Lewis Way

Who is Lewis Way?

Lewis Way was an English barrister and churchman, noted for his work to convert the Jews.

He was the second son of Benjamin Way of Denham, and grandson of Lewis Way FRS, director of the South Sea Company. Lewis Way graduated M.A. in 1796 from Merton College, Oxford, and in 1797 was called to the bar by the Society of the Inner Temple. He was ordained in 1817, and devoted to religious works part of a large legacy left him by a stranger, named John Way.

While staying in Nice he donated funds for the construction of the Promenade des Anglais there. He later lived in Paris and founded an Anglican chapel near the Champs-Élysées, where his preaching attracted a fashionable congregation.