About Hugh Barton

Sir Hugh David MacEwen Barton (born 1911 in Ireland) is a former Chairman and Managing Director of Jardine, Matheson & Co. from 1953 to 1963. Having joined Jardines in 1933 as a tea taster and climbing the ranks to become Tai-pan in 1953 just at 42 years old. Barton was assigned to several key areas throughout Asia spending most of his time in Shanghai before returning to Hong Kong in 1949 when the group's assets fell under the new Communist regime.

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