SEWELL (George), an eminent physician, elegant writer, and excellent poet, was the eldest son of Mr John Sewell treasurer and chapter-clerk of the college of Windsor; and was educated at Eton school, and at Peter-house in Cambridge, where he took the degree of bachelor in physic. In order to complete
his knowledge in medicine, he went to Leyden, and studied under the celebrated Boerhaave; and on his return practised physic in London with good success. Towards the latter part of his life he retired to Hampstead, where he continued to pursue the business of his profession till the time of his death, which happened in the year 1726. He wrote several essays in the Spectators and Tatlers; and was concerned in the translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, with Dr Garth and others. He likewise wrote, 1. The life of Mr John Philips, author of the poem on cyder. 2. A vindication of the English Stage, exemplified in the Cato of Mr Addison, in a letter to a nobleman. 3. Sir Walter Raleigh, a tragedy: and several miscellaneous poems.