LEWIS, FRANCIS, only son of Morgan Lewis, Newport, Monmouthshire, and Mary, dau. of Francis Pettingal, Newport, Monmouthshire, Alderman of Newport; b. 21 Mar 1713/4; adm. (aged 16) Feb 1730/1; worked in counting house of London merchant; formed trading partnership with Richard Annesley, shipping goods to North America; emigrated to North America in 1738; settled in New York city c. 1740; merchant in business there to 1775; delegate to Provincial Convention and member of Committee of Fifty-One, New York 1774; delegate to Continental Congress 22 Apr 1775 – Nov 1779; signed Declaration of Independence 1776 as delegate for New York; member and subsequently chairman, Board of Admiralty 1779 – 17 Jul 1781; m. 1745 Elizabeth, sister of his business partner Richard Annesley; d. 31 Dec 1802.
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, 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, Elydyn Alwyn Awbrey ab Gwylym, brother of David Lancelot Henry Jones Lewis (q.v.); b. Dec. 31, 1882; adm. Sept. 24, 1896 (A); left Dec. 1900; 2nd Lieut. Sherwood Foresters May 23, 1906; retired June 5, 1909; d. Jan. 16, 1945.
Lewis, Edward Reginald Charles, brother of Frederic Isaac Harry Lewis (qv); b. 22 Aug. 1913; adm. May 1927 (A), (B) Sept. 1928; left July 1929; AA Sch. of Architecture, ARIBA 1936; 2nd Lieut. RE Feb. 1942, invalided June 1944; architectural dept GLC 1951-73, retd 1973; m. 1st 1938 Michal Augusta, d. of Mark Hambourg, pianist; 2nd Sept. 1968 Betty, d. of Alfred Burt, building contractor, of Poole, Dorset; d. 24 Oct. 1988.
LEWIS, EDMUND, son of Francis Lewis, London; bapt. St. Faith’s, London 24 Mar 1686 (IGI); adm.; QS (Capt. ) 1703; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1706, matr. 27 May 1706, aged 19, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1706 – void 1713; BA 1710; MA 1713; an Usher at the School 1710-3; ordained; Master of Kilkenny School, Ireland, from 1714; Prebendary of Ossory from 1719; Rector of Castlecomer, co. Kilkenny, from 1728; Prebendary of Lismore from 2 Dec 1742; lic. to m. 9 Oct 1713 Mary, second dau. of Rev. Heighes Woodforde BCL, Vicar of Epsom, Surrey; buried Kilkenny Jun 1743.
LEWIS, DAVID, son of Roger Lewis, Llanddewi Velfrey, Pembrokeshire; b.; at school under Busby (DNB, epitome, 772); Jesus Coll. Oxford, matr. 4 Jan 1697/8, aged 16; BA 20 Mar 1701/2; MA 1713; an Usher at the School at 23 Jun 1713 (cf. Boswell, Life of Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill, iv, 307), still 1718; edited Miscellaneous Poems by Several Hands, 1726, dedicated by him to his former pupil Lord Charles Noel Somerset (qv), afterwards 4th Duke of Beaufort; author, Philip Of Macedon, 1727, a tragedy in blank verse dedicated to Pope; edited a second Collection of Miscellaneous Poems, 1730; m. Mary, fourth dau. of Newdigate Owsley, Leyton, Essex, merchant; buried Leyton, Essex 8 Apr 1760. DNB.
LEWIS, DAVID LANCELOT HENRY JONES, elder son of David Jones Lewis, Llwyncelyn, Carmarthenshire, barrister, and Elizabeth Marianne, only child of Rev. Henry James Davis, Vicar of Conwil-Cayo, Carmarthenshire; b. 8 Mar 1868; adm. 29 Jan 1881 (R); left Jul 1887; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 3 Jun 1887; BA 1892; MA 1901; ordained 1893; Curate, St. John’s, Cardiff 1893-1900, Gresford, Denbighshire 1900-2; Rector of Michaelstone-super-Ely, Cardiff, Glamorgan, from 1902; m. 18 Jan 1898 Eva Catherine Isabella, eldest dau. of George Day Harrison, Bellevue, Ambleside, Westmorland; d. 25 Jun 1909.
LEWIS, CRAVEN, son of Thomas Lewis MP, St. Pierre, Monmouthshire, and his first wife Jane Rachel Becher, Hawberry [check], Gloucs.; bapt. St. Pierre 1 Aug 1729 (IGI); adm. (aged 8) Apr 1738 (Watts'); left 1744; Cornet, 4th Dragoons 17 Nov 1746; m. 14 Oct 1752 Mary Langford, St. Clement Danes, London; living 1755.
Lewis, Clive, son of John Thomas Lewis of Cape Town and Lilian Blanche, d. of Charles Street of Hadley Wood, Herts; b. 18 Apr. 1914; adm. May 1928 (H); left Dec. 1932; Pemb. Coll. Camb., matric. 1933, BA 1936; Scots Guards 1940-3 (Lieut.); m. 15 July 1939 Anne Allison, d. of J. Douglas Stewart of Woking; killed in action (N. Africa) Apr. 1943.
Clive Lewis was born in South Africa on the 18th of April 1914 the only son of John Thomas Lewis and Lilian Blanche (nee Street) Lewis of Southern Rhodesia and of 24, Campden House Chambers, Kensington in London. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Homeboarders from May 1928 to December 1932. He was a member of the Officer Training Corps and was promoted to Lance Corporal in September 1931. He was a member of the 2nd Rowing VIII in 1931, where he rowed at No. 3 and of the 1st Rowing VIII in 1932 where he rowed at No. 2. The Elizabethan wrote the following on his 1932 season: - “One of the most improved oars of the crew, and very quick at learning anything suggested to him. Next year he should aim at a longer draw.”
He matriculated for Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1933 and graduated with a BA in 1936. He received a Trial Eights Cap for rowing in 1935.
He was married at Worplesdon Surrey on the 15th of July 1939 to Anne Allison (nee Stewart) of Hook’s Heath, Woking, Surrey and they honeymooned in the South of France. They had a daughter, Gillian, born on the 14th of May 1941.
He attended an Officer Cadet Training Unit before being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Scots Guards on the 21st of September 1940.
On the 26th of February 1943, the 1st Battalion, Scots Guards embarked on board the passenger liner RMS Samaria at Gourock in Scotland bound for North Africa. They set sail from the Clyde on the 1st of March and landed at Algiers on the 9th of March.
At 10pm on the night of the 22nd of April 1943, the 1st Battalion, Scots Guards marched forward from a wadi behind Grenadier Hill in preparation for an attack the following morning. Their objective was the capture and clearance of a series of enemy strong points to the south of the Gab-Gab gap in Tunisia. These were known as Points 150, 145, 151 and 187 and their capture was part of a wider assault to break through the German front lines which ran from Grich el Oued on the banks of the Mejerda River.
At 3.30am on the 23rd of April 1943, 550 guns opened fire in support of the attack and at dawn the Left Flank Company attacked what they thought to be Point 150. In fact they had attacked Point 156, but had strayed to their right in the darkness. In spite of heavy casualties and assisted by the Right Flank Company, they carried the enemy position after heavy fighting and were eventually relieved by C Company later in the day. The Right Flank Company then disengaged and made for the objective which they occupied without loss. This too was the wrong position and they were overlooked by Point 168, which was still held by the enemy. At around noon Clive Lewis was killed. The Regimental history records: - “A grievous loss. He had given excellent service during the night march and had served the Brigade well in passing back vital information.
He is buried at Massicault War Cemetery Plot IV, Row B, Grave 18.