John Barnard Bush

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John Bush
Born5 February 1937 [1]
Marlborough, Wiltshire, England

John Barnard Bush CVO OBE KStJ (born 5 February 1937) is an English farmer and landowner. He was a Justice of the Peace, a High Sheriff of Wiltshire, and finally Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire from 2004 to 2012.

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As non-executive chairman of West Midland Farmers Association Ltd, an agricultural co-operative, he oversaw its conversion into Countrywide Farmers PLC.

Early life

The son of Barnard Robert Swanton Bush, of Norton St Philip, Somerset, and of Elizabeth Bush (née Weeks), Bush was educated at Monkton Combe School and Balliol College, Oxford, graduating BA and MA. [2]

Career

Bush is a career farmer, owning a mixed farm at Heywood in western Wiltshire. He was appointed as a Justice of the Peace for Wiltshire in 1980. [2]

From 1995 to 1999 he was non-executive chairman of West Midland Farmers Association Ltd, a regional agricultural co-operative based in Melksham, Wiltshire. He oversaw its demutualisation in 1999 to become Countrywide Farmers plc, a farming, equestrian and rural supplies firm, continuing as chairman until 2004, shortly before the business moved its base to Upton-upon-Severn. When he retired from the post, Countrywide Farmers had 11,000 farmer shareholders and an annual turnover of £150 million. [2] [3]

Bush served as Chairman of the Bristol Avon Flood Defences Committee from 1981 to 2000 and was a Governor of Lackham College between 1986 and 1998. [2] He was High Sheriff of Wiltshire for 1997–1998, [4] and was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of the county in 1998. [5] He served as Chairman of the Wiltshire Magistrates' Courts Committee from 2001 to 2005. [2]

In 2004, Bush was appointed as Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire. [6] He retired in 2012, at the age of seventy-five, to be succeeded by Sarah Rose Troughton, a cousin of the Queen. [7] As Lord Lieutenant, he was also custos rotulorum, and his public duties included overseeing the arrangements for visits to Wiltshire by members of the royal family, representing the Queen at local events, such as presenting awards and medals on her behalf, liaising with the Wiltshire units of the Royal Navy, Army, and Air Force; leading the local magistracy as Chairman of the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Justices of the Peace; and advising on nominations for national honours. [8]

Bush is currently Patron of the Community Foundation for Wiltshire and Swindon, Chairman of Fredericks Wiltshire, and a Trustee of the Devizes Assize Courts Trust. His other interests have included chairing the Wiltshire Historic Buildings Trust and the Wiltshire Bobby Van Trust.

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Personal life

On 30 December 1961, Bush married Pamela Eve Irene Bagwell, the daughter of Lieutenant-Commander William Bagwell RN of Clonmel, County Tipperary and of Evelyn Irene Hamilton Wills, the only child of Sir Frederick Wills, 1st Baronet. They have two children, Alexander Hugh Barnard Bush (called Alex, born 4 October 1964) and Carolyn Louise Bush (called Carly, and born 18 July 1967). [15] [16] [17] They also have five grandchildren, Morgan, Jasmine, Scarlett, Thomas and Lucy.

Pamela Bush died in 2021. [18]

Honorary titles
Preceded by Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire
2004–2012		Succeeded by

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References

  1. ↑ Countywide Farmers Ltd, New Director appointed, company-information.service.gov.uk, 26 May 1999, accessed 17 September 2021
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 BUSH, John Barnard, in Who's Who 2009 , A & C Black, 2008
  3. ↑ "2005 Annual Report and Accounts" (PDF). Countrywide Farmers. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 February 2007. Retrieved 6 October 2008. Pages 2, 9
  4. ↑ The London Gazette , Issue 54715, 25 March 1997, p. 3622
  5. ↑ London Gazette, 10 July 1998, page 7540 Archived 31 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine (Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Wiltshire on 1 July 1998)
  6. ↑ David Andrew, Meet John ... the Queen's new man, thisiswiltshire.co.uk, 20 October 2004], accessed 2 August 2007
  7. ↑ Morwenna Blake, Queen appoints new Lord Lieutenant, Salisbury Journal , 3 December 2011, accessed 7 May 2012
  8. ↑ The history and duties of Lord-Lieutenants, westsussexlieutenancy.org.uk, accessed 14 March 2021
  9. ↑ London Gazette, 25 March 1997, pages 3621–2
  10. ↑ London Gazette, 10 July 1998, page 7540 Archived 31 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ↑ The Daily Telegraph, Queen's Birthday Honours List, 16 June 2004
  12. ↑ London Gazette, Notice: 1001 (Issue: 57490), 9 December 2004: "The QUEEN has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm dated 10 November 2004 to appoint John Barnard Bush, Esquire, OBE, to be Lord-Lieutenant of and in the County of Wiltshire."
  13. ↑ London Gazette, Notice: 1002 (Issue: 57714), 27 July 2005
  14. ↑ "No. 60009". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2011. p. 3.
  15. ↑ The Times, 1 January 1962; pg. 12; col B
  16. ↑ John Barnard Bush, thepeerage.com
  17. ↑ Montgomery-Massingberd, H., ed., Burke's Irish Family Records (London: Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1976), p. 50
  18. ↑ Bush
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