Lewis, David, 1682-1760

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Lewis, David, 1682-1760

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        Dates of existence

        ca. 1681-1760

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        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.

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        GB-2014-WSA-00912

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        GB 2014

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        International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition

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        Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020

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            Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.

            The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.

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