able Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, Bart., M.P. for Radnor District,
was born in London, in 1806, and received his school education at Eton,
which he entered in 1819, and where he was a pupil of Doctor Hawtrey,
the present head master. The _Illustrated London News_ furnishes the
following particulars of his subsequent career:

At Christmas, 1824, he left Eton, and in the following year entered
Christ Church, Oxford, where as a student he was one of the few who gave
attention to modern languages, and especially German, from which,
jointly with Mr. Tufnell, he translated Mueller's "Dorians." In 1828 he
took his University degree as a first-class man in classics, and a
second-class in mathematics. In the same year he entered the Middle
Temple, and in 1831 was called to the bar, and joined the Oxford
Circuit. He had studied for the bar with no less diligence than at the
University; but in consequence of weakness of the chest, was obliged,
after his first circuit, to abandon the profession, in which, had health
allowed him, his success was certain. In 1835 he was placed upon the
commission of inquiry into the relief of the poor, (on the report of
which was founded the Irish Poor-law,) and the state of the Church in
Ireland; and afterward drew up an able report on the condition of the
Irish in Great Britain. In 1836 he was appointed, with Mr. John Austin,
a Commissioner to inquire into the Government of the Island of Malta,
especially as to its tariff and expenditure. The Commission laid an
elaborate report before Parliament, in accordance with the
recommendations of which, such reductions were made as rendered the
tariff of Malta one of the least restrictive in the world, and
materially extended its trade; and they succeeded in establishing the
freedom of the press in the island.

In January, 1839, Mr. Lewis was appointed a Poor-Law Commissioner, and
held the office until July, 1847; when, determining to enter Parliament,
he resigned, and was returned, with Mr. Joseph Bailey, Jr., and Mr.
Francis Wegg Prosser, both Conservatives and Protectionists, without
opposition, for Herefordshire. In November, 1847, he was appointed joint
secretary of the Board of Control, with Mr. James Wilson, M.P. for
Westbury, and early in the following year made his first speech in the
House, in opposition to a motion for the production of papers in the
case of the lately deposed Rajah of Sattara. In April, 1848, Mr. Lewis
was appointed Under Secret