Christopher Louis McIntosh Johnson (12 June 1931 – 14 December 2012) was a journalist and economist.
Born in Thornton Heath, London, the son of Donald McIntosh Johnson, the Conservative MP, Christopher Johnson was educated at Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
[1] He completed his national service in the Royal Hampshire Regiment and the Education Corps before being placed on the reserve list.
On 14 October 1950, while on the reserve list, he was appointed a Second lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery.
He then joined the Financial Times, becoming managing editor and then director of business enterprises.