MORTIMER

Favell Lee (2 dau. of David Bevan of banking firm of Barclay, Bevan & co. London). b. London 1802; founded parish schools on her father’s estates; m. in the year 1841 Thomas Mortimer minister of the Episcopal chapel, Gray’s Inn road, London, who d. 1850; author of The Peep of Day or a series of the earliest religious instruction the infant mind is capable of receiving 1873 anon, many editions and translations; Line upon line 1837; The English mother by A Lady 1840; Far off or Asia and Australia described 1852, 6 ed. 1890; The night of toil, the first mi ionaries in the South sea islands 1858; Precept upon precept 1867, 2 ed. 1869; and 20 other books. d. Runton near Cromer 22 Aug. 1878. bur. in churchyard, Upper She ring ham, Norfolk. The Family Friend (1878) 183.