John Elwes

(1714-1789)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Elwes, John, 1714-1789 DNB: Elwes [formerly Meggott], John (1714-1789), landowner and eccentric LBT ID: JoElwes1789 VIAF ID: 61102271 LOC ID: no90006490	B/BAP: 1714-04-07 DIED: 1789-11-26
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English eccentric, originally John Meggott; after inheriting a fortune he was so parsimonious that he refused to clean his shoes lest they wear out; he was MP for Berkshire (1774-87).
REFERENCES TO John Elwes: Southern Henry (1799-1853), “Personal Character of Lord Byron” in London Magazine 10 (October 1824) 337-47 Found 1: ¶ 13 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Review of Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries” in Blackwood's Magazine 23 (March 1828) 362-408 Found 1: ¶ 125 Thomas Medwin, “Hazlitt in Switzerland: a Conversation” in Fraser’s Magazine 19 (March 1839) 278-283 Found 1: ¶ 15 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter III. Found 1: ¶ 40 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. VI. 1794-1796 Found 1: ¶ 11