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Mar 6, 2024 · We are extremely sad to hear that Peter Lewis, Chairman of the John Lewis Partnership from 1972 to 1993 has passed away. We send our deepest condolences to his children Patrick and Kate and his family and friends. Peter Lewis, who became the Partnership’s third Chairman in 1972, was the son of Oswald Lewis, the nephew of John Spedan Lewis ...
Mar 6, 2024 · Peter Lewis, who became the Partnership’s third Chairman in 1972, was the son of Oswald Lewis, the nephew of John Spedan Lewis, the Founder of the Partnership. Peter was the father of Kate, who worked as a Central Buyer for John Lewis and Patrick Lewis, our former Executive Director, Finance. Peter joined the Partnership in 1959 as a ...
Brostrøm and Thorsboe are the creators and writers of the elevated thriller series Oxen, adapted from the bestselling crime novels by Danish author Jens Henrik Jensen, about military veteran Niels Oxen. Oxen was the most watched TV series in Denmark in 2023, with spectacular 1.3 million views. During the 1960s and 1970s, Peter Thorsboe worked ...
The eponymous founder of John Lewis died in 1928 aged 92 and his son, John Spedan Lewis established the John Lewis Partnership the following year. Elsewhere in the decade, around 1925, the Toastmaster allowed two slices of bread to be toasted at the same time, and Arthur Leslie Large invented the electrical kettle in 1922 .
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The flagship store on Oxford Street began as a drapery shop, opened by John Lewis in 1864. In 1905 Lewis acquired a second store, Peter Jones in Sloane Square, London.His eldest son, John Spedan Lewis, began the John Lewis Partnership in 1920 after thinking up the idea during his days in charge of Peter Jones.
The original John Lewis, born in 1836, was apprenticed to a draper in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, but the hero of the story is Spedan, his son . By Valerie Grove. It already feels like a world ago that I last wandered through the haberdashery section of John Lewis, confident that one would never be knowingly undersold.
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Peter Lewis, 1929–2024, Chairman of the John Lewis Partnership, 1972–1993 We are extremely sad to hear that Peter Lewis, Chairman of the John Lewis Partnership from 1972 to 1993 has passed away.
