Georgina King Lewis
Template:Short description Template:Infobox person Georgina King Lewis (1847 – 5 December 1924) was a British writer and philanthropist in the Quaker tradition, described as a "Friend of the Oppressed", for her work in Croydon, South London, England, and in war zones in South Africa and Bulgaria.
Early life
Lewis was born in Kensington, the daughter of John Stoughton and Mary Vyse Stoughton. Her father was a Congregationalist minister.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite book</ref> Her older brother Thomas Wilberforce Stoughton was the co-founder of Hodder & Stoughton, the publishing house.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Philanthropy
Lewis donated £1,200 to the first Ruskin House,<ref name=":0">Template:Cite journal</ref> and was active in the Temperance movement. Lewis was appointed a member of the Women's Central Committee on Temperance in 1899.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> From 1899 to 1901 she worked in a hospital in South Africa during the Boer War; in 1903 she went to Macedonia as a relief worker. In 1906 she had an audience with Pope Pius X to discuss the humanitarian crisis in the Congo Free State.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> She was an officer of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Publications
Lewis published a biography of her father in 1898.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> She also wrote Critical Times in Turkey, and pamphlet biographies of George Fox, Elizabeth Fry and John Greenleaf Whittier,<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> as well as a memoir published posthumously.<ref name=":0" />
- John Stoughton, D.D.: A Short Record of a Long Life (1898)<ref name=":1" />
- "How Best to Keep up the Interest of our Young People in our Society" (1899)<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
- George Fox (1903)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Elizabeth Fry (1903)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- John Greenleaf Whittier
- Critical Times in Turkey and England's Responsibility (1905)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- "The Inner Light" (1921)<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Personal life
Stoughton was the second wife of publisher Henry King Lewis. Her husband died in 1898,<ref name=":1" /> and she died in 1924, at the age of 77.<ref name=":0" /> Her funeral was attended by councillors and clergy, and representatives of Ruskin House. To quote her obituary in the Croydon Advertiser, December 13, 1924, Mrs. King Lewis left behind "the practical results and inspiring memory of a wonderful life of discriminating service for others."