Cecil Day-Lewis Cecil Day-Lewis Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis) (27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often writing as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake. He is the father of Sir Daniel Day-Lewis, a noted actor, and Tamasin Day-Lewis, a documentary filmmaker and television chef. Day-Lewis was born in 1904 in Ballintubbert, Athy/Stradbally border, Queen's County (now known as County Laois), Ireland. He was the son of Frank Day-Lewis (died 29 July 1937), Church of Ireland
Andrew Lewis (Royal Navy officer) and Suffolk Water Company. Between 1976 and 1977 he was Chairman of the Royal Navy Club of 1765 & 1785 (United 1889). Lewis was also Lord Lieutenant of Essex from 1978 to 1992. He died in 1993. In 1943 he married Rachel Elizabeth Leatham(died 1983): their elder son is the Very Reverend Christopher Lewis, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and their younger son, David, is a shipbroker. Andrew Lewis (Royal Navy officer) Admiral Sir Andrew Mackenzie Lewis KCB JP (1918–1993) was Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command. Lewis joined the Royal Navy and fought in World War II being mentioned in despatches