Thursday, 10 January 2019
2148 Percy Jewson
Constituency : Yarmouth 1941-45 ( Liberal National )
Percy took over from the deceased Arthur Harbord at Yarmouth.
Percy was a timber importer working in the family firm. He served in World War One in France and Belgium and was wounded. He was Lord Mayor of Norwich in 1935-7 and President of Norwich Chamber of Commerce at the time of his election and chairman of Norwich Central Liberal Association. He was a prominent Methodist.
Percy was defeated n 1945.
Percy was a keen tennis player and sometime president of the Lawn Tennis Association.
He died in 1962 aged 81.
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