William W Ewin

William Howell Ewin

1731

1804

Merchant • Tutor

William Cole ( antiquary ) wrote In January 1777 a report was current at Cambridge that he had been detected in lending money at an enormous interest in 1775 and 1776 to a scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge named William Bird, then a minor, and without a father, whom he had also caused to be imprisoned in a sponging-house.

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, however, censured Ewin's conduct in the strongest terms, stigmatised him as " a corrupter of youth and an usurer ", and suggested that a statute to meet such cases in future should be passed, and that the great seal should be petitioned that he might be struck out of the commission of the peace....

William Winstead Ewin

Pilot At American Airlines

William Ewin