Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Baroness Lewis of Newnham 1928-2023

 The Baroness Lewis of Newnham, who died 16 June, 2023, aged 95, was the widow of the life peer, the Baron Lewis of Newnham, FRS.

The former Elfreida Mabel (Freddie) Lamb, was born 5 May, 1928, daughter of Frank Alfred Lamb (1891-1969), of Manchester, and his wife the former Louie Mabel Johnson (1898-1957); she married in 1951, Robert Lewis (born 13 Feb, 1928), an academic, sometime professor of chemistry at the University of Manchester, and Cambridge University, and Pres of the Royal Society of Chemistry 1986-88, who was created a life peer as Baron Lewis of Newnham, of Newnham co Cambridge, in 1989. He died 17 July, 2014.

She leaves issue, a son, the Hon Ian Peter Lewis (born 1958), and a daughter the Hon Penelope Jane (born 1956).

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