Author: Hartstonge, Matthew Weld
Biography:
HARTSTONGE, Matthew Weld (1773-1835: ancestry.co.uk)
He was the Dublin-born eldest son of Edmund Weld and his wife Anne, widow of John Vesey; Edmund adopted Anne’s maiden name, Hartstonge, on their marriage at St. Ann's, Dublin in 1771. Matthew graduated BA from Trinity College Dublin in 1792 and in 1795 was called to the Irish bar. He was a member of the Royal Dublin Society and corresponded extensively with both Scott and Maria Edgeworth; he assisted Scott by providing material for his Memoirs of Jonathan Swift. His only novel, The Eve of All-Hallows (1825), is dedicated to Scott. He died at Dublin on 18 July 1834 and is buried in the vaults under St. Ann's church, Dawson Street, Dublin. (ancestry.co.uk 14 Feb. 2019; 15 Jan. 2025) SR
Books written (3):
Edinburgh/ London/ Dublin: John Ballantyne and Co./ Longman and Co./ J. Cumming and M. N. Mahon, 1812
London/ Dublin: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown/ Gilbert and Hodges, M. N. Mahon, C. P. Archer, and J. Cumming, 1814
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815