John Wynne William PEYTON

#3753, John Wynne William PEYTON

Born 1919 in London
Died 2006 in Wandsworth, London
Education Eton and Trinity College, Oxford
Father Ivor Eliot PEYTON (1864 - 1938)
Mother Dorothy Helen ELPHINSTONE (1888 - 1977)

Life Peer created UK 1983. Baron Peyton and his second wife Mary Wyndham had no children together.

Conservative MP for Yeovil for 32 years. John took up a commission in the 15/19 Hussars in 1939 on the outbreak of WW2. He was sent to France but was captured in Belgium in May 1940 and spent 5 years in German prisoner of war camps. He was liberated by American troops in late 1945.

He is buried in Somerset.

Timeline

Born

Death of Father, Ivor Eliot PEYTON

Married Diana CLINCH in (Diss 1966) Johannesburg, South Africa

Birth of Daughter, Sarah Grenville PEYTON

Birth of Son, Thomas (Tom) Richard D PEYTON

Birth of Son, Charles Michael Eliot PEYTON

Death of Son, Charles Michael Eliot PEYTON

Married Mary Constance WYNDHAM

Death of Mother, Dorothy Helen ELPHINSTONE

Died 2006