Jock Campbell, Baron Campbell of Eskan

The Right Honourable
The Lord Campbell of Eskan
Portrait by Godfrey Argent (1969)[1]
Born
John Middleton Campbell

8 August 1912
Kensington, London, England
Died26 December 1994(1994-12-26) (aged 82)
Nettlebed, Oxfordshire, England[2]
Education
OccupationBusinessman
Known forChairman of Booker Brothers, McConnell and Co (later Booker-McConnell) in British Guiana
RelativesWilliam Middleton Campbell (grandfather)

John Middleton Campbell, Baron Campbell of Eskan (8 August 1912 – 26 December 1994), commonly known as Jock Campbell,[3] was a British businessman and entrepreneur, who the Chairman of Booker Brothers, McConnell and Co (later Booker-McConnell) in British Guiana (now Guyana) between 1952 and 1967. He was knighted in 1957 and was created a Labour Party life peer on 14 January 1966, taking the title Baron Campbell of Eskan, of Camis Eskan in the County of Dumbarton.[4] He was Chairman of the Commonwealth Sugar Exporters Association (1950–84). He was additionally notable as chairman of Booker McConnell, Chairman of the New Statesman and Nation and the first chairman of the Milton Keynes Development Corporation.

  1. ^ "John ('Jock') Middleton Campbell, Baron Campbell of Eskan (1912-1994), Businessman; instrumental in founding The Booker Prize". National Portrait Gallery.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference ODNB was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Interview with Lord Jock Campbell". The Living Archive. Milton Keynes. n.d.
  4. ^ Alastair Campbell A History of Clan Campbell (Vol. 3, p. 282), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-7486-1790-6