Ada Lewis-Hill
Ada Hannah Lewis-Hill (born April 26, 1844 in Liverpool , † October 13, 1906 in London ) was an English amateur musician and founder.
Ada Lewis was the sister of the composer Hope Temple and sister-in-law of the conductor and composer André Messager . She herself played the violin and cello. She married the financier and philanthropist Samuel Lewis in Dublin in 1867 . After his death, he left an amount of £ 670,000 for The Samuel Lewis Trust (now: Southern Housing Group ), a foundation to build housing for the needy. In his second marriage, Ada Lewis married William James Montague Hill .
In 1901, she founded the Ada Lewis Scholarships for study at the Royal Academy of Music , which are awarded to English musicians under the age of 22. The winners include Myra Hess , James Lockyer , Clara Butterworth , Vivian Langrish , Harriet Cohen , John Barbirolli , Ethel Bartlett , Jean Pougnet , Lilly Philips , Douglas Cameron , Hilda Bor , Gordon Mutter , Beatrix Marr , Guy Jonson , Ivey Dickson , Alexander Kok , Nona Liddell , Raymond Ovens and Sebastian Bell .
A portrait of Ada Lewis by Henry Jones Thaddeus is in the Royal Academy on permanent loan from the Samuel Lewis Trust . Furthermore, Lewis gave the Royal Academy the Habeneck -Violine of Stradivarius . More recently, the instrument has been played by David Martin , Ralph Holmes , Christopher Warren-Green and Rebecca Hirsh , among others . Lewis made a donation of £ 5000 to help build the Jewish Maternity Hospital on Underwood Road, which ran from 1911 to 1939.
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- ART UK - Portrait of Mrs. Ada Lewis-Hill (1844-1906)
- Lost Hospitals of London - Jewish Maternity Hospital
- David Rattray: "Masterpieces of Italian Violin Making (1620-1850): Important Stringed Instruments from the Collection at the Royal Academy of Music" , Scarecrow Press, 2000, ISBN 9781461669609 , p. 106
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| SURNAME | Lewis Hill, Ada |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lewis-Hill, Ada Hannah (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English amateur musician and founder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liverpool |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 13, 1906 |
| Place of death | London |