Edinburgh.
_Lewis and Sewell Families_ (Vol. viii., p. 388.).--Your correspondent may
obtain, in respect to the Lewis family, much information in the _Life and
Correspondence of Matthew Gregory Lewis_, two vols. 8vo., London, 1839,
particularly at pp. 6. and 7. of vol. i. He will there find that Matthew
Lewis, Esq., who was Deputy Secretary of War for twenty-six years, married
Frances Sewell, youngest daughter of the Right Hon. Sir Thos. Sewell; that
Lieut.-Gen. Whitelocke and Gen. Sir Thos. Brownrigg, G.C.B., married the
other two daughters of Sir Thos. Sewell; and that Matthew Gregory Lewis,
who wrote the _Castle Spectre_, &c., was son of Matthew Lewis, Esq., the
Deputy Secretary of War.
With regard to the Sewell family. The Right Hon. Sir Thos. Sewell, who was
Master of the Rolls for twenty years, died in 1784; and there is, I
believe, a very correct account of his family connexions in the
_Gentleman's Magazine_ for 1784, p. 555. He died intestate, and his eldest
son, Thos. Bailey Heath Sewell, succeeded to his estate of Ottershaw and
the manors of Stannards and Fords in Chobham, Surrey. This gentleman was a
magistrate for the county of Surrey; and in the spring of 1794, when this
country was threatened by both foreign and domestic enemies, he became
Lieut.-Col. of a regiment of Light Dragoons (fencibles), raised in Surrey
(at Richmond) by George Lord Onslow, Lord-Lieut. of the county, in which he
served six years, till the Government not requiring their services they
were disbanded. Lieut.-Col. Sewell died in 1803, and was buried in the
church at Chobham, where there is a monument to his memory. Of his family
we have not farther knowledge than that he had a son, Thos. Bermingham
Heath Sewell, who was a cornet in the 32nd Light Dragoons, and lieutenant
in the 4th Dragoon Guards during the war of the French Revolution. The
_History and Antiquities of Surrey_, by the Rev. Owen Manning and Wm. Bray,
in three vols. folio, 1804, has in the third volume much concerning the
Sewell family.