Ancestry untraced - possibly son of Edward Lewis
Born 1805/6 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, brother of James Graham Lewis
Married?
Children??
??Henry Reginald 7
In 1829 a solicitor's clerk living at Waterloo terrace, by Waterloo Bridge2. He set up in practice with his brother James at 10, Ely Place (in the same year?)4. In 1834 he was admitted attourney (living at the time at 77, Great Surrey Street)3. By 1851 he had moved in with his sister (in-law?) Sophia at 20, Woburn Place and they were still there in 1861. Sophia died in 1861 and in any case his niece Fanny S. Lindo and family had moved in at the time of the 1871 census.
Died on the 13th of March 1879 at 20 Woburn Place. 6
1 Death at the age of 73 registered in the first quarter of 1879 in St Giles, London (FreeBMD 1b 425)
2 Witness at the trial of John Doyle in 1829 leading to John Doyle's transportation fot the theft of a handkerchief.
3 Admitted attourney Michaelmas Term 1834, address 77, Great Surrey Street. (The Legal Observer p445 Google Book Search)
4 "That popular firm had been founded in 1829 by James Graham Lewis
of Euston Square. He is described as a pleasant, simple-minded man whose particular job it was to attend to the .. of the
criminal classes indoors; his brother George Lewis ... of Woburn
Place, "Uncle George", a kind-hearted and ...
"Jews of Britain: A Series of Biographies" Paul Herman Emden,
published 1944 by S. Low, Marston & Co.
5 Not yet found in 1841 census. Should be solicitor, aged 36, rounded down to 35, ie nominal d.o.b. 1806. Have checked occupations of George Lewis of
| Bermondsey | Lighterman |
| St James, Clerkenwell | Refiner |
| Putney | Navy |
| Wymering, Hampshire | Ag. Lab |
| St Giles | Carpenter |
| Lambeth | Tailor |
| St George the Martyr | Bookbinder |
| Faversham | Millwright |
| Portsea | Prisoner, Labourer |
In the 1841 Post Office London Directory, No 25 Woburn Place was occupied by George Coleman Hamilton Lewis.
6 Probate Calendar
7 Lewis & Lewis suggests a son Henry Reginald who became a partner in Lewis and Lewis in 1894- but account of relationship is muddled. There is no account of any children in 1851, 1861 or 1871 censuses