 After the war, Brunton worked as a door to door salesman selling classified advertising space to small businesses outside London.He died on 30 May 2017 at the age of 95.In 1961 Gordon Brunton had been working at Odhams when he was hired as Managing Director of Thomson Publications by Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet founder of the Thomson Newspapers & International Thomson Organisation Ltd (ITOL) Thomson Corporation now Thomson Reuters.