Sir Peter Colpoys Paley Johnson, 7th Baronet of New York (26 March 1930 – 24 May 2003) was an English soldier, yachting enthusiast, and author.
He was the only son of Lt.-Col. Sir John Paley Johnson, 6th Baronet and the former Carol Louise Glorney Haas.
His parents divorced in 1939 and his father remarried to Jasmine Lydia Bligh (daughter of Lt.-Col. Hon.
[1] Johnson was commissioned an officer in the Royal Artillery in 1949, serving in Egypt and Cyprus before he retired with the rank of Captain in 1961.
[1] After the Army, he worked for a few years for the Bordon Chemical Co., before becoming director of Sea Sure Ltd., a yacht fittings manufacturing company in 1965.