LEWIS, ERASMUS, son of Rev. George Lewis, Vicar of Abergwili, Carmarthenshire, and Margaret, dau. of Sir Thomas Stepney, Kt; bap 29 Apr 1671; adm.; KS 1686; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1690, adm. pens. 28 Jun 1690, aged 18, scholar 24 May 1691; BA 1693/4; Master of Free School, Sevenoaks, Kent 1696/7; travelled on Continent; Secretary to Earl of Manchester, Ambassador at Paris 1701; Chief Clerk, Secretary of State’s Office Jan – May 1702, Under-Secretary May 1704 – Sep 1714; Secretary to Embassy, Brussels, in 1708; MP Lostwithiel 1713-5; lost his official post when Whigs came into power 1714; subsequently employed as Steward to his former political patron Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford; friend of Swift, Pope, Gay, Arbuthnot and Matthew Prior (qv); m. 1 Oct 1724 Anne, widow of Thomas Bateman, St. Martin’s in the Fields, London (and stepmother of Edmund Bateman (qv)), and dau. of --- Jennings; d. 10 Jan 1754. Buried East Cloister, Westminster Abbey. DNB.
LEWIS, FRANCIS WILLIAM, son of John Lewis (adm. 1725, qv); b.; adm. Jun 1770; KS (aged 15) 1775; Hertford Coll. Oxford, matr. 25 Mar 1779, aged 19; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1782; 2nd Lieut., 18 Jan 1783; attended OWW dinner at Calcutta 1783 (Hickey, Memoirs, iii, 245-6); d. at Dinajpur, Bengal 22 Oct 1788.
Lewis, Frank Alphonse, son of Louis Lewis, of Hampstead, by Louise Esther, daughter of Alphonse Souhami, of Hampstead; b. Feb. 20, 1900; adm. Jan. 14, 1915 (H); left Dec. 1915; called to the bar at the Inner Temple Nov. 17, 1930; d. 7 Dec. 1985.
Lewis, Frederic Isaac Harry, son of Harry Reginald Lewis, solicitor, and Louise Sarah, d. of Isaac Seligman; b. 2 May 1911; adm. Sept. 1924 (G), (B) Sept. 1925; left July 1929; Trin. Hall. Camb., matric. 1929, BA MusB 1932; Roy. Coll. of Music 1932-5; RASC in WW2 (Capt.); a musician; composer of music for films 1945-60; overseas licensing man. Performing Rights Soc. 1960-77; co. secretary of a marketing firm 1977; m. 1 Apr. 1954 Joan Rosetta, d. of John Davis of Golders Green; d. Nov. 2005.
LEWIS, FULLER WENHAM, eldest son of John Wenham Lewis, Westerham, Kent, and Dorothy Frances, dau. of Robert Knipe (IGI), New Lodge, Hampshire; bapt. 21 May 1801; adm. 21 Jan 1812; KS (aged 14) 1816; left 1820; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 13 Oct 1820; BA 1827; MA 1830; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 29 Jan 1824; d. 30 Apr 1861.
Lewis, George Alexander, son of Harold Jardine Lewis, schoolmaster, of Jersey, and Helena, d. of Richard William Beadon of Culmstock, Devon; b. 21 May 1912; adm. Sept. 1926 (R); left July 1930; Univ. of Reading, BSc; a farmer at Diss, Norfolk; m. 18 Jan. 1938 Joyce Elsie, d. of Jesse Edmund Hawkings of Burnham-on-Sea; d. 11 June 1984.
LEWIS, GEORGE, son of Rev. George Lewis, Vicar of Westerham, Kent, and his first wife Hannah, dau. of Rev. George Wenham, Rector of Rotherfield, Sussex; nephew of Erasmus Lewis (qv); b. 3 Oct 1712; adm. (aged 7) Jun 1720; KS 1726; his representation of “Ignoramus” in the Play of 1730 was so admirable that he was ever afterwards known to his friends as “Ignoramus Lewis”; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1731, matr. 22 Jun 1731, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1731 – res 26 Jun 1744; BA 1735; MA 1738; ordained; Domestic Chaplain to Francis Hastings, 10th Earl of Huntingdon (qv), 2 Jun 1747; Vicar of Westerham, Kent, from 6 Apr 1749; Rector of Etchingham, Sussex, from 28 Oct 1754; m. 1st, 1 Dec 1744 Frances Fuller, widow; m. 2nd; buried Westerham, Kent 25 Apr 1771.
Lewis, Herbert Mostyn, son of the Right Hon. John Herbert Lewis, M. P., of Westminster, by his second wife, Ruth, sister of William Caine (q.v.); b. March 17, 1901; adm. Sept. 24, 1914 (A); left April 1916; B.Sc. (Edin. Univ.) Hons. Botany 1923; Ph. D. (Lond.) History of Art 1937; a free lance lecturer on travel; served R. A. S. C. 1939-45; 2nd Lieut. May 4, 1940; Lieut.; m. 1930, Gwendoline Edith Wynne, daughter of William Jones, of Old Colwyn, Denbighshire; d. 7 Dec. 1985.
Lewis, John Spedan, elder son of John Lewis, of Hampstead, by Eliza, daughter of Thomas Baker, of Bridgwater, Somerset; b. Sept. 22, 1885; adm. as (non-resident) Q.S. Sept. 28, 1899 (G); left July 1904; founder and chairman of the John Lewis Partnership; author of Partnership for All (1949); Fairer Shares (1954); retired 1955; president of the Classical Association 1957; m. Oct. 8, 1923, Sarah Beatrice Mary, younger daughter of Percy Hunter, of Teddington, Middlesex; d. Feb. 21, 1963.
LEWIS, JOHN, brother of William Lewis (adm. 1722, qv); b.; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1725; Min. Can. (aged 12) 1729; KS (aged 13) 1730; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1734, matr. 12 Jun 1734, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1734 – void 16 Mar 1747 (expiry year of grace as R. Dartford from 10 Mar 1746); BA 1738; MA 10 Mar 1740/1; ordained; Rector of Dartford, Kent 1746-55; Dean of Ossory from 24 May 1755; m. 1st, 7 Nov 1747 Catherine, dau. of George Villiers (KS 1705, qv); m. 2nd, Charlotte, dau. of Rear Adm. Charles Cotterel, Royal Navy; d. 28 Jun 1783.