William Cudmore McCullagh Lewis, 1885-1956

Abstract

William Cudmore McGullagh Lewis, who died at his home in Malvern on 11 February 1956—eight years after his retirement from the Grant-Brunner Chair of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry in the University of Liverpool— was a pioneer in research and made lasting and outstanding contributions to physical chemistry. He will always be remembered for his studies in the theory of chemical change and colloid science. Lewis was born at Belfast on 29 June 1885 and was the only son of a family of five children. His father, Edward Lewis, was a native of Belfast and a linen merchant in that city; his mother, Francis Welsh McCullagh, was the daughter of the Rev. William Cudmore McCullagh of Ballysillan Presbyterian Church, Belfast. Lewis married Jeannie Waterson Darrock, of a Scottish family who had settled in London and their only child, Ian, became a lecturer in physics in Liverpool University before joining the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell.