Person’s Profile
Mary Emily Simpson (1820-1884)
Description
educational reformer
Biography
The author of Ploughing and Sowing was the daughter of the Rev. Francis Simpson, Vicar of Boynton, and of Anne Strickland (d.1868), daughter of Sir William Strickland, 6th Bt. She was not exactly niece of Sir Henry Boynton 10th Bt. (1811-69) of Burton Agnes, as CMY says, but his first wife Louisa Strickland (d.1841) was her mother’s first cousin, and other marriages connected the two families. There is a study: Clifford Ball Freeman, Mary Simpson of Boynton Vicarage, teacher of ploughboys and critic of Methodism, East Yorkshire Local History Society Series 28 (1972)
