Modern English biography

_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