Lewis Way (1772–1840) was an English barrister and churchman, noted for his Christian outreach to Jews.
Benjamin Way was an MP and a Fellow of the Royal Society, and arranged for his son's education as a barrister.
[5] Lewis Way's last years were spent in rural Warwickshire in the care of a lunatic asylum at Barford.
[1] Way belonged to the Evangelical wing of the Church of England and was active in its outreach to Jewish people.
"[7] The Tsar sent Way to the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle (1818) in what is now Aachen in Germany to obtain a commitment from the post-Napoleonic European heads of state to improve the lot of Europe's Jewish population.
It was following his visit to Russia in 1817 that Lewis Way developed a belief in the imminent return of Christ, adopting the pseudonym 'Basilicus'[8] for the publication of his convictions in Thoughts on the Scriptural Expectations of the Christian Church.
[9] He also pursued the idea of creating a college at Stansted Park to train missionaries to the Jews, but the plans never came through.