Background
Levy, who was Jewish, was born in London, England.
Levy, who was Jewish, was born in London, England.
Between 1891 and 1894, he established 14 world weightlifting records. Levy founded the Amateur Gymnastics Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1988, he was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
East. Lawrence Levy began work for the drink trade (brewers) in 1891 as an assistant agent for the Midland District of the National Trade Defence Association.
A few years he was promoted to agent, a position he held until his death. Licensed Trade News, 28 May 1932, pp.
1–2. (He had served as editor of this Birmingham-based newspaper) Otherwise he ran a Jewish school in Birmingham, was active in Conservative Party affairs (in a predominantly Liberal Unionist city) and in amateur theatricals, and served as choirmaster for a synagogue choir.
He wrote numerous books, most of them published in Birmingham by J.G. and the others by the organization that was the subject of the book). His books include The Midland Conservative Club (1883 and After) (1909), The Autobiography of an Athlete (1913), Birmingham Athletic Club, 1866–1916 (1916), The History of the Lodge of Israel, 1474, Warwickshire, 2 volumes
(1916 and 1924), a Masonic lodge founded in 1874, Birmingham Theatrical Reminiscences. Jubilee Reflections (1870–1920) (1922), and Birmingham Jewry, 1870, Then, and 1929, Now (1929).
Levy served as honorary secretary of the political committee of the Midland Conservative Club from 1884 to 1890, when friction with Liberal Unionists forced him to resign.
Levy, Midland Conservative Club, pp. 50–51, 58. According to Somerset House, he left an estate of a little more than 1,874 pounds.
He was a member of the Birmingham Athletic Club. In 1896, at the first modern Olympics in Athens, he was as a member of the International Weightlifting Jury.