Background
Son of William and Agnes Lewis, Kenneth Lewis was born and educated in Jarrow, Company Durham, and attended Edinburgh University.
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Kenneth Lewis
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Education
University of Edinburgh.
Career
He was a Labour and Personnel Executive with shipbuilders Hawthorn Leslie and Company of Hebburn, and afterwards with the County of London Electricity Supply Company. He served with the Royal Air Force during World World War II as a staff officer at Allied Headquarters Europe, the Air Ministry, and with a Pathfinder Squadron. He started his own shipping and travel business.
He lived in Preston, near Uppingham, Rutland.
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. In February 1984 he spoke in the Commons against the ban on Trades Union representation at GCHQ, urging the government to show more recognition of the needs of workers for representation, and joined former prime minister Edward Heath in abstaining on the vote.
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.
Membership
42nd United Kingdom Parliament. 43rd United Kingdom Parliament. 44th United Kingdom Parliament.
45th United Kingdom Parliament.
46th United Kingdom Parliament. 47th United Kingdom Parliament.
48th United Kingdom Parliament. 49th United Kingdom Parliament]
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.
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, and at Ashton-under-Lyne in 1951.
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Nationality
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Political Party
Conservative Party