Hon. John Lewis

Slave-owner in Jamaica, resident, Chief Justice and President of the Council there.

Buried in the family burying ground near Savanna la Mar 18/09/1820, described at Custos of Westmoreland, President of the Privy Council and formerly Chief Justice of Jamaica, aged 70 years, 9 months and 23 days.

Familysearch.org, Jamaica Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880 [database online].

Lawrence-Archer, Monumental Inscriptions (p. 338) shows two inscriptions:

'HARMONY HALL. I.

TO THE MEMORY OF THE HONOURABLE JOHN LEWIS, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE; ON THE 17th SEPTEMBER, 1820, IN THE 71st YEAR OF HIS AGE. HE WAS FOR MANY YEARS, A REPRESENTATIVE IN THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, AND CUSTOS ROTULORUM OF THE PARISH OF WESTMORELAND, — CHIEF JUSTICE OF THIS ISLAND, AND PRESIDENT OF HIS MAJESTY'S COUNCIL.

II.

TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. MARY LEWIS, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE, NO- VEMBER 1[?] th, 1813, AGED 61 YEARS: — A TENDER MOTHER, AN AFFECTIONATE WIFE, AND FAITHFUL FRIEND, BELOVED AND LAMENTED. — THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED AS A TRIBUTE OF AFFECTION, BY HER DUTIFUL CHILD, ANNE KATHERINE HODGES.

The above had a son, John Goodin Lewis, attorney-at-Iaw.'