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Harold Barbour

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Harold Adrian Milne Barbour (7 July 1874 – 23 December 1938) was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.

Barbour was born in Lisburn, the son of John Dougherty Barbour and Elizabeth Milne. Sir Milne Barbour was his elder brother.[1] He studied at Harrow School and Brasenose College, Oxford before assuming the directorship of a linen company in Glasgow at some time before 1911.[2] He was elected as an Irish Unionist Party county councillor, then served in the Senate of Northern Ireland from 1921 to 1929.[3]

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.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Woods, C. J. "Barbour, Harold Adrian Milne". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
  2. ^ Harrow School (1911). The Harrow School Register, 1800-1911. Longmans, Green, and Co.
  3. ^ John F. Harbinson, The Ulster Unionist Party, 1882-1973, p.204
  4. ^ Online Exhibition: Harold Barbour Photographs, University College Dublin