Lewis, Matthew Gregory, 1775-1818

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Lewis, Matthew Gregory, 1775-1818

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        Dates of existence

        1775-1818

        History

        LEWIS, MATTHEW GREGORY, elder son of Matthew Lewis (qv); b. 9 Jul 1775; adm. 19 Jul 1783; a successful actor in the Town Boys’ plays; played Falconbridge in King John and My Lord Duke in High Life below Stairs to great applause (Letters and Correspondence, i, 42); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 Apr 1790, Canoneer Student 23 Dec 1790 – void 25 Jun 1803; BA 1794; MA 1797; attaché to British Embassy, The Hague May – Dec 1794; author, Ambrosio, or the Monk, 1795, a best-selling novel which made him famous as “Monk” Lewis; MP Hindon 1796-1802; his play, The Castle Spectre, ran for sixty nights from 14 Dec 1797 under Sheridan’s management at Drury Lane; author, Tales of Wonder, 1801, also poems and other plays; visited West Indies estates to make arrangements for welfare of his slaves 1815-6, 1817-8; d. unm. at sea on his voyage home from Jamaica 14 May 1818. DNB.

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        Slave-owner and antecedent of claimant or beneficiary, inherited estates and over 400 enslaved in Jamaica as tenant-in-tail.

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        Lewis, Matthew, d. 1812 (d. 1812)

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        GB-2014-WSA-11080

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        family

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        Lewis, Matthew, d. 1812 is the parent of Lewis, Matthew Gregory, 1775-1818

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        GB-2014-WSA-00914

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        GB 2014

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        International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition

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        Dates of creation, revision and deletion

        Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
        Revised by Bethany Duck, Archive Assistant, 2020

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            Supplementary information drawn from UCL's Legacies of British Slave-ownership database. Entry URL: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/-1890542757

            Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.

            The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.

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