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1865. _d._ 6 Queen’s gate place, London 5 Jany. 1877.
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LEWIS, ALBERT (youngest son of Joseph Lewis of St. Vincent, West
Indies, merchant). _b._ 1835; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1870;
Q.C. St. Vincent 27 Aug. 1879; attorney general of Tobago 1879;
acting chief justice of St. Lucia and Tobago 1884–5; judge of
assistant court of appeal of Barbadoes to death. _d._ 1 March
1889.
LEWIS, ARTHUR JAMES (son of general Robert Lewis, quartermaster
general to the Bombay army, _d._ 4 Sep. 1838 aged 74). _b._
Bombay 1801; named after his godfather the duke of Wellington;
ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 16
May 1828; advocate general of Bombay 1857 to death; member of
council of governor of Bombay for making laws and regulations.
_d._ in a room adjoining high court of Bombay 14 Nov. 1865.
LEWIS, CHARLES BLAKE. _b._ 1854; ed. King’s coll. London; won
the mile challenge cup in the United hospital athletic sports
several years in succession; M.R.C.S. 1877; L.R.C.P. Edinb.
1880; surgeon in the army 5 Feb. 1881; while with the army in
Egypt _d._ of cholera at El Warden 30 July 1883; a brass to his
memory erected in chapel of Royal Victoria hospital, Netley,
Jany. 1885. _Medical Times 24 Jany. 1885 p._ 117.
LEWIS, CHARLES CARNE (3 son of John Lewis 1768–1853, R. of
Ingatestone, Essex). _b._ Ingatestone rectory 28 Feb. 1807;
articled to Charles Parker of Chelmsford; solicitor at Brentwood
1829 to death; coroner for South Essex 1833 to death. _d._ the
Mansion house, Brentwood 26 July 1882. _bur._ at Ingatestone.
LEWIS, SIR CHARLES EDWARD, 1 Baronet (3 son of rev. George Wm.
Lewis, minister of chapel of ease, Ramsgate, _d._ 1858). _b._
Wakefield, Yorkshire 25 Dec. 1825; solicitor in London, Jany.
1847, retired Nov. 1876; partner with John Harrison at 14 New
Boswell court, Lincoln’s Inn, then head of firm of Lewis, Munns
and Longden 8 Old Jewry; election agent for the conservatives
in West Kent 1857–74; M.P. city of Londonderry 22 Nov. 1872 to
Oct. 1886 when unseated on petition; M.P. North Antrim 1887–92;
created baronet 6 April 1887; author of The four reformed
parliaments 1842; The election manual for England and Wales
1857, 3 ed. 1865; The bankruptcy manual 1861, 4 ed. 1861; Two
lectures on a short visit to America 1876. _d._ 36 Hyde park
gate, London 10 Feb. 1893. _J. Diprose’s Parish of St. Clement
Danes_, _ii_ 36–7 (1876), _portrait_; _Biograph_, _iii_ 209–11
(1880).
LEWIS, CHARLES GEORGE (2 son of Frederick Christian Lewis
1779–1856). _b._ Enfield, Middlesex 13 June 1808; learnt drawing
and engraving from his father; engraved many plates after Sir
Edwin Landseer, Rosa Bonheur and other painters; exhibited an
engraving at R.A. 1875; retired about 1877. _d._ Felpham near
Bognor, Sussex 16 June 1880.
LEWIS, CHARLES JAMES. _b._ London 1830; painter of landscapes
and genre subjects; exhibited 40 pictures at R.A., 26 at B.I.
and 35 at Suffolk st. gallery 1853–80; member of Royal Institute
of painters in water-colours 1882; exhibited also at Dudley and
Portland galleries; resided at Cheyne house, Upper Cheyne row,
Chelsea 1859–84, and from 1884 to death at 122 Cheyne Walk,
where he _d._ 28 Jany. 1892. _M. B. Huish’s The year’s art for
1892 p._ 106, _portrait_; _Daily Graphic 8 Feb. 1892 p._ 4,
_portrait_.
LEWIS, ESTELLE ANNA BLANCHE (dau. of John Robinson a wealthy
planter of Anglo-Spanish birth). _b._ near Baltimore, U.S.
America, April 1824; while at school she translated the Æneid
into English verse, and composed The Forsaken, a ballad much
praised by Edgar A. Poe; (_m._ 1841 Sidney D. Lewis of Brooklyn,
New York, barrister); she resided many years in England;
Lamartine called her the ‘Female Petrarch’ and Poe ‘the rival
of Sappho’; author of Records of the heart. By Stella. New York
1844, another ed. New York 1857, another ed. entitled Poems.
London 1866; Sappho of Lesbos. London 1868, a tragedy which
reached a 7th ed. and was translated into modern Greek and
played at Athens. _d._ 29 Bedford place, London 24 Nov. 1880.
_bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 29 Nov. _Appleton’s American Biog.
iii_ 703 (1887), _portrait_; _S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record 2 ed._
(1855), 727, _portrait_.
LEWIS, EVAN (son of an architect). _b._ Cefn-y-bryn, Newtown,
Glamorgan 20 July 1825; studied at Airedale college; B.A.
London 1852; independent minister at Barton-on-Humber 1853–8,
at Rothwell, Northamptonshire 1858–63, at Oak st. chapel,
Accrington, Lancs. 1863–6, at Grimshaw st. chapel, Preston
1866–8, and at Offord st. chapel, Islington, Oct. 1868 to death;
F.R.G.S. and fellow of Ethnological Soc.; author of The wines
the Saviour made, used and sanctioned 1856; Two dialogues on the
use of Bands of Hope 1857, 2 ed. 1857; The two twilights, or
the saint and the sinner in life and death 1860, a poem; God’s
week of work, an examination of the Mosaic six days 1865. _d._
29 Offord road, Islington 19 Feb. 1869. _bur._ Abney park cemet.
_Congregational Year book_ (1870) 303–5.
LEWIS, FREDERICK CHRISTIAN (son of Johann Ludwig a political
refugee from Hanover). _b._ London 14 March 1779; aquatinted
Girtin’s etchings of Paris published 1803; engraved the plates
for second issue of John Chamberlain’s Original designs of
the most celebrated masters in the royal collection 1812;
engraved Sir Thomas Lawrence’s crayon portraits and many of his
drawings; engraver of drawings to Princess Charlotte, Prince
Leopold, George IV., William IV. and Victoria; landscape painter
in oils and water-colours; exhibited 56 pictures at R.A., 51 at
B.I. and 24 at Suffolk st. 1802–53; published Scenery of the
river Thames 1821, 35 aquatints; The scenery of the rivers Tamar
and Tavy 1823, 47 plates; The scenery of the river Exe 1827, 30
views; Scenery on the Devonshire rivers 1843. _d._ Bull’s Cross,
Enfield, Middlesex 18 Dec. 1856.
LEWIS, FREDERICK CHRISTIAN (3 son of the preceding). _b._ 1813;
studied under Sir Thomas Lawrence; resided some years in India
from 1834, painted many large pictures of state ceremonials for
the native princes, some of which were engraved by his father
and published in England; travelled collecting materials for an
ethnographical work which was never published. _d._ suddenly at
Genoa 26 May 1875.
LEWIS, GEORGE. Second lieut. R.M. 25 April 1793, captain 1801–18
when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. R.M. 28 Sep. 1826 to 10 July
1837 when he retired on full pay; col. commandant R.M. 10 July
1837 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815; L.G. 20 June 1854; commanded a
battalion of marines in American war 1812–4. _d._ Stonehouse,
Plymouth 14 Sep. 1854 aged 84.
LEWIS, GEORGE. _b._ Glasgow; presbyterian minister Middle
church, Perth to 1839; minister of St. David’s church, Dundee
6 June 1839–43; one of a deputation sent to America respecting
slavery; minister of the Free church, Ormiston 1849–65;
editor of Scottish Guardian newspaper; author of The state of
St. David’s parish. Dundee 1841; Tracts on Scottish church
principles. Dundee 1843, six numbers; Impressions of America
and the American churches 1845; The Bible, the missal and the
breviary 2 vols. 1853; The doctrines of the Bible developed
in the facts of the Bible 1854. _d._ Jersey. _J. Smith’s Our
Scottish clergy 2 series_ (1849) 353–8; _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol._
3, _pt._ 2, _p._ 698.
LEWIS, GEORGE COLEMAN HAMILTON. _b._ 1805 or 1806; attorney at
10 Ely place, Holborn, London 1834 to death; partner with his
brother James Graham Lewis 1834, succeeded him as head of firm
of Lewis and Lewis 22 Jany. 1873; deputy clerk of the peace and
clerk to the licensing justices for the liberty of the Tower
1848 to death; solicitor to the Dramatic Authors’ Society. _d._
20 Woburn place, Russell sq. London 13 March 1879. _Montagu
Williams’s Leaves of a life_ (1891) 42.
LEWIS, SIR GEORGE CORNEWALL, 2 Baronet (elder son of Sir Thomas
Frankland Lewis 1780–1855). _b._ London 21 April 1806; ed. at
Eton, Jany. 1819 to Dec. 1823, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1828
to 1839; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1831, D.C.L. 1857; barrister M.T.
25 Nov. 1831; assistant comr. to enquire into condition of
poorer classes in Ireland 1833; a comr. of inquiry into state
of instruction in Ireland 4 June 1834; joint comr. with John
Austin to inquire into affairs of Malta 10 Sep. 1836; a poor
law comr. for England and Wales, Jany. 1839 to July 1847; M.P.
for Herefordshire, Aug. 1847 to 1 July 1852; one of secretaries
to board of control 30 Nov. 1847 to 16 May 1848; under sec. for
home department 15 May 1848 to 9 July 1850; financial sec. to
treasury 9 July 1850 to Feb. 1852; contested Herefordshire 19
July 1852 and Peterborough 6 Dec. 1852; editor of the Edinburgh
Review, Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1855; refused governorship of Bombay
1853; succeeded as 2 baronet 22 Jany. 1855; M.P. Radnor boroughs
Feb. 1855 to death; chancellor of the exchequer 5 March 1855 to
Feb. 1858; P.C. 28 Feb. 1855; carried the Newspaper stamp duties
bill 1855; home secretary 18 June 1859 to July 1861; sec. for
war 23 July 1861 to death; an ecclesiastical comr. for England
1859–61 and 1862 to death; author of An essay on the origin and
formation of the romance languages 1839, 2 ed. 1862; An essay on
the government of dependencies 1841; An essay on the influence
of authority in matters of opinion 1849, 2 ed. 1875; An enquiry
into the credibility of the early Roman history 2 vols. 1855;
On foreign jurisdiction and the extradition of criminals 1859;
An historical survey of the astronomy of the ancients 1862;
A dialogue on the best form of government 1863. _d._ Harpton
court, Radnorshire 13 April 1863, bust by H. Weeks placed in
Westminster abbey Sep. 1864, statue by Marochetti at Hereford
unveiled 3 Sep. 1864. _Letters of sir G. C. Lewis to Friends_
(1870), _portrait_; _Creasy’s Memoirs of Etonians_ (1876)
576–78; _The drawing room portrait gallery 3 series_ (1860),
_portrait_; _The Eton portrait gallery_ (1876) 409–12; _I.L.N.
xvi_ 388 (1850), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 24 Sep. 1864 p._
205, _view of statue at Hereford_.
LEWIS, GEORGE ROBERT (brother of Frederick Christian Lewis
1779–1856). _b._ London 27 March 1782; studied under Henry
Fuseli in schools of the R.A.; went with Dr. T. F. Dibdin
as draughtsman to the Continent 1818, illustrated Dibdin’s
Bibliographical and picturesque tour through France and
Germany 1821; exhibited 45 pictures at R.A., 18 at B.I. and
20 at Suffolk st. gallery 1817–59; published An address on
education as connected with design in British manufacture.
Hereford 1838; Illustrations of phrenology 1841, No. 1, no
more published; Illustrations of Kilpeck church, Herefordshire
1842; The early fonts of England 1843; The early church of
Shobdon, Herefordshire 1852. _d._ at res. of his son John Lewis,
1 Haverstock ter. (now Belsize grove) Hampstead 15 May 1871.
_Barnes’s Hampstead_ (1890) 394–6.
LEWIS, GRIFFITH GEORGE. _b._ Woolwich 10 Nov. 1784; 2 lieut.
R.E. 15 March 1803, col. 23 Nov. 1841, col. commandant 23 Nov.
1858 to death; served in Spain 1813; lost his leg at siege of
St. Sebastian 25 July 1813; served in Newfoundland 1819–27;
commanded the R.E. at Jersey 1830–6, at Cape of Good Hope
1836–42, in Ireland 1843–7 and at Portsmouth 1847–51; governor
of royal military academy, Woolwich, April 1851 to July 1856;
C.B. 19 July 1838; L.G. 12 Aug. 1858; editor with J. Williams
of Papers on subjects connected with the duties of the corps
of royal engineers, vols. 1–3 1851–4, in which he wrote many
papers. _d._ Brighton 24 Oct. 1859.
LEWIS, HARMAN HICKS. _b._ 1804; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., 21st
wr. 1827, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1840; lecturer on natural philosophy
at college of civil engineers, London. _d._ 18 Coburn place,
Upper Kennington place, London 17 March 1865.
LEWIS, HENRY NAISH (son of an officer in the army). _b._ 27
April 1816; ed. Hambly house academy, Streatham; played a
round of parts at Catherine st. theatre; acted under Davidge’s
management; at the Lyceum theatre 6 years, being a very quick
study he often was a substitute for Keely, Wrench, Oxberry,
Bland and others; played Old Men under Gladstanes at Pavilion;
at St. James’; at Surrey 8 years; appeared at all the London
theatres and acted with many of the stars. _Theatrical Times_,
_iii_ 415, 440 (1848), _portrait_.
LEWIS, HUBERT (2 son of Walter Clapham Lewis of Upper Norland
house, Kensington). _b._ 23 March 1825; entered Emm. coll.
Camb. Dec. 1844, scholar, B.A. 1848; barrister M.T. 1 May 1854;
conveyancing and equity draftsman at Bradford 1857 to 1860, in
London at 34 Cursitor st. 1860 to death; author of Principles of
conveyancing explained by concise precedents 1863; Principles
of equity drafting 1865; The ancient laws of Wales viewed in
regard to the light they throw upon the origin of some English
institutions. Edited by J. E. Lloyd 1889; almost entirely
rewrote George Goldsmith’s The doctrine and practice of equity
6 ed. 1871. _d._ 20 Dalby sq. Margate 6 March 1884. _H. Lewis’s
Ancient laws of Wales_ (1889), _preface_.
LEWIS, JAMES. _b._ Scotland; presbyterian minister at St. John’s
ch. Leith 19 Jany. 1832 to 1843; joined the Free ch. 1843; went
to Rome in 1864 and opened his house for religious services,
until in 1867 the Papal government ordered him to discontinue
the services; rented a room and opened public services outside
the gates of the city of Rome 1867, with money contributed from
Scotland, Rome and America built a church there, which was
dedicated 1871; D.D. of Princetown univ. 1871; author of The
church of Scotland obeying the law of the land in her opposition
to the civil courts 1840; The church of Scotland, the crisis and
preparation 1843; Finance of the Free church of Scotland 1843;
The necessity for sabbath trains tried and disposed of 1847;
Indian government in relation to christianity 1858. _d._ of
diphtheria Rome 29 Jany. 1872. _Scott’s Fasti_, _vol._ 1, _pt._
1, _p._ 109.
LEWIS, JAMES GRAHAM. _b._ Jany. 1804; attorney at 10 Ely place,
Holborn, London 1829 to death; clerk of indictments, Midland
circuit 1829–54; head of firm of Lewis & Lewis 1834 to death,
with the best criminal practice in London. _d._ 53 Euston sq.
London 22 Jany. 1873.
LEWIS, JAMES HENRY (eld. son of James Lewis of Ebley near
Stroud, cloth manufacturer). _b._ parish of King’s Stanley,
Gloucs. Aug. 1786; teacher of writing, arithmetic, bookkeeping
and shorthand at 104 High Holborn, London, at 13 Wellington
terrace, Waterloo road to 1834, at 113 Strand 1835 to June 1853
when he retired; taught and lectured on writing and stenography
in the chief towns of the United Kingdom; founder of Society
of reporters; author of The art of writing with the velocity
of speech 1812 anon., 5 ed. 1820; The ready writer or ne plus
ultra of shorthand, invented and published by J. H. Lewis 1812,
95th ed. 1862; An historical account of shorthand 1815; Lewis’s
Orations on the battle of Waterloo 1815; The art of making a
good pen 10 ed. 1825; The Lewisian system of shorthand 1826,
68 ed. 1834; The shorthand prayer book 1832, 2 ed. 1835; The
quick and easy method of teaching bookkeeping 14 ed. 1860; his
library of 317 books on shorthand was sold in 1872. _d._ 49
Milton road, Gravesend 30 Nov. 1853. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet.
_T. Anderson’s History of shorthand_ (1882) 113, 266–76; _J. W.
Gibson’s Bibliography of shorthand_ (1887) 110–15.
LEWIS, JOHN DELAWARE (son of John Delaware Lewis, Russian
merchant). _b._ St. Petersburgh 1828; ed. at Eton and Trin.
coll. Camb., B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1858;
M.P. Devonport 1868 to 1874, contested Devonport 5 Feb. 1874
and 2 April 1880 and Oxford 16 March 1874; author of Sketches
of Cantabs. By John Smith of Smith-Hall gent. 1849, 3 ed.
1858; Across the Atlantic 1850; Our college, leaves from an
undergraduate’s scribbling book 1857; Hints for the evidences of
spiritualism. By M.P. 1872, 2 ed. 1875; Juvenalis Satiræ with a
literal English prose translation 1873, 2 ed. 1882; Esprit des
Grecs et des Romains 1881; Causes Celebres. Paris 1883. _d._
Westbury house, Petersfield, Hampshire 31 July 1884. _Academy 9
Aug. 1884 p._ 94.
LEWIS, JOHN FREDERICK (eld. son of Frederick Christian Lewis
1779–1856). _b._ 71 Queen Anne street East (now 33 Foley
street), London 14 July 1805; made studies of animals in the
menagerie, Exeter Change, Strand 1820 etc.; painter of Italian,
Spanish and Oriental subjects; exhibited 83 pictures at R.A.,
25 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. gallery 1820–77; etched six
studies of wild animals, published about 1825; associate of Soc.
of painters in water-colours 30 March 1827, member 1 June 1829
to 1858, president 1856–8; travelled in Spain 1832–3 and in the
East 1839–51; lived at Walton on Thames 1851 to death; A.R.A.
1859, R.A. 1865, resigned June 1876; hon. R.S.A. 1853; sold his
copies of the great works of Spanish and Venetian schools to
royal Scottish academy; published A collection of etchings 1825;
Lewis’s Sketches and drawings of the Alhambra 1835; Lewis’s
Sketches of Spain and Spanish characters 1836; Sporting. By
Nimrod, embellished from pictures by J. F. Lewis 1838. _d._ The
Holme, Walton on Thames 15 Aug. 1876. _bur._ Frimley, Surrey.
_Sandby’s Royal Academy_, _ii_ 339–43 (1862); _Redgrave’s
Century of Painters_ (1878) 271; _Roget’s History of the old
water-colour society_, _i_ 540 _etc._, _ii_ 89, 453 (1891);
_Thackeray’s From Cornhill to Cairo_ (1891) 324–30, _portrait_;
_Illust. Times 25 March 1865 p._ 177, _portrait_; _Graphic_,
_xiv_ 204 (1876), _portrait_.
LEWIS, JOHN HARVEY (son of Wm. Lewis of Harlech house, co.
Dublin). _b._ Dublin 1812; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. and
M.A. 1838; called to Irish bar 1838, retired 1850; sheriff
of Kildare 1857; contested Bodmin 28 March 1857 and Hull 30
April and 20 Aug. 1859; M.P. Marylebone 19 April 1861 to
26 Jany. 1874; a strong advocate of the ballot and of the
disestablishment of Irish church. _d._ Hotel Windsor, Monte
Carlo 23 Oct. 1888. _bur._ Brompton cemetery, London. _Gray
v. Lewis. Law Reports. Equity Cases_, _viii_ 526–46 (1869),
_Chancery Appeals_, _viii_ 1036–56 (1873).
LEWIS, LEOPOLD DAVID (eld. son of David Lewis, physician).
_b._ London 1828; ed. at King’s coll. school; solicitor at 4
Skinner’s place, Size lane, London 1850–75; conducted with
Alfred Thompson, The Mask, a humorous and fantastic review Feb.
to Dec. 1868; adapted a drama called The Bells from Le Juif
Polonais by M. M. Erckmann-Chatrian produced at Lyceum theatre
25 Nov. 1871 which was played 151 times; his other dramas were
The Wandering Jew, Adelphi theatre 14 April 1873; Give a dog a
bad name, Adelphi 18 Nov. 1876; and The Foundlings, Sadler’s
Wells 8 Oct. 1881; author of A peal of merry bells 3 vols.
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