Person | Male Born 1868

W. J. Lewis

Member of the Building Committee to build the 1909 Bethnal Green Town Hall. Mayor of the borough in 1919. In 1921 he was named as Lt-Col W J Lewis OBE, Secretary of the Bethnal Green Liberal & Radical Club, at 44 Pollard Row.

British History gives: "W. J. Lewis, born near Boundary Street in 1868, employed aged eleven in the book trade, influenced by Oxford House, secretary of the University club debating society, a trade union organizer and Liberal election agent, mayor in 1913, and resident as an adult in St. Peter Street, close to where he was born."

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