abstract:John Thomas Farquhar Paterson (21 December 1938 – 9 September 2005) was an Anglican priestTelegraph obituary and author.Among other books he wrote “A Parish Education Handbook”, 1987; “Mary in the Church”, 1990; and “All Sorts and Conditions: a history of the laity in the Church of Ireland”, 2002 .
In OctoberJohnPaterson, IBM's chiefprocurementofficer, moved to Shenzhen, China, the first timethe head of acompany-widefunction at the firmhas been based outsideAmerica.
Another of the DHI papers on oil and gas, written by JohnPaterson and Greg Gordon of Aberdeen University, underlines the uncertainties that the move to independence could introduce to a sensitive investment market.