Lewis Sneyd was born in London on 14 July 1788 and baptised at

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on 10 August. His parents were the Revd Ralph Sneyd of the family of

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in StaffordshireF. E. Hutchinson and Sir Edmund Craster, ''Monumental Inscriptions in All Souls College, Oxford'', with translations and additions by M. A. Screech (All Souls College, Oxford, second edition 1997) and Penelope Moore. On 24 October 1805 at the age of 17, Lewis was matriculated at the University of Oxford by Christ Church, and took the degree of B.A. in 1809. Joseph Foster, ''Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford 1715–1886: Their parentage, birthplace and year of birth, with a record of their degrees'', later series Vol. 3, S–Z (Parker & Co, Oxford and London, 1891) Lewis Sneyd was ordained Deacon at Oxford on 25 May 1812 and Priest at Coventry & Lichfield on 20 September the same year. He was Vicar of

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, Staffordshire from 21 September 1812 to 9 August 1824 (and also appointed Domestic Chaplain to

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on 20 May 1813). He was also Rector of

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from 12 January 1819 to 24 February 1830. From 1809 to 1827 he was a Fellow of

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(where his father had also been a Fellow before his marriage) and in 1827 he was appointed Warden. From 1827 he was also Rector of

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in Berkshire. Throughout the 31 years he held the Rectory he made it his duty to reside a certain proportion of each year in that parish, and hence the 1841 census lists him in the Rectory at East Lockinge, while the 1851 census lists him at the Warden’s house at 32 High Street in Oxford. There are two portraits of Lewis Sneyd: one by Thomas Barber the Elder at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire and one by John Bridges at All Souls College In 1845 on the completion of the University Galleries building for painting and sculpture (now the

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) he was appointed one of its curators.Obituary in ''The Times'', 24 February 1858, p. 9 It was said of him “The Rev. gentleman never took any active part in the affairs of the University, and, with the exception of Curator of the University Galleries, we believe held no official appointment.”Obituary in ''Jackson’s Oxford Journal'', 27 February 1858, p. 5, col. c After a long illness he was making arrangements to retire from both his positions, having bought a house in St Giles’ Street in Oxford for his new home, when he died at the Warden’s Lodgings in the High Street, Oxford at the age of 69 on 21 February 1858, and his funeral at All Souls College five days later was a private one. He was buried inside All Souls chapel, where he has an inscribed black marble floor slab and also a stained-glass window in his memory at the west end.

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