having substantially redeveloped the house and rebuilt the local church. The year before he died he created his most important work, Formulare instrumentarum, a text based on his work with admiralty law that had a strong influence on maritime law in the United States. Aside from his final work, he produced a number of poems and legal texts of little distinction, described as describes as "slender literary accomplishments". He never married; his one effort in 1760 ending in refusal by both the girl and her father. Instead, he remained devoted to his mother until her death. Notes References External links James Marriott at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA) 1730 births 18th-century English judges Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Masters of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Knights Bachelor Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies 1803 deaths British MPs 1780–1784 British MPs 1796–1800 Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies UK MPs 1801–1802 Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge Fellows of Trinity Hall, Cambridge