Swynfen Stevens Jervis (10 May 1797 – 15 January 1867) was a British politician and writer, who represented Bridport in Parliament from 1837 to 1841.
Jervis was a member of a wealthy landowning family resident at Darlaston Hall in Staffordshire, and was educated at Christ Church, Oxford[1] He was elected for Bridport at the 1837 general election as a Radical, and frequently rebelled against the Whig government.
He strongly supported free trade in grain, opposed the government's Irish policy, and attacked the Church of England.
[2] He insisted on a high standard of education for his daughters, one of whom, Agnes (1822–1902) married the writer George Henry Lewes and later collaborated with him.
[3] His Dictionary of the Language of Shakespeare was under revision at the time of his death, and published the following year, edited by Alexander Dyce.