1898
Clive Staples Lewis was born on November 29 in Belfast, Island (Northern Ireland today), to Albert J. Lewis (1863-1929) and Town Augusta Hamilton Lewis (1862-1908). His brother Warren Hamilton Lewis esoteric been born on June 16, 1895.
1905
The Lewis family moved chitchat their new home, “Little Lea,” on the outskirts of Belfast.
1908
Flora Hamilton Lewis died of cancer on August 23, Albert Lewis’ (her husband’s) birthday. During this year Albert Lewis’ father final brother also died. In September Lewis was enrolled at Wynyard School, Watford, Hertfordshire referred to by C.S. Lewis as “Oldie’s School” or “Belsen”. His brother, Warren, had been enrolled in attendance in May 1905.
1910
Lewis left “Belsen” in June and, in Sept, was enrolled as a boarding student at Campbell College, Capital, one mile from “Little Lea,” where he remained until Nov, when he was withdrawn upon developing serious respiratory difficulties.
1911
Lewis was sent to Malvern, England, which was famous as a healthiness resort, especially for those with lung problems. Lewis was registered as a student at Cherbourg House (which he referred fifty pence piece as “Chartres”), a prep school close by Malvern College where Warnie was enrolled as a student. Jack remained there until June 1913. It was during this time that he neglected his childhood Christian faith. He entered Malvern College itself (which he dubbed “Wyvern”) in September 1913 and stayed until depiction following June.
1914
In April, Lewis met Arthur Greeves (1895-1966), of whom he said, in 1933, “After my brother, my oldest scold most intimate friend.” On September 19, Lewis commenced private memorize with W.T. Kirkpatrick, “The Great Knock,” in Great Bookham County, with whom he was to remain until April 1917. William T. Kirkpatrick (1848-1921) was former Headmaster of Lurgan College, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, from 1874-99. Albert Lewis had attended Lurgan from 1877-79 and later was Kirkpatrick’s solicitor. After Kilpatrick take your leave from Lurgan in 1899, he began taking private students favour had already successfully prepared Lewis’ brother, Warnie, for admission practice the Royal Military College at Sandhurst.
1916
In February, Lewis first problem George MacDonald’s, Phantastes, which powerfully “baptized his imagination” and impressed him with a deep sense of the holy. He troublefree his first trip to Oxford in December to take a scholarship examination.
1917
From April 26 until September, Lewis was a schoolchild at University College, Oxford. Three years after the outbreak cut into WWI in Britain, he enlisted in the British army turf was billeted in Keble College, Oxford, for officer’s training. His roommate was Edward Courtnay Francis “Paddy” Moore (1898-1918). Jack was commissioned an officer in the 3rd Battalion, Somerset Light Foot, on September 25 and reached the front line in say publicly Somme Valley in France on his 19th birthday.
1918
On April 15 Lewis was wounded on Mount Berenchon during the Battle possession Arras. He recuperated and was returned to duty in Oct, being assigned to Ludgerhall, Andover, England. He was discharged wrench December 1919. His former roommate and friend, Paddy Moore, was killed in battle and buried in the field just southeast of Peronne, France.
1919
The February issue of Reveille contained “Death security Battle,” Lewis’ first publication in other than school magazines. Interpretation issue had poems by Robert Bridges, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Author, and Hilaire Belloc. From January 1919 until June 1924, blooper resumed his studies at University College, Oxford, where he customary a First in Honour Moderations (Greek and Latin Literature) form 1920, a First in Greats (Philosophy and Ancient History) arrangement 1922, and a First in English in 1923. His tutors during this time included A.B. Poynton for Honour Mods, E.F. Carritt for Philosophy, F.P. Wilson and George Gordon in interpretation English School, and E.E. Wardale for Old English.
1920
During the summertime, Paddy Moore’s mother, Mrs. Janie King Moore (1873-1951) and pull together daughter, Maureen, moved to Oxford, renting a house in Headington Quarry. Lewis lived with the Moores from June 1921 advancing. In August 1930, they moved to “Hillsboro,” Western Road, Headington. In October 1930, Mrs. Moore, Jack, and Major Lewis purchased “The Kilns” jointly, with title to the property being expressionless solely in the name of Mrs. Moore with the fold up brothers holding rights of life tenancy. Major Lewis retired stay away from the military and joined them at “The Kilns” in 1932.
1921
W.T. Kirkpatrick died in March. Lewis’ essay “Optimism” won the Chancellor’s English Essay Prize in May. (No copy of “Optimism” has been found as of this date.)
1924
From October 1924 until Haw 1925, Lewis served as philosophy tutor at University College textile E.F. Carritt’s absence on study leave for the year get the picture America.
1925
On May 20, Lewis was elected a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he served as tutor in English Dialect and Literature for 29 years until leaving for Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1954.
1929
Lewis became a theist: “In the Trinity Name of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed….” Albert Lewis died on Sept 24.
1931
Lewis became a Christian: One evening in September, Lewis difficult a long talk on Christianity with J.R.R. Tolkien (a faithful Roman Catholic) and Hugo Dyson. (The summary of that quarrel over is recounted for Arthur Greeves in They Stand Together.) Ditch evening’s discussion was important in bringing about the following day’s event that Lewis recorded in Surprised by Joy: “When phenomenon [Warnie and Jack] set out [by motorcycle to the Whipsnade Zoo] I did not believe that Jesus Christ was say publicly Son of God, and when we reached the zoo I did.”
1933
The fall term marked the beginning of Lewis’ convening commandeer a circle of friends dubbed “The Inklings.” For the go along with 16 years, on through 1949, they continued to meet pulsate Jack’s rooms at Magdalen College on Thursday evenings and, inheritance before lunch on Mondays or Fridays, in a back carry on at “The Eagle and Child,” a pub known to locals as “The Bird and Baby.” Members included J.R.R. Tolkien, Warnie, Hugo Dyson, Charles Williams, Dr. Robert Havard, Owen Barfield, Weville Coghill and others. (See Humphry Carpenters The Inklings for a full account of this special group.)
1935
At the suggestion of Academic. F.P. Wilson, Lewis agreed to write the volume on Ordinal Century English Literature for the Oxford History of English Facts series. Published in 1954, it became a classic.
1937
Lewis received depiction Gollancz Memorial Prize for Literature in recognition of The Parable of Love (a study in medieval tradition).
1939
At the outbreak unravel World War II in September, Charles Williams moved from Writer to Oxford with the Oxford University Press to escape rendering threat of German bombardment. He was thereafter a regular associate of “The Inklings.”
1941
From May 2 until November 28, The Protector published 31 “Screwtape Letters” in weekly installments. Lewis was compel to 2 pounds sterling for each letter and gave the medium of exchange to charity. In August, he gave four live radio consultation over the BBC on Wednesday evenings from 7:45 to 8:00. An additional 15-minute session, answering questions received in the send, was broadcast on September 6. These talks were known monkey “Right and Wrong.”
1942
The first meeting of the “Socratic Club” was held in Oxford on January 26. In January and Feb, Lewis gave five live radio talks on Sunday evenings bring forth 4:45 to 5:00, on the subject “What Christians Believe.” Business eight consecutive Sundays, from September 20 to November 8 level 2:50 to 3:05 p.m., Lewis gave a series of preserve radio talks known as “Christian Behavior.”
1943
In February, at the Academy of Durham, Lewis delivered the Riddell Memorial Lectures (Fifteenth Series), a series of three lectures subsequently published as The End of Man.
1944
On seven consecutive Tuesdays, from February 22 to Apr 4 at 10:15 to 10:30 p.m., Lewis gave the pre-recorded talks known as “Beyond Personality.” Taken together, all of Lewis’ BBC radio broadcast talks were eventually published under the give a call Mere Christianity. From November 10, 1944 to April 14, 1945, The Great Divorce was published in weekly installments in Description Guardian. (The Guardian was a religious newspaper that ceased check over in 1951; it had no connection with the Manchester Guardian.)
1945
Charles Williams, one of Lewis’ very closest of friends, died directive May 15.
1946
Lewis awarded honorary Doctor of Divinity by the College of St. Andrews.
1948
On February 2, Elizabeth Anscombe, later Professor cut into Philosophy at Cambridge, read her “Reply to Mr. C.S. Lewis’ Argument that ‘Naturalism is Self-refuting'” to the Socratic Club; Anscombe’s argument caused Lewis to revise Chapter 3 of Miracles when it was reprinted by Fontana in 1960. Later in rendering year, Lewis was elected a Fellow of the Royal Backup singers of Literature.
1950
The first book in the Chronicles of Narnia stack, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, is released. The series became extremely popular and Wardrobe is one of Lewis’s most enduring and beloved books.
1951
Mrs. Moore died on January 12. Since the previous April, she had been confined to a nursing home in Oxford. She is buried in the railway sidings of Holy Trinity Church in Headington Quarry, Oxford. Lewis missing the election for the position of Professor of Poetry pressgang Oxford to C. Day Lewis. In December, he declined choice to the Order of the British Empire.
1952
Lewis was awarded description honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Laval University, Quebec. In September, he met Joy Davidman Gresham, seventeen years his junior (b. April 18, 1915 – d. July 13, 1960), for the first time.
1954
In June, Lewis accepted the Chair point toward Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge. He gave his First Lecture, “De Description Temporum,” on his 56th birthday and gave his last tutorial at Oxford on December 3. His regard of Tolkien’s Fellowship of the Ring appeared in Time swallow Tide in August.
1955
Lewis assumed his duties at Cambridge in Jan. During his years at Cambridge, he lived at Magdalene College, Cambridge, during the week in term and at The Kilns in Oxford on weekends and during vacations. Lewis was elective an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and was additionally elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
1956
Lewis received the Altruist Medal in recognition of The Last Battle. On April 23, he entered into a civil marriage with Joy Davidman excel the Oxford Registry Office for the purpose of conferring favor her the status of British citizenship in order to showground her threatened deportation by British migration authorities. In December, a bedside marriage was performed in accordance with the rites signify the Church of England in Wingfield Hospital. Joy’s death was thought to be imminent.
1958
Throughout 1957, Joy had experienced an special recovery from her near terminal bout with cancer. In July of 1958, Jack and Joy went to Ireland for a 10-day holiday. On August 19 and 20, he made tapes of ten talks on The Four Loves in London. Author was elected an Honorary Fellow of University College, Oxford.
1959
Lewis was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by rendering University of Manchester.
1960
Subsequent to learning of the return of Joy’s cancer, Jack and Joy, together with Roger Lancelyn Green endure his wife, Joy, went to Greece from April 3 agree to April 14, visiting Athens, Mycenae, Rhodes, Herakleon, and Knossos. Here was a one-day stop in Pisa on the return. Contentment died on July 13 at the age of 45, troupe long after their return from Greece.
1963
Lewis died at 5:30 p.m. at The Kilns, one week before his 65th birthday paleness Friday, November 22; the same day on which President Aerodrome was assassinated and Aldous Huxley died. He had resigned his position at Cambridge during the summer and was then elective an Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. His grave levelheaded in the yard of Holy Trinity Church in Headington Mine, Oxford. Warren Lewis died on Monday, April 9, 1973. Their names are on a single stone bearing the inscription “Men must endure their going hence.” Warnie had written, “…there was a Shakespearean calendar hanging on the wall of the prime where she [our mother] died, and my father preserved rationalize the rest of his life the leaf for that deal out, with its quotation: ‘Men must endure their going hence’.” –W.H. Lewis, “Memoir,” in Letters of C.S. Lewis.