Lewis Sergeant
Lewis Sergeant (1841–1902) was an English journalist and author. Life. The son of John Sergeant, a schoolmaster at Cheltenham School, and his wife Mary Anne, daughter of George Lewis, he was born at Barrow-on-Humber, Lincolnshire, on 10 November 1841. Adeline Sergeant was his first cousin, the daughter of Richard Sergeant, his father's brother. After education under a private tutor, Sergeant matriculated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, in 1861, graduating B.A. with mathematical honours in 1865. At the Cambridge Union he showed himself a Liberal and supporter of W. E. Gladstone. On leaving college, he  spent a period as assistant master under Henry Hayman at Cheltenham grammar school. Lewis then moved into journalism, becoming editor, in succession, of "An anti-Game Law Journal", of "The Examiner", and the "Hereford Times". He then had a long period with "The Athenæum" and with the London "Daily Chronicle" as lead writer. He was also a recognised authority on education, was elected to the council of the College of Preceptors, and edited the "Educational Times" from 1895 to 1902. A Hellenophile, from 1878 Sergeant acted as secretary of the Greek committee in London. George I of Greece bestowed on  him the Order of the Redeemer in October 1878. Sergeant died at Bournemouth on 3 February 1902. Works. Sergeant's historical writings cover a wide range, and included: Sergeant published "New Greece" (1878, republished 1879), and "Greece" in 1880. There followed "Greece in the Nineteenth Century: a Record of Hellenic Emancipation and Progress, 1821–1897", with illustrations, in 1897. He also wrote a volume of verse; a novel, "The Caprice of Julia" (1898); and other fiction pseudonymously. Family. Sergeant married on 12 April 1871 Emma Louisa, daughter of James Robertson of Cheltenham. Philip Walsingham Sergeant, the author, was one of their  children.