was born at Bury St. Edmund's, May 2nd, 1752. His father was Mr. John Repton, who, for many years, held the honourable and lucrative situation of Collector of Excise. From many trifling anecdotes recorded by his son (who never mentions him but in a tone of deep reverence, blended with warm affection), we gather that he was a man of high religious principles, and great benevolence of heart; with manners peculiarly dignified, and possessing a firmness of mind, which frequently led him to suppress any outward demonstration of the best feelings of his nature. During his residence in Bury, he married Martha, daughter of Mr. John Fitch, of Moor Hall, in the county of Suffolk, a descendant of Sir Thomas Fitch, who was created a Knight- Banneret on the field of Agincourt. She was a woman of singular personal beauty, and sweetness of disposition, and was in possession of a small landed property at Stoke, near Clare. This happy union was blessed with three children; the eldest, a girl, named Dorothy (who was married to Mr. John Adey, a much-esteemed solicitor, at Aylsham, in Norfolk); the second, Humphry, the subject of these Memoirs; and the third, John, who rented and passed the greater part of his life at Oxnead Hall, in the same county.
