William Lewis (scientist)

William Lewis FRS (c. 1708 – 21 January 1781) was a British chemist and physician.

He practised as a physician, and in 1746 was living in Dover Street, London, but shortly afterwards moved to Kingston upon Thames.

He died in Kingston, Surrey on 21 January 1781 and was buried in Richmond.

Lewis also published translations of Caspar Neumann's chemical works in 1759 Digital edition and 1773 (Vol.

In 1767 the Society for the Improvement of Arts, Manufactures, &c., of which he was a founder, awarded him a gold medal for an essay upon 'potashes'.

An eighteenth-century chemical laboratory, from Commercium Philosophico-Technicum by William Lewis