Michael Lewis (naval historian)

Michael Arthur Lewis (3 January 1890 – 27 February 1970) was a British

Lewis was an active member of the Navy Records Society, serving on its publication committee and council from 1938, as well as becoming vice president from 1939. Equally active in the Society for Nautical Research, he was a member of council from 1935, vice president in 1946, chairman of council from 1951 to 1960 and president from 1960 to 1970. Additionally, he was a member of the HMS Victory Advisory Technical Committee from 1955.

In 1952–1953, Lewis was the introducer on

• England's sea-officers: the story of the naval profession. London Allen & Unwin, 1939, 1948.
• British ships and British seamen. London: British Council, 1940; Translated as Britiske skip og britiske sjømenn , 1943; Britische schefen en Britische zeelieden, door Michael Lewis ... Vertaald door A. J. Staal. Geïllustreerde uitgave. (Herzien, 1943, 1945; Reprinted as The ships and seamen of Britain. London and New York: Pub. for the British Council by Longmans, Green, & Co., 1946.
• The navy of Britain: a historical portrait. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1948.
• Nelson's letters from the Leeward Islands and other original documents in the Public Record Office and the British Museum, edited by Geoffrey Rawson with annotation by Michael Lewis. London: Golden Cockerel Press
  , 1953. Limited edition of 300 copies.
• A narrative of my professional adventures (1790-1839), by Sir William Henry Dillon, edited by Michael Lewis. Two volumes. Greenwich: Navy Records Society, 1953–1956.
• The history of the British navy. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1957.
• A Social History of the Navy, 1793-1815. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1960.
• The Spanish Armada. London: B. T. Batsford, 1960; Pan, 1966; Crowell, 1968.
• Armada guns, a comparative study of English and Spanish armaments. London, Allen & Unwin, 1961.
• Napoleon and his British captives. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1962.
• The Navy in transition, 1814-1864; a social history. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1965.
• Ancestors; a personal exploration into the past. London, Hodder & Stoughton [1966].
• The Hawkins dynasty: three generations of a Tudor family. London, Allen & Unwin, 1969.
• Spithead; an informal history. London, Allen & Unwin, 1972.

Fiction

• Afloat & Ashore (verses). London: Allen & Unwin, 1921.
• Beg o' the Upland (novel). Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1922.
• The Brand of the Beast. London: Allen & Unwin, 1924.
• Fleeting follies. (verse) London: Allen & Unwin, 1924.
• The Island of disaster (novel). London: Allen & Unwin, 1926.
• Roman Gold (novel). London: Allen & Unwin, 1927.
• The Three Amateurs (novel). LOndon: Houghton, 1929.
• The Crime of Herbert Wratislaus. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1931.

Other works

In addition, Lewis contributed the biography of Sir

• Who was Who 1961-1970
• Gale Contemporary Authors