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.