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.