Jack Ainslie

John Bernard Ainslie OBE (2 August 1921 – 5 January 2007), known as Jack Ainslie, was a Wiltshire farmer and Liberal politician, Chairman of Wiltshire County Council from 1986 to 1990.

Born at Stanmore, Middlesex, on 2 August 1921, the son of Charles Bernard Ainslie MC (1879–1937) and his wife Eileen Holloway (d. 1962), Ainslie was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1947. His arrival at Oxford was delayed by his service in the British Army during the Second World War, and he was commissioned into the Royal Berkshire Regiment as a second lieutenant on 9 July 1942.

Ainslie's father was one of the ten children of William George Ainslie MP JP (1832–1893), himself one of the five children of Montague Ainslie, JP, DL (1792–1884), of Bengal in India and of Grizedale, Lancashire. William George Ainslie had been member of parliament (Conservative) for North Lonsdale in Lancashire from 1885 to 1892.