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John Ogdon Lant of Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7TT UK was born in 1948 in Yately, Hampshire, United Kingdom. Adopted by Denis (a London lawyer and Minister of Religion) and Meg Lant a teacher, his father was a Minister in the Baptist Church of Henfield Sussex. A sister Mary who emigrated to Montreal in 1967 (now Mrs Mary Flegel) is married to a Canadian Physician, Kenneth Flegel MD working at McGill University. His father later moved to Dublin Street Baptist Church in Edinburgh where he remained until his semi-retirement in Oxford and a conversion to Rome.

After school at the Edinburgh Academy while living in the city, John completed his secondary education from an Oxfordshire home at Gordonstoun School before attending St Andrews University in Scotland to read Chemistry. After graduation at the British School of Osteopathy in London, John became Head of Practice in an Osteopaths’ Group Practice in Cambridge, UK, after a period in an inner city clinic in Birmingham UK.

He firstly married Rosemary (née Willey) a primary teacher at Solihull, daughter of a Birmingham Police Superintendent at Aston, with three children Fiona, Katrina and James. After a divorce in 1984 John married Vicki Lee (née Simpson), an education leadership consultant, from which union Sophie and Simon Lant arose.

Other current management and leadership posts in healthcare and public service are the Complementary & Natural Healthcare Council Member & Member of Professional Standards Committee, Family Mediation Council - Lay Member, Dentist’s and General Mutual Benefit Society, Director - non-executive and Chairman of Resources & Marketing Committee, Bowen Forum, Chairman, appointed by the Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health to 2010, Expert Witness for law firms in London, Plymouth and Edinburgh, Kneesworth House Psychiatric Hospital - Managers’ Detention Review of Renewal/Review/Appeal of Detention under Section 35 and others, of the Mental Health Act 2008, Anglia Ruskin University, Degree Course Curriculum Steering Group, Cambridgeshire Continuing Professional Development Group – Education Convenor.

John was a member of the General Osteopathic Council (Osteopaths Act 1994) a Privy Council appointment to the first Council, UK College of Family Mediators, Lord Chancellor’s Appointment - Chairman, Nutritional Therapy Council, Chair, British Council for Yoga Therapy, Chair, The Osteopath - Co-editor, The Osteopathic Association of Great Britain - Executive Director, Osteopathy Today - Editor, Cambridgeshire Consultancy in Counselling - Chair of Management Group & Trustees, English Sinfonia - Vice Chair, Cambridgeshire Osteopaths Group - Chair, British School of Osteopathy - Director & Trustee, John Ogdon Foundation - Chairman & Trustee, Director of Eastern Touring Agency, Arts Council of England, Eastern Region - Chairman (non-executive) & Trustee, Cambridge Music Therapy Appeal Anglia Polytechnic University / Anglia Ruskin University - Trustee, Cambridge Arts Theatre Appeal - Committee Member.

John has learned later in life that his mother Ruth Ogdon, was the brother of the English pianist and composer John Ogdon, who died in 1989.