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Andrew Beauchamp St John, 21st Baron St John of Bletso TD (23 August 1918 – 11 February 1978) was an English peer. He was the third son of Rowland Tudor St John (third son of

Beauchamp St John, 17th Baron St John of Bletso Beauchamp Moubray St John, 17th Baron St John of Bletso (4 December 1844 – 10 May 1912) was an English peer. St John was born at Melchbourne, the second son of St Andrew St John, 15th Baron St John of Bletso and his wife Eleanor Hussey. He serv ...

) and Katherine Madge Lockwood (second daughter of Sir Frank Lockwood). He was educated at

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Wellington College Register 1859-1962 page 266 from 1932 to 1935 and joined the

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in 1937. He served in the

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, and was later a Lt-Colonel in the

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(TA), commanding the Tower Hamlets Regiment (TA) from 1951 to 1954. He was awarded the

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. After the war he was living at Old Deer Park Gardens Richmond with his parents, and in 1955 married Katherine Berg, daughter of Alfred Berg. He emigrated to South Africa in 1957 where he joined Syfret's Trust Company in

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. He became the 21st Baron St John on the death of his cousin in 1976 but only lived to enjoy it for one year.

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* Burke's Baronetage & Peerage {{DEFAULTSORT:Saint John of Bletso, Andrew, 21st Baron 1918 births 1978 deaths British expatriates in South Africa People from Cape Town

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