Harold Barbour Explained

Harold Adrian Milne Barbour (1874 - 1938) was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.

Biography

Harold Adrian Milne Barbour, 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]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Harrow School

    . Harrow School. Harrow School. The Harrow School Register, 1800-1911. 1911. Longmans, Green, and Co.

  2. John F. Harbinson, The Ulster Unionist Party, 1882-1973, p.204
  3. http://www.ucd.ie/archives/html/exhibition.htm Online Exhibition: Harold Barbour Photographs