Master M. S. Carson
(1853-1877)
21 May 1863

Volume 10, page 235, sitting number 13,309.

Born at Paddington in 1853, Marriott Simpson Carson was the second son of James and Sarah Carson. His father owned extensive estates in Jamaica, including coffee and sugar plantations, which had had inherited from his uncle. The family appear on the 1861 census, living at Spinfield, a house at Great Marlow in Buckinghamshire.

His father died at Naples on 23 May 1872, leaving an estate valued at £70,000. 'His estates, called Albion and Hopewell, in Jamaica, he has bequeathed to his eldest son, Captain J. Simpson Carson, who was called to the bar of the Middle Temple in January last; and the estate called Constant Spring, and all his other estates in Jamaica, he leaves in trust for the benefit of his second son, Lieutenant Marriott Simpson Carson' (Bolton Evening News, 17 August 1872). 

On 1 January 1874 at Halfway Tree Church, Saint Andrew's, Jamaica, Marriott Simpson Carson married Miss Florence Mary Vernon Cox, third daughter of the Honourable Colonel John Williams Cox, CB, Commanding HM Forces in the Island of Jamaica, and granddaughter of the late Sir William Cox, of Coolcliffe, County Wexford.

On 20 February 1875 the Reading Mercury reported that Lieutenant Marriott Simpson Carson had resigned his commission in the Royal Berkshire Militia. 

He died on 16 June 1877 at Park Cottage, Gerrard's Cross, Buckinghamshire. He was twenty-four years old.