Dr Lowell Lyttleton Lewis   MB ChB FRCSEd DPH

Date of Birth   18th August 1952    Kinsale Montserrat W. I

Second son of Mr James D Lewis OBE and Mrs Emily Lewis, formerly of Trials Road,  Kinsale. Grandson of Benjamin and Jane Perkins of Kinsale.  Five brothers, Josephus, Glenn, Karl, Ralph and Steven.   Divorced, and has four children.

 Educated at the Montserrat Secondary School from 1963 to 1969.   He  won a Barclay's Bank Caribbean Sixth Form Scholarship to United World College of
the Atlantic in South Wales, U.K. in 1969, and then moved on in 1971 to be a medical undergraduate at Sheffield University Medical School in the United Kingdom.  He  graduated in June 1976 with Bachelor Degrees in Medicine and Surgery.

He was a First Class Boy Scout, Captain of Athletics at University, best performance being a 3rd place in the 1975 British Universities Decathlon Championships. He played cricket and rugby for University teams and gained the Certificate in Military Training and a commission in the United Kingdom Territorial Army Volunteer Reserve.

After completion of medical internship, he returned to Montserrat in 1978 and served as District Medical Officer for the Northern and Eastern Districts for 1 year.  He then returned to the United Kingdom to train as a general surgeon, gaining Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1982, and becoming competent at providing surgical services in general, orthopaedic, plastic, paediatric, obstetric and gynaecological surgery.  He then spent a year in 1983 at the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene to gain the Diploma in Public Health.

From 1984 to 1991 he served as Director of Health Services and Surgeon Specialist for the Government of Montserrat.  During that time he managed a staff of over 150, a budget of $3million and performed over 400 surgical operations each year.

In 1990, he was awarded the Montserrat Certificate and Medal of Honour for services rendered during the disaster of Hurricane Hugo.

His first involvement in politics was in 1989, when he was member of a Government delegation to London to negotiate changes of The 1989 Constitution Order.  In 1991 he resigned from the post of Director of Health Services  to contest as an independent candidate in the general elections. He gained 43 votes, or about 5% of the votes cast in the southern constituency.  He was not given an opportunity for reappointment to his previous post, and has worked overseas since that time, returning at regular intervals to consult and operate on private patients, and to provide locum cover for the surgeons in post.

From 1992 to 1994 he trained as a visiting registrar in Transplant and General Surgery in Portsmouth England, becoming an expert in dialysis and renal transplant surgery. 

From 1994 to 1999, he was employed as Lecturer in Surgery at the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies.  He has contributed to 25 recorded publications in the medical literature, and has a continuing research interest in medical education and renal surgery.

Dr Lewis has been an active lobbyist for Montserratian interests for over ten years,  giving radio and television interviews, and speeches at international meetings, and meeting with members of Parliament and Government Officials in the U.K.   He is editor of  Montserrat Alive Magazine and director of Tropic Film Studios, a producer and distributor of local television programs.

He has joined with the New People's Liberation Movement because he wants to be part of a political team of colleagues, advisors and supporters involved in a continuous process of good governance and development on Montserrat.  His first priority is to ensure that appropriate plans are in place to prevent injury and death from the ongoing volcanic eruption.  

He expects the New PLM team to restore the viable economic status of family units, businesses and the Government, to bring the island out of grant aid, and to take full control of the country and its future.