Kenneth Lewis

Kenneth Lewis

Sir Kenneth Lewis (July 1, 1916 – July 2, 1997) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom for Rutland and Stamford from 1959 to 1983, and following boundary changes for Stamford and Spalding from 1983 to 1987.

Son of William and Agnes Lewis, Kenneth Lewis was born and educated in Jarrow, Co. Durham, and attended Edinburgh University. He was a Labour and Personnel Executive with shipbuilders Hawthorn Leslie Co Ltd of Hebburn on Tyne, and afterwards with the County of London Electricity Supply Company. He served with the RAF during World War II as a staff officer at Allied HQ Europe, the Air Ministry, and with a Path Finder Squadron. He started his own shipping and travel business. He was married to Jean Lewis in 1948, and had two children Kaye Michie and Christopher Lewis. His children went on to have eight grand children. He lived in Preston, near Uppingham, Rutland.

From 1949 to 1952 he was a member of Middlesex County Council, and contested Parliamentary elections as Conservative candidate in 1945 and 1950 at Newton-le-Willows, and at Ashton-under-Lyme in 1951.

His Parliamentary career included Chairmanship of the Conservative Party Parliamentary Labour Committee from 1962 to 1964, and he served on the Estimates, Expenditure and Selection Committees. He was Chairman of the East Midlands Conservative Members and Candidates Committee and the Area Conservative Political Centre. Lewis was noted for his remembrance speeches.

Lewis was an active Churchman, and served as Chairman of a Standing Committee of the World Council of Churches. He was also Deputy Lieutenant of Rutland (1973).

Kenneth Lewis was Knighted in 1983. Jean Lewis died in 1991, and Lewis himself died on 2 July 1997, aged 81.


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