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Sir Andrew Jopp Williams Lewis (1875–1952) was a Scottish businessman who served as Lord Provost of Aberdeen. Life He was born in the Cove district of Aberdeen on 18 April 1875 the son of John Lewis, owner of J Lewis & Co, boatbuilders, and his wife Elizabeth Williams. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School. He was apprenticed as a boatbuilder in his father's company around 1890. In 1907, following his father's death, he took over and renamed the company John Lewis & Sons. He expanded the business, specialising in building and repairing ship engines. They continued their business of building fishing trawlers, but updated this by building refrigerated ships. Around 1912 he began giving free time as Harbour Commissioner and served on the Aberdeen Harbour Board for 36 years. He joined Aberdeen Town Council in 1919 representing the ward of Ferryhill. He was elected Lord Provost in 1925 and served two consecutive two-year terms. During his time in office he raised £410,000 to fund the "Joint Hospitals Scheme" (the equivalent of almost £20 million in 2022) which resulted in a major modernisation of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and Aberdeen Maternity Hospital (which were not completed until 1936). He stepped out of local politics in 1929 and was knighted by King George V and awarded an honorary doctorate (LLD) by Aberdeen University in the same year, and on 10 December 1929 was created Deputy Lieutenant of Aberdeen. He died at home in Aberdeen on 2 February 1952. Artistic recognition He was portrayed by William Orpen. References. Discover the J W Lewis popular books. Find the top 100 most popular J W Lewis books.
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People v. Martin People v. J. C. Lewis
Supreme Court of MichiganCharles Ronald Martin was convicted of firstdegree murder. Defendant appealed to the Court of Appeals. Affirmed. Defendant appeals. J. C. Lewis, Jr., was convicted of rape and gros...
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W. Sale Lewis v. Metropolitan Savings and Loan Association
Court of Criminal Appeals of TexasThis is an appeal from an order of the Savings and Loan Commissioner approving a charter for an additional savings and loan association in Longview, Gregg County, Texas. See TEX.RE...
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J. E. Sheffield v. Beulah Lewis Et Al.
Texarkana Court of Civil Appeals of TexasPlaintiffsappellees Beulah Lewis and Homer D. Irby, filed suit on November 30, 1954, against defendantappellant J. E. Sheffield, to cancel a certain mineral deed, dated April 30, 1...
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Kenneth J. Maddock v. Robert F. Lewis
Supreme Court of MissouriAction to recover $574,380 actual and punitive damages for alleged wrongful discharge and breach of a collective bargaining agreement. The amount in controversy exceeds ...
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A Brief Guide to Spiritual Classics
James M. RussellThis very readable brief guide examines a wide range of spiritual writing that can be read for enjoyment or inspiration, including some books that come from beyond any religious tr...
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Lewis Weaver v. J. D. Wallace
Supreme Court of TexasThe plaintiff, Lewis Weaver, seeks to secure unemployment insurance benefits under the Tennessee Employment Security Law, T.C.A., § 501301, et seq. The administrative agency denie...
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Joseph J. Andrews, Plaintiff in Error v. Lewis W. Pond
United States Supreme CourtIN error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the southern district of Alabama. The plaintiff in error instituted a suit on a bill of exchange, dated at New York on the 11...
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Home Insurance Company New York v. Lewis J. Cox
Supreme Court of Texas No. A-4535This is a companion case to the case of U.S. Insurance Company of Waco, Texas v. Boyer, ante p. 415. It is governed by the law announced in that case.
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Peggy Lewis Fleet v. Claud Douglas Fleet
Supreme Court of TexasThis is a suit against an executor for breach of fiduciary duties. The trial court rendered a take nothing judgment against Peggy Fleet based on an incomplete verdict. In an unpubl...
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Craig Lewis And Fisher v. Gary Blake
Supreme Court of TexasThis case presents two questions of summary judgment procedure. First: when a motion for summary judgment is served by mail, does TEX. R. CIV. P. 21a add three days to the 21day no...
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La silla de plata
C. S. LewisNarnia… donde los búhos son sabios, donde a algunos gigantes les gusta comer humanos, donde un príncipe sufre un hechizo maligno… y donde comienza la aventura.Eustace y Jill escapa...
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Helen S. Strauss v. Lewis Lamark
The Supreme Court of TexasHelen S. Strauss, petitioner, brought this suit against Lewis LaMark, et al, respondents, to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained when petitioner tripped on...
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Real Irish New York
Dermot McEvoyAs they entered their six hundredth year of British occupation, the Irish looked to America. By the 1840s, America was the oasis that the Irish sought during a decade of both famin...
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W. Sale Lewis v. Jacksonville Building and Loan Association
Court of Criminal Appeals of TexasThis is a suit by Jacksonville Building and Loan Association and Rusk Federal Savings and Loan Association, the respondents here, to set aside the order of the Savings and Loan Com...
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Lee Lewis Construction, Inc. v. Harrison
In the Court of Appeals for the First District of TexasFollowing Jimmy Harrisons fatal fall from the tenth story of a construction site where Lee Lewis Construction, Inc., (LLC) was the general contractor, the Harrison family brought a...
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James Lewis Robertson Et Al. v. Ranger Insurance Company
Supreme Court of TexasAmelda Ann McKnight was a passenger in an airplane flown by Byron McKnight, her husband, when the plane crashed in 1974. Both were killed. Thereafter, Robertson, as executor of Ame...
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E. E. Traywick Et Al. v. Honorable Lewis M. Goodrich
The Supreme Court of TexasThe relators, Traywick et al., seek a writ of mandamus to require The Honorable Lewis M. Goodrich, District Judge of Gray County, to enter a judgment for them upon a jury verdict. ...
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Peggy Lewis Fleet v. Claud Douglas Fleet
Supreme Court of Texas No. C-4817Per Curiam This is a suit against an executor for breach of fiduciary duties. The trial court rendered a take nothing judgment against Peggy Fleet based on an incomplete verdict. I...
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J. C. Strunk Et Al. v. Lewis Coal Company
Court of Criminal Appeals of TennesseeDAUGHTREY, Judge. OPINION This appeal results from the alleged violation of an injunction issued in a Morgan County labor dispute and prohibiting the defendants and others from eng...
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Paradise Departed
J.W. LewisOne man. A remote island. A terrorist threat that puts his family at risk.When former Navy SEAL, Jack Kennedy, came to the Kamamalu Island to celebrate his anniversary with his clo...
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James Lester Usrey v. J. W. Lewis
Middle Section Court of Appeals of TennesseeIn these consolidated cases, James Lester Usrey, a minor by next friend, and T. H. Usrey and wife, Mary Usrey, sued J. W. Lewis and others for personal injuries sustained in an aut...
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Bernard J. Guynan v. Lewis Olson
Supreme Court of NebraskaDefendant driver ran into plaintiff, who was on horseback, and his herd of cattle, on a bridge spanning the South Platte River near Paxton, Nebraska, at about 6:50 a.m.,...
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Vista Chevrolet v. Kelly Lewis
Supreme Court of TexasThis is a suit for damages for the purchase of a defective automobile. The Lewises sued Vista Chevrolet under section 2.608 of the Commercial Code for revocation of acceptance and ...
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Riverside National Bank v. James Lewis
Court of Criminal Appeals of TexasThis case primarily involves the question whether one who seeks a loan from a bank in order to refinance a car qualifies as a "consumer" under the Deceptive Trade Practices Act (DT...