John Mayhew

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Dixon Mayhew (2 October 1884 – 27 January 1954) was a British industrialist, army officer and Conservative Party politician.

He was the son of Horace Mayhew, of Broughton Hall, Flintshire and his first wife Mary Helena Mayhew (née Dixon). He was educated at King William's College on the Isle of Man. By 1913 he had been promoted to the rank of major. When the First World War broke out in 1914 the regiment was mobilised, and saw service on the western Front. The Denbighshire Hussars were converted to infantry as the 24th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Mayhew was wounded in action but stayed in active service, and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1918.

Mayhew died suddenly in January 1954, aged 69.