Hon. Hugh de Beauchamp Lawson Johnston, (1914-2002)
Michael Rhodes
Bovril, and of Pitman Ltd, died 12 October, 2002, aged 88, following a
fall.
Hugh Lawson Johnston was a younger son of the 1st Lord Luke, KBE, by
his wife the Hon Edith St John, daughter of the 16th Lord St John of
Bletso.
He was educated at Eton and Chillon College, & Corpus Christi,
Cambridge, &c.
Career: Captain, 5th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment[TA Reserve];
with Bovril, 1935-71 [finally as Chairman]; Chairman Tribune
Investment Trust Ltd, 1950-86; Pitman Ltd [chairman to 1981]; Chairman
of committees, United Society for Christian Literature, 1949-82; High
Sheriff of Bedfordshire, 1961-2.
He married in 1946, Audrey Warren, daughter of Colonel Frederick
Warren Pearl, by whom he had three daughters, Primrose, Juliet &
Marguerite.
He was the author of *Argentina Revisited*, adn was appointed a Deputy
Lieutenant for Bedfordshire in 1964.
The funeral took place at Melchbourne, 17 October, 2002.
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Michael Rhodes.
Michael Rhodes
> The Hon. Hugh de Beauchamp Lawson Johnston, TD, DL, former Chairman of
> Bovril, and of Pitman Ltd, died 12 October, 2002, aged 88, following a
> fall.
Here's a morsel stating that one of Hugh's Lawson Johnston ancestors
invented Bovril in the 19th Century:-
Bovril
*Bovril (Ox-strength) is a preparation of lean beef from which the
water, about 75 per cent., has been excluded; and the albumen and
fibrine, the nutritive parts retained by processes gradually invented
by Lawson Johnston, who began his experimental researches in Canada in
1872.*