John Lindow Calderwood

John Lindow Calderwood CBE (22 January 1888 – 7 February 1960) was an English solicitor, a British Army officer and an independent politician in Wiltshire, in the west of England.

He was educated at St Bees School and later at Caius College, Cambridge, where he matriculated on 1 October 1906.

Calderwood was for several years a member of the Committee of the Wiltshire Victoria County History and briefly served as its chairman in 1959–1960.

He died at Swindon on 7 February 1960, at the age of 72,[1] and the next volume of A History of the County of Wiltshire to appear noted that Alderman W. R. Robins, the first Chairman of the Committee, died in 1959, shortly after his resignation from the Committee, and his successor, Alderman J. L. Calderwood, in 1960.

Both of them played a vital part in forming the Committee and in guiding its early steps beneficently.