John Spedan Lewis (22 September 1885 - 21 February 1963). British businessman and founder of the John Lewis Partnership September 22 is the 265th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (266th in leap years). ... 1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... February 21 is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... One of John Lewis flagship branches in Glasgows Buchanan Galleries mall The John Lewis Partnership is a major United Kingdom retailer, operating department stores and, through its Waitrose subsidiary, upmarket supermarkets. ...

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 his father's second shop Peter Jones in Sloane Square, London. John Lewis on Oxford Street, London is the flagship department store of the John Lewis Partnership. ... The interior of a typical Macys department store. ... Oxford Street, from the top deck of a bus Oxford Street is the worlds most famous street for shopping. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... Peter Jones in an episode of Rumpole of the Bailey Peter Jones (June 12, 1920 – April 10, 2000) was an English actor, born at Wem in Shropshire. ... Sloane Square is a small hard landscaped square on the boundaries of the fashionable London districts of Belgravia and Chelsea. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ...

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. Employee-owned corporations are generally a model of ownership of a corporation where the corporation is owned in part or whole by the employees who work for it. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

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. Hampshire (abbr. ...

Books by John Spedan Lewis

• 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)

External links

• [1] Biography of John Spedan Lewis
• [2] John Lewis Partnership timeline, including events in Spedan Lewis' life
• [3] BBC poll from 2002 in which John Spedan Lewis was voted as Britain's greatest business leader