Lewis Lougher

Who was Lewis Lougher?

Sir Lewis Lougher was a Welsh businessman and politician.

He was the second son of Thomas Lougher of Llandaff, and Charlotte née Lewis, daughter of a farmer from Radyr. Following education at Cardiff Secondary School and Cardiff Technical College he was apprenticed to corn merchants. However he quickly established himself in the shipping business at a time when Cardiff Docks were developing as the largest coal-exporting port in the world.

In 1910, at the age of 29, he established his own shipping company, Lewis Lougher & Co. He went on to become became chairman of several shipping companies in Cardiff, Penarth and Barry. He was also chairman of the Federation of Bristol Channel Shipowners and of the Cardiff Chamber of Trade. He also became a developer of housing, and a director of Whitehouse Precast Concrete Limited, and Danybryn Estates Limited. He was also a director of Ben Evans & Co. Ltd, a Swansea department store.

A Conservative in politics, at the 1922 general election he was elected as member of parliament for Cardiff East. At the following election in 1923 he moved to the neighbouring seat of Cardiff Central, holding it until 1929.