{"id":44712,"date":"2019-08-26T13:16:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T12:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/?page_id=44712"},"modified":"2020-06-13T14:05:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T13:05:51","slug":"reuben-lewis-hicks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/the-people\/reuben-lewis-hicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuben Lewis Hicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44720\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44720\" style=\"width: 418px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/New-1951-mayor-Reuben-Lewis-Hicks-and-his-wife-in-May-1951.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[44712]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-44720\" src=\"http:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/New-1951-mayor-Reuben-Lewis-Hicks-and-his-wife-in-May-1951-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"New 1951 mayor Reuben Lewis Hicks and his wife in May 1951\" width=\"418\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/New-1951-mayor-Reuben-Lewis-Hicks-and-his-wife-in-May-1951-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/New-1951-mayor-Reuben-Lewis-Hicks-and-his-wife-in-May-1951-768x1028.jpg 768w, https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/New-1951-mayor-Reuben-Lewis-Hicks-and-his-wife-in-May-1951-765x1024.jpg 765w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>New Mayor Reuben Lewis Hicks and his wife, Joanna, in May 1951.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Reuben, or Lewis as he was known, was born on November 13th, 1909 at Launceston, to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.easy2use.co.uk\/Hicks\/Reube-Lewis-Hicks-family.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuben Lewis<\/a> (<em>senior<\/em>) and Emily Ann (<em>nee Sowton<\/em>) Hicks. His father was a hotel gardner. He married Joanna Marks at Launceston on June 28th, 1935 and they set up home at 6 Priory Cottages, Launceston. Lewis was then working for Southern Railways as a Railway Assistant Telegraph Lineman Engineering Repairs. Their son, Arthur, was born on May 13th, 1936.\u00a0In the late 1940&#8217;s he was elected to the town council, and in 1951 he was chosen to be Mayor of Launceston, a role he undertook for two consecutive years (<em>his uncle, <a href=\"http:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/the-people\/thomas-hicks\/\">Thomas Hicks<\/a> was also elected Mayor in 1958<\/em>). He passed away on November 24th, 1973, age 63. Joanna survived Lewis by 23 years, herself passing away on January 26th, 1996.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46655\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46655\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Reuben-Lewis-seniors-family-in-the-1920s.-2.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[44712]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46655 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Reuben-Lewis-seniors-family-in-the-1920s.-2-1024x732.jpg\" alt=\"Reuben Lewis seniors family in the 1920's. \" width=\"1024\" height=\"732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Reuben-Lewis-seniors-family-in-the-1920s.-2-1024x732.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Reuben-Lewis-seniors-family-in-the-1920s.-2-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Reuben-Lewis-seniors-family-in-the-1920s.-2-768x549.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46655\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>1920&#8217;s photo of the Hicks family. Betty, Richard, Emily, Phyllis, Reuben senior, Arthur, Francis and Reuben Lewis.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Visits: 86<\/p><!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-44712\" data-postid=\"44712\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-44712 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. Reuben, or Lewis as he was known, was born on November 13th, 1909 at Launceston, to Reuben Lewis (senior) and Emily Ann (nee Sowton) Hicks. His father was a hotel gardner. He married Joanna Marks at Launceston on June 28th, 1935 and they set up home at 6 Priory Cottages, Launceston. Lewis was then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1095,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-44712","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44712"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46657,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44712\/revisions\/46657"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}