About Richard Lewis
Lived 1824 – 1875 (aged 50–51). Richard Lewis was a Canadian politician.
Richard Lewis (1824 – January 1875) was the sixth mayor of Victoria, British Columbia, for one term in 1872.
Lewis arrived in the Colony of Vancouver Island in 1858 from San Francisco. He was an architect by training, but started an undertaking business because of a lack of work for architects in the city's early days.
He served as an alderman on the first city council in 1862.
In the 1870s, Lewis returned to architecture, and designed the Masonic Temple and the Lascelles building at Government and Fort Streets.
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Who was Richard Lewis?
Canadian mayor (1824–1875)
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Richard Lewis was born in 1824 in London.
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Richard Lewis died in 1875.
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Richard Lewis was a politician.
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Richard Lewis was Canadian.
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