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.
1880. _d._ Royal free hospital, Gray’s Inn road, London 23 Feb.
1890. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _The Mask_ (1868) _p. iii_,
_portrait_; _St. Stephen’s Review 1 March 1890 p._ 8, _and 8
March p._ 18, _portrait_.
LEWIS, LEWIS ALPHA. _b._ Nov. 1802; apprenticed to J. and
A. Arch of Cornhill, London, booksellers and auctioneers; a
literary auctioneer and bookseller at the Bank coffee house,
Bank buildings, Cornhill 1825–7, at 15 Poultry 1827–39, at 125
Fleet st. 1839–61, at 24 Bell yard, Fleet st. 1863–9 and at 17
Portugal st. Lincoln’s Inn 1870 to death; bankrupt 6 July 1841.
_d._ Surbiton, Surrey 28 June 1877. _bur._ Kensal green cemet.
_Bookseller_, _July 1877 p._ 667; _J. Diprose’s St. Clement’s_,
_ii_ 53 (1876).
LEWIS, MARIA THERESA (only dau. of hon. George Villiers
1759–1827, younger brother of John 3 earl of Clarendon
1757–1838). _b._ Upper Grosvenor st. London 8 March 1803;
granted precedence of an earl’s daughter Feb. 1839; edited
Extracts of the journals and correspondence of Miss Berry
from the year 1783 to 1852, 3 vols. 1865, 2 ed. 1866; The
semi-detached house. By the hon. Emily Eden 1859; author of
The story of beauty and the beast, dramatized for juvenile
performers 1844; The story of Cinderella, dramatized 1844; Lives
of the friends and contemporaries of lord chancellor Clarendon
3 vols. 1852. (_m._ (1) 6 Nov. 1830 Thomas Henry Lister,
novelist and dramatist 1800–42; _m._ (2) 26 Oct. 1844 Sir George
Cornewall Lewis, statesman 1806–63). She _d._ the principal’s
lodgings, Brasenose college, Oxford 9 Nov. 1865.
LEWIS, RICHARD. A parliamentary reporter; secretary to National
lifeboat institution 1850 to death; barrister I.T. 30 April
1862. _d._ Cannes 17 March 1883. _I.L.N. lxxxii_ 317 (1883),
_portrait_.
LEWIS, SAMUEL. Publisher as S. Lewis & Co. at 87 Aldersgate st.
London 1838–42, at 87 Hatton Garden 1842–5 and at 13 Finsbury
place south 1845–52; published A topographical dictionary of
England with maps and a plan of London 4 vols. 1831, 7 ed. 1849;
A topographical dictionary of Wales 2 vols. 1833, 4 ed. 1849; A
topographical dictionary of Ireland 2 vols. 1837, 2 ed. 1842; An
atlas comprising maps of the counties of England and Wales 1842;
A topographical dictionary of Scotland 3 vols. 1846. _d._ 19
Compton terrace, Islington 28 Feb. 1865.
LEWIS, SAMUEL (son of the preceding). Author of The history and
topography of the parish of St. Mary, Islington 1842; Islington
as it was and as it is 1854; The book of English rivers 1855.
_d._ 1 Priory villas, Canonbury, London 4 May 1862.
LEWIS, SAMUEL SAVAGE (youngest son of Wm. Jones Lewis of
Croydon, surgeon). _b._ 7 Spital sq. Bishopsgate, London 13 July
1836; ed. at City of London school 1844–54, Carpenter scholar
1847; matric. from St. John’s coll. Camb. 10 Oct. 1854 when
his sight failed; practised farming in England 1856–7; studied
farming, lived in Canada 1857–60; his eyes twice operated on by
George Critchett 1864; returned to Camb. 1864, migrated to C.C.
coll. 1865, B.A. 1869, M.A. 1872; fellow of C.C. coll. 1869 to
1887, librarian 1870–91; F.S.A. 22 March 1872; ordained 1872;
classical lecturer C.C. coll. 1874; Latin lecturer to Assoc.
for higher education of women 1875–7; collected coins, gems and
seals from all parts of Europe, which he left by will to his
college; contributed papers to Camb. Philos. Soc, Royal Soc.
of literature, &c.; author of Report on the age of the Utrecht
psalter 1874; The library of Corpus Christi college 1891, and
other antiquarian papers; (_m._ 12 Dec. 1887 Agnes Smith author
of novels). _d._ suddenly in the train near Oxford 31 March
1891. _A. S. Lewis’ Life of S. S. Lewis_ (1892), _portrait_.
LEWIS, THOMAS. Ed. Lancashire Independent coll. and Owen’s
coll.; independent minister 1873; professor at Bala coll. 1873
and then principal on the coll. being removed to Bangor, when
it became known as Bala-Bangor independent college; member of
council of University coll. of North Wales. _d._ Naples 12 Feb.
1892.
LEWIS, T. D. (son of Wm. Thomas Lewis, actor 1748–1811).
Succeeded his father as lessee and manager of theatre royal,
Liverpool 1811, retired on expiration of his lease. _d._ London
1852.
LEWIS, SIR THOMAS FRANKLAND, 1 Baronet (only son of John Lewis
of Harpton court, Radnorshire 1738–97). _b._ London 14 May 1780;
matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1798; lieut.-col. of Radnorshire
militia 1806–15; M.P. Beaumaris 1812–26; M.P. Ennis 1826–8; M.P.
Radnorshire 1828–35; M.P. Radnor burghs 1847 to death; comr. of
enquiry into revenue of Great Britain and Ireland 1822–5; first
comr. of enquiry into education in Ireland 1825–8; joint sec.
to treasury 4 Sep. 1827 to 28 Jany. 1828; vice pres. of board
of trade 5 Feb. to 30 May 1828; P.C. 5 Feb. 1828; treasurer of
the navy 17 Feb. 1830; chairman of English poor law commission
18 Aug. 1834 to 23 Jany. 1839; a comr. for enquiry into state of
laws in South Wales 7 Oct. 1843; created a baronet 27 June 1846;
chairman of Economic life assurance co. _d._ Harpton court,
Radnorshire 22 Jany. 1855.
LEWIS, THOMAS TAYLOR. _b._ Ludlow, Shropshire 1801; ed. at Cheam
school, Surrey; entered St. John’s coll. Camb. 5 Oct. 1819;
B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; C. of Aymestrey, Herefordshire 1826; P.C.
of Leinthall Earls, Herefordshire 1832 to 1841; V. of Bridstow
near Ross 1841 to death; formed large collections of fossils,
several local fossils have been called after him namely, Lingula
Lewisii, Spirorbis Lewisii and Cephalapis Lewisii; edited for
the Camden Society The letters of Lady Brilliana Harley 1853.
_d._ Bridstow 28 Oct. 1858.
LEWIS, TIMOTHY RICHARDS. _b._ 31 Oct. 1841; ed. Univ. coll.
London and Aberdeen univ., M.D. and C.M. 1867; assist.
surgeon in army 31 March 1868, surgeon major 31 March 1880;
sent to Germany with David Cunningham by the War Office to
study pathology; assistant professor of pathology in the army
medical school, Netley; recommended for election as F.R.S. in
April 1886; sent with D. Cunningham to India to investigate
cholera cases; made the discovery of the filaria in the urine
of patients in general hospital, Calcutta 1869; author of A
report on the microscopic objects found in cholera evacuations.
Calcutta 1870; On hæmatozoon inhabiting human blood 1872, 2
ed. 1874; The pathological significance of nematode hæmatozoa
1874; Physiological and pathological researches 1888; with David
Cunningham he wrote A report of researches into the nature of
cholera 1872, 2 series 1874; The soil in its relation to disease
1875; Leprosy in India 1877. _d._ Bywood, Woolston 7 May 1886.
_Lancet_, _i_ 955, 993 (1886).
LEWIS, W. Calvinistic Methodist minister; one of first Welsh
missionaries sent to India, laboured in North-eastern Bengal;
went through the whole of the Indian mutiny; reduced the Khasia
language to writing and translated the New Testament into
Khassei. _d._ May 1891.
LEWIS, WALLER AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1817; ed. Univ. coll. London
and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1845, M.B. 1849; L.S.A. 1839,
M.R.C.P. 1859; metropolitan comr. of sewers 1855–6; senior
medical officer of General post office at £1000 a year; medical
superintendent inspector General Board of Health and Sanitary
commissioner Home office; author of Report on the state of the
burial vaults of metropolitan churches; On the origin and spread
of epidemic cholera; On the laws in France for regulation of
noxious trades and occupations 1855. _d._ Whitby 7 Sep. 1882.