{{Short description|Member of the Indian Civil Service}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}} {{Use Indian English|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Sir Hawthorne Lewis | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | order3 = 2nd Governor of Odisha | term_start3 = 1 April 1941 | term_end3 = 31 March 1946 | predecessor3 = John Austen Hubback | successor3 = Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | party = | alma_mater = | profession = | occupation = | spouse = }}
'''Sir (William) Hawthorne Lewis''', KCSI, KCIE (29 June 1888 – 19 October 1970) was a member of the Indian Civil Service who served as the Governor of Odisha from 1941 to 1946.<ref name="Lewis1954">{{cite book|author=Sir Hawthorne Lewis|title=Speeches Delivered by His Excellency Sir Hawthorne Lewis, ..., Governor of Orissa, 1941-1946|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rDTU2NdUOTgC|accessdate=26 May 2018|date=1954|publisher=Government of Orissa|page=27}}</ref> Born to Thomas Crompton Lewis at Kasauli, Shimla.
Educated at Oundle School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Lewis entered the Indian Civil Service by examination in 1911 and served Orissa in various capacities beginning as Assistant Magistrate and Collector.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Raghavan |first=Srinath |date=2010 |title=War and Peace in Modern India |url=https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230277519 |pages=438 |doi=10.1057/9780230277519 |isbn=978-1-349-58988-3 }}</ref>
He married Alice Margaret Rose Hewitt in 1929 who a widow of Lieutenant Ronald Erskine Hewitt (who perished in the First World War) a resident of 7 Hastings Road, New Delhi, which today is the designated home for the Chief Justice of India.<ref>{{Citation |title=Barton, Richard, (25 May 1850–1 Sept. 1927), late Superintendent of Demands, Stationery Office (retired, 1913) |date=2007-12-01 |work=Who Was Who |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u193224 |access-date=2025-09-01 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u193224 |url-access=subscription }} Page 141</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Abhba |date=1854-03-11 |title=Thom's Irish Almanac and official directory for 1854 |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s1-ix.228.219d |journal=Notes and Queries |volume=s1-IX |issue=228 |pages=282 |doi=10.1093/nq/s1-ix.228.219d |issn=1471-6941|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Alice was the daughter of George Edgar Woodhouse, Nordon, Blanford, Dorset.<ref>{{Citation |title=Perchard, Colin William, (born 19 Oct. 1940), Minister (Cultural Affairs), India, British Council, 1993–2000 |date=2007-12-01 |work=Who's Who |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.30551 |access-date=2025-09-01 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.30551 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=October 1943 |title=The 1942 year book of pediatrics: I. A. Abt and A. F. Abt |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02753024 |journal=The Indian Journal of Pediatrics |volume=10 |issue=4 |pages=180 |doi=10.1007/bf02753024 |issn=0019-5456|url-access=subscription }}</ref> He later married Geraldine Susan Maud de Montmorency.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1903-01-03 |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage, and Companionage |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s9-xi.262.20a |journal=Notes and Queries |volume=s9-XI |issue=262 |pages=642 |doi=10.1093/nq/s9-xi.262.20a |issn=1471-6941|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
In 1927 he was appointed as an officer (Joint Secretary) on special duty in the Reforms Office, which considered amendments to the Constitution and Government of India Act 1919. During his tenure the Reforms Office was very vocal towards temerity of laws pertaining to an existence of an 'emergency' during a Governmental or Governor General invoked ordnance. So as to deter decision makers and not use state sponsored violence as allowed in a statute which would in turn allow the Governor General of India to do as he pleased. During his tenure in the Reforms Office, he was also boss to V.P Menon.<ref>{{Cite journal |publisher=Bureau of Public Information |date=1941 |title=Indian Information Series |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8ThQAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA367 |journal=India Information Series |volume=8-9 |issue= |pages=571 |doi= |issn=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Jain |first1=Charul |last2=Dave |first2=Parth |date=2022-12-31 |title=Singing the Unsung: Understanding the Making of Modern India in Narayani Basu's V. P. Menon: The Unsung Architect of Modern India |url=https://doi.org/10.37867/te1404132 |journal=Towards Excellence |pages=1458–1466 |doi=10.37867/te1404132 |issn=0974-035X|doi-access=free }}</ref>
He laid the foundation stone for the Hirakud Dam in 1946.<ref name="D'Souza2002">{{cite book|author=Dilip D'Souza|title=The Narmada Dammed: An Inquiry Into the Politics of Development|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=irPygOKl5xYC&pg=PA95|year=2002|publisher=Penguin Books India|isbn=978-0-14-302865-9|pages=95–}}</ref><ref name="Nanda2016">{{cite book|first1=M.N. |last1=Das |first2=C.P. |last2=Nanda|title=Harekrushna Mahtab|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SR7iDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT71|accessdate=26 May 2018|date=22 August 2016|publisher=Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting|isbn=978-81-230-2325-0|pages=71–}}</ref><ref name="Hogg2013">{{cite book|author=Dorothy Hogg|title=India - A Plea For Understanding|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dfx9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT259|accessdate=26 May 2018|date=16 April 2013|publisher=Read Books Limited|isbn=978-1-4733-8511-5|pages=259–}}</ref> One of the other major contributions of Hawthorne as Governor of Orissa is that he gave assent to act of legislation which sanctioned for the foundation of the Utkal University on 27 November 1943 being inaugurated on 1 November 1944 under a proposal from the cabinet of the then Prime Minister of Orissa, Krushna Chandra Gajapati.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Köhl |first=Torvald |date=1900-04-01 |title=Astronomical Observations in 1899 |url=https://doi.org/10.1086/121364 |journal=Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific |volume=12 |issue=73 |pages=119 |doi=10.1086/121364 |bibcode=1900PASP...12...56K |issn=0004-6280|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=Lewis, Sir (William) Hawthorne, (29 June 1888–19 Oct. 1970) |date=2007-12-01 |work=Who Was Who |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u54624 |access-date=2025-09-01 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u54624 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ziring |first=Lawrence |date=February 1979 |title=North West Frontier Province Legislature and Freedom Struggle, 1932–47. By Amit Kumar Gupta. New Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research, 1976. xv, 239 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. Rs. 30.00. |url=https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021911800142159 |journal=The Journal of Asian Studies |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=398–399 |doi=10.1017/s0021911800142159 |issn=0021-9118|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
At the mid-term of governorship of Odisha province, there were only five colleges in the province as per a report by the Statesman published in 1945.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=June 1961 |title=Book Reviews: The Statesman's Year-Book 1960-61. Edited by S. H. Steinberg. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1960. Pp. xxvi, 1677. $9.50.) |url=https://doi.org/10.1177/106591296101400245 |journal=Western Political Quarterly |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=158 |doi=10.1177/106591296101400245 |issn=0043-4078|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
Lewis died in 1970 at Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.
{{s-start}} {{succession box|title=Governor of Odisha|before=John Austen Hubback|after=Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi|years=1 April 1941 – 31 March 1946}} {{s-end}}
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* {{NPG name|78745|Sir (William) Hawthorne Lewis}} {{Governor of Odisha}}
Category:Governors of Odisha Category:1888 births Category:1970 deaths Category:Indian Civil Service (British India) officers Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire Category:People educated at Oundle School Category:Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge