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Hugh David MacKewan Barton
(1911–89)


Biographical

Commander of the Order of the British Empire 1966 (UK)
1939–45 War Medal
Defence Medal
Lieutenant-Colonel

Of West Cove House, Castecove, Kerry, and London, Barton attended Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1922 to 1932. He served in the Second World War from 1940 to 1945, joining the Tientsin Irish Guards. He afterwards became active in commerce, trading and banking, holding several senior posts on an international scale, in particular as chairman and managing director of Jardine Matheson & Co. Ltd., Shanghai, from 1955 to 1963.

Place of birth: Sussex, England
Place of marriage: Shanghai

Son of Sidney Barton and Mary MacKewan, he married Rose-Marie Meyer in 1937, and had issue:
• Susannah Kirsten, *1941, married 1964 to Michael Adlington, with issue