Author: Hartstonge, Matthew Weld
Biography:
HARTSTONGE, Matthew Weld (1773-1835: ancestry.co.uk)
He was the Dublin-born son of Edmund Weld and his wife Anne; Edmund had adopted Anne’s maiden name, Hartstonge, on their marriage. He 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. (ancestry.co.uk 14 Feb. 2019)
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