Marianne Nunn

Nunn was possibly born in Colchester as her father John Nunn lived there. Marianne had two younger brothers John and William. John Nunn published a book of hymns in 1817 that included the hymn "One there is above all others, O how he loves" which was an adaption of a hymn by John Newton that Nunn had adapted to the Welsh tune Ar hyd y nos.^[2] The hymn had a number of variants and was popular with children.^[3]

Nunn was included in the Dictionary of National Biography with an entry written by James Cuthbert Hadden.^[4] Nunn never married and died in 1847.^[5]