Background
He was the second son of Benjamin Way (1740-1808) of Denham, Buckinghamshire.
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Education
Lewis Way graduated Master of Arts
Career
Benjamin Way was an Member of Parliament and a Fellow of the Royal Society. in 1796 from Merton College, Oxford, and in 1797 was called to the bar by the Society of the Inner Temple. He was ordained in 1817, and devoted to religious works part of a large legacy left him by a stranger, named John Way (1732-1804). While staying in Nice on his way to Lebanon he donated funds for the construction of the Promenade des Anglais there.
He later lived in Paris and founded the Anglican Marbeuf Chapel near the Champs-Élysées, where his preaching attracted a fashionable congregation.
Lewis Way"s last years were spent in rural Warwickshire in the care of a private asylum at Barford. He was buried at All Saints" Church, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.
They had nine children. In 1817 Lewis Way obtained an audience with Tsar Alexander I of Russia who befriended him and shared his interest in the future of the Jewish people.
Way wrote, “lieutenant was not an audience of a private man with an Emperor, but rather a most friendly exchange of views of a Christian with a fellow Christian.".
The Tsar sent Way to the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle (1818) in what is now Aachen in Germany to obtain a commitment from the post-Napoleonic European heads of State to improve the lot of Europe"s Jewish population. He succeeded in that mission.
Membership
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He was a founding member of The Church"s Ministry Among Jewish People (CMJ).
