Peter Panton
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Peter Panton (born 30 June 1944) author, journalist, publisher and bookseller is the originator of numerous publications that include language courses, children's books, magazines, videos, CD-ROMs and DVDs. Over the years, he has held umpteen conferences in Italy and abroad and has interviewed numerous celebrities. Peter Panton is a charter member of the Milan Monforte Rotary Club and is a recipient of the prestigious Paul Harris Fellowship Award. He was the Chairman of the International Committee of the Rotary Club for District 2040 in 2001/2002. Luisa Gerli, Panton’s Italian wife was born in Como, Italy and Terence (born 14 May 1969), the Panton’s eldest son, is the Manager of the Palma de Mallorca office of Engel & Völkers, one of the world’s leading estate agents for high-quality residential and commercial properties, on the island of Palma de Mallorca. Terence’s younger brother, Albert Trevor (born 13 June 1970), is the Editor in Chief and Publisher of Yesplease Magazine, the exclusive luxury lifestyle magazine which is distributed worldwide. Peter Panton’s great uncle Sir Philip Noel Panton (1877-1955), was educated at Harrow School. At school with him were two great national figures... Winston Churchill and Leopold Stennett Amery. Sir Philip qualified with the Cambridge University M.D. degee in 1903. He became an eminent clinical pathologist to The London Hospital and was a Louis Jenner research scholar in Pathology at [1] St. Thomas’s Hospital. He worked at the Ministry of Health from 1939 to 1949. Peter Panton’s great, great grandmother, Sir Philip’s mother Jane Ellen Panton, was a professional interior decorator to the upper middle class, a profession which had not really existed before the Victorian era. She was the daughter of William Powell Frith RA, regarded as the pre-eminently "Victorian" artist (1819-1909).
