Edward John Lewis

Edward John Lewis (1859 to 1925) was a Welsh medical doctor who is also remembered as an international rugby union half-back. Born in Llandovery, he was educated at Llandovery College and then at Christ's College, Cambridge, gaining his BA in 1882. He took his Bachelor of Medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1887, with the LSA and MRCS in 1884 and the FRCS in 1890. He became a consulting physician at Kilburn Dispensary, began a speciality in pediatrics as surgeon at the Clergy Orphan School in Marylebone, and later held resident posts at Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital in London. In sport he played once for Wales, in the first Welsh international, against England in 1881.