BARTON, (Robert) John Orr 1944-2021
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Richard R
Dec 7, 2021, 6:33:23 AM12/7/21
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Obit from the Times of 7 Dec 2021:
John Barton obituary
Chairman of easyJet and Ted Baker who described himself as boorish yet liked to hear the opinions of others in the boardroom
...Robert John Orr Barton was born in Lahore, now in Pakistan, in 1944, the son of Ken Barton, a farmer, and his wife Elizabeth (née Orr), known as Judy, a doctor with the Indian army; he had a sister Anne Marie, who predeceased him, and a brother, Callum, a retired executive who lives in Switzerland. After the war they settled in Angus, Scotland, where his parents bought a farm next to one owned by Lord Boyd-Orr, his maternal grandfather, who was an authority on nutrition, introduced free milk into British schools and won the 1949 Nobel peace prize.
...Through squash he met Anne Coffey, a nurse, and they were married in 1972. She survives him with two sons, Will, a director of an IT company, and Sam, a City fund manager, and a daughter, Lucy, a commercial finance director. He often took his eldest grandson to watch Chelsea and was never without a supply of Maltesers, which miraculously appeared in his grandchildren’s ears...
John Barton, chairman of easyJet and Ted Baker, was born on August 23, 1944. He died suddenly on December 4, 2021, aged 77
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/john-barton-obituary-g0xcvfwcv
He was s of Lt-Col Kenneth Alfred John BARTON 1914- and Hon ELizabeth Joan Boyd ORR 1916-87 d of 1st & only Baron BOYD-ORR CH DSO MC 1880-1971 and Elizabeth Pearson [1878]-1980 d of John Bainbridge CALLUM of West Kilbride. He m 1972 Anne Marie COFFEY [?b 1947 ref 644/4 1235 Provan] and had two sons and a dau as above.
John Barton obituary
Chairman of easyJet and Ted Baker who described himself as boorish yet liked to hear the opinions of others in the boardroom
...Robert John Orr Barton was born in Lahore, now in Pakistan, in 1944, the son of Ken Barton, a farmer, and his wife Elizabeth (née Orr), known as Judy, a doctor with the Indian army; he had a sister Anne Marie, who predeceased him, and a brother, Callum, a retired executive who lives in Switzerland. After the war they settled in Angus, Scotland, where his parents bought a farm next to one owned by Lord Boyd-Orr, his maternal grandfather, who was an authority on nutrition, introduced free milk into British schools and won the 1949 Nobel peace prize.
...Through squash he met Anne Coffey, a nurse, and they were married in 1972. She survives him with two sons, Will, a director of an IT company, and Sam, a City fund manager, and a daughter, Lucy, a commercial finance director. He often took his eldest grandson to watch Chelsea and was never without a supply of Maltesers, which miraculously appeared in his grandchildren’s ears...
John Barton, chairman of easyJet and Ted Baker, was born on August 23, 1944. He died suddenly on December 4, 2021, aged 77
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/john-barton-obituary-g0xcvfwcv
He was s of Lt-Col Kenneth Alfred John BARTON 1914- and Hon ELizabeth Joan Boyd ORR 1916-87 d of 1st & only Baron BOYD-ORR CH DSO MC 1880-1971 and Elizabeth Pearson [1878]-1980 d of John Bainbridge CALLUM of West Kilbride. He m 1972 Anne Marie COFFEY [?b 1947 ref 644/4 1235 Provan] and had two sons and a dau as above.
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