William Hewins

William Hewins

William Alfred Samuel Hewins (11 May 186517 November 1931), was a British economist and Conservative politician.

Hewins was the son of Samuel Hewins, an iron merchant, and was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School and Pembroke College, Oxford. He graduated with a degree in mathematics and later worked as a university extension lecturer. He was the first Director of the London School of Economics from 1895 to 1903, when he resigned to work for Joseph Chamberlain and his campaign for tariff reform. Hewins unsuccessfully contested Shipley in 1910 and Middleton in 1912 but was successfully returned to Parliament for Hereford in a 1912 by-election. He served in the coalition government of David Lloyd George as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1917 to 1919. He retired from the House of Commons before the 1918 general election.

In later life Hewins wrote articles for the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" and also published among other works "Trade in Balance" (1924), "Empire Restored" (1927) and the "Apologia of an Imperialist" (1929). He died in November 1931, aged 66.

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* [http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page]


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