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John Spedan Lewis (22 September 1885 – 21 February 1963) was an English businessman and the founder of the John Lewis Partnership. Elder son of John Lewis , who owned the John Lewis department store, London, Spedan joined the business at 19 and in 1914 assumed control of Peter Jones in Sloane Square , London.
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- Founder, John Lewis Partnership
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- Oswald Lewis (brother)
Learn about the origins and evolution of the John Lewis Partnership, a business model based on employee ownership and co-decision making. Find out how John Spedan Lewis, the founder, set the principles and values that guide the Partnership today.
Feb 19, 2018 · Mon 19 Feb 2018 10.24 EST. Mr John Spedan Lewis, founder of the John Lewis Partnership, died on Thursday at his home, Longstock Park, Stockbridge, Hampshire. The elder son of the late John...
Aug 19, 2021 · Add to myFT. Family Business — the John Lewis family brought to vivid life. Victoria Glendinning’s account of the miserly founder of middle England’s department store — and the son who gave it...
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The couple had two children, John Spedan Lewis (born 1885) and Oswald Lewis (born 1887), both groomed for the business. John and son John Spedan quarreled, leading to the latter taking over at Peter Jones in 1916 as the two men couldn’t cooperate.
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Sep 10, 2018 · John Spedan Lewis (1885-1963) Constance Lynn, John Spedan Lewis’s secretary and housekeeper from 1928 to 1961, remembers the Partnership’s founder. “We used to work in London during the week and go to Leckford, Mr Lewis’s country house, at the weekends, still working. It was a seven-day-a-week job. We were sometimes expected to work ...
3 days ago · John Lewis was a incredibly hard-driving, almost miserly man, very successful at retail. And so the real change in what John Lewis means really comes with his son, John Spedan Lewis.
