Anthony Mackintosh, who has died aged 88, was a cousin of the Viscount Mackintosh of Halifax, though not in remainder to the peerage.
He was founder and executive chairman of London's Groucho Club.
Mackintosh came from a business family, the same Mackintoshes who made Toff-o-Lux and related sweeties. Amazingly, toffee was invented by Anthony's granny in the 1880s, by mistake (she got the ingredients wrong while making butterscotch). His father, Eric, was a Halifax baker, but all the family went into the toffee business, bought factories, and diversified into chocolate in the Twenties.
Anthony was born in Norwich, in April, 1938, and grew up in the fens, went to Stowe public school, was conscripted into the Army for two years, studied at Columbia University and worked in the United States before joining the family firm. After its takeover by Rountree, he experienced corporate culture at its most stilted and boring, and got out as soon as he could, thoroughly groomed in business matters.
He was a son of Eric Donald Mackintosh (1906-1978), of Brooke House, Brooke, Norwich, and his wife the former Gwendolyn France (1904-1992), and was a nephew of the 1st Viscount Mackintosh of Halifax (1891-1964).
Anthony's grandfather, John Mackintosh (1868-1920), was father of Harold, the 1st Viscount.
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