Pryce lewis biography

Pryce Lewis (February 13, 1831 – December 6, 1911) was an.
Pryce Lewis was an operative of the Pinkerton Detective Agency and Union spy during the American Civil War. His activities in Charleston, Virginia and the surrounding area heavily assisted the Union Army during the early years of the war.
Pryce Lewis was born in 1835 in Newton, Wales, where his father owned a woolen mill on the River Severn.

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Pryce Lewis

Pryce Lewis

Born	(1831-02-13)February 13, 1831 Newtown, Wales
Died	December 6, 1911(1911-12-06) (aged 80) New York City, New York, U.S.
Nationality	Welsh
Other names	"Lord Tracy"
Occupation	Spy
Years active	1860–1862

Pryce Lewis (February 13, 1831 – December 6, 1911) was an operative of the Pinkerton Detective Agency and Union spy during the American Civil War. His activities in Charleston, Virginia and the surrounding area heavily assisted the Union Army during the early years of the war. Lewis was later captured and played a part in the trial and execution of fellow agent Timothy Webster.

Early life

Lewis was born in 1831 to a family of wool weavers living in Newtown, Wales. As a young man, Lewis had no interest in inheriting the family trade, and in May 1856 emigrated to the United States in search of a new life.^[1] After arriving in America, Lewis got a job as a traveling salesman for the London Printing and Publishing Company which he held for nearly two years until quitting it and m

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Pryce Lewis was born in 1835 in Newton, Wales, where his father owned a woolen mill on the River Severn. He emigrated to the United States in 1856. During the Civil War, he was employed by Pinkerton's Detective Agency and worked as a Union spy in Richmond. Captured and sentenced to be hanged, he managed to escape death because of his British citizenship. After his release, he served as bailiff and special detective officer of Old Capitol and Carroll prisons until the end of the war.

In 1868, he married Maria Thwaites, and they had two children: Mary and Arthur. During this period of his life he was working in Chicago in a detective agency which he had founded with William H. Scott. Later, Lewis and Scott moved their operation to New York City, where they continued to operate until Scott's death. Lewis became embroiled in the A.T. Stewart case, working first for one side, then for the other because his first employer failed to pay him.

Lewis finally went to work for the Equitable Life Assurance Society. A few years later, a shake-up occurred in the business and

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LEWIS, Owen Pryce

Also referred to as PRYCE LEWIS, Owen.

Pryce Lewis was probably born in Natal. In 1927 he was articled to COWIN, POWERS & ELLIS in Durban where he spent three years and attended classes at the Natal Technical College. He won the Emma Smith Art Scholarship in 1931 which enabled him to spend two and a half years at the Architectural Association, London, from which he graduated in 1933. He worked for some time subsequently in the office of H Tanner. While a student at the Architectural Association, he travelled (1931) in Europe, visiting the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia; on a second visit to Europe (1932) he visited France, where he spent most of his time in Paris. He was elected an Associate member of the RIBA in 1934. In 1935 he was awarded the Bernard Webb Studentship and spent six months at the British School at Rome, using it as a headquarters for his thesis on 'Renaissance architecture and classical sources'. On his return he was a studio master on the staff of the Architectural Association from 1935 to 1937 and in 1938 he jo