Lewis Sneyd

Lewis Sneyd was born in London on 14 July 1788 and baptised at St Marylebone Parish Church on 10 August.

He was Vicar of Wolstanton, Staffordshire from 21 September 1812 to 9 August 1824 (and also appointed Domestic Chaplain to Other Windsor, 6th Earl of Plymouth on 20 May 1813).

There are two portraits of Lewis Sneyd: one by Thomas Barber the Elder at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire [5] and one by John Bridges at All Souls College [6] In 1845 on the completion of the University Galleries building for painting and sculpture (now the Ashmolean Museum) he was appointed one of its curators.

gentleman never took any active part in the affairs of the University, and, with the exception of Curator of the University Galleries, we believe held no official appointment.”[8] After a long illness he was making arrangements to retire from both his positions, having bought a house in St Giles’ Street in Oxford for his new home, when he died at the Warden’s Lodgings in the High Street, Oxford at the age of 69 on 21 February 1858, and his funeral at All Souls College five days later was a private one.

[8] He was buried in the antechapel of All Souls College, where he has an inscribed black marble floor slab[1] and also a stained-glass window in his memory at the west end.