b. October 3, 1835, Wimborne Minster, Dorset – d. May 29, 1914, Southsea, Hants. London Univ.; King's College Hospital; MD; MRCS December 1856; LSA March 1857; LRCP (Edin.) 1860. Volunteered for RN, Crimean War 1855, hospital dresser, HMS Bellesie. AMD, Assistant Surgeon August 1,1857, Rifle Brigade; Royal Artillery September 1857. Surgeon 1869. Staff Surgeon September 9, 1871. Surgeon-Major, March 1, 1873. Second Anglo-Afghan War, 9th Lancers, Khyber 1879; Sanitary Officer, Kabul Field Force November 1879; Acting Brigade Surgeon, Cavalry Brigade, Kabul-Kandahar march. Brigade Surgeon, Royal Infirmary Phoenix Park, Dublin April 1, 1882. Surgeon-Colonel October 16, 1886. Hong Kong 1887-88. Surgeon Major General August Agust 10, 1892. Retired October 1895. Honor: Afghan medal w/ two clasps, Sherpur and Kandahar; Bronze Star; MID.
HONG KONG October 1887-88. Deputy Surgeon General, Principal Medical Officer, Hong Kong and China.
s/o Edward Lewer, coach maker, farmer, timber merchant, and Ann Coles.
m. Mary Elizabeth Telford, Dublin October 1860, d/o Captain Joseph Telford, 96th Foot. Had issues: 1. Robert Welsford Lewer, b.1862, Dorset -d. 1880. 2. Edward Stewart Lewer, b.1866, India, surgeon. 3. Ethel Caroline May Lewer, b.1870, Norwich, m. John Stewart Davison, Army Medical Staff. 4. Edith Augusta, 1873, Fulford, m. Percy Hamilton Boyden, Surgeon Commander, RN. 5. Beatrice Maud Lewer, b.1875, Sialkot, India, m. Charles Frederick Wanhill, RAMC.
Selected bibliography: The British Medical Journal, August 27, 1892, p.491; June 27, 1914, p.1436. Hong Kong Government, Colonial Surgeon's Report for the Year 1887. The Second Anglo-Afghan War 1878-1880 [internet]. The Second Anglo-Afghan War Database Project [internet].
[Proactive research ended October 28, 2013.]
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