Author: Swift, Edmund Lenthal
Biography:
SWIFT, Edmund Lewes Lenthal (1777-1875: ancestry.co.uk)
The younger son of Theophilus Swift (q.v.) and his wife Charlotte Maria Pead, he was born in London on 20 June 1777 and baptised Edmund Lewes Swift. Nothing is known about his education but, like his father, he became a barrister. In character and appearance he was very unlike his brother Deane Theophilus Swift (q.v.). He was a fierce loyalist and maintained only a distant connection to Ireland. He married Mary Daly (d 1808) in Dublin on 14 Jan. 1804; their three sons died as infants and a daughter survived only to early adulthood. He was married three times more: to Mary Westropp Atkins (d 1818) in 1809, to Susanna Robson (d 1834) in 1820, and to Isabella Drummond Ross in 1835. He had numerous children. In 1814 he was appointed Keeper of the Regalia at the Tower of London and the family lived in the Jewel Tower until his retirement in 1852. He died at Dover in his 99th year. Other publications include a translation from the Latin of Jocelin, The Life and Acts of Saint Patrick (1809); The Indissolubility of Union (1810); A Statement of the Penal Laws, Which Aggrieve the Catholics in Ireland (1813); and The Equality of the Constitution (1819). His portrait, painted by John Opie in 1802, is in Tate Britain, London. (ancestry.co.uk 25 Oct. 2021; Sir Jonah Barrington, Personal Sketches of His Own Times [1827]) SR
Other Names:
- Edmund L. Swift