Titled travel agent

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33551, 4 June 1974, Page 14

Titled travel agent

Mr K. St John, founder and chairman of the Atlantic and Pacific Travel group of companies, has succeeded to the family title as the seventh Viscount Bolingbroke.

Lord Bolingbroke began the business in Christchurch in 1956. For the last six years he has been developing the Australian side of the business, which now has. offices in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane.

Lord Bolingbroke’s other interests include the running of three large cruisers on Sydney Harbour—of which the most recentlv launched is the Bennelong. built at a cost of $200,000; a duty free shop, a shareholding'in the coach firm, Pioneer Midland, Ltd, and a substantial interest in Midland Coachlines, Ltd, which runs 140 coaches and 1200 rental cars. I

Lord Bolingbroke is a past president of the Travel Agents’ Association of New Zealand, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Travel, and a director of the World Association of Travel Agencies.

Educated at Eton and Geneva University, Lord Bolingbroke is directly descended from William de St John, who entered England with William the Conqueror in 1066 as Grand Master of the Artillery and Supervisor of the Waggons and Carriages. Other distinguished forebears include Oliver St John, who was made Lord Deputy lof Ireland in 1616; Henry St I John, the first Viscount Boli ingbroke. who was the Foreign Secretary to Queen Anne until he was banished for his Jacobean sympathies; and another St John. Lady Margaret Beaufort, who became the mother of Henry VII. Lord Bolingbroke is mar-1 ried to the former Miss; i Jainey Mcßae, of Timaru. He'

has a son, Oliver John, by this marriage and a 17-year-old son. Henry, by a previous marriage.