Charles Lewis Meryon

Obtaining a Stuart's exhibition to St John's College, Oxford, he matriculated there on 29 March 1803, and graduated B.A.

[1] With Cline's recommendation, Meryon was in 1810 taken on by the eccentric Lady Hester Stanhope, as her medical attendant, on a voyage to Sicily and the Near East.

He was with her during her seven years' wanderings, saw her finally settled on Mount Lebanon, and then returned to England to take his medical degrees.

Shortly afterwards he became domestic physician to Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 4th Baronet, but in 1827, at the request of Lady Hester Stanhope, he started again for Syria, with his wife and family.

[1] Meryon published in London Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in Conversations with her Physician, (1845, 3 vols.)

[3] Meryon had a son with Narcisse Chaspoux, a French ballet dancer, the artist Charles Méryon.

[4] Charles Meryon had a daughter Eugenia and a son John by his wife, as mentioned in Lady Stanhope's memoirs.