Charles Lewis, Secretary of the West of England Fire & Life Insurance Company

Charles Lewis was born in the West Indies in 1787 (2). In 1808 he joined the West of England Insurance Company (from the late 1810s known as the West of England Fire & Life Insurance Company) shortly after it opened its Exeter office (3). Two years later, at the age of twenty-three, he was appointed Secretary, a post he occupied for another forty years until his retirement in 1850.