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N T CARRINGTON

Noel Thomas Carrington was born at Plymouth in 1777, the son of a grocer.

After working for four years in the Royal Dockyard, he absconded and went to sea.  He served in the action off Cape Finisterre on February 14th 1797 and his first verses were to commemorate that engagement.  His Captain was so impressed by his words that he gave him his liberty.

In 1804 he became a teacher at Maidstone in Kent.  He returned to Plymouth Dock in 1809, where he continued teaching.  At Dock here produced his two best known poems, "On the Banks of the Tamar" appeared in 1820 and "Dartmoor" in 1826.

Soon after that he was attacked by consumption and in 1830 removed to Bath, where his son, Frederick George Carrington, had become proprietor of the Bath Chronicle.  He died there on September 2nd 1830 and was buried at Commbe Hay Church, near Bath.

 

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