David Lewis (Lord Mayor)

Sir David Thomas Rowell Lewis (born 1947) was the Lord Mayor of the City of London for 2007–08.

Lewis was born in Hong Kong.[1] He is the grandson of a sheep-farmer from Carmarthenshire, Wales and regards himself as Welsh.[2] He was educated at the Dragon School and St Edward's School, Oxford before studying law at Jesus College, Oxford. He joined Norton Rose and qualified as a solicitor in 1972, becoming a partner in 1977 and then holding the position of Chairman and Senior Partner between 1997 and 2003.

He was elected as a London Alderman in 2001 and appointed Sheriff of the City of London in 2006.[1] He was elected as the 680th Lord Mayor in 2007, being only the eighth Welsh Lord Mayor in the City of London's history, and the first to have a Welsh motto.[2] He was knighted after his year of office finished in the 2009 New Year Honours List.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Current Lord Mayor – Alderman David Lewis". City of London Corporation. Archived from the original on 2007-12-15. http://web.archive.org/web/20071215103331/http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/business_city/lordmayor/biography.htm. Retrieved 2008-02-18. 
  2. ^ a b "Lord Mayor's pride in Welsh links". BBC. 10 November 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7088901.stm. Retrieved 2008-02-18. 
  3. ^ "New Year Honours – United Kingdom" (pdf). London Gazette. 2008-12-31. http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/filedownload.aspx?atDocid=5770792. Retrieved 2009-01-01. 
Civic offices
Preceded by
John Stuttard		 Lord Mayor of the City of London
2007–2008		 Succeeded by
Ian Luder