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Charles Morton's third known marriage was to
Elizabeth Pratt, who is said to have been age 35 at the time, also took place at St George Bloomsbury, on 25 April 1791, one month and two weeks after Lady Savile died. Elizabeth Pratt was the daughter of Reverend Joseph Pratt and a near relation to Lady
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Captain Wallace in May 1744 and the marriage record at St George Bloomsbury identifies Mary Wallace as the Charles Morton's bride on 25 August 1767. Her mother, Honoretta Brooks Pratt, was the first cremated individual in England when she died on 26 September
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Elizabeth Pratt as Charles Carr Morton's mother. It is said that Elizabeth Pratt was 35 years old when she married Charles Morton in 1791, and therefore old enough to have been Charles Carr Morton's mother. However, Charles Carr Morton was married only 8 years after Elizabeth Pratt's
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Charles Morton had 14 grandchildren by his son
Charles Carr Morton. In a document at the Nottinghamshire Archives, Eliza Pratt writes: "...Dr. Morton intends putting him to Mr. Angelo's to ride and fence but he is not to go into the guards" which seems to indicate that Charles Carr Morton was
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Charles Morton was married three, or possibly four times; he married into the minor aristocracy. The identity of his son
Charles Carr Morton's mother is not clear. Although Charles Carr Morton's mother is listed as Elizabeth Pratt in
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Thornhay Hewet on 23 July 1744; and Barbara Savile, who married
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Charlotte Tatlow at Drumora Lodge in County Cavan, Ireland. By 5 January 1800, Charles Carr Morton was father to his first child Anna.
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Savile. As such, she lived in the same household as Morton and his wife Mary Pratt from as early as 6 January 1778. This is evidenced both her wedding announcement in the
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British Museum. At the British Museum, Morton was initially a medical under-librarian in charge of manuscripts in the
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anywhere from 16 to 18 years old in 1779, having been born around 1761–1763, six years after Mary
Berkeley died, but four years prior to his marriage to Lady Savile.
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in 1776, Morton was appointed principal librarian and held the office till his death. Morton was a member of the
1069:"The London magazine, or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer, Volume 28 By Isaac Kimber, Edward Kimber, Page 286"
1056:"The London magazine, or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer, Volume 28 By Isaac Kimber, Edward Kimber, Page 251"
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1082:"The London magazine, or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer, Volume 28 By Isaac Kimber, Edward Kimber Page 425"
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577:"Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, Volume 2 By John Burke, Page 891"
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846:"The Gentleman's magazine, Volume 61, Part 1, Page 487"
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352:In 1759, Morton wrote a series of articles in the
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