An additional factor in her use of a pen name may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes, with whom she lived for over 20 years.

From 1794 beers, wines and spirits were distributed from Lewes under the Harveys name, and the town is today the site of Harvey & Son's brewery celebrated as one the finest ale producers in England.

* George Eliot ( Mary Ann Evans — the name on the grave is Mary Ann Cross ), novelist, common law wife of George Henry Lewes and buried next to him

Later it was found that what May had named Henlopen, was actually Fenwick Island protruding into the Atlantic Ocean, and the name of the cape was moved to its present location just east of Lewes.

* Lewes River, previous name of the upper portion of the Yukon River which runs through Yukon, Canada, and Alaska, USA.

* Lewes ( surname ), the name of various people

Charles Lee Lewes was also the name of George Henry Lewes ' eldest son, who curated his father's extensive library upon the latter's death in 1878.

The trains running under the East Coastway name serve stations between Brighton, Lewes, Eastbourne, Hastings, Ore and Ashford, together with the branch line to Seaford, while the long closed branch to Kemptown ( an area of Brighton ) used to diverge just east of London Road Station.

It is also the name of one of the civil parishes in the Lewes District of East Sussex.

The school opened 1996 on the site of the former Sondes Place School and it takes it name from the land on which it is situated which once belonged to Lewes Priory and was later transferred to Reigate Priory.

Coins have been found across Sussex from Chichester to Lewes bearing the name Sithe, Sithsteb and Sithmes, taken to mean the former name of Cissbury in use at this time of ' Sith ( m ) esteburh '.

Her last novel was Daniel Deronda, published in 1876, whereafter she and Lewes moved to Witley, Surrey ; but by this time Lewes's health was failing and he died two years later on 30 November 1878.

The King was encamped at St. Pancras Priory with a force of infantry, but his son, Prince Edward ( later King Edward I ) commanded the cavalry, at Lewes Castle 500 yards to the north.

Among these were the teeth of a reptile / mammal hybrid, Plagiaulax dawsoni, " found " in 1891 ( and whose teeth had been filed down in the same way that the teeth of Piltdown man would be some 20 years later ), the so-called " shadow figures " on the walls of Hastings Castle, a unique hafted stone axe, the Bexhill boat ( a hybrid seafaring vessel ), the Pevensey bricks ( allegedly the latest datable " finds " from Roman Britain ), the contents of the Lavant Caves ( a fraudulent " flint mine "), the Beauport Park " Roman " statuette ( a hybrid iron object ), the Bulverhythe Hammer ( shaped with an iron knife in the same way as the Piltdown elephant bone implement would later be ), a fraudulent " Chinese " bronze vase, the Brighton " Toad in the Hole " ( a toad entombed within a flint nodule ), the English Channel sea serpent, the Uckfield Horseshoe ( another hybrid iron object ) and the Lewes Prick Spur.

On 31 March 2009 Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, announced his decision to confirm the designation of the South Downs National Park, which came into being exactly one year later and includes the town of Lewes within its boundaries.

*, later renamed USS Lewes ( SP-383 ), a United States Navy minesweeper and patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919

The lighthouse was later purchased privately, transported down the bay via barge, and incorporated into a private residence in the town of Lewes.

The railway built by the Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Railway ( later part of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway ) arrived on 27 June 1846, although the present station was not built until 1891, when the town had become popular as a resort.

Two years later, he published his first paper, on the characteristics of the fossils found in the Lewes area.

Two days later, just before the Battle of Lewes, on 14 May, Simon de Montfort knighted the Earl and his brother Thomas.

This was purely a move to consolidate Montfort's position as the legitimate governor of the kingdom, since he had captured Henry and his son Prince Edward ( later Edward I ) at the Battle of Lewes.

In 1987, he was elected as a councillor on the Lewes District Council, and two years later was also elected to the local county council of East Sussex.

In the east, they were deployed at Tom Nevers Naval Facility Nantucket, Massachusetts ; Lewes, Delaware ; Cape Hatteras, North Carolina ; and Ramey Air Force Base, later Naval Facility Punta Borinquen, Puerto Rico.

Goldsmith first attended Millfield and then later Eton, but dropped out in 1949 aged 16, after he had bet 10 pounds on a three-horse accumulator at Lewes, winning 8, 000 pounds.

The Attorney-General, Sir Hartley Shawcross KC, ( later Lord Shawcross ) led for the prosecution at Lewes Assizes, and urged the jury to reject Haigh ’ s defence of insanity because he had acted with malice aforethought.

Henry III fought under the dragon at the Battle of Lewes and it was used later by Edward III at the Battle of Crécy.

The Roman road from Pevensey to Lewes passed through here, and the turnpike between London and Eastbourne was developed in the 18th century ; but it was the opening of the railway between Lewes and Hastings, with later branches to Eastbourne and Hailsham, that meant growth for Polegate.

Included in this run of results was the 2 – 0 victory over top of the league Lewes, thanks to Paul Hakim and a stunner from Lee Clarke, later voted goal of the season.

As a nephew of both Henry III and Simon de Montfort, he wavered between the two at the beginning of the Barons ' War, but finally took the royalist side and was among the hostages taken by Montfort after the Battle of Lewes ( 1264 ), was held at Wallingford Castle and later released.

She was born in Sussex, England, the second of five children of William Streatfeild, later the Bishop of Lewes.

The historic letters and documents from this inheritance were later donated to the Sussex Archaeological Society of Lewes.

Gage later ( between 1958 and 1965 ) donated letters and documents from ancestral in-law Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Warren to the Sussex Archaeological Society in Lewes.

Lewes became a borough in 1881.

Lewes became one of the non-county boroughs within the then Sussex, East county under the Local Government Act 1933.

The original structure was moved to Lewes and became a residence.

He was a native of Sussex who was educated at Lewes Priory and became a Franciscan friar about 1250.

Until 1969 the rail link continued to Lewes ; after it was closed Uckfield became the terminus ; the station building was rebuilt in 1991 to avoid the necessity of a level crossing.

Drainage became so bad that of the Archbishop of Canterbury's meadow at Southerham were converted into a permanent fishery ( the Brodewater ) in the mid-15th century, and by the 1530s the entire Lewes and Laughton Levels,, were reduced to marshland again.

William now became a pupil-teacher in a school kept by a Mr. Abbott at Lewes, Sussex.

After two years at Lewes, at the age of nineteen, William became restless and started to consider other careers, including working at sea.

He became the Leader of Lewes District Council in 1991, a position he held until his election as an MP.

He went to School in Lewes and then on to a degree in Psychology at the University of Liverpool in 1974 where he was exposed to the radical politics of the city, became ( briefly ) interested in alternative therapies, and responded to the traditional British empirical psychology that was the mainstay of the Liverpool psychology degree programme at the time.

In 1862, when Thackeray resigned the editorship of the Cornhill, Greenwood became joint editor with GH Lewes.

This station became inconvenient after extra tracks were laid to Hastings, meeting the Brighton line at a junction just west of Lewes Station ( i. e. towards Brighton ), necessitating reversals for trains serving Lewes.

She became a Town Planner after graduating and worked for a small private consultancy called Michael Parker Assiociates based in Lewes in East Sussex

Lewes became the first team that season to beat them and replaced them at the top of the table.