A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lewin, Gregory Allnutt
LEWIN, Kt. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 11; h-p., 28.)
Sir Gregory Allnutt Lewin died 12 Oct. 1845, at Exeter, aged 51. He was son of Rich. Lewin, Esq., of Eltham, co. Kent.
This officer entered the Navy, 24 March, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Tigre 74, Capt. Benj. Hallowell, with whom, on the latter hoisting his flag, he removed, in Aug. 1811, to the Malta 80, and continued to serve, as Midshipman and as an Acting and a confirmed Lieutenant (order and commission respectively dated 7 Sept. and 23 Dec. 1814), until Feb. 1815. In the former of those ships, after having served in the North Sea, he united, in Oct. 1809, in the chase which preceded the self-destruction, near the mouth of the Rhone, of the French ships-of-the-line Robuste and Lion; and on becoming attached to the Malta we find him co-operating with the patriots on the east coast of Spain, where he assisted at the siege of Tarragona, and at the capture of the fort of St. Philippe, in the Col de Balaguer. On his return to England in 1815, Mr. Lewin attended as a witness the court-martial assembled at Winchester to try Sir John Murray for the failure of the attack upon Tarragona. He was lastly, from April in the same year until paid off in March, 1818, employed in the Royal Sovereign 100, and Tonnant 80, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Benj. Hallowell, during that period Commander-in-Chief at Cork.
Sir G. A. Lewin, who was knighted while in the Tonnant by the Viceroy of Ireland, Earl Talbot, on the occasion of that nobleman visiting the naval establishment at Cork, afterwards went to the bar, and became a Queen’s Counsel. He married, in 1824, Elizabeth Caroline, daughter of Wm. Buller, Esq., of Maidwell Hall, Northamptonshire, and has left issue two sons and three daughters. Agent – F. Dufaur.