He was the son of Richard Lewknor, a younger son of a prominent gentry family in Sussex and his wife Joan, daughter of Richard Mascall of Lindfield, West Sussex.
[1] He entered the service of Nicholas Heath, Bishop of Worcester[2] and settled in Worcestershire, where he acquired the manor of Alvechurch.
[3] Following Heath's promotion to be Archbishop of York, Lewknor was added to the commission of sewers for that county and represented Ripon in the parliament of 1558.
[2] His public employment ended after the accession of Elizabeth I and in 1564 he was listed as an adversary of Protestantism.
[2] He married: On his death Alvechurch passed to his son Nicholas, who died without heir, and then to his daughter Jane.