Born in October 1908,[1] John Hedley Lewis lived at Birkholme Manor in Corby Glen, a village in Lincolnshire.
[1][2] Hedley Lewis served in World War II as an RAF intelligence officer.
[4] In 1968 he was unanimously elected chairman of Kesteven County Council and he went on to chair it for five years, before becoming the first chairman of Lincolnshire County Council from its inception as a successor to Kesteven CC in 1973, to November 1976, when he resigned on health grounds.
[6] Hedley Lewis unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary seat of Kettering as a Conservative at the 1959 and 1964 general elections.
[citation needed] On 16 September 1949, fishing off Scarborough, he caught a massive tunny (Atlantic bluefin tuna) which weighed 852 pounds (386.5 kg).