Hawthorne Lewis

Sir William Hawthorne Lewis, KCSI, KCIE (29 June 1888 – 19 October 1970) was a member of the Indian Civil Service who served as the governor of Odisha from 1941 to 1946.^[1]

Sir Hawthorne Lewis
Governor of Odisha
In office 1 April 1941 – 31 March 1946
Preceded by	John Austen Hubback
Succeeded by	Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi
Personal details
Nationality	British

Educated at Oundle School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Lewis entered the Indian Civil Service by examination in 1911.

He laid the foundation stone for the Hirakud Dam in 1946.^[2][3][4]