John Dewar, 2nd Baron Forteviot

John Dewar, 2nd Baron Forteviot OBE MC TD FRSE DL JP (1885-1947) was a Scottish businessman and soldier, notable as being head of the whisky giant Dewar's and of the Distillers Company and a Director of the Bank of Scotland.

He was born on 17 March 1885 the eldest child and only son of Sir John Dewar, 1st Baron Forteviot and his wife Johann (Joan) Tod. His uncle (his father’s brother) was Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar. He was sent to Rugby School in England as a boarder, followed by New College at Oxford University (but did not graduate).

In the First World War he served as a Colonel in the Scottish Horse Regiment, serving in the Balkans, Gallipoli and Egypt. He won the Military Cross for bravery.

From 1922 to 1924 he served as Lord Provost of Perth and was also Deputy Lieutenant of Perthshire. On the death of his father in 1929 he succeeded to the title of Baron Forteviot. He also held the title of Brigadier in the Royal Company of Archers, the monarch’s official bodyguard in Scotland. In 1943, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Watt, Sidney Lord Elphinstone, James Pickering Kendall, and John Edwin MacKenzie.

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