The two born immediately after John- Robert (1748) and Archibald (1750)- trained as bankers and chose London. In all George and Mary Dickson Tunno would have seven sons. During John's youth his family moved about twenty miles away to Kelso. John's father, George Tunno, was a farmer who may not have owned the land he tilled. was christened in August 1746 in Dunse, a Berwickshire village. Assuredly no one who has enjoyed the privilege of her familiar acquaintance, can ever forget the fascination of manner, the unrivalled grace of demeanour and expression that, in her unstudied conversation, gave to the more serious, as well as to the lighter topics of discourse, a charm as rare as it was captivating.įrom her early youth, and during the remainder of a life of the most active kindness and constant mental exertion, she enjoyed the friendship of many of the most eminent persons who have graced the social annals of this century and while encountering these master spirits of the age on a footing of admitted mental equality, and receiving from them the homage of a deferential admiration, she was equally successful in winning the regard and respectful affection of those who, less qualified to appreciate her rare endowments of mind, were not less sensible of the graceful and considerate courtesy, obliging amiability, and genuine warmth of heart which shone conspicuous in every action of her life.Ĭitizen-Scholar: Essays in Honor of Walter Edgar Perhaps no one ever combined in a higher degree the vigour of a masculine and powerful understanding, with that delicacy of feeling and true refinement of mind, that go so far to make up the beau-idéal of the female character. But it may be safely asserted, that in the social memories of many among her surviving contemporaries, who are most remarkable for intellectual power, and sympathetic appreciation of congenial talent, her remembrance is still treasured with a mingled feeling of enthusiastic admiration and affectionate regret, such as the brightest reminiscences of mental and moral superiority can seldom suffice to inspire and sustain. The name of Maria Tunno finds no place in the strictly literary records of her time although, had she been ambitious of such a distinction, no one was more fully qualified by nature and education, to take a prominent rank among the most gifted of her sex who have, in this century, adorned the literature of our country.

He was the uncle of the MP Edward John Sartoris (1814–88), to whom he bequeathed much of his estate.The life of Sir Martin Archer Shee : president of the Royal Academy. His coalmine at Llangennech was worked by James Shears from 1824. She was the daughter of John Rose, another Scot descended from the Roses of Clava, in Nairnshire, who had 42,000 acres of rice plantations in South Carolina and interests in Jamaica.īecause of his role as executor of his father-in-law's John Rose's plantation interests in Jamaica, he is listed as a claimant for compensation after the p*ing of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. His mother was Margaret Rose of Charleston, who married John Tunno in 1781. His father was John Tunno (1746–1819), a Scottish-born merchant and slave trader who had made a fortune in Charleston, South Carolina and, after the American Revolution, another in London as a member of Lloyd's of London and a friend of Sir Thomas Baring. In 1825 he married Caroline Raikes, but they had no children. He had homes at Llangennech, near Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales Boverton Castle, Llantwit Major, Glamorganshire, Wales and 19 Upper Brook Street, London, England. Edward Rose Tunno (1794–1863) was a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Bossiney, Cornwall, 1826–1832.

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