Charles Lewin

Charles la Primaudaye Lewin
Birth name	Charles la Primaudaye Lewin
Born	22 August 1874(1874-08-22) Greenwich, London
Died	14 September 1952(1952-09-14) (aged 78) Saint Helier, Jersey
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	Royal Navy
Rank	Rear Admiral of the Blue
Commands held	HMS Princess
Battles/wars	World War I Battle of Saadani

Rear Admiral Charles la Primaudaye Lewin (24 August 1874 – 14 September 1952) was a British rear admiral in the Royal Navy and an English cricketer. He was born in Greenwich, London.

Navy career

It can be presumed that Lewin had been in the Royal Navy for some years prior to his first recorded appearance for the Royal Navy Cricket Club, which came in 1906.^[1] By 1917, with World War I in progress, Lewin was recorded as being a Captain, commanding the ship HMS Princess. One recorded battle in which he took place formed part of the East African Campaign and details of it were recorded in the London Gazette.^[2] The operation, carried out at the request of General Jan Smuts, involved the naval support of the Zanzibar African Rifles and other British Empire forces during the operation. Lewin's ship was one of the naval taskforce which successfully supported the occupation of the coastal town of Saadani. Several years after the war, in 1925, he was promoted by the Admiralty to the rank of Rear Admiral.^[3]

Cricket career

Following the conclusion of the war, Lewin played a single first-class match for the Royal Navy against the Army in 1920, when he was 45 years old.^[4] In the Royal Navy first innings he scored 15 runs before being dismissed by Stanley Cornwallis and in their second innings he scored 37 before being dismissed by Montagu Burrows.^[5] He appeared in three other matches for the Royal Navy between 1906 and 1910, but these were not first-class fixtures. In the first of these, against MCC, he scored 139.^[6] Lewin also played for Devon in the 1920 Minor Counties Championship, making three appearances.^[7]

Personal life

In 1914, he married Ruth Dangar, the daughter of Australian politician and barrister Henry Cary Dangar and granddaughter of Henry Dangar.^[8][9] Lewin and his wife were mentioned in the This Week In Town section of the Sydney Morning Herald on 6 November 1947. The article mentions that Ruth's sister Mrs Hubert Gordon would be hosting an event in honour of her sister.^[10] It is known that he and his wife had two children: a son, Henry, and a daughter, Peggy. He died in Saint Helier, Jersey in 14 September 1952.

References

1. ^ Teams Charles Lewin played for
2. ^ London Gazette: no. 30133. pp. 5955–5960. 15 June 1917. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
3. ^ London Gazette: no. 33110. pp. 7951–7951. 1 December 1925. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
4. ^ First-Class Matches played by Charles Lewin
5. ^ Army v Royal Navy, 1920
6. ^ Scorecard of MCC v Royal Navy, 1906
7. ^ Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Charles Lewin
8. ^ Ruth Dangar, P. 35
9. ^ Henry Dangar, the Dangar Family and Dangar Park (Mayfield) History information session. The University of Newcastle, Australia
10. ^ Mention of Lewin in the Sydney Morning Herald, 6 November 1947

External links

• Charles Lewin at Cricinfo
• Charles Lewin at CricketArchive

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Name	Lewin, Charles
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Date of birth	22 August 1874
Place of birth	Greenwich, London
Date of death	14 September 1952
Place of death	Saint Helier, Jersey