Honorific Prefix: | The Reverend |
Zephaniah Marryat | |
Birth Date: | 1684 |
Death Date: | 1754 |
Zephaniah Marryat (1684–1754) was an English Nonconformist minister. He was a strict Calvinist.[1]
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;[2] he then taught at Plaisterer's Hall Academy.[3] At Plaisterer's Hall, he was the educator of Robert Robinson[4] and Thomas Williams.[5] 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.'[6] After Zephaniah Marryat suddenly died, John Conder filled his place as theological tutor in this academy,[7] while Samuel Pike succeeded him as one of the Tuesday lecturers at Pinners' Hall.
He was the father of Thomas Marryat.[8]