Lewes, Charles (Sr.) (1740-1803)

Charles Lewes was the grandfather of George Henry Lewes and a famous comic actor. Lewes played the parts of Young Marlow in She Stoops to Conquer and Bobadil in Every Man in his Humor by Ben Johnson, among others. George Henry Lewes named his eldest son, Charles Lee, after him. The senior Charles Lewes is important in George Henry Lewes's family tree, rather than George Eliot's.