Modern English biography

_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