Modern English biography

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.