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John Gilbert Newton Brown
Sir John Gilbert Newton Brown CBE (7 July 1916 – 3 March 2003) was Publisher of the Oxford University Press and has been credited as one of the great leaders of British publishing throughout its post World War II recovery.
He was born on 7 July 1916 and was educated at Lancing College and Hertford College, Oxford. After university, he travelled to India to join the Oxford University Press at its Bombay branch in 1937. At the outbreak of war, Brown was commissioned into the Bombay
M.P., Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
United Kingdom Knight Bachelor.
- William Wilkinson Addison, D.L., Chairman of Council, The Magistrates' Association.
- Alexander Sandor Alexander, Chairman, Imperial Foods Ltd. For services to the food industry.
- Ralph Ellis Brook, C.M.G., O.B.E., President, Association of British Chambers of Commerce. For services to Export.
- John Gilbert Newton Brown, C.B.E., Publisher, Oxford University Press.
- Thomas Brown, Chairman,