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Fred Lomas-started at the Dack's Shoe Factory Toronto, in 1928. In 1964, he was appointed President and Managing Director. He continued to direct the company's operations until 1975 and remained on the board as Vice-Chairman until he retired in 1978 after 50 years of service. During his years of service, he maintained and furthered the high standards of quality fit and customer service the Dack family had made famous. Today, with the assistance of Fred Lomas, Dack's can proudly say, "Shoemakers to Canada's best dressed men since 1834".

Jonathan Lomas- is the inaugural Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, a nationally endowed organization founded in 1997 to improve the relevance and use of health services research in health system decision making.

Dr. Robert Lomas- author and co-author of several books such as Freemasonry and the Birth of Modern Science, The Hiram Key, The Second Messiah, The Holy Grail and Uriel's Machine. These are books that are a "must read" for free thinkers.   www.robertlomas.com

Robert Lomas- was born in 1872 at Bury, Lancs. He was Bob Pender of "THE PENDER TROUPE". Touring from 1911 to 1921, the Troupe was a group of performers who traveled extensively throughout the U.S. and the U.K. The most famous member of the group was Archibald Leach, later to become well known as the actor Cary Grant.

Harold Mease Lomas- is a Chemist-turned-amateur photographer of great skill, with a particular interest in photographing hunting scenes. Around 1902 he first approached Charles Urban with the idea of making hunting films along similar lines to his photographic studies. Of these, the recently rediscovered Hunting the Red Deer with the Devon and Somerset Staghounds. Filmed by Lomas in 1904, it is a brilliantly photographed and edited work, if appalling in its detail. He filmed animal studies for Urban while managing the darkrooms of the Charles Urban Trading Company for a short while, and undertook three filming trips to British North Borneo in 1903, 1904 and 1908. He travelled widely as an independent filmmaker, made other 'sporting' films, and in 1914 wrote a technical guide to film studio work, Picture Play Photography. In 1920 he became cameraman for Adrian Brunel's Minerva Films, making comedy shorts that starred Leslie Howard, before joining British Instructional Films in 1921 and filming some of the famous Secrets of Nature series, alongside another former Urban cameraman, Percy Smith.

Joe Lomas- is the Founder and CEO of Flashpoint Racing www.flashpointracing.com, the largest online NASCAR racing leagues in the world. He was frustrated with the lack of respect and manners and lack of skill of existing online racing leagues. The frustration inspired this Sacramento-area resident to start Flashpoint. Now, eight servers later, Flashpoint has over 800 racers and gets over 14,000 hits a day.

Joe Lomas- was a Member of John Philip Sousa's Band 1910-1911   Sousa Band Roster

David Lomas- Want to charter a helicopter or use the facilities of a heliport? Contact David at:   www.lomashelicopters.co.uk

Alan Lomax- and his father, pioneering folklorist John A. Lomax, first developed the Library of Congress' Archive of American Folksong as a major national resource in the early 1930s. Alan Lomax has been called "The Father of the American Folksong Revival," for his subsequent work as an ethnomusicologist, record producer and network radio host/writer. He first presented Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Burl Ives, and Pete Seeger to a national audience on his radio programs in the '30s and '40s. As a radio producer and field recordist at the BBC, he sparked a British folksong revival, which soon fueled the British pop-rock Invasion. He also assembled the first recorded overview of world folksong for Columbia Records.

As an anthropologist of the performing arts (for Columbia University and Hunter College), Alan Lomax produced a multimedia interactive database called The Global Jukebox, which surveys the relationship between dance, song, and human history. The author/producer of many books, scientific articles, films, and record releases, Lomax has been a passionate advocate of "cultural equity", a principle which proposes to reverse the centralization of communication and give equal media time to the whole range of human cultures. After six decades of "folk song hunting" Alan retired in 1996. Allan Lomax passed away on July 19, 2002.   www.alan-lomax.com

Note: Along with Kenny Loggins, Roger Lomas and Alan Lomax are listed on the Encyclopedia of Recording Producers and Artists web site. Lomas produced "The Selecter" and Lomax produced "Muddy Waters".

Jackie Lomax- was born 10th May 1944 in Cheshire, England. A guitarist and vocalist, he was a member of The Undertakers; The 'Takers, 1964; The Mersey Lads; The Lost Souls; The Lomax Alliance; Heavy Jelly, 1968. Session for Rod Stewart, 1980. Veteran of one of Merseybeats biggest combos (The Undertakers), Lomax had survived five residencies in Hamburg before trying to break into America with various bands. Managed by Brian Epstein until his death, Lomax was quickly taken under the corporate wing of The Beatles and was one of their first signings to Apple. No amount of money and influential friends could help make his career.

William "Billy" Lomas- (1885 to 1976), a former English footballer

Jamie "Jay" Lomas- (b. 1980), an English actor

Kenneth Lomas- 1922-2000, an English politician

Bill Lomas- 1928-2007, a former English Grand Prix motorcycle racer

Jonathan Lomas- (b. 1968), an English professional golfer

Mark Christopher Lomas- (b. 1970), an English cricketeer

Stephen Lomas- (b. 1974), football coach and former Northern Ireland international player

Roberto Lomas- English writer and business studies academic

Mark Arnold Lomas- (b. 1948), a former NFL Defensive Lineman

Stanley A. Lomas- (1913-2003) an American pioneer in television since 1948

www.rogerlomas.com

Dr. Marian Lomas and Dr. Joe Lomas

www.margaretlomas.com

www.marklomas.com

www.fosterlomas.com

www.andylomas.com

David Lomas Family Tree

www.ssnerissa.com -The only troopship to loose Canadian troops en route to England in WW II. Also, on the passenger list of civilian casualties was a Lomas family.

According to the Applegate Directory, the Top People in UK industry as at June 2003:
Lomas, Brendan: Manager- Consort Engineering (Aston-Under-Lyne) Ltd
Lomas, Chris: Manager- Kenard Engineering Co Ltd
Lomas, David: Manager- GW Lomas and Sons
Lomas, Ian: Sales Director- Lomas Engineering Ltd
Lomas, John: Sales and Marketing Director- E Collinson and Co Ltd
Lomas, Pete: Director- Engineering: Norcott Technologies
Lomas, Peter: Managing Director- Lomas Engineering Ltd
Lomas, RT: Manager- PJ Douglas Engineering Ltd
Lomax, K.: Managing Director- Nelsa Ltd
Lomax, Keith: Sales Director- Forgemasters Steel and Engineering Ltd
Lomax, Mike: Sales and Marketing Director- Bosch Rexroth Ltd
Lomax, Stuart: Managing Director- AVG Instrumentation North West Ltd
Lomax, Stuart: Managing Director- Alco Hi-Tek Ltd
Lomax, Stuart A.: Managing Director- Alco Valves Ltd
Lomax, Terry: Commercial Manager- The Rossendale Combining Co Ltd

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