Maurice Jewell spent some years in the 1880’s in Iquique, Chile, where he was Her Majesty’s (i.e. Queen Victoria’s ) Consul. By the time of the l891 Census of Population, however, he and his Chilean born wife and their five children (all under six) were residing at Hall Place, Bexley. They were living there in grand style; they had twelve domestic servants living in the House and five others living over the stables. (Incidentally, the journey back from Chile, in the days before the Panama Canal had been built, must have been very long and dangerous. He resigned from the diplomatic service in 1891.
He was elected President in October 1893 and held the office for one year only. Little is known of his activities in Bexley. He died in 1895 at the age of 48.
Although there is no known record of him playing cricket, his family were remarkably keen cricketers . One son Major Maurice Frederick Jewell, C.B.E,, played first class cricket for Sussex and Worcestershire between 1909 and 1933. He was a useful batsman who scored over 4000 runs in his career and a slow left arm bowler who took over I00 wickets, He captained Worcestershire for five seasons in the 1920s and later served as President of the county. Another son, Major A. N. Jewell, played for Worcestershire and for Orange Free State for several years, and also kept wicket for The Gentlemen against The Players at The Oval in 1920. A third son, J.E., also played for Orange Free State and a fourth, H.E., was a cricket writer. grandson, J.M.H., also played for Worcestershire shortly before World War II.
The sons played also for Sutton Cricket Club, Surrey, where they were remarkably successful. In 1910 J. E. Jewell made a record 225, he is reputed to have scored 200 or them before lunch, but that has not been confirmed. In a match at Eastbourne in 1913, M. F. Jewell took four wickets with the last four balls of an over, whereon the bowler at the other end did the hat trick with the first three balls of the next over. Seven wickets thus fell in seven deliveries; there must have been pandemonium in the dressing room!