John Ogden

John Ogden was first a professional soldier who helped give away the British Empire, and then an advertising man who helped to build and sustain commercial empires.

In 1952 he was commissioned into the King's Shopshire Light Infantry, with whom he served in various parts of the world until he resigned his commission in 1964.

He then joined J Walter Thompson in London, moving, in the 1980s to Ogilvy & Mather. He now lives in Oxfordshire.