Peter Johnson

Sir Peter Colpoys Paley Johnson, 7th Baronet of New York (26 March 1930 – 24 May 2003) was an English soldier, yachting enthusiast, and author.

Early life Johnson was born in London on 26 March 1930. He was the only son of Lt.-Col. Sir John Paley Johnson, 6th Baronet and the former Carol Louise Glorney Haas. From his parents marriage, he had one sibling, Wanda Helene Paley Johnson. His parents divorced in 1939 and his father remarried to Jasmine Lydia Bligh (daughter of Lt.-Col. Hon. Noel Gervase Bligh and granddaughter of Ivo Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley), with whom he had another daughter, Sarah Jack Paley Johnson, Peter's younger half-sister. They divorced in 1947 and he married Joan Rosemary Cohen, daughter of Maj. Arthur Cohen, on 27 September 1949.

He also established the World Speed Sailing Record Council which became "the global authority for the ratification and recording of all such feats."

Personal life On 7 August 1956, Johnson married Clare Bruce, daughter of Nigel Patrick Bruce (a son of Rev. Robert Douglas Bruce) and Audrey Patricia Villiers Clarendon (a daughter of Rev. Owen Samuel Edward Clarendon). Before their divorce in 1972, they were the parents of: Together, they were the parents of one son: on 24 May 2003 after a long fight with cancer. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, Colpoys.