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250 Dr Frederick George LEWIS (1905-1979) (Inducted 23.11.1942; President
1960-61; died 13.1.1979 whilst still a member.) Classification Medical
Referee. He was a General medical practitioner in partnership with Dr
Alfred Weston (who became a member of the club in 1945, #267) as
Weston & Lewis, based at Ednam Lodge, St James’s Road, Dudley. They
were joined by Dr Henry Brown in 1947, and when Weston retired at the
end of 1953 Lewis and Browne continued as partners. He qualified in 1929
and practised in Langley Green, Birmingham before coming to Dudley in
1932. He very soon became a prominent citizen. Later in 1932 he was
appointed Honorary Surgeon to the Dudley Dispensary & Badley District Nursing Home. He was
elected to Dudley council in 1935, made an Alderman in 1949, and was Mayor 1958-59. As
chairman of the Children Committee and Youth Committee of the Council he was instrumental
in founding the Dudley Voluntary Children’s Care Society in 1948 to foster the welfare of
homeless children. He was for a time Chairman of Dudley Building Society, chairman of the
Dudley Technical College governors, and an active member of Dudley Golf Club, serving as
Captain and President in the 1940s. He was also a keen fisherman and won many prizes for
shark fishing off the Cornish coast. In later years he lived in Gospel End Road, Sedgley.

251 Harry DUNN (1904-1969) (Inducted 1.3.1943; President 1953-54; left shortly after retiring about
July 1967.) Fruit and Vegetable Retailing, and later Florist. He started on his own account about
1928 as a fruit merchant and greengrocer with shops in High Street and Halesowen Road,
Netherton, following in the footsteps of his greengrocer father, and older brother, a wholesale
fruit merchant, both also in Netherton. Within a few years his main activity became Florist at
the Halesowen Road shop. About 1957 he left Netherton and opened ‘Yvonne - The Modern
Florist’ in Dudley town centre, briefly in Castle street and then in High Street. He was a
prominent member of the retail section of Dudley Chamber of Commerce.

252 Arthur Herbert (‘Bert’) CRUMP, JP (1898-1956) (Inducted 1.3.1943 as an
Additional Active Member; died 17.5.1956 whilst still a member.) Director
of the family firm A J Crump & Sons, building contractors of Aston Road,
Dudley. His classification was General Contracting, then in 1949 it was
changed to Building Contracting and in 1950 to Building Construction. He
was for many years associated with Dudley Swimming Club, serving as
President, Secretary and Treasurer, and with the Boy Scouts, rising to be
District Commissioner from 1947. He was a founder member of the Old
Dudleian masonic lodge and held high office in the Worcestershire
Province, and served as a Dudley magistrate for his last few years. His brother Leonard joined
the club in 1939 (#228) and nephew Michael joined in 1960 (#373). He lived in Himley Avenue,
Dudley until 1947 then moved to Kingswinford.

253 John Kenneth MITCHELL BSc AMIGasE (1912-2001) (Inducted 12.4.1943; left during 1962-63
on leaving the district.) Classification Gas Industry. He was Deputy Engineer & Manager of the
Dudley, Brierley Hill & District Gas Company from about 1938, becoming Engineer and Manager
of the newly nationalised West Midlands Gas Board, Dudley District from 1949. He was a native
of the Bradford area, West Yorkshire, where he joined the local gas industry from school. He
retired to Dorridge, Warwickshire in 1962 but died many years later in Cambridgeshire.

254 Harold Edward BULLAS (1890-1958) (Inducted 6.9.1943 but formerly a member of Smethwick
Rotary Club; died 7.12.1958 whilst still a member.) Classification ‘Finance - Investments’.
Manager of Barclays Bank, Dudley, Netherton and Smethwick from 1943 to 1950 and previously
manager of Dudley Market Place branch from 1929, of the new High Street branch from 1931,
then both Dudley and Netherton 1932-35, and of two branches in Smethwick 1936-42. He was