FAMOUS LAWYER KILLED

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 119, 10 August 1927, Page 9

FAMOUS LAWYER KILLED

SWISS TRAIN MISHAP DEATH OF SIR GEORGE LEWIS By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright GENEVA, Monday. The well-known solicitor Sir George Lewis was to-day knocked down by a railway train and instantly killed. Sir George was recuperating from neurasthenia. After watching a tennis match he climbed the railings of his hotel and walked on to the line at the moment when the Simplon express was passing at a speed of 60 miles an hour. Sir George was one of the most prominent society solicitors in London, and had acted in many of the most celebrated cases. Recently a woman who claimed to be a daughter of Orton, the Tichborne claimant, threatened to murder Sir George, whose firm had acted for the Tichborne family in the historic case in which Orton, who was a butcher, claimed to be the lost Sir Roger Tichborne.—Sun.

Sir George Lewis was head of the firm of Lewis and Lewis, one of the best-known firms of solicitors in London. The late Sir George was consulted in very many of the leading criminal and society cases of his time. The firm acted in the Hatton Garden diamond robbery case, the great Overend Gurney bank failure, and for Mr. Parnell and the Irish Party at the time of the Parnell Commission, which inquired into “The Times” allegations. He was born in 1868 and educated at Harrow and Balliol College. Oxford. In 1894 he was admitted a solicitor, and joined his father’s firm. In 1896 he married Miss Marie Hirsch. He is succeeded in the title by his son, George Ernest Lewis.