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Born as Joannes Maria Aemilius Gatti in Dongio, in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland, he was the eldest son of the entrepreneur Agostino Gatti.^[1]^[2] The Gatti family had built up a large family business in Westminster, including the Adelphi and Vaudeville Theatres, a string of cafe-restaurants and the Charing Cross and Strand Electricity Supply Corporation Ltd, which supplied power to most of the West End of London.^[1]

Gatti was educated at Stonyhurst College and St John's College, Oxford, before being called to the bar at the Inner Temple.^[1]^[2] He married Lily Mary Lloyd in 1897 and they had seven children.^[1] In the same year his father died, and he took over the family businesses along with his younger brother Rocco Joseph Stefano Gatti.^[1]

His business interests, in particular the construction of electricity infrastructure, led him to become interested in the local government of the capital.^[1] In 1903 he was elected to Westminster City Council as a representative of the Charing Cross ward.^[3] He was a member of the Conservative-backed majority Moderate Party on the council, and was elected Mayor of Westminster for 1911–1912.^[4]

In 1908 he was a founding member of the Society of West End Theatre Managers.^[5] In 1919–1920 he was chairman of the society, and was involved in negotiating a standard theatrical contract for West End performers.^[6]

In 1918 Gatti was co-opted onto the London County Council as a Municipal Reform Party councillor for the Strand division. When elections resumed after World War I, he was elected a councillor for the Westminster Abbey division, holding the seat until his death.^[7] Gatti was short-listed to be Official Conservative candidate for the Westminster Abbey by-election in 1924, but lost out to Otho Nicholson who won the poll.^[8]

He served as chairman of the county council's finance committee for six years, and was chairman of the county council in 1927–1928.^[2]^[9] At the end of his term as chairman he received a knighthood.^[10]

Sir John Gatti died suddenly at Littleton Golf Club in September 1929 aged 57.^[2]

References

1. ^¹²³⁴⁵⁶{{Cite web|last=Barber |first=Peter |title=Sir John Maria Emilio Gatti (1872–1929) in Gatti family (per. 1847–1981), restaurateurs, theatre owners, and entrepreneurs |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/53168/53171?back=,53168 |date = September 2004|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher=Oxford University Press |accessdate=13 September 2009}}
2. ^¹²³{{Cite news|first= |last= |coauthors= |title=Sir John Gatti |newspaper=The Times |page=4 |date=16 September 1929 }}
3. ^{{Cite news|first= |last= |coauthors= |title=London Borough Council Elections |newspaper=The Times |page=11 |date=4 November 1903}}
4. ^{{Cite news|first= |last= |coauthors= |title=The Mayoral Elections. List for London and the Country |newspaper=The Times |page=7 |date=10 November 1911}}
5. ^{{Cite news|first= |last= |coauthors= |title=Society of West End Theatre Managers |newspaper=The Times |page=17 |date=24 April 1908}}
6. ^{{Cite news|first= |last= |coauthors= |title=Actor's Trade Union, The First Year's Work |newspaper=The Times |page=8 |date=2 January 1920}}
7. ^{{Cite news|first= |last= |coauthors= |title=LCC Elections |newspaper=The Times |page=14 |date=8 March 1919}}
8. ^{{Cite news|first= |last= |coauthors= |title=The Abbey Seat, Official Candidate Chosen |newspaper=The Times |page=14 |date=4 March 1924}}
9. ^{{Cite news|title=London County Council. Sale Of Surplus Lands. |work=The Times |page=16 |date=9 March 1927 }}
10. ^{{London Gazette|issue=33398 |date=29 June 1928 |page=4410 }}