The Rev. Henry Byron, second son of the Rev. and Hon. Richard Byron, and nephew of William, fifth Lord Byron, died in 1821. His daughter Eliza married, in 1830, George Rochford Clarke. Byron's "niece Georgina" was the daughter of Mrs. Leigh.
Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818), intended by his father for the diplomatic service, was educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Weimar, and Paris. He soon showed his taste for literature. At the age of seventeen he had translated a play from the French, and written a farce, a comedy called
The East Indian
(acted at Drury Lane, April 22, 1799), "two volumes of a novel, two of a romance, besides numerous poems" (
Life, etc., of M. G. Lewis
, vol. i. p. 70). In 1794 he was attached to the British Embassy at the Hague. There, stimulated (
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