Daniel Day-Lewis the second child of poet Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972) and his second wife, actress Jill Balcon (1925–2009). His older sister, Tamasin Day-Lewis (born 1953), is a television chef and food critic. His father, who was born in the Irish town of Ballintubbert, County Laois, was of Protestant Anglo-Irish descent, lived in England from the age of two, and was appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. Daniel's mother was Jewish; her ancestors were immigrants to England in the late 19th century, from Latvia and Poland. Day-Lewis' maternal grandfather, Sir Michael Balcon, became the head of Ealing Studios, helping develop the new
John Lewis (typographer) in the UK and Reinhold in the US, including authors such as Peter Cook, Theo Crosby, Alan Fletcher, Ken Garland, Bob Gill, Norman Potter, David Pye, Paul Rand and Alison and Peter Smithson. The John Lewis Printing Collection of more than 20,000 items from the fifteenth to the twentieth century is held at Reading University. John Lewis (typographer) John Lewis (1912-1996) was a printer, illustrator and collector of printed ephemera. He was educated at Charterhouse and Goldsmiths', where his contemporaries included Denton Welch and Carel Weight. Lewis taught graphic design at the Royal College of Art from 1951 to 1963.