MERYON

Charles Lewis (son of Lewis Meryon of Rye, Su ex). b. Rye 27 June 1783; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school 1796–1802; Stuart’s exhibitioner St. John’s coll. Oxf. 1803; BA. 1806, M.A. 1809, M.B. and M.D. 1817; studied medicine at St. Thomas’s hospital; medical attendant on lady Hester Stanhope in Sicily and the East 1810–7; candidate of college of phys. 1820, fellow 1821; domestic phys. to sir Gilbert Heath cote 1822–7; attended on lady Hester Stanhope at Mount Lebanon, Syria in 1819, 15 Dec. 1830 to April 1831 and July 1837 to Aug. 1838; practised in London from 1838; author of Memoirs of the lady Hester Stanhope as related by herself in conversations with her physician 3 vols. 1845; Travels of lady Hester Stanhope 3 vols. 1846, with portrait of author. d. The Grove, Hammer smith, London 11 Sep. 1877. Munk’s College of physicians , iii 234 (1878). Note. —By a ballet dancer at the Paris opera house (Pierre Narci e Chaspoux) C. L. Meryon had a son Charles Meryon b. Paris 23 Nov. 1821, who was originally a sailor, then a well-known engraver and etcher. He died in a lunatic asylum in Paris on 14 Feb. 1868 and was bur. in the cemetery of Char ent on Saint-Maurice. F. S. Ellis’ Descriptive catalogue of drawings and etchings by C. Merion (1880); Exhibition from a selection of the works of C. Meryon. Burlington Fine Arts club (1879); Charles Meryon, sailor, engraver and etcher. By Philip Burty (1879).