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H E Lewis
Pudsey/Kington/Birmingham

Horace Yeomans Evans Lewis (but abbreviated to H E) was the youngest of seven brothers from Great Malvern, Worcestershire (all on the site) who became professional golfers. He was born there on 3 Jan 1893.

He was an assistant at King’s Norton which I suspect would be pre-war and, following family tradition, assistant to his brother William. A newspaper article from the 1960s states he had also been assistant to Ernest Cawsey at King’s Norton which must have been after the war as Cawsey did not become professional there until 1919.

During the First World War he served as a private with the 1st Worcesters and was taken prisoner in France on 28 March 1918 and held captive in Giessen.

If he was assistant to Ernest Cawsey, he nevertheless must have moved to West Yorkshire very soon after as he was married to Ellen G Cornes in Bulmer in 1919. Jackson’s Register has him as professional at the Woodhall Hills club in Pudsey sometime before 1928. It may well have been from the time of his marriage in the area.

In 1928 he was appointed professional at the Robin Hood Golf Club in Solihill where he remained until 1935 at which time he resigned and moved to become professional at the Kington club in Herefordshire.

By 1937 he was professional at Cocksmoors Woods and playing in the Midlands Professional Tournament. He was a founder member of the Worcester PGA in 1945 an organisation which, oddly, always had an amateur player as honorary president. The association broke with tradition in August 1968 appointing Lewis, still professional at Cocksmoors Woods, and by then rejoicing in the nickname of “Pop”, as president.

He died on 8 January 1979.

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