English author, born at Ifield, Sussex, on the 19th of April 1805; educated at the Merchant Taylors’ School, and at Worcester and Trinity colleges, Oxford. He was called to the bar in 1833, and after practicing successfully at the chancery bar for some years, in 1853 he was appointed one of the conveyancing council to the court. In 1842 he published a treatise on the Law of Trusts and Trustees, which has become an authority on this subject. The Life and Epistles of St. Paul is Lewin’s great work, for the final preparation of which he spent over twenty years in the study of the apostle’s missionary journeys, visiting nearly every place named in the New Testament in connection with Paul. Some of his other writings are Cæsar’s Invasion of Great Britain (1862); Siege of Jerusalem by Titus (1813); Fasti Sacri; or, A Key to the Chronology of the New Testament (1865). Mr. Lewin’s views regarding the sacred localities in Jerusalem differed essentially from those of Robinson and others, and have occasioned considerable controversy.
