John Walgrave Halford Fremantle, 4th Baron Cottesloe, 5th Baron Fremantle, GBE, Territorial Decoration was a British aristocrat and public official
Background
John Fremantle was born on 2 March 1900. He was the son of Colonel Thomas Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe and his wife Frances Tapling. Frances Tapling was the daughter of industrialist Thomas Tapling Senior and sister of Member of Parliament Thomas Keay Tapling Junior.
He was educated at Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Education
Eton College; Trinity College.
Career
He served as the Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain and the South Bank Theatre Board. He rowed for the Cambridge University Boat Club in the both the Boat Race of 1921 and the Boat Race of 1922, winning both times, and graduated from Cambridge in 1925 with a Master of Arts (Master of Arts). He served as Lieutenant-Colonel of the 21st LAA Regiment, Royal Artillery from 1939 to 1965 and served in World World War II, being awarded the Territorial Decoration.
He was a Conservative Party member of the London County Council representing Hampstead from 1945-1955.
He succeeded to the title Baron Fremantle and Baron Cottesloe on the death of his father on 19 July 1956. He was Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain from 1960 to 1965.
The Cottesloe, one of the three theatres at the National Theatre complex in London, was named in his honour. Personal life and death
He died in 1994.
Membership
At Cambridge, he was a member of the University Pitt Club.