Brian Lawson Salmon CBE (30 June 1917 – June 2001), was a British businessman, the chairman of J. Lyons and Co. from 1972 to 1977, and the author of the Salmon Report on senior nursing staff structures and training.
[2][3] Salmon worked initially as a kitchen trainee and then as a food buyer in the family firm of Lyons.
[3] He was the catering officer for the Indian sub-continent when there were "minor mutinies" over food complaints.
[1] He returned to the UK with jaundice and worked in the bakery and then hotel divisions of Lyons, before joining the governing board in 1961.
[1][3] From 1974 to 1977, Salmon was the chair of Camden and Islington Area Health Authority.