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Adm. pens. at TRINITY, Feb. 7, 1807. [2nd s. of Gregory Lewis, barrister (Christ Church, Oxford, 1774), of Spencer Grange, Essex (and Ann Frances, dau. of the Rev. William Paxton, R. of Taplow, Bucks.). B. Jan. 15, 1783. School, Eton.] ' Matric. Lent, 1807; B.A. 1811; M.A. 1814. Ord. deacon (London) Mar. 10, 1811; priest, Feb. 23, 1812. Of Spencer Grange, Yeldham, Essex. Married, May 27, 1811, Caroline Elizabeth, only dau. of John Leech, merchant, of London and had issue. Died Mar. 25, 1835, at Hastings. To be distinguished from an Oxford namesake who founded a seminary at Stansted Park, Sussex. Father of Lewis J. (1836) and William (1839); brother of Charles J. (1814). (Eton Sch. Lists; Burke, L.G.; Life of Archdeacon Phelps, II. 42; A. M. W. Stirling, The Ways of Yesterday.)