Not to be confused with Ernest Lewis (1924-2009). Born in Plumstead, Left school at 14 to work in an office in the City but left after 9 months and spent remainder of working life in two large engineering companies until he retired in 1986 through ill health. First inspired to take up entomology by F.Goode, an early AES member, who he met on holiday in Cornwall. Spent 2 years in Egypt (1950-52). During the 1960s carried out a great deal of work for L. Hugh Newman at his farm in Bexley, Kent and setting work for R.N.Baxter, World Wide Butterflies and R.L.E.Ford.. Discovered Staphylinus caesareus in Kent (Joydens Wood) in 1966 and the second and third records of Synchita humeralis in West Kent in 1995 (Chalk Wood, Bexley). Has published twelve or so notes in the Bulletin of the AES, some illustrated with his own drawings. These include ‘Swarm of Ocypus olens’ (50, 1991, p.20) and ‘Coleoptera trapped over a twelve-month period [in Chalk Wood, Kent – handful of species only] (ibid, pp.29-33). His longest paper has been on records of Arhopalus rusticus. which he found in Joydens Wood, and four specimens of which were given to NHM including Otiorhynchus parvicollis and Onthophagus furcatus whichy he found at Kew Gardens looking around recently imported plants (Information from Max Barclay) Lewis’s collection includes many specimens given to him by A.A.Allen after he told him that many of the beetles he had collected were destroyed in a burglary, and specimens purchased from L.Christie at AES exhibitions in the late 1990s. The collectors represented include: H.M.Edelston, L.H.Walker, J.A.Owen, L.Wakely, G.H.Ashe, H.Donisthorpe, C.Jarvis, M.Hall, K.Blair, A.A.Allen,Canon Grensted, H.J.Cribb, H.Dinnage, B.J.Macnulty, L.Christie, E.A.Duffy, and F.D.Buck, J.Cooter, J.Bartup, H.Dinnage, R.W.Lloyd, H.C.Dollman, T.R.Eagles, E.Eustace, R.L.E.Ford, F.C.Fraser, A.W.Gould, P.Harwood, C.N.Hawkins, J.L.Henderson, A.W.Hughes, O.Janson,C.MacKechnie Jarvis, R.R.Kauffmann, P.H.Langton, MacDermott, A.M.Massee, K.M.Perry, Power colln., G.H.L.Thompson, D.Tozer, A.C.Vine, J.J.Walker, L.S.Whicher, L.H.Woollatt. (Information from KCL). (MD 11/03, 12/06, 2/20)