Sir John Herbert Lewis was a Welsh Liberal politician.
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12 Facts About Herbert Lewis
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Herbert Lewis's grandfather, Richard Herbert Lewis, was born in Flintshire in 1775.
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Herbert Lewis was educated at McGill University and Exeter College, Oxford.
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Herbert Lewis was re-elected twice in 1910, the second time unopposed;.
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Herbert Lewis was offered a peerage on his retirement from Parliament in 1922, but declined the honour.
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Herbert Lewis was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in the 1922 Dissolution Honours List.
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Herbert Lewis was made a Privy Counsellor in 1912, a freeman of the towns of Flint and Aberystwyth, Constable of Flint Castle, honorary LL.
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Herbert Lewis was awarded the gold medal of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion in 1927.
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Herbert Lewis was a keen supporter of the National Library of Wales, located in Aberystwyth.
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In 1925, while walking in the hills above the town prior to a meeting of the Library's council, Herbert Lewis suffered a fall down a quarry which left him paralyzed for the rest of his life.
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An active lay member of the Calvinistic Methodist Connexion, Herbert Lewis was elected Moderator of the denomination in 1925, although he declined the post.
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Herbert Lewis was an interested correspondent in the trial for unorthodoxy of Thomas Williams.
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