DNB|wstitle=Conder, John|volume=12}} while Samuel Pike succeeded him as one of the Tuesday lecturers at Pinners' Hall.

Personal life

He was the father of Thomas Marryat.{{cite book|title=The Congregational magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EvUDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA60|page=60|year=1828}}

Zephaniah Marryat

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