Rochemont Barbauld

ALB 's husband drowned himself in the New River on a wild and rainy night. He had made his will ten days before this, leaving everything to her. His body was found next day in...

Rochemont Barbauld came from a French Huguenot family and had a strong foreign accent as a result of spending his childhood abroad. He was ALB 's junior by six years, small in stature, emotionally unstable...

Anna Aikin (later ALB ) met her future husband in Warrington when he was admitted as a student to the Warrington Academy .

During the 1790s Rochemont Barbauld 's behaviour became increasingly restless and what would today be called manic. He developed a habit of compulsive washing and suspected a non-existent conspiracy on the part of someone to...

Anna Aikin and Rochemont Barbauld were married in the parish church (the Anglican church) of Warrington by Rochemont's father.

Since she and her husband were so far childless (as they remained), ALB adopted her brother 's third son, Charles Rochemont Aikin , to bring up as her own.

HM 's father, Thomas Martineau (1764 - 1826), had been educated at Palgrave School by Rochemont and Anna Letitia Barbauld (to whose teaching Harriet ascribed his sound radical and Unitarian principles). He became a manufacturer...