Harold Barbour
Harold Adrian Milne Barbour (1874–1938) was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.
Biography
[edit]Harold Adrian Milne Barbour,[1] son of J. D. Barbour of Lisburn, studied at Harrow School and Brasenose College, Oxford before assuming the directorship of a linen company in Glasgow at some time before 1911.[1] He was elected as an Irish Unionist Party county councillor, then served in the Senate of Northern Ireland from 1921 to 1929.[2]
Barbour was also active in the co-operative movement in Ireland, and his photographs of rural north and west Ireland in the early years of the 20th-century have been widely exhibited.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Harrow School (1911). The Harrow School Register, 1800-1911. Longmans, Green, and Co.
- ^ John F. Harbinson, The Ulster Unionist Party, 1882-1973, p.204
- ^ Online Exhibition: Harold Barbour Photographs, University College Dublin
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- 1874 births
- 1938 deaths
- Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford
- Councillors in Northern Ireland
- Members of the Senate of Northern Ireland 1921–1925
- Members of the Senate of Northern Ireland 1925–1929
- People educated at Harrow School
- Ulster Unionist Party members of the Senate of Northern Ireland
- British cooperative organizers