Alan Barlow

Sir James Alan Noel Barlow, 2nd Baronet , GCB , KBE FSA (born December 25, 1881 in London , † February 28, 1968 in Wendover , Buckinghamshire ) was a British civil servant and art collector .

biography

His father was Sir Thomas Barlow , 1st Baronet, President of the Royal College of Physicians. Barlow studied at the University of Marlborough and at Corpus Christi College of the University of Oxford , where he met with a Master of Arts graduated, and joined the civil service as an official. In 1906 he became secretary in the House of Commons . Barlow served on the Board of Education from 1907 to 1915 and the Ministry of Munitions from 1915 to 1919. Alan Barlow served in the Ministry of Labor from 1919 to 1932. Barlow was particularly committed to funding cultural projects and educational institutions. From 1932/1933 to 1934 he worked as a Principal Private Secretary for the then Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald . From 1934 to 1939 he was Undersecretary in the British Treasury. In 1939 he became Third Secretary . In 1942 he became Second Joint Secretary in the Treasury. In 1948 he resigned from civil service.

In 1938 he was named Knight of the Order of the British Empire . In 1942 he received an honorary doctorate as Doctor of Law (LL.D.) from the University of Glasgow . In 1947 he received the Grand Cross of the Bath Order . He was also a justice of the peace in the county of Buckinghamshire .

Alan Barlow married Emma Nora, née Darwin, on April 6, 1911. She was the daughter of Sir Horace Darwin . On January 12, 1945, he inherited from his father the hereditary title of Baronet , of Wimpole Street in the Borough of Saint Marylebone in the County of London . Barlow had a total of six children, including his heir Thomas Erasmus Barlow (1914-2003).

Barlow was a great art collector . Shortly after the turn of the century, he began collecting oriental ceramics . From 1905, Islamic pottery was added. In the following 20 years one focus of Barlow's passion for collecting was art objects from the Ottoman Empire and from Iran . Barlow was chairman of the Oriental Ceramic Society from 1943 to 1961 . He himself had a large private collection of Chinese works of art, including high-quality books, manuscripts and manuscripts . The collection has been kept at the University of Sussex as the Barlow Collection since 1974 . In 1953 he had bequeathed his collection of Persian pottery to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford .

literature

• Who's Who in Buckinghamshire , 1936
• Evelyn Adelaide Sharp : Sir Alan Barlow: Bt., GCB KCB MA LL.D, 25th December 1881-28th February 1968 . Rampant Lions Press, 1968

swell

• Sir James Alan Noel Barlow, 2nd Bt on thepeerage.com , accessed August 16, 2015.
• Sir Alan Barlow Biography at the Barlow Collection
• Barlow, Sir Alan (James Alan Noel) Entry in: The New Grove Dictionary of Art

predecessor	Office	successor
Thomas Barlow	Baronet, of Wimpole Street 1945-1968	Thomas Barlow