Wilfrid Lewis

Sir Wilfrid Hubert Poyer Lewis, OBE, DL (9 February 1881 – 15 March 1950) was a British barrister, and ecclesiastical lawyer.

He served as Junior Counsel to the Treasury (Common Law) (one of the British government's most senior lawyers) from 1930 to 1935.

[3][4] He was the son of Arthur Griffith Poyer Lewis, a barrister, and Annie Wilhelmine, née Ellison.

During World War I, he was commissioned into the Glamorgan Yeomanry, and served as aide-de-camp to Sir Charles Fergusson in France.

After the war, he joined the chambers of Thomas Inskip in London, gaining a large practice.