[1][8][9] In March 1891, competing against champions from Brussels, Hamburg, England, Vienna, Italy, and Berlin in a three-day event, Levy won the first World Weightlifting Competition.
[1] Levy founded the Amateur Gymnastics Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.
Otherwise he ran a Jewish school in Birmingham, was active in Conservative Party affairs (in a predominantly Liberal Unionist city) and in amateur theatricals, and served as choirmaster for a synagogue choir.
Levy served as honorary secretary of the political committee of the Midland Conservative Club from 1884 to 1890, when friction with Liberal Unionists forced him to resign.
For details about Levy's work for the drink trade, see David M. Fahey, "Brewers, Publicans, and Working Class Drinkers: Pressure Group Politics in Late Victorian and Edwardian England," Histoire sociale 13 (May 1980) See also David M. Fahey, ed., E.Lawrence Levy and Muscular Judaism, 1851–1932: Sport, Culture, and Assimilation in 19th-Century Britain (Edwin Mellen Press, 2015), which includes Levy's The Autobiography of an Athlete.