John Ormond (farmer)

Defunct Sir John Davies Wilder Ormond BEM JP (8 September 1905 – 8 March 1995) was a businessman and farmer from New Zealand.

During the 1930s he "...was a leading proponent of the New Zealand Legion..."[2] a radical, right-wing party, but when this proved ineffective he stood in the 1935 election, in the Waipawa electorate as an Independent Reformer.

[6] During World War II, he served in Greece, and received the British Empire Medal for diving off a troopship attempting to rescue a drowning man.

Wounded in action he was invalided back to New Zealand, where he served as instructor and rose to the rank of army captain.

In the 1964 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Knight Bachelor, in recognition of his role as chairman of the Meat Producers Board.