Andrew Motion Andrew Motion Sir Andrew Motion (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets reading their own work. In 2012, he became President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, taking over from Bill Bryson. Motion was born on 26 October 1952 in London; his mother was Catherine Gillian Bakewell (known as Gillian) and his father Andrew Richard Michael Motion (known as Richard). The family
Andrew Lewis (Royal Navy officer) and Suffolk Water Company. Between 1976 and 1977 he was Chairman of the Royal Navy Club of 1765 & 1785 (United 1889). Lewis was also Lord Lieutenant of Essex from 1978 to 1992. He died in 1993. In 1943 he married Rachel Elizabeth Leatham(died 1983): their elder son is the Very Reverend Christopher Lewis, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and their younger son, David, is a shipbroker. Andrew Lewis (Royal Navy officer) Admiral Sir Andrew Mackenzie Lewis KCB JP (1918–1993) was Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command. Lewis joined the Royal Navy and fought in World War II being mentioned in despatches