Early Life and Education
Born in Freeland, Oxfordshire, Lewis was the second son of The Rev'd Victor Arthur Nicholas Lewis, a church of England clergyman, and his wife Mary Ann Clayton Lewis. He was educated at Uppingham School and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a Bachelor of Arts degree with honours in 1912 and a Master of Arts in 1924.
During the First World War, he served in the Royal Marines from 1914 to 1919, becoming a lieutenant. On 5 August 1933, he married Muriel Doris Cruikshank with whom he had a son and a daughter.
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