Charles_Johnston,_Baron_Johnston_of_Rockport

Charles Johnston, Baron Johnston of Rockport

Charles Johnston, Baron Johnston of Rockport

Add article description

Charles Collier Johnston, Baron Johnston of Rockport, TD (4 March 1915 – 30 April 2002) was a British Conservative politician and businessman.

The son of Charles Moore Johnston and Muriel Florence Mellon was educated at Rockport School in County Down and in Tonbridge School in Kent. From 1948 to 1976 Johnston was managing director and 1951 to 1977 Chairman of Standex International Ltd. In 1980, he was official observer of the elections in Zimbabwe.

He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery, reaching the rank of Captain. Having been knighted in 1973,[1] he was created a life peer as Baron Johnston of Rockport, of Caversham in the Royal County of Berkshire on 30 March 1987.[2]

Johnston had married twice, Audrey Boyes in 1939 and Yvonne Shearman in 1981. He had two sons from his first wife.

References

  1. [1]
    "No. 46042". The London Gazette. 31 July 1973. p. 9035.
  2. [2]
    "No. 50879". The London Gazette. 3 April 1987. p. 4493.



Stub icon

This biography of a life peer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub icon

This article about a British businessperson born in the 1910s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Charles_Johnston,_Baron_Johnston_of_Rockport, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.