![]() His journals of his travels in Jamaica were published posthumously as The Journal of a West India Planter (1836). Matthew Gregory Lewis' father was Chief Clerk and Deputy Secretary at War, of 9 Devonshire Place, Upper Wimpole Street, Middlesex his mother was the daughter of Sir Thomas Sewell Ottershaw, Surrey, Master of the Rolls.īorn to Matthew Lewis and Frances Maria Sewell, educated at Marylebone Seminary, Westminster School and Christchurch College, Oxford, Matthew Gregory Lewis gained notoriety as author of the gothic novel The Monk (1796) and was well-connected in literary circles. The compensation for Hordley was paid into a Chancery suit of Fanny Maria Lushington v William Luther Sewell (q.v.) (the maternal uncle and executor of Matthew Lewis and maternal uncle of Fanny Maria Lushington), and the compensation for Cornwall was paid to trustees of Matthew Gregory Lewis and to John Shedden, Sophia Elizabeth's surviving husband. ![]() He in turn under his will left the Hordley and Cornwall estates to his sisters Fanny Maria Lushington (q.v.) and Sophia Elizabeth Shedden (who died c. ![]() Matthew Gregory Lewis, novelist and diarist and MP for Hindon 1796-1802, also known as 'Monk' Lewis, son of Matthew Lewis (1750-1812) and Frances Maria Sewell, inherited estates and over 400 enslaved in Jamaica as tenant-in-tail. ![]()
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