George Lewis, eldest son of George and Maraquite Garcia was educated at the Model School Woodbrook, established in 1851, and at Stoneyhurst, the Jesuit Catholic College where he is recorded during the 1861 census aged 16, and at the University of London where he obtained a B.A. and before becoming a student at the Inner Temple.
The Hon. George Lewis Garcia was admitted to the Inner Temple on 17th November 1865. The admission stamp duty register (ADM/4/17) described him on entry as 'aged 20 of the University of London, the eldest son of the Hon. George Garcia, Solicitor General of the Island of Trinidad'.
He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple on 6th June 1868 and he followed the profession of his grandfather and father in Trinidad, became a very successful lawyer in Trinidad and was made a member of the Legislative Council around 1880, being appointed Solicitor-General in 1888, and following in the footsteps of his father, Attorney-General in July 1893.
After a 12 year absence and upon his return to Trinidad in 1868 George Lewis became engaged to Marie Olympe Lefer (The Lefer family arrived in Trinidad sometime before 1822 and were engaged in Commerce), and whom he married early in 1871. Their only child was born in November of that year and Marie died soon afterwards.
George Lewis remarried, Angeline Anderson, but no further children were born to them.
By 1892 George Lewis began suffering ill health which was to accompany him throughout the rest of his life. During this year he took 3 months sick leave and travelled to London to see an Eye Specialist, and from this time on he took sick leave periodically. In October 1897 he applied for further leave which was granted by the Sectetary of State but with the knowledge that he must retire if not able to resume his duties on 1.1.1898. George Lewis retired to Domus Bay, on the Island of Monos where he died on 9th October 1897 aged 54 from the disease affecting his kidneys named Brights Disease. In attendance were Father's Croagh and Duggan who administered the Last Sacrements. The government launch brought the body of George Lewis to Port of Spain early the following morning when it was taken to his home 'Oriel', Queens Park. The funeral took place at 5pm that day in St Patrick's Church and then onto the Lapeyrouse Cemetry along streets lined with orderly crouds. Among the mourners included judges of the Supreme Court, the Mayors of Port of Spain and San Fernando and members of the Legislative Council.
With his death there came to an end a legal dynasty of three generations that had been prominent in the legal arena in Trinidad between the years 1813 and 1897. It is said that George Lewis's widow, Angeline, burned any documents with information about the ancestry of Ramon Garcia. As Angeline had such a small pension granted by the Colonial Office she sold or raffled any remaining valuables that Ramon had brought with him from Spain.
George Lewis, eldest son of George and Maraquite Garcia was educated at the Model School Woodbrook, established in 1851, and at Stoneyhurst, the Jesuit Catholic College where he is recorded during the 1861 census aged 16, and at the University of London where he obtained a B.A. and before becoming a student at the Inner Temple.
The Hon. George Lewis Garcia was admitted to the Inner Temple on 17th November 1865. The admission stamp duty register (ADM/4/17) described him on entry as 'aged 20 of the University of London, the eldest son of the Hon. George Garcia, Solicitor General of the Island of Trinidad'.
He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple on 6th June 1868 and he followed the profession of his grandfather and father in Trinidad, became a very successful lawyer in Trinidad and was made a member of the Legislative Council around 1880, being appointed Solicitor-General in 1888, and following in the footsteps of his father, Attorney-General in July 1893.
After a 12 year absence and upon his return to Trinidad in 1868 George Lewis became engaged to Marie Olympe Lefer (The Lefer family arrived in Trinidad sometime before 1822 and were engaged in Commerce), and whom he married early in 1871. Their only child was born in November of that year and Marie died soon afterwards.
George Lewis remarried, Angeline Anderson, but no further children were born to them.
By 1892 George Lewis began suffering ill health which was to accompany him throughout the rest of his life. During this year he took 3 months sick leave and travelled to London to see an Eye Specialist, and from this time on he took sick leave periodically. In October 1897 he applied for further leave which was granted by the Sectetary of State but with the knowledge that he must retire if not able to resume his duties on 1.1.1898. George Lewis retired to Domus Bay, on the Island of Monos where he died on 9th October 1897 aged 54 from the disease affecting his kidneys named Brights Disease. In attendance were Father's Croagh and Duggan who administered the Last Sacrements. The government launch brought the body of George Lewis to Port of Spain early the following morning when it was taken to his home 'Oriel', Queens Park. The funeral took place at 5pm that day in St Patrick's Church and then onto the Lapeyrouse Cemetry along streets lined with orderly crouds. Among the mourners included judges of the Supreme Court, the Mayors of Port of Spain and San Fernando and members of the Legislative Council.
With his death there came to an end a legal dynasty of three generations that had been prominent in the legal arena in Trinidad between the years 1813 and 1897. It is said that George Lewis's widow, Angeline, burned any documents with information about the ancestry of Ramon Garcia. As Angeline had such a small pension granted by the Colonial Office she sold or raffled any remaining valuables that Ramon had brought with him from Spain.
