Brian Lewis, 2nd Baron Essendon

Who was Brian Lewis, 2nd Baron Essendon?

Brian Edmund Lewis, 2nd Baron Essendon, also known as Bug, was a British motor-racing driver, company director, baronet, and peer.

Born in Edmonton, Middlesex, he was the only son of first Lord Essendon, the shipping magnate, by his wife Eleanor, 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, he was a Director of Furness Withy, Barry Aikman Travel Ltd and Godfrey Davis & Co Ltd.

He raced Frazer Nashes in England in the 1920s and entered a private Maserati 8CM at the Swiss Grand Prix 1935. As The Times put it in 1978:

In the late 1930s, he was a motoring correspondent of the News Chronicle and a President of the Guild of Motoring Writers.

Lord Essendon succeeded his father in the peerage and baronetcy in 1944.

His main recreation was golf. He was a member of the Bath Club in London.

He lived in London and at Avenue Eglantine 5, Lausanne, Switzerland. He died in Lausanne, Switzerland.