Warren Lewis (historian)

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Warren Hamilton Lewis (born June 16, 1895 in Belfast , Ireland , † April 9, 1973 ) was an Irish historian , writer and at the time of the First World War an officer in the Royal Army Service Corps in the British Army .

Life

Warren Lewis was born in Dundela Villas on the outskirts of Belfast to Albert James Lewis and his wife Flora Augusta Hamilton. He died at the age of 77 around ten years after the death of his more famous brother CS Lewis . Together they belonged to the " Inklings " association, where they met other writers and professors such as JRR Tolkien , Nevill Coghill and Hugo Dyson for literary debates and lectures.

The Lewis brothers received part of their home schooling in Latin, French and maths from their mother, with a special emphasis on reading, which laid the foundation for the boys' later success as writers. From a young age they wrote their own short stories, Warren's texts being about distant India, while Clive, whose nickname was "Jack", created stories about talking animals. Both worlds eventually merged in a land called boxing.

Warren Lewis attended from 10 May 1905 at the Wynyard School a boarding school in Watford in Hertfordshire northwest of London. During this time his mother died († August 23, 1908) when he was just 13 years old. He then moved to Malvern College in Malvern, Worcestershire in 1909 , where he graduated in 1913. Lewis regularly kept diaries from 1919 to 1972 so his life is well documented. He began military training at the Royal Military College in Sandhurst (RMC) on February 4, 1914 , but this was interrupted by the start of the First World War.

Lewis was sent to France on November 4, 1914, where he was assigned to a supply train in the 4th Division. In September 1915 he transferred to the 3rd Company, was promoted to lieutenant on September 24, 1916 and made provisional captain on October 1. Shortly afterwards, on November 13, 1916, he was appointed commander of the 4th Company of the 7th Division in France and finally officially a captain. He then trained at the Mechanical Transport School of Instruction and the London School of Economics.

After finishing his military career, Lewis moved to Oxford in 1931 where his brother was a professor. As a writer, he was mainly concerned with French literature, which is reflected in his writings.

Fonts

  • The Lewis Papers: Memoirs of the Lewis Family. Private print 1933.
  • The Galleys of France. In: Essays Presented to Charles Williams. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 1947.
  • The Splendid Century: Some Aspects of French Life in the Reign of Louis XIV. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1953, OCLC 1162552 .
  • The Sunset of the Splendid Century: The Life and Times of Louis Auguste de Bourbon, Duc de Maine. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1955.
  • Assault on Olympus: The Rise of the House of Gramont between 1604 and 1678. Andre Deutsch, London 1958.
  • Louis XIV: An Informal Portrait. Andre Deutsch, London 1959, OCLC 1653278 .
    • Louis XIV: demigod a. Human. (Translated from English by Robert Felix). Wunderlich, Tübingen around 1961, DNB 453030629 .
  • The Scandalous Regent: A Life of Philippe, Duc d'Orleans and of his family. Andre Deutsch, London 1961, OCLC 1361263 .
  • Levantine Adventurer: The Travels and Missions of the Chevalier d'Arvieux. Andre Deutsch, London 1962, OCLC 122692997 .
  • Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon. BT Batsford, London 1964, OCLC 30254139 .
  • Letters of CS Lewis. Geoffrey Bles Ltd., London 1966, OCLC 313097896 .
  • Boxing: childhood chronicles before Narnia. HarperCollins Publishers, London, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-06-169833-0 .

literature

  • Diana Glyer: The Company They Keep: CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien as Writers in Community. Kent State University Press, Kent Ohio 2007.
  • Clyde S. Kilby, Marjorie Lamp Mead: Brothers and Friends: The Diaries of Major Warren Hamilton Lewis. Ballantine, New York 1988, ISBN 978-0-345-34665-0 .
  • Warren H. Lewis: The Lewis Papers: Memoirs of the Lewis Family. Unpublished manuscripts at the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton, Illinois.
  • John Smyth: Sandhurst: The History of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst 1741–1961. Weidenfield and Nicolson, London 1961.
  • Hugh Thomas: The Story of Sandhurst. Hutchinson & Co., London 1961.
  • TO Wilson: CS Lewis: A Biography. WW Norton, 1990.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Joel D. Heck: Warren Hamilton Lewis: His Brother's Brother (PDF; 361 kB) on joelheck.com, accessed on February 8, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Lewis, Warren
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lewis, Warren Hamilton; Lewis, WH
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish writer and officer
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Belfast
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1973