Charles Lee Lewes

(1817-1878)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Lewes, Charles Lee, 1740-1803 DNB: Lewes, Charles Lee (1740–1803), author and actor LBT ID: ChLewes1803 VIAF ID: 24974264 LOC ID: n88007997	B/BAP: 1817-04-18 DIED: 1878-11-21
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English actor and writer who performed at Covent Garden and Drury Lane; he was the grandfather of the critic George Henry Lewes.
REFERENCES TO Charles Lee Lewes: Charles Lamb to William Hazlitt, 15 January 1806 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1806