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Wife of Commander F E Lewis

John Spedan Lewis was an English businessman and the founder of the John Lewis Partnership. Throughout his life, Lewis was a keen and active natural historian. From 1933 until his death he was a Fellow of the Linnean Society, which awards its John Spedan Lewis Medal for contributions to conservation

Sir George Cornewall Lewis was a British statesman and man of letters. He is best known for preserving neutrality in 1862 when the British cabinet debated intervention in the American Civil War

Senior Keeper in the Ostrich House

Sir Christopher Lever is a British wine merchant, businessman and politician who was the 654th Lord Mayor of London in 1981-1982. He is the son of Dr Robert Leaver and was educated at Eastbourne College.

Leaver served as Alderman for Dowgate City (1974-2002), as Sheriff of the City of London (1979) and as Lord Mayor of London (1981-82). He is also a Justice of the Peace. He was knighted as a Knight Grand Cross in 1981 and appointed as a member of the KStJ in 1982

Curator of Reptiles at the Zoological Society of London. He was awarded the Silver Medal on 16th November 1955 for outstanding services in leading expeditions to collect animals from Sierra Leone in 1948, Sierra Leone and Gold Coast in 1950, Uganda in 1952, Sierra Leone in 1954 and British Guiana in 1955