Peter St John, 9th Earl of Orkney

The Right Honourable
The Earl of Orkney
The Right Honourable The Earl of Orkney
Born	Oliver Peter St John; 27 February 1938 (age 86); Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Spouses	Mary Juliet Scott-Brown (m. 1963; div. 1985); Barbara Huck (m. 1985);
Academic background
University College, London University of Manitoba;
Main interests	Terrorism

Oliver Peter St John, 9th Earl of Orkney^[a] (born 27 February 1938) is the current Earl of Orkney, and the son of Frederick Oliver St John whose parents were Sir Frederic Robert and Lady St. John (née Isabella Annie FitzMaurice).^[2]^[3]

He is a retired Canadian

professor of political studies. He retired from academia in 1998, the year he succeeded to the Earldom of Orkney, and was appointed a senior scholar by Manitoba.^[4]^[3]^[5]

Personal life

In 1963, St John married Mary Juliet Scott-Brown.

née Albertson).^[4] His second marriage brought four step-children.^[4] As a male-line descendant of the 3rd Viscount Bolingbroke

, he is also in remainder to this title.

Selected works

St. John, Peter (1977). Fireproof House to Third Option: Studies in the Theory and Practise of Canadian Foreign Policy. Winnipeg, Manitoba: University of Manitoba.
St. John, Peter, ed. (1984). Mackenzie King to Philosopher King: Canadian Foreign Policy in a Modern Age. Winnipeg, Manitoba: University of Manitoba Press.
St. John, Peter (1991). Air Piracy, Airport Security, and International Terrorism: Winning the War Against Hijackers. New York: Quorum Books.
ISBN 978-0899304137
.

St. John, Peter, ed. (2005). From the Great War to the Global Village: A Window on the World. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Heartland Associates.
ISBN 978-1896150239
.

Notes

^ Pronounced SIN-jun.^[1]

References

^ "Exploring Manitoba's Ice Age Legacy". Winnipeg, Manitoba: Heartland International Travel & Tours. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
^ "Earls of Orkney". Retrieved 29 October 2021. Oliver Peter St John, 9th Earl of Orkney (b. 1938), son of Frederick Oliver St John, son of Isabella Annie Fitzmaurice, daughter of the Hon. James Terence Fitzmaurice, fifth son of the fifth Earl of Orkney.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Orkney, Earl of (S, 1695/6)". Cracrofts Peerage. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
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doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U28956
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