Ludovic Lewis was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons

House of Commons of England

The House of Commons of England was the lower house of the Parliament of England from its development in the 14th century to the union of England and Scotland in 1707, when it was replaced by the House of Commons of Great Britain...

  from 1647 to 1653.

Lewis was the son of Sir William Lewis, 1st Baronet

Sir William Lewis, 1st Baronet

Sir William Lewis, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1640 and 1677....

. In 1647, he was elected Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

 for Brecon

Brecon (UK Parliament constituency)

Brecon was a parliamentary constituency in Wales which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and its predecessors, from 1542 until it was abolished for the 1885 general election.-Boundaries:...

. He appears to have survived Pride's Purge

Pride's Purge

Pride’s Purge is an event in December 1648, during the Second English Civil War, when troops under the command of Colonel Thomas Pride forcibly removed from the Long Parliament all those who were not supporters of the Grandees in the New Model Army and the Independents...

 to sit in the Rump Parliament

Rump Parliament

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Lewis died presumably before his father in 1677 as he did not become baronet

Lewis Baronets

There have been seven Baronetcies created for persons with the surname Lewis, two in the Baronetage of England and five in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom...

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Lewis married Catherine Bickle, daughter of Sir Chirstopher Bickle of Banstead, Surrey. One of his daughters married John Lewis (of Coed Mawr), who was MP for Cardiganshire in 1685.