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See also:BART See also:SIR See also:GEORGE CORNEWALL See also:LEWIS
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(1806-1863), See also:English statesman and See also:man of letters, was See also:born in See also:London on the 21st of See also:April 1806
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His See also:father, See also:
Its successor, the Classical Museum, he also supported by occasional contributions
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In 1835 he published an See also:Essay on the Origin and Formation of the See also:Romance See also:Languages (re-edited in 1862), the first effective See also:criticism in See also:England of See also:Raynouard's theory of a See also:uniform romance See also:tongue, represented by the See also:poetry of the troubadours
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He also compiled a glossary of provincial words used in See also:Hereford-See also:shire and the adjoining counties
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But the most important work of this earlier period was one to which his logical and philological tastes contributed
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The Remarks on the Use and Abuse of some See also:Political Terms (London, 1832) may have been suggested by See also:Bentham's See also:Book of See also:Parliamentary Fallacies, but it shows all that See also:power of clear sober See also:original thinking which marks his larger and later political See also:works
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Moreover, he translated Boeckh's Public See also:Economy of See also:Athens and See also: In 1844 Lewis married See also:Lady Maria See also:Theresa See also:Lister, See also:sister of Lord See also:Clarendon, and a lady of See also:literary tastes . Much of their married See also:life was spent in See also:Kent See also:House, Knightsbridge . They had no See also:children . In 1847 Lewis resigned his office . He was then returned for the See also:county of Hereford, and Lord John See also:Russell appointed him secretary to the See also:Board of See also:Control, but a few months afterwards he became under-secretary to the See also:Home Office . In this capacity heintroauced two important bills,one for the abolition of See also:turnpike See also:trusts and the management of highways by a mixed county board, the other for the purpose of defining and regulating the law of parochial See also:assessment . In 1850 he succeeded See also:Hayter as See also:financial secretary to the See also:treasury . About this time, also, appeared his Essay on the See also:Influence of Authority in Matters of See also:Opinion . On the See also:dissolution of See also:parliament which followed the resignation of Lord John Russell's See also:ministry in 1852, Lewis was defeated for See also:Herefordshire and then for See also:Peterborough . Excluded from parliament he accepted the editorship of the See also:Edinburgh See also:Review, and remained editor until 1855 . During this period he served on the Oxford commission, and on the commission to inquire into the government of London . But its See also:chief fruits were the See also:Treatise on the Methods of Observation and Reasoning in Politics, and the Enquiry into the Credibility of the See also:Early See also:Roman History,2 in which he vigorously attacked 1 See the Abstract of Final See also:Report of Commissioners of Irish Poor Enquiry, &c., by G . C . Lewis and N . See also:Senior (1837) . 2 Translated into See also:German by Liebrecht (See also:Hanover, 1858) . the theory of epic See also:lays and other theories on which See also:Niebuhr's reconstruction of that history had proceeded . In 1855 Lewis succeeded his father in the baronetcy . He was at once elected member for the See also:Radnor boroughs, and Lord See also:Palmerston made him See also:chancellor of the See also:exchequer . He had a See also:war See also:loan to See also:contract and heavy additional See also:taxation to impose, but his See also:industry, method and clear See also:vision carried him safely through . After the See also:change of ministry in 1859 See also:Sir See also:George became home secretary under Lord Palmerston, and in 1861, much against his wish, he succeeded See also:Sidney See also:Herbert (Lord Herbert of See also:Lea) at the War Office . The closing years of his life were marked by in-creasing intellectual vigour . In 1859 he published an able Essay on See also:Foreign See also:Jurisdiction and the See also:Extradition of Criminals, a subject to which the See also:attempt on See also:Napoleon's life, the discussions on the See also:Conspiracy See also:Bill, and the trial of See also:Bernard, had See also:drawn See also:general See also:attention . He advocated the See also:extension of extradition See also:treaties, and condemned the principal See also:idea of Weltrechtsordnung which See also:Mohl of See also:Heidelberg had proposed .
His two latest works were the Survey of the See also:Astronomy of the Ancients, in which, without professing any knowledge of See also:Oriental languages, he applied a sceptical See also:analysis to the ambitious Egyptology of See also:Bunsen; and the See also:Dialogue on the Best See also:Form of Government, in which, under the name of Crito, the author points out to the supporters of the various systems that there is no one abstract government which is the best possible for all times and places
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An essay on the Characteristics of Federal, See also:National, Provincial and Municipal Government does not seem to have been published
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Sir George died in April 1863
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A See also:marble bust by Weekes stands. in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey
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Lewis was a man of mild and affectionate disposition, much beloved by a large circle of See also:friends, among whom were Sir E
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See also:Head, the Grotes, the Austins, Lord See also:Stanhope, J
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