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English writer and educator
Lewis Maidwell (1650–1716) was an English writer and educator.
Born in
Northamptonshire he attended
Westminster School and graduated from
Cambridge University in 1672.
[1] He ran a school on
King Street in London, and was also a tutor to the sons of the wealthy politician
Stephen Fox . Maidwell is noted for his repeated advocacy for the
founding of an English Academy similar to the
Académie Française in Paris.
[2]
He wrote the comedy play
The Loving Enemies which was staged by the
Duke's Company at the
Dorset Garden Theatre in 1680.
[3] Maidwell was a long-standing friend of the playwright and
poet laureate
Nahum Tate .
[4]
^ Hammond p.223
^ Ward & Waller p.397
^ Canfield p.256
^ Spencer p.29
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