J. H. Lewis
British landowner, farmer and local politician
About J. H. Lewis
Lived 1908 – 1976 (aged 67–68).
John Hedley Lewis (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, John Hedley Lewis lived at Birkholme Manor in Corby Glen, a village in Lincolnshire. He served on it for two decades; In 1968 he was unanimously elected chairman of Kesteven County Council and he went on to chair it for five years, before becoming the first 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. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of the county on 31 January 1972.
Hedley Lewis unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary seat of Kettering as a Conservative at the 1959 and 1964 general elections.
He died on 28 December 1976, aged 68.
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British landowner, farmer and local politician
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J. H. Lewis was born in 1908.
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J. H. Lewis died in 1976.
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