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T. R. Lewis. 
1841—1886. 
(Portrait-plate XIX.) 
By CLIFFORD DOBELL, F.R.S. 
Timothy Richards Lewis was, as his name reveals, a Welshman. He was 
son of William Lewis, and was born on October 31, 1841, at Llanboidy, 
Carmarthenshire 1 . He received his early education at a private school kept 
by a clergyman in Narberth, a small town in Pembrokeshire where his family 
resided. On leaving school, at the age of 15, he was apprenticed to a local 
apothecary; but after spending a few years in this employment he came to 
l London to study medicine—going first to a dispensary in Streatham, and then, 
when 19 years of age, to the German Hospital at Dalston. He also attended 
lectures at University College from 1863 to 1866, but finally qualified at 
Aberdeen, where he took the degrees of M.B. and C.M., “with honourable 
distinction,” in 1867. Already as a student Lewis was distinguished. His 
contemporaries spoke very highly of his skill in the laboratory, and that he 
was no less accomplished in the ward is shown by his having won the Fellowes 
Medal for clinical medicine at University College in 1866. 
In 1868 Lewis entered the Army Medical Service, receiving his commission 
as “Assistant-Surgeon in Her Majesty’s Army.” After a brief but remarkably 
successful period at Netley—he was first in both the examinations for entering 
and leaving the School—he was sent out to India with D. D. Cunningham 
to investigate cholera: but previous to this these two friends—whose names 
, are now inseparably joined in the history of tropical medicine—were sent to 
the Continent together, to familiarize themselves with the mycological and 
bacteriological work of De Bary, Hallier, Pettenkofer, and others. They reached 
Calcutta m January, 1869, and were shortly afterwards attached as “Special 
Assistants” to the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India. 
Together they studied cholera and other Indian diseases for about a dozen 
years, publishing during this time a number of important reports on their 
researches. Lewis was promoted to the rank of Surgeon in 1873, and Surgeon- 
Major in 1880. He married in 1879, and returned to England for good in 1883, 
1 111 a11 the Published biographies of Lewis it is stated that he was born at Crinow, Narberth 
Lo . W. Johnstone, however, in his Roll of Graduates of the University of Aberdeen, 1860-1900 
A Derdeen, 1906), gives Llanboidy as Lewis’s birthplace; and that this is correct is attested by 
wis imself, for there is, at Aberdeen, a schedule filled up in his own hand in 1866, when he 
'entered the University, and in this he gives his birthplace as above. For this information I am 
indebted to Dr W. Bulloch, F.R.S., and also to Mr P. J. Anderson, Librarian in the University, 
who kindly examined this document at his request. I offer my best thanks to both for enabling 
ne to make this important correction. 
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