Frederick Lewis was born in 1870 in
Witton Park. In 1883, aged 13, he joined
Furness Withy & Co, a major shipping company based in
Hartlepool. In 1932 he became Chairman of
Royal Mail Lines, which was created from the assets of the collapsed
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company after the
Royal Mail Case. Lewis was created a
Baronet in 1918 and raised to the peerage as
Baron Essendon,
of Essendon in the County of Hertford, on 20 June 1932. He was instrumental in developing a system of sea water
distillers which could produce fresh water in
lifeboats during an emergency at sea. He died in 1944. ==Family==