I wrote a book called "Scouting for...Church Scouts" and I wrote about John Jardine in the Appendices...
D J Jardine (pronounced ‘ine’ as in wine)
Don or John Jardine was born in 1884, son of Ernest Jardine, a wealthy Nottingham businessman. His first involvement with youth work was in 1903 when he was invited to become Adjutant to the Nottingham Battalion of the Church Lads’ Brigade. At this time he was a Lieutenant in the Robin Hood Rifles, 1st Notts RV. His work as Adjutant to the CLB was short-lived.
By 1907, Jardine was a Captain in the North Somerset Yeomanry and was asked to take command of the Nottingham CLB Battalion. With the advent of Scouting, he founded the 1st Notts Battalion Boy Scouts, Southwell Diocesan Regiment of Scouts in 1909, and was its Colonel Commandant. (He retained command of the Nottingham CLB Battalion.) In 1912, the 1st Notts Battalion Boy Scouts affiliated to the Church Lads’ Brigade. Jardine joined the Executive of the Incorporated Church Scout Patrols.
Jardine was a Captain in the South Notts Hussars between 1910 and 1914. On August 17th 1914, he resigned his command of the Southwell Diocesan Regiment of Scouts as he was called up for war service. At the end of the Great War, Jardine was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Signals Service, Royal Engineers. When he returned home he became involved with Scouting once again, but with the Boy Scouts Association.
Jardine owned a houseboat on the River Trent and helped establish a number of troops of Sea Scouts; 1st Notts, 1st Beeston (Jardine’s Own) and 2nd Beeston. For a time he was District Commissioner for the SW Notts Association, becoming County Commissioner for Sea Scouts about 1930. In 1939, he presented the SW Notts Association with The Jardine Trophy.
In 1932, like his father, Jardine became High Sheriff of Nottingham (NB – this is not the same position as the Sheriff of Nottingham.) During the Second World War he served as Deputy Commander, British Red Cross and St John War Organisation, Middle East. In 1943, he was awarded a Civil OBE. When his father died in 1947, he inherited his father’s baronetcy, becoming Sir John Jardine, OBE, TD, 2nd Bart. Sir John died on 1st August 1965, aged 80. He never married, had no heirs, and so the baronetcy died with him.