Career
Educated at Queens College Galway he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1869 and took his Master of Arts in 1871. Lewis entered as a student of the Middle Temple in 1872. He acquired his knowledge of the law in the chambers of Robert Wallace, Herbert Reed and Robert McCall.
He frequently "devilled" for McCall who was also a graduate of QCG. In his leisure time Lewis enjoyed voyaging to various parts of the world—he was an expert navigator.
In 1876 he began to practice on the Northern Circuit but this was not to his liking and he switched to the South Wales and Chester Circuit. Suffering from poor health in 1883 and 1884 he accepted an appointment from Lord Derby as a stipendiary magistrate in the county district of Trinidad.
Some of Lewis"s duties lay outside the judiciary: he was chairman of the roads commission, the commission on Agriculture and administrator of the Trinidad public service Widows and Orphans Fund. He was commended for this work by Joseph Chamberlain, and confirmed as a judge of the Supreme Court in 1893.
By 1900 he had left to serve as chief justice of British Honduras.
