LEVER, John Charles Weaver. b. Plumstead, Kent 28 Sep. 1811; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1834; M.D. Giessen 1842; M.R.C.P. 1842; surgeon Bridgehouse place, Newington-causeway, Surrey 1834–42; president Hunterian soc.; physician 12 Wellington st. London bridge 1842 to death, he almost monopolized the consulting practice of the south of London; lecturer on midwifery and physician-accoucheur Guy’s hospital 1845; author of Case of hidrosis or hidrotic fever 1837; A treatise on diseases of the uterus 1843. d. London 29 Dec. 1858. Lancet, i 75 (1859); Catalogue Surgeon general’s library, viii 89 (1887).

LEVERELL, W. H. b. London 1 Dec. 1832; ed. Kingston gram. sch.; apprentice to Cox & Son, printers, London; a sculler; took part in the swimming races 1846–53; swam many times at the Holborn baths, where in 1852 he was the champion swimmer; in the light division in the Crimea 1854–5, attached to the land transport corps, went on two expeditions to Kertch, received Sebastopol and Turkish medals; again a printer; on staff of Bell’s Life in London from March 1870; connected also with The Field and The Glowworm. d. London 24 April 1886. bur. Brompton cemetery 30 April. Sporting Mirror, ii 165–6 (1881), portrait.

LEVESON, Henry Astbury. b. 18 June 1828; entered Madras army 10 Jany. 1845, ensign 13 Madras N.I. 2 April 1845, lieut. 15 Dec. 1846, resigned 15 April 1853; a well known sportsman in India 1845–53; on Turkish staff in Crimean war, being only English officer so employed; at the Alma, at Inkerman and at siege of Sebastopol 1854–5; served with Garibaldi in 1860; colonial sec. at Lagos 1863, where in fighting the natives he received an iron bullet in his head, from the effect of which he never fully recovered, invalided home 8 Feb. 1864, voted £500 by the colony and £500 by parliament; served in the Abyssinian war 1868; killed more game in all parts of the world than any other man; author of The spear and the rifle, or recollections of sport in India. By An Old Shekarree 1860; The hunting grounds of the old world 1860; England rendered impregnable by the organisation and equipment of national forces 1871; The forest and the field. By H.A.L., the Old Shekarree 1867, 2 ed. 1874; Camp life and its acquirements for soldiers, travellers and sportsmen 1872; Wrinkles or hints to sportsmen and travellers 1874. d. at residence of his mother 4 Lansdowne terrace west, Brighton 7 Sep. 1875. Sport in many lands. By H.A.L. 2 vols. (1879), memoir vol. i pp. xv–xxxii, portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news, iii 585, 587 (1875), portrait.

LEVETT, John. b. Battersea, Surrey 1 June 1826; ran John Tetlow of Hollingwood 4 miles for £50, Hyde Park, Sheffield 16 March 1852; ran George Frost the Suffolk stag for £100, the championship and belt, Copenhagen grounds, Islington 22 March 1852 running 10 miles and 252 yards in 52 min. 35 sec.; won the 20 mile race at Copenhagen grounds 29 March 1852; ran Richard Manks the Warwickshire Antelope for £50 at Hyde park, Sheffield 3 Dec. 1855 eleven miles in 1 hour; one of best known long distance runners; sprained his tendon Achilles about 1861 and had to give up running; a trainer of pedestrians; wrote a series of papers on How to train, in Illust. Sport. News 1862; wrote a farce produced at Queen’s Royal theatre, Dublin, in which he himself appeared 1861. Illust. Sporting News (1862) 53, 100, 2 portraits.

LEVEY, George. b. at place afterwards known as Westward Ho, Devon 12 Oct. 1802; member of firm of Levey, Robson and Franklyn, printers at 46 St. Martin’s lane, London 1836–41, then at 24 Great New st. 1841–64, carried on business alone at same address 1864–70, afterwards at 1 and 2 West Harding st. 1870 to death; author of Specimens of printing types in office of Levey, Robson and Franklyn 1850, in 20 languages. d. Camberwell 2 Feb. 1873.

LEVEY, John (youngest son of Richard Michael Levey of Dublin). An Irish character actor; dramatist; author of many pantomimes played in Yorkshire and Lancashire; lessee of several theatres. d. Seaforth, Liverpool 17 Sep. 1891. bur. in ground of R.C. chapel, Crosby.

LEVI, Leone (2 son of Isaac Levi a Jewish merchant at Ancona). b. Ancona 6 June 1821; entered office of his brother a merchant 1836; merchant at Liverpool 1844–7; naturalised 16 Jany. 1847; clerk in a mercantile house at Liverpool; advocated chambers of commerce; hon. sec. of Liverpool chamber of commerce 1849; lectured in London, Edinburgh, Dublin and elsewhere 1851–2; professor of principles and practice of commerce at King’s college, London 1852 to death; fellow of Statistical Soc. 1851, member of council 1860, vice pres. 1885; F.S.A. 14 Dec. 1854; barrister L.I. 10 June 1859; a knight of the Italian orders of SS. Mauritius and Lazarus and of the Crown of Italy; became a member of Presbyterian church in England about 1846; author of Commercial law, its principles and administration 2 vols. 1851–2, 2nd ed. entitled International commercial law 2 vols. 1863; The law of nature and nations as affected by divine law 1855; Annals of British legislation 18 vols. 1856–68; History of British commerce and of the economic progress of the British nation 1763–1870. 1872, 2 ed. 1880. d. 31 Highbury grove, Highbury, London 7 May 1888. bur. Highgate cemet. 12 May. L. Levi’s The story of my life. Privately printed (1888); Journal of royal statistical soc. li 340–2 (1888); I.L.N. xxvi 653, 654 (1855), portrait; London Figaro 19 May 1888 p. 11, portrait; Law Journal, xxiii 259 (1888).

LEVICKE, Henry. The first European who took up his permanent abode at Suez 1846; pioneer of the mail service through Egypt; assisted lieut. Waghorn in arranging overland route 1845, often accompanied the dromedary mail across the desert; the first English acting vice-consul at Suez 1839 to June 1851; packet agent and postmaster to Her Majesty and agent to the H.E.I.Co.; the government ignored his claim to a pension for 41 years service. d. Dieppe, Oct. 1887. bur. there 28 Oct., left a widow and 22 children.

LEVIEN, Edward (1 son of John Levien of Marylebone). b. 1819; ed. Shrewsbury and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1846; connected with univ. of Glasgow; assistant in MS. department, British museum 6 May 1850 to 1874; hon. sec. of British Archæol. Association, editor of the Annual Proceedings and writer of many papers in the Journal; F.S.A. 14 Jany. 1858; author of A brief description of the town of Hadleigh in Suffolk 1853; Outlines of the history of Greece by W. D. Hamilton and E. Levien 1853; Outlines of the history of Rome 2 vols. 1855–6, never finished; Memoirs of Socrates for English readers, with notes 1872. d. 24 Camden st. London 7 Nov. 1874. Journal British Archæol. Assoc. xxi 229 (1875).

LEVINGE, Sir Richard George Augustus, 7 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Richard Levinge, 6 baronet 1765–1848). b. 1 Nov. 1811; ensign 43 foot 25 Nov. 1828, lieut. 8 April 1834; served in suppression of Canadian rebellion 1837–8; placed on h.p. with rank of captain 15 May 1840; captain 5 dragoon guards 27 Jany. 1843, sold out same day; lieut.-col. of Westmeath militia 3 Jany. 1846 to 22 Aug. 1850; sheriff of Westmeath 1851; contested Westmeath 22 July 1852 and 13 Feb. 1874; M.P. for Westmeath 1857 to 1865; author of Echoes from the backwoods, or sketches of transatlantic life 2 vols. 1846, 2 ed. 1859; Historical notices of the Levinge family. Ledestown 1853; A day with the Brookside harriers at Brighton 1858; Historical records of the forty third regiment Monmouthshire light infantry 1868. d. Brussels 28 Sep. 1884.

LEVY, Amy (2 dau. of Lewis Levy of London). b. 16 Percy place, Clapham road, Surrey 1862; ed. at Brighton and Newnham coll. Camb. 1880–81; wrote poetry at 12 years of age; a writer in Dublin Univ. Mag., Temple Bar, Atalanta, London Society, The Jewish Chronicle, &c.; author of Xantippe and other verse. Cambridge 1881; A minor poet and other verses 1884; The romance of a shop 1888; Reuben Sachs 1888; A London plane tree and other verse 1889; Miss Meredith 1889; translated Jean Baptiste Pérès’ brochure Comme quoi Napoléon n’a jamais existé, Paris 1876 under title of Historic doubts or the non-existence of Napoleon proved. Edited by Lily 1885; committed suicide by inhaling fumes of charcoal at her father’s residence, 7 Endsleigh gardens, London 10 Sep. 1889, cremated at Woking 13 Sep., ashes bur. Balls Pond cemetery 15 Sep. The Jewish Chronicle 13 Sep. 1889 p. 6 and 20 Sep. p. 7; The Woman’s World, Nov. 1889 pp. 51–2, portrait; Universal Review, April 1890 pp. 492–507.

LEVY, John. b. 1805; a journalist many years; called to Irish bar 1845; reported for Irish Jurist, Irish Law Reports and Irish Law Times; author of The law and practice of bankruptcy and insolvency. Dublin 4 ed. 1862; fell down dead in Dame st. Dublin 17 May 1870.

LEVY, Joseph Moses (son of Moses Lionel Levy d. 1830 aged 65). b. London 15 Dec. 1812; ed. at Bruce Castle school and in Germany; printer in Shoe lane, Fleet st. London; chief proprietor of the Sunday Times 1855–6, conducted it 1855–6; took over the Daily Telegraph from Col. B. W. A. Sleigh and issued it at a penny 17 Sep. 1855, being the first London daily penny paper, managed the paper to his death. d. Florence cottage, Ramsgate 12 Oct. 1888. bur. Balls Pond cemet. London, personalty over £525,000.

LEWELLIN, Llewelyn (son of Richard Lewellin of Coyty, Glamorganshire). b. 1799; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar 1821–6; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1824, D.C.L. 1829; master of the schools Oxf. 1825–26; preb. of St. David’s 1827; principal of St. David’s college, Lampeter 1827 to death; V. of Pembryn, Cardiganshire 1832; V. of Lampeter 15 Oct. 1833 to death; sinecure R. of Llangelen 1843 to death; dean of St. David’s 26 March 1840 to death, the last non-resident dean; author of Reply to N. Davies’s Notes on the cathedral church of St. David’s 1853, 2 ed. 1853. d. about 30 Nov. 1878.

LEWES, Charles Lee (eld. son of the succeeding). b. 1843; ed. at Hofwyl, Switzerland; clerk in the Post Office, London, Aug. 1860 to Oct. 1886; one of the secretaries of Hampstead Heath extension committee, which raised £52,000 for purchase of Parliament hill 1887; member of the first London county council for the St. Pancras district 7 Jany. 1889 to death; contributed to Nineteenth Century and Blackwood’s Mag.; residuary legatee of “George Eliot” 1880 and owner of the copyright of all her works and those of his father; edited Essays and leaves from a note book, by George Eliot 1884; translator of In the year ’13, a tale of Mecklenburg life by Fritz Reuter 1867; Emilia Galotti by G. E. Lessing 1868; Count Bismarck by L. Bamberger 1869. d. Luxor, Egypt 26 Feb. 1891.

LEWES, George Henry (grandson of Charles Lee Lewes, actor 1740–1803). b. London 18 April 1817; ed. in London, Jersey, Brittany and at Greenwich; in a notary’s office; employed by a Russian merchant; a medical student a short time; visited Germany 1838; appeared at the Whitehall theatre in Garrick’s comedy The Guardian 1841, played in Dickens’ amateur company 1848, played Shylock 1849; acted in his own tragedy The Noble Heart, at the Olympic Feb. 1850 and in the provinces 1850; wrote many articles in the quarterly reviews; wrote The game of speculation, produced at Lyceum 2 Oct. 1851 and 9 other plays produced at Lyceum, all written under pseudonyms of Slingsby Lawrence and Frank Churchill; founded with T. L. Hunt The Leader 1850, editor for literary subjects to July 1854. m. 18 Feb. 1841 Agnes eld. dau. of Swynfen Stevens Jervis, M.P. for Bridport, he left her in July 1854 and went to Germany with Mary Ann Evans known as “George Eliot,” he passed as her husband for the rest of his life; edited Fortnightly Review, May 1865 to Dec. 1866; lived at the Priory, St. John’s Wood, London 1863 to death; author of The life of Maximilien Robespierre 1845; A biographical history of philosophy 4 vols. 1845–6, 5 ed. 1 vol. 1880; The Spanish drama, Lope de Vega and Calderon 1846; Rose, Blanche and Violet 3 vols. 1848; The life and works of Goethe 2 vols. 1855; Studies in animal life 1862; Problems of life and mind 5 vols. 1874–9; Our actors and the art of acting 1875. d. The Priory, 21 North bank, St. John’s Wood, London 30 Nov. 1878. bur. Highgate cemet. 4 Dec. T. Ribot’s English Psychology (1873) 255–314; H. D. Traill’s New Lucian (1884) 268–87; Fortnightly Review Jany. 1879 pp. 15–24; Graphic, xviii 624 (1878), portrait; I.L.N. lxxiii 565 (1878), portrait.

LEWIN, Frederick Albert (4 son of Robert Lewin of Cuddington, Surrey). b. Jany. 1842; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., 7th wrangler 1864, B.A. 1864, M.A. 1867; fellow of his college 1864–9; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1867; equity draftsman and conveyancer; author of The law of apportionment 1869; edited Thomas Lewin’s A practical treatise on the law of trusts and trustees 6 ed. 1875, 7 ed. 1878, 8 ed. 1885. d. suddenly from heart disease, 9 Bolton gardens west, Kensington 25 June 1887.

LEWIN, Malcolm. b. 1800; judge of the Sudder court at Madras 1841–7; member of council 1845–7; author of Is the practice of torture in Madras with the sanction of the authorities in Leadenhall street 1856; Torture in Madras 1857; The government of the East India company and its monopolies 1857; The way to lose India 1857, 2 ed. 1857; The way to regain India 1858. d. 31 Gloucester gardens, Hyde park, London 5 March 1869.

LEWIN, Thomas (5 son of Spencer James Lewin, V. of Ifield, Sussex, d. 1842 aged 76). b. Ifield 19 April 1805; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and Worcester coll. Oxf.; scholar of Trin. coll. 1825; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1833; a conveyancing counsel to court of chancery 1852 to death; F.S.A. 19 March 1863; visited Jerusalem 1863; author of A practical treatise on the law of trusts and trustees 1837, 5 ed. 1867, 9 ed. by C. C. M. Dale 1891; The life and epistles of St. Paul 2 vols. 1851, 3 ed. 1875; The invasion of Britain by Julius Cæsar 1859, 2 ed. 1862; The siege of Jerusalem by Titus 1863; Fasti Sacri, or a key to the chronology of the new testament 1865. d. 6 Queen’s gate place, London 5 Jany. 1877.

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. 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.

LEWIS, William. b. 1787; pupil of J. H. Sarratt the best chess player in England about 1807; the leading player many years after Sarratt’s death in 1821; a great and original chess analyst and one of the finest players in Europe; when W. de Kempelen’s automaton chessplayer was exhibited in London in 1819, Lewis officiated for some months as the hidden conductor of the Turk’s games, losing only 6 games in 300 though always giving the odds of pawn and move; played a match at Paris with Alexander L. H. L. Des Chapelles the leading chess-player in France 1821; a teacher of chess at 5 Nassau st. Soho, London, Alexander McDonnell was one of his pupils; author of A treatise on the game of chess 1814; Oriental chess, or specimens of Hindostanee excellence in that celebrated game 2 vols. 1817; Carera’s A treatise on the game of chess, to which is added the art of playing without seeing the board 1822; Fifty games at chess, most of which occurred between the author and some of the best players in England, France and Germany 1832. d. about 16 Nov. 1870. Quarterly Review, June 1849 pp. 90–5; W. G. Walker’s Selection of games at chess (1836) 273; W. G. Walker’s Thousand games at chess (18—) ix 82–4; Chess Players’ Chronicle, i 9, 33 (1841); I.L.N. 26 Nov. 1870 p. 555.

LEWIS, William David (brother of sir Charles E. Lewis). b. 1823; pupil of John Rudall, conveyancer 1838; a conveyancer at 10 Serle st. 1842, being the youngest conveyancer on record; barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1844, bencher 1859; Q.C. June 1859; reader on law of real property and conveyancing at Gray’s Inn 26 May 1847 to June 1852, delivered every year 60 original and elaborate lectures; a comr. on registration of title to land 18 Jany. 1854, the report is dated 15 May 1857 and contains sketches of two bills by Lewis; founded the Juridical society 10 Feb. 1855; author of A practical treatise on the law of perpetuity 1843, unparalleled in the history of legal authorship as the achievement of a youth under 20 years of age. d. 1 Kensington sq. London 24 Jany. 1861 in 38 year. Solicitors’ Journal, v 242–4 (1861).

LEWIS, William Garrett (eld. son of Wm. Garrett Lewis, minister of Zion chapel, Chatham in 1824). b. Margate 5 Aug. 1821; articled to Dr. Gray of Brixton, London, schoolmaster 1837–40; clerk in the post office, London 1840–7; minister of Baptist chapel in Silver st. Kensington, Sep. 1847, new chapel built for him in Ledbury road, Westbourne Grove, opened 6 April 1853, preached there to Dec. 1880, presented by his congregation with 400 guineas 3 Jany. 1881; minister of chapel in Dagnal st. St. Albans, Jany. 1881 to death; a founder of the London Baptist association 1865, sec. 1865–9, pres. 1870; edited The Baptist Magazine 20 years; author of The religion of Rome examined, a course of lectures 1851; Westbourne Grove sermons 1872; The trades and industrial occupations of the Bible 1874. d. Victoria st. St. Albans 16 Jany. 1885. bur. Kensal Green 21 Jany. Baptist Mag. March ]885 pp. 97–102.

LEY, William (son of rev. Mr. Ley). b. Devonshire 1806; ed. at Ottery, Devon, and St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1831, L.S.A. 1835; resident medical officer of Fever hospital 4 years; surgeon Crawford st. Portman sq. London, and surgeon to Western general dispensary, Stafford st.; studied insanity in Hanwell asylum; medical superintendent of Oxford and Berks. asylum, Littlemore 1845–66, where he treated all the patients with gentleness; the first to introduce cannabis Indica. d. while visiting the superintendent at Littlemore 7 March 1869. Medical Times, i 345–6 (1869).

LEYBOURNE, George. b. 1842; sang in the provinces many years; next to Alfred G. Vance he was the best known comic singer of his time, had an excellent voice, sang at all the London music halls; his songs Champagne Charlie 1867, Mouse-traps, and She danced like a fairy, were very popular; made his last appearance at Queen’s palace, Poplar 1884; author of The Barber’s apprentice boy, song 1868; Twelve of G. Leybourne’s comic songs 1878; reported to have died 24 Nov. 1876. d. of consumption, Englefield road, Islington 15 Sep. 1884. bur. Abney park cemetery 19 Sep. The Entr’acte 2 Dec. 1876 p. 3, 20 Sep. 1884 p. 11, portrait; Illust. Sport. News 21 April 1866 pp. 227, 236, portrait.