Family and Education
b. 9 July 1775, 1st s. of Matthew Lewis, chief clerk and dep. sec. at war, of 9 Devonshire Place, Upper Wimpole Street, Mdx. by Frances Maria, da. of Sir Thomas Sewell of Ottershaw, Surr., master of the rolls. educ. at Rev. Dr Fountaine’s seminary, Marylebone; Westminster 1783-90; Christ Church, Oxf. 1790; Paris 1792; Weimar 1793. unm. suc. fa. to two estates in Jamaica 1812.
Offices Held

Attaché to The Hague embassy May-Dec. 1794.

Main residences: Hermitage Cottage, Barnes; Albany, Piccadilly, Mdx.
Notes

L. F. Peck, A Life of M.G. Lewis (1961) is the only recent biography.

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LEWIS, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)

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