SAVILIANS ON SAVILIANS – DAVID LEWIS ON LORD KALMS. CHAIRED by JEREMY BARLOW

Stanley Kalms began working for his father’s company Dixons, later Currys PLC, from 1948, helping to develop the brand from a single photography studio into a major retail chain that sold electronic equipment, TVs, stereos, computers and appliances.  He became chairman and life president of the group, which also owned the electronic retailers Currys and PCWorld.

He was knighted in 1996 and raised to the peerage in 2004.  He was Treasurer of the Conservative Party 2001/2003.  He was a member of the Savile Club from 2005.

David Lewis is a Chartered Surveyor and chairman of various privately controlled investment companies.  His family interests include the Schorr Collection which is a wide-ranging collection of works of art of which a significant proportion is on loan to public bodies, museums and institutions in the UK and abroad.  A full catalogue of the Old Master and 19th century collections was published in 2013 and three addenda in 2022, 2023 and 2025.

He has been a member of the Savile Club since 1996 and is currently the senior trustee.