Alan Barlow

Sir James Alan Noel Barlow, 2nd Baronet GCB (25 December 1881 — 28 February 1968), was a British civil servant and collector of Islamic and Chinese art.

Biography

Barlow was born in London, the eldest son of Sir Thomas Barlow, 1st Baronet, Royal physician, and his wife Ada Dalmahoy. He was Principal Private Secretary to Ramsay MacDonald, 1933-1934, and later Under-secretary at HM Treasury. He became Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in 1947.

Barlow married Nora Darwin, the daughter of Horace Darwin, son of Charles Darwin (see Darwin — Wedgwood family). They had six children:

* Joan Helen Barlow (26 May 1912 - 21 February 1954)
* Sir Thomas Erasmus Barlow, 3rd Bt. (23 January 1914 - 12 October 2003), naval officer.
* Erasmus Darwin Barlow (15 April 1915- August 2, 2005)
* Andrew Dalmahoy Barlow (b. 16 September 1916)
* Hilda Horatia Barlow (b. 14 September 1919) married psychoanalyst John Hunter Padel; their daughter is the poet Ruth Padel.
* Horace Basil Barlow (b. 8 December 1921)

External links

* http://www.barlowgenealogy.com/england/royalty/SirAlan.htm
* http://www.sussex.ac.uk/arthistory/1-4-5.html