Ian Bowater

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ian Frank Bowater (16 December 1904 – 1 October 1982) served as Lord Mayor of London from 1969 to 1970.

The youngest son of Sir Frank Bowater, 1st Baronet (Lord Mayor from 1938 to 1939), and Ethel Anita Fryar, he was educated at Eton, then Magdalen College, Oxford.

During the Second World War, he served with distinction reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel in the service of the Royal Artillery (Territorial Army), for which he was decorated with the awards of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in 1945 and the Territorial Decoration (TD).

Bowater later served as Lord Mayor of London between 1969 and 1970 and was invested as an Knight of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (KStJ) and as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in 1970.

In 1966, Bowater received the Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria.