John Revoult

John Revoult was listed in 1799 as an academician residing in Dean’s Row, Walworth (Holden’s [1799]: 595).  He also lived near Joseph Gurney in Keene’s Row, where the Revoults operated a school. The Revoults do not show up on the membership rolls of the Baptist meeting at Maze Pond, where the Gurneys were members, but they most likely attended one of the Dissenting churches in Walworth.  Mrs. Revoult may also have been a teacher, possibly at the Maze Pond Charity School or in Mr. Revoult’s school. She may also have been originally from Devon, for she was a friend and correspondent of the mother of Eliza Gould Flower, the wife of Benjamin Flower. For more on the Revoults, see Timothy Whelan, ed., Politics, Religion, and Romance: The Letters of Benjamin Flower and Eliza Gould Flower, 1794-1808 (Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 2008).