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Sir Lewis Richardson, 1st Baronet, CBE (2 February 1873 – 2 April 1934) was a British-born South African businessman.

Born in Birmingham, he went to Cape Colony in 1881. He was head of the firm L. Richardson & Co.

He was created a CBE in 1919, knighted in 1921, and a baronet, of Yellow Woods in the Province of the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, in 1924.

See also

• Richardson baronets

References

1. ^ "Sir Lewis Richardson". The Times. 3 April 1934. p. 12.

• 1873 births
• 1934 deaths
• British emigrants to the Cape Colony
• 20th-century South African businesspeople
• South African Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
• South African Knights Bachelor
• Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom