Arthur Ernest Read Lewis was a third class steward of the Titanic. Lewis was born in Southampton, Hampshire, England on May 24th, 1884. He was the son of Thomas William Lewis (1862 - 1922) and Elizabeth Maria Read (1862 - 1947). His father was a brewer's clerk and had married Elizabeth Read in 1881 in Southampton. Arthur reportedly went to sea aged 14 and served on a Hospital Ship during the Boer War. He was married in 1902 in Southampton to Violet Clara Kearslake (born in Southampton on June 12th, 1885). Their first child Archibald Albert was born in 1905, followed by Stanley Claude in 1909.