Duke of York, K.G. and K.B., Colonel 2nd Foot Guards; Lieut.-Gen. and Adjutant-Gen. Sir Wm. Fawcett, K.B., 3rd Dragoon Guards; Lieut.-Gen. David Dundas, Quarter-master-General, 7th Light Dragoons; Major-Gen. Goldsworthy, First Equerry, 1st Royal Dragoons.
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Lewis and Sewell Families (Vol. viii., pp. 388. 521.).—C. H. F. will find M. G. Lewis's ancestors, his family mausoleum, the tomb of his maternal grandfather, &c., incidentally mentioned in "M. G. Lewis's Negro Life in the West Indies," No. 16. of Murray's Home and Colonial Library, 1845. The pedigrees of the Shedden and Lushington family would probably afford him some information upon the subject of his Query.
The Right Hon. Sir Thos. Sewell's second wife was a Miss Sibthorp, daughter of Coningsby Sibthorp of Canwick, Lincolnshire. By her he had one child, which died young. The Rev. George Sewell, William Luther Sewell, Robert Sewell, Attorney-General of Jamaica, and Lieut.-Col. Thomas Bailey Heath Sewell, were sons of the Right Hon. Sir Thos. Sewell by his first wife. Thomas Bermingham Daly Henry Sewell, son of the above Lieut.-Col. Thomas Bailey Heath Sewell, died March 20, 1852, æt. seventy-eight; and was buried in Harold's Cross Cemetery, near Dublin. Two daughters, the Duchess de Melfort, and Mrs. Richards, wife of the Rev. Solomon Richards, still survive him. (See Burke's Commoners, Supplement, name Cole of Marazion; and Burke's Dic. of Peerage and Baronetage, 1845, title Westmeath.)
W. R. D. S.
Blue Bell and Blue Anchor (Vol. viii., p. 388.).—Your correspondent
. inquires the origin of the sign-boards of the "Blue Bell" and the "Blue Anchor?" I have always understood that the sign of the Bell, painted blue, was intended as a substitute for the little Scotch flower bearing the name of the blue-bell. I believe it is either the blue flower of the flax, or that of the wild blue hyacinth, which in shape much resembles a bell. It was probably much easier to draw the metallic figure than the flower, and hence its use by the primitive village artists. As to the "Blue Anchor," the anchor is the well-known symbol of Hope, and blue her emblematic colour. Hence this adaptation is less a solecism than that of the bell for the hyacinth.
W. W. E. T.
66. Warwick Square, Belgravia.