Sir George Lewis, 1st Baronet

Sir George Henry Lewis, 1st Baronet (21 April 1833 – 7 December 1911) was an English lawyer of Jewish extraction.

He first made his name in prosecuting the directors of the Overend and Gurney Bank, who had caused the disastrous panic of 1866, and for a time he devoted special attention to financial cases.

This earned him a mention in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client".

Speaking of a similar, fictional character named Sir James Damery, Holmes observes "He has rather a reputation for arranging delicate matters which are to be kept out of the papers.

Juxon described it: "Over the next thirty years this house was to be thronged with painters, sculptors, musicians, actors, writers, lawyers, politicians, indeed, .... , to be invited to "Lady Lewis's" was to enter a social milieu at once fluid and eclectic....