Louis T. Leonowens was written about in the novel Anna and the King of Siam .
Louis Thomas Gunnis Leonowens ( 25 October 1856 -- 17 February 1919 ) was a British subject who was the basis of a major character in the 1944 novel The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe , as well as other fictional works based on it .
Louis T. Leonowens