page_title: Sir George Lewis, 1st Baronet
section_title: Honours and family
hierarchical_section_title: Sir George Lewis, 1st Baronet / Biography / Honours and family
caption_attribution_description: English: Mrs George Lewis (nee Elizabeth Eberstadt) John Singer Sargent -- American painter 1892 Private collection Oil on canvas 136 x 77.5 cm (53 1/2 x 30 1/2 in.) singed ul: John S. Sargent signed ur: 1892 Jpg: Local
context_page_description: Sir George Henry Lewis, 1st Baronet was an English lawyer of Jewish extraction.
context_section_description: Lewis was knighted in 1893. It was announced that he would receive a baronetcy in the 1902 Coronation Honours list published on 26 June 1902 for the (subsequently postponed) coronation of King Edward VII, and on 24 July 1902 he was created a Baronet, of Portland place, in the borough of Marylebone. The Prime Minister, Arthur Balfour, objected but a grateful King overruled him.
  Lewis was married twice: 
  1st to Victorine Kann (1840 Frankfurt/Germany – 21 April 1865 London), who died shortly after childbirth (daughter Alice Victorine Lewis)
  2nd to Elizabeth Eberstadt  (27 October 1844 Mannheim/Germany – 4 September 1931 London), daughter of Ferdinand Eberstadt of Worms/Mannheim and his wife Sara Seligmann. Elizabeth was sister of the professor of architecture in Berlin Rudolph Eberstadt and aunt of banker and philanthropist Otto Hermann Kahn in New York.
  The Lewises had three children:
  George James Graham Lewis, 2nd Baronet, (1868–1927)
  Gertrude Rachel Lewis (1871 – after 1949), who married Theodore B. Birnbaum
  Katherine Elizabeth Lewis (1878–1961).
  In their London home, Sir George and Lady Lewis met 'tout le monde'. Juxon described it: "Over the next thirty years this house was to be thronged with painters, sculptors, musicians, actors, writers, lawyers, politicians, indeed, .... , to be invited to "Lady Lewis's" was to enter a social milieu at once fluid and eclectic.... Here the establishment and Bohemia had to embrace – because Elizabeth wanted them to."
  He died on 7 December 1911 at Portland Place in London.
caption: Mrs George Lewis (née Elizabeth Eberstadt), John Singer Sargent, 1892
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