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.
[1][2] He presided over the trial of the alleged murderer Timothy Evans in January 1950, two months before his death.
[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.