John Geoffrey Rowe Orchard (1903 – 5 January 1952) was an English chartered accountant and Conservative Party politician.
Early life and education
Orchard was born in Plymouth in 1903, the youngest of three children of John Bailey Rowe Orchard (1862–1928) and Amy Cecilia Stanbury (1867–1948), daughter of John Headon Stanbury.
He attended Malvern College, a fee-charging boarding school in Worcestershire.
Career
Orchard served his articles in London with Messrs Nevill, Hovey, Gardner & Co. He was admitted an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales in 1926 and commenced in practice in Exeter later that year. He was principal firstly of Messrs Orchard & Rigby and then of Messrs Orchard & Hamlin until 1940.
