John Spedan Lewis

John Spedan Lewis

John Spedan Lewis (22 September 1885 - 21 February 1963). British businessman and founder of the John Lewis Partnership

The elder of two sons of John Lewis, who had opened the John Lewis department store on Oxford Street, London. Spedan Lewis joined the business at 19 and in 1914 assumed control of his father's second shop, Peter Jones in Sloane Square, London.

After assuming control of the Oxford Street store with his father's death in 1928, Spedan Lewis officially formed the John Lewis Partnership, and began the distributon of profits among its employees (known as "partners") in 1929, and completed the move towards employee-ownership in 1950, with the transfer of control to the employees.

Spedan Lewis resigned as chairman in 1955, and was known within the company from that point on as "The Founder". In retirement, he lived in Longstock village, Hampshire, until his death. In accordance with his wishes he was buried at sea.

Books by and about John Spedan Lewis

* "John Spedan Lewis 1885-1963: Remembered by Some of his Contemporaries in the Centenary Year of His Birth" with the editor being Hugh Macpherson. Mainly black and white, colour plates relating to the business of the John Lewis Partnership and links with Waitrose Supermarkets With a foreword by Peter Lewis. Includes biographies of executives, and an index. [ Detail from a copy of John Spedan Lewis published by John Lewis Partnership in 1985 with no ISBN ]
* "Partnership for all by John Spedan Lewis, founder of the John Lewis partnership : a thirty-four year old experiment in industrial democracy" (1948)
* "Fairer shares : a possible advance in civilisation and perhaps the only alternative to communism" (1954)
* "Inflation's cause and cure" (1958)

Footnotes

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External links

* [http://www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk/display.aspx?masterId=947efa13-8aac-47d9-b30a-e59a7bbca56c&navigationId=548] Biography of John Spedan Lewis
* [http://www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk/Display.aspx?MasterId=6b960ba1-51a6-44e1-b06b-f0b6813e6bc5&NavigationId=735] John Lewis Partnership timeline, including events in Spedan Lewis' life
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2526147.stm] BBC poll from 2002 in which John Spedan Lewis was voted as Britain's greatest business leader


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