After passing the public examinations known as Moderations,[2] he studied at Hertford College, Oxford, graduating with a third-class degree in the Greats on 2 August 1902.
After graduation Lewis enrolled as a student at the Leeds Clergy School, Yorkshire, a residential theological college of the Church of England established in 1876.
[3] After graduating from the Leeds Clergy School, Lewis was ordained as a deacon at St Asaph's Cathedral Church on Saturday 26 September 1903.
[7] Lewis returned to England in August 1908 taking up the position of curate at the Tewkesbury Abbey Church of St Mary the Virgin, Gloucestershire.
As part of the 9th Cruiser Squadron, Sutlej's main duties were escorting convoy ships from the South Atlantic seaboard of West Africa.
In addition to divine service, Lewis provided emotional and spiritual support for the 250 Church of England sailors aboard ship.
'[14] Lewis returned to England in 1920, taking up the position of organising secretary for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, in the diocese of Oxford.
The aim of the society was to promote the Gospel message in colonies of North America, but quickly expanded its operations to include Canada, New Zealand, Australia and West Africa.
[17] Three years into his service at Lagos, Lewis approached the wealthy industrialist and philanthropist, Lord William Leverhulme, for a donation towards Church funds.
Paynter, recorder of the Looe O.C.S., Croft Andrew states that: 'When he [Lewis] took up the living at Talland, I told him the story of the legend of Lammana, which he afterwards developed into his booklets The Child Christ .
Whilst Joseph went ashore to the mainland to trade with the Cornish tinners, the boy Jesus played on the beach of Looe Island until his uncles return.
Excavations carried out the following year in 1936 were conducted over three weeks, and recovered a wide range of pottery finds, including Samian ware, ridge tiles and roof slates, wall plaster, animal bones and human remains.
Using a wide range of historical documents, from Episcopal Registers, Close and Pipe Rolls, Deeds, Feudal Aids, and Charters, Lewis traced the medieval history of Lammana from the mid-12th century to the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
[26][full citation needed] On Saturday, 4 September 1948, at the Gorsedh Kernow held at Carwynnen Quoit, near Camborne, Lewis was made a Cornish Bard for his services to archaeology at St Martin's.