J. H. Lewis

John Hedley Lewis, DL (October 1908 – 28 December 1976) was an English landowner, farmer and local politician, who served as Chairman of Kesteven County Council and Lincolnshire County Council.

Born in October 1908,[1] John Hedley Lewis lived at Birkholm Manor in Corby Glen, a village in Lincolnshire.[2] He went to school at Stubbington House, Fareham, and Malvern College, before graduating from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, with a degree in mathematics.[1][2] Lewis served in World War II as an RAF intelligence officer,[2] and joined Kesteven County Council in 1954.[1] He served on it for two decades;[2] by 1964, he was an alderman and its vice-chairman,[3] and he went on to chair it for five years, before becoming chairman of Lincolnshire County Council from its inception as a successor to Kesteven CC in 1973, to November 1976, when he resigned on health grounds,[2] being succeeded by Councillor Clifford Hall.[4] He was also a Deputy Lieutenant of the county,[2] and unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary seat of Kettering as a Conservative at the 1959 and 1964 general elections.[1][3]

Lewis, who was a keen sportsman (representing Gloucestershire at tennis), died on 28 December 1976, aged 68.[2][5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 House of Commons 1959 (London: The Times), p. 153
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Mr J. H. Lewis", The Times (London), 30 December 1976, p. 12
  3. 1 2 House of Commons 1964 (London: The Times), p. 97
  4. ↑ "Tribute to former chairman", Lincolnshire Echo, 30 December 1976, p. 7
  5. ↑ "Mr John Hedley Lewis dies", Lincolnshire Echo, 28 December 1976, p. 1
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