Worcester (Records of the English Catholics, ii. 303, 304). He continued to reside at Rome, and the pope appointed him one of the apostolic visitors of that city and sent him as nuncio to Switzerland, to ‘disentangle a very intricate affair.’ From the time of their early acquaintance at Oxford he preserved a lifelong friendship with Cardinal Allen, and it was owing to their joint efforts that the English colleges at Douay and Rome were established. Little reliance can be placed on the story quoted by Wood from ‘The State of the English Fugitives,’ 1596, 4to, to the effect that Lewis, as a strenuous foe of the jesuits, headed a faction against Allen in the college at Rome, or that Lewis and Allen were rival candidates for the cardinalate which fell to the latter. Dodd describes Lewis as ‘one of the best civilians of his time and a zealous promoter of church discipline,’ and adds that ‘as to his private life he was strictly religious, adding many supernumerary practises to the common duties of a Christian and to those peculiar to his character.’ He died at Rome on 14 Oct. (N.S.) 1594, and was buried in the chapel of the English College, where a monument was erected to his memory, with a curious Latin epitaph. Lewis's old schoolfellow, Thomas Stapleton [q. v.], dedicated to him his ‘Promptuarium Catholicum,’ Paris, 1595.
[Dodd's Church Hist. ii. 43; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), ii. 837, Fasti, i. 154; Records of the English Catholics, vol. i. Introd. p. xxx and p. 430, ii. 469; Williams's Eminent Welshmen, s.v. ‘Owen.’]
LEWIS, SAMUEL, the elder (d. 1865), publisher, carried on business successively in Aldersgate Street, Hatton Garden, and Finsbury Place South, London, under the style of ‘S. Lewis & Co.’ He is probably the Samuel Lewis who died at 19 Compton Terrace, Islington, on 28 Feb. 1865.
His best known publications, edited by Joseph Haydn [q. v.], were:
- ‘A Topographical Dictionary of England … and the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man … with Maps … and a Plan of London,’ &c., 4 vols. 4to, London, 1831 (7th edit. 1849). With the third edition (1835) was issued a supplementary volume, comprising a ‘View of the Representative History of England, with 116 engraved Plans.’
- ‘A Topographical Dictionary of Wales … with an Appendix, describing the Electoral Boundaries of the several Boroughs,’ &c., 2 vols. 4to, London, 1833 (4th edit. 1849).
- ‘A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland … with an Appendix describing the Electoral Boundaries of the several Boroughs,’ &c., 2 vols. 4to, London, 1837 (2nd edit. 1842). It was severely criticised in the ‘Dublin University Magazine’ (xii. 226–32).
- ‘Lewis's Atlas, comprising the Counties of Ireland and a general Map of the Kingdom,’ fol. London, 1837.
- ‘An Atlas, comprising Maps of the several Counties [of England and Wales], divided into Unions, and of the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man,’ 4to, London, 1842.
His son, Samuel Lewis the younger (d. 1862),wrote:
- ‘The History and Topography of the Parish of Saint Mary, Islington,’ 4to, London, 1842, founded upon John Nelson's work (1811).
- ‘Islington as it was and as it is,’ 8vo, London, 1854.
- ‘The Book of English Rivers. An Account of the Rivers of England and Wales,’ 8vo, London, 1855.
He died at Priory Villas, Canonbury, on 4 May 1862, having married Jane Burn Suter in 1859.
[Brit. Mus. Cat.; wills at Somerset House.]
LEWIS, SAMUEL SAVAGE (1836–1891), librarian of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, was born at Spital Square, London, on 13 July 1836. His father, William Jones Lewis, youngest son of George Lewis (1763–1822) [q. v.], was a surgeon, and his mother, Elizabeth Bunnell, descended from Philip Henry. He entered the City of London school in 1844, won the Carpenter scholarship in 1847, and matriculated from St. John's College, Cambridge, on 10 Oct. 1854. His eyesight failing, he studied farming, and from 1857 to 1860 lived in Canada. He then tried teaching in London, and in 1861 obtained a situation on the prince consort's model farm near Windsor. His eyesight improved after operations in 1864, and he returned to Cambridge, migrating to Corpus Christi College at Easter 1865, and graduating B.A., with a first class in classics, in 1869, and M.A. in 1872. On 14 May 1869 he was elected fellow of Corpus Christi, on 22 March 1872 he became F.S.A., and in the same year was ordained. He was librarian of his college (1870–91), travelled widely, and was good-natured and hospitable. He was a diligent antiquary, and collected coins, gems, and seals with great assiduity and success, obtaining them from all parts of Europe, and forming a valuable museum in his college rooms. Lewis died suddenly in the train near Oxford on 31 March 1891. He married, on 12 Dec. 1887, Agnes Smith, a writer of novels and of works on modern Greece. Among Lewis's antiquarian papers, a list of which is given in his life by his widow, may be mentioned: 1. ‘On a Roman Lanx found at Welney in Norfolk,’ Cambridge, 1870.
