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Matthew Lewis

Died in 1818

Matthew Lewis was born in 1775, the son of an under-secretary of state for war, and was attaché at the embassy in The Hague at eighteen. He sat in the Commons from 1796 to 1802. Having inherited sugar plantations in Jamaica in 1812, he went there twice, concerned about the fate of the slaves he owned, and kept a journal of it, published after his death. He died at sea in May 1818, aged forty-two, of yellow fever contracted during the second voyage. Byron found him boring, but liked him.

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