George Cornewall Lewis
1806–63
Statesman and author. Poor Law commissioner for England and Wales, 1839–47. MP for Herefordshire, 1847–52; for Radnor boroughs, 1855–63. Editor of the Edinburgh Review, 1852–5. Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1855–8. Succeeded to the baronetcy in 1855. Home secretary, 1859–61.
Sources
DNB
Modern English biography.
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
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