Sir William Lewis, 1st Baronet
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Sir William Lewis, 1st Baronet (26 March 1598 – November 1677) of Llangorse, Brecon and Bordean House, East Meon, Hampshire, supported the Parliamentary cause during the
English Civil War The English Civil War or Great Rebellion was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Cavaliers, Royalists and Roundhead, Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England from 1642 to 1651. Part of the wider 1639 to 1653 Wars of th ...
. He sat in the
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variously between 1640 and 1677.


Biography

Lewis was the son of Lodowick Lewis of Trewalter, and his wife, a daughter of William Watkins of Llangorse. He was created Baronet of Llangorse on 14 September 1628 and was High Sheriff of Breconshire for 1619 and 1636. In April 1640, Lewis was elected Member of Parliament for
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in the
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. He was re-elected MP for Petersfield in November 1640 for the
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, where he sat until he was excluded under
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. He was Parliamentary Governor of Portsmouth for 1642–43. Lewis was elected in March 1660 as a member of the Convention Parliament for
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. In 1661 he was elected MP for
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in the
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where he sat until his death. Lewis died at the age of 79. He had married Mary, the daughter of Robert Calton of Goring, Oxfordshire and the widow of Sir Thomas Neale of Warnford, Hampshire. He had one son, who predeceased him, and two daughters. The title thus became extinct.


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National Portrait Gallery
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