OBITUARIES

John Yonge

JOHN Yonge, proprietor of the Quail Map Company, died in a nursing home in January aged 89.

Born in Chester, John was the son of Wing Commander John Yonge, a Second World War pilot, and led a somewhat disrupted childhood because of his father’s various RAF postings in the UK and overseas.

After leaving boarding school, which he hated, John worked for London Transport. In his spare time he qualified as a cartographer and during an extended stay in New Zealand set up the Quail Map Company. He took