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He was educated at Eton and Jesus College, Cambridge.
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He was Chairman of the family firm, Jardine Henderson of Calcutta (closely related to Jardines of Hong Kong), from 1963 to 1967, Chairman of the Indian Jute Mills Association in 1963 and President of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 1966. He joined McLeod Russel Public Limited Company in 1967 and was company chairman from 1979 to 1983. The other sons were David (born 1914), Robert Noël (1916–1995), and Arthur James (born 1918).
Jardine Paterson was born into the family which had founded the Jardine Matheson company, although his branch of the family controlled Jardine, Skinner and Company of Calcutta, the Indian division of Jardines, rather than its main business based in Hong Kong.
Jardine Skinner & Company had been established in 1844 by David Jardine of Balgray and had become a major force in the tea, jute and rubber trades. On 1 October 1939, shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, when he was nineteen, Jardine Paterson received an emergency commission into the Black Watch and served with distinction.
On 23 April 1942, during the war, his father died at the age of 64. He resigned his commission on 17 July 1946 and was granted the honorary rank of Captain.
After leaving the Army, he joined the family firm, by now renamed Jardine Henderson Limited, of Calcutta, and was a director of the company from 1952 to 1967, Chairman from 1963 to 1967.
He was knighted in 1967. A shrewd business man, he had to deal with the tremendous disruptions to trade caused by the partition of India in 1947, and during the years which followed he worked to rebuild the flagging jute industry. He was elected Chairman of the Indian Jute Mills Association in 1963 and President of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 1966.
He then joined McLeod Russel Public Limited Company as a director from 1967 to 1984 and served as company chairman from 1979 to 1983, diversifying the firm"s business into property and North Sea oil.
He died on 12 March 2000.
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He was a member of the Oriental Club and at the time of his death was living in retirement at Norton Bavant Manor in Wiltshire, which had been bought in 1947 by his father-in-law.
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