Son of Edward Lewis - suggested Sephardic immigrant ancestry 18th century
Born 18041, in London
Married Harriet Davis in 1829 (died 5th May 1869)
Children
Esther, born on the 6th of February 1831 at 10 Ely Place, Holborn, London2,6
Edward, born on the 24th of May 1831 at Ely Place 2,6
George Henry, born on the 21st of April 1833 at Ely Place1,6
Frederick Hyman, born on the 23rd of June 1834 at Ely Place 2,6
Fanny, born on the 7th of January 183 at Ely Placy6 1834/352
Louis, born on the 5th of December 1837
Harriet, born on the 30th of June 18392, 5 (married Henry Lemon 1859, died 1903)
Emmeline, born on the 19th of March 1841 at Ely Place
James G. S., born 1843/442
Living at 10, Ely Place Holborn at the time of the 1841 census and at 53 Euston Square in 1851.
Died on the 22nd of January 1873 at 53 Euston Square. 6
1 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2 Census data from 1841 and 1851. John Juxton biography of George Henry Lewis.
3 Possibly brother of Catherine Lewis - but according to Joan North he does not mention Catherine in his will despite mentioning many other relations. Brother of George Coleman Lewis and Sophia Lewis
4 "By the mid-1830s defence work was said to be shared between Harmer and the more recently established partnership of Lewis and Lewis. James Graham Lewis, admitted attorney in 1829, set up practice with his brother George in Ely Place, Holborn. George Lewis specialized in bankruptcies and was an "expert in 'arranging' the solvencies of gentlemen of the leisured and professional classes"; James became the "principal attorney" of the Old Bailey. Said to have resembled a genial sea captain rather than a lawyer and reputed to have inspired the character of Jaggers in Great Expectations, James Lewis was respected as much for his humanity and compassion as for his considerable legal abilities and became known as "the Poor Man's Lawyer".
"The Bar and the Old Bailey 1750 - 1850" Allyson Nancy May
...
5 The birth of a Harriet Lewis was registered in the third quarter of 1839 in Holburn (FreeBMD 2 132 [162?])
"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. (not the source of the other
above snippets.
7 Dr Davis married, in 1854, Esther, daughter
of James Graham
Lewis, founder of the firm of Lewis and Lewis, solicitors, Ely
Place. The death of his wife in September, 1891, made his
life desolate. Sorrow had stripped him of endurance, and he
retired from the active duties of medicine, but not into idleness.
Soon he drifted into judicial work, and especially (in
his magisterial capacity) into the examination of lunatics.
The number of cases examined in his district, together with
those arising out of his duties as one of the Committee of
Visiting Justices at Holloway Prison amounted to from three
to four hundred every year, and every case was examined with
most conscientious care. From obituary in British Medical Journal 8
ct 1898
8 Will