Brian Lawson Salmon

Brian Lawson Salmon CBE (30 June 1917 – June 2001), was a British businessman, the chairman of J. Lyons and Co. from 1972 to 1977, and the author of the Salmon Report on senior nursing staff structures and training.

Early life Salmon was born on 30 June 1917, and educated at Malvern College.

Career

Catering and hospitality Salmon worked initially as a kitchen trainee and then as a food buyer in the family firm of Lyons.

Health services From 1949, Salmon chaired the catering committee of Westminster Hospital. He later joined the hospital's governing body.

In the 1960s, Salmon was appointed to chair the Salmon Report on senior nursing staff structures and training, which became "one of the bases of the modern profession".

From 1974 to 1977, Salmon was the chair of Camden and Islington Area Health Authority. He also worked with the Tavistock Institute, the Royal College of Nursing and the London & Provincial Nursing Trust.

Later life In 1972, he was appointed a CBE. On his retirement in 1977, he was succeeded as chairman by his brother Neil Salmon, who merged Lyons with Allied Breweries to become Allied Lyons.

Personal life In 1946, Salmon married Annette Mackay, and they had two sons and a daughter. He died in June 2001, aged 83 or 84.