Lewis, John Spedan
(1885–1963)
- Bernard Miller
- , revised by Geoffrey Tweedale
Extract
Lewis, John Spedan (1885–1963), department store owner and industrial reformer, was born in Marylebone, London, on 22 September 1885, the elder son of John Lewis (1836–1928), a Somerset draper who from 1864 built up a successful retail business in Oxford Street, and his wife, ...
