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Basil Lewis OBE (1928 – 2020).
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Basil Lewis OBE (1928 – 2020).

Basil was born in Clarendon, Jamaica in 1928, and came to London in 1954 aged 26. He was not only Haringey’s first Black Council Member, but was also a founding member of the Council’s Race Equalities Committee, Anglo-West Indian Conservative Society and the Hornsey Cooperative Credit Union. Basil received an OBE for his work with...