George Pitt-Lewis

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George Pitt-Lewis, , KC, MP, (13 December 1845 – 30 December 1906) was an English politician. He was born in Honiton where his father, grandfather and great-grandfather were successively headmasters of the grammar school.

He was a prodigious author of legal reference works and a county court judge. He was elected Member of Parliament for North-West Devon (which subsequently morphed into the Barnstaple constituency) in 1885, representing initially the Liberal Party, and being re-elected as a Liberal Unionist following the ructions of 1886.

His stated recreations included freemasonry and tricycling.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Viscount Lymington	Member of Parliament for North-West Devon / Barnstaple 1885–1892	Succeeded by Alfred Billson (Liberal)