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Brian Edmund Lewis, 2nd Baron Essendon (7 December 1903 – 18 July 1978), also known as ''Bug'', was a British motor-racing driver, company director, baronet, and peer.
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1903 Born in Edmonton, Middlesex, he was the only son of first Lord Essendon, the shipping magnate, by his wife Eleanor (d.1967), daughter of R. H. Harrison of West Hartlepool. In 1938, he married Mary Duffil, widow of Albert Duffil, daughter of G. W. Booker of Los Angeles.
 
Educated at Malvern, and Pembroke College, Cambridge
 
Director of [[Furness, Withy and Co]] (the family shipping firm), [[Barry Aikman]] Travel Ltd and [[Godfrey Davis|Godfrey Davis and Co]]
 
He raced [[Frazer-Nash]] cars in England in the 1920s and entered a private Maserati 8CM at the Swiss Grand Prix 1935.
 
In 1930, along with noted pilot Charles Barnard, he founded [[Brian Lewis and C.D. Barnard]] Ltd as aircraft dealers, becoming the main UK agent for de Havilland.
 
In 1931 the company became [[Brian Lewis and Co|Brian Lewis and Company]] Ltd and merged with Selfridges Aviation Department, declaring itself as “The largest retailers in the world”. Based at Heston Aerodrome in Middlesex, the company expanded to Hooton Park Aerodrome, Liverpool and later to Renfrew Airport, Glasgow and Ipswich. It later moved from Heston to Elstree Aerodrome, then known as Aldenham.
 
In the late 1930s, he was a motoring correspondent of the News Chronicle and a President of the Guild of Motoring Writers.
 
== See Also ==
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== Sources of Information ==
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Lewis,_2nd_Baron_Essendon Wikipedia]
 
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[[Category: Biography - Automotive]]
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[[Category: Deaths 1970-1979]]

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