Warren Lewis
| Warren Lewis | |
|---|---|
| Born | 16 June 1895 |
| Died | 9 April 1973 (aged 77) |
Warren Hamilton (W. H.) Lewis (16 June 1895 – 9 April 1973) was an Irish historian and officer in the British Army, best known as the elder brother of the author and professor C. S. Lewis. Warren Lewis was a supply officer with the Royal Army Service Corps of the British Army during and after the First World War. After retiring in 1932 to live with his brother in Oxford, he was one of the founding members of the "Inklings", an informal Oxford literary society. He wrote on French history, and served as his brother's secretary for the later years of C. S. Lewis's life.
C. S. Lewis referred to his older brother Warren (“Warnie”) as “my dearest and closest friend.” The lifelong friendship was formed as the boys played together in their home Little Lea, on the outskirts of Belfast, writing and illustrating stories for their created world called "Boxen" (a combination of India and a previous incarnation called "Animal-Land"). In 1908, their mother died from cancer and as their father mourned her, C. S. ("Jack") and Warren Lewis had only each other for comfort and support. Soon after their mother's death, Jack was sent across the Irish Channel to join Warren at an English boarding school named Wynyard in Watford, Hertfordshire, just northwest of London, where they both endured a harsh headmaster named Robert Capron. Warren had been taken there by his mother Flora on 10 May 1905. In 1909, Warren transferred to Malvern College in Worcestershire (Mid-West England) and was followed there by his brother a few years later. Warren completed his education at Malvern in 1913.
He had private studies with William T. Kirkpatrick for four months in preparation for the army entrance exam, beginning on 10 September 1913, and finished 21st among over 201 candidates taking the exam, entitling him to a "prize cadetship", with which he entered the Royal Military College at Sandhurst on 4 February 1914. This gave him a reduction in the fees payable for his attendance. He was commissioned on 29 September as a second lieutenant into the Royal Army Service Corps after only nine months of training. This was due to wartime need; the normal course of study was eighteen months to two years. He passed out of the Royal Military College on 1 October, and was sent to France on 4 November 1914 to serve with the 4th Company 7th Divisional Train in the British Expeditionary Force.
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