Alexander Jonathan Stewart (H, 1968)

The following tribute has been provided by Jo's widow, Bridget.

Jo’s early schooling was rather haphazard, in Warsaw and Aden, before starting at the Junior when he was eight. In spite of his dyslexia and lifelong habit of disregarding rules, he enjoyed his years at College and made great friends.

After school he went to university in Sheffield, where he studied very little but became an accomplished rally driver and committed Sheffield United supporter. Jo’s own degree was in Materials Science but he became more interested in a friend’s food marketing course and charmed his way onto the United Biscuits graduate programme. From then on his career was in food production; he moved to Northern Foods, becoming Chief Executive in his late 40s.

Jo retired at 53 to enjoy himself and spent the following 20 years contentedly dividing his time between the UK and Mallorca.

He was an unusual, brilliant, unconventional character, very much loved by his family and deeply missed. His was a happy life. At the service to celebrate this it was good to have his school friends present: Gordon Lane (H, 1968), Nigel Trethewy (H, 1968), Philip Tuite-Dalton (NH, 1968) and David Bruce OBE (BH, 1966).