GRUNEISEN

Charles Lewis ( son of Charles Gruneisen of Stuttgart ). b. Blooms bury, London 2 Nov. 1806; special correspondent of Morning Post to Car list army in Spain 1837–8, correspondent in Paris 1839–44 when he organised a pigeon expre ; organiser of the Italian opera at Covent Garden 1846, supported it till 1869; entrusted by Meyer beer with the score of Le Prophète which was produced at Covent Garden 1849; musical critic for Athenæum 1868 to death; a founder and director of Conservative land soc. 1852, sec. 1853–72; author of The opera and the pre 1869; Sketches of Spain 1874. d. 16 Surrey st. Strand, London 1 Nov. 1879.