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Harold Barbour

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

Biography

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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

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  1. ^ a b Harrow School (1911). The Harrow School Register, 1800-1911. Longmans, Green, and Co.
  2. ^ John F. Harbinson, The Ulster Unionist Party, 1882-1973, p.204
  3. ^ Online Exhibition: Harold Barbour Photographs, University College Dublin