Robert M'Gowan Barrington-Ward

Robert M'Gowan Barrington-Ward DSO MC (1891-29 February 1948) was an English barrister and journalist who served with distinction in the British Army in World War I and who went on to become editor of "The Times".

Robert was the fourth son of the rev. Canon Barrington-Ward, rector of Duloe, Cornwall. His brother was Frederick Temple Barrington-Ward, himself a leading barrister. He was educated at Westminster School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he was president of the Oxford Union Society, and graduated MA. He entered Lincoln's Inn in 1911 and was called to the Bar. He became editorial secretary at "The Times" in 1913 but, at the start of World War I, joined the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, serving in France and Belgium and being mentioned in despatches three times and awarded the Distinguished Service Order and Military Cross. After the war, in 1919, he became assistant editor of "The Observer" before becoming editor of "The Times" from 1927 to 1941.Barrington-Ward, Robert M'Gowan, "Who Was Who 1897-2007" (2008), A&C Black]

He was elected an honorary fellow of Balliol in 1947.

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