Anderson Montague-Barlow

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Anderson Barlow

Clement Anderson Montague-Barlow, 1st Baronet , KBE , PC (birth name: Clement Anderson Barlow ; * February 28, 1868 - May 31, 1951 ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party , who was among other things a member of the House of Commons between 1910 and 1923 ( House of Commons ) and Minister of Labor from 1922 to 1924.

Life

Clement Anderson Barlow holds a law degree from the University of Cambridge , which he completed with a Master of Laws (LL.M.). He also earned a doctorate in law (LL.D.) and, after being admitted to the bar, settled as a barrister . In the general election in December 1910 he was elected for the first time in the constituency of Salford South as a member of the House of Commons and represented the Conservative Party in this until December 6, 1923. On January 1, 1918 he was made Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE), so that from then on he had the addition of "Sir" to his name.

In the Lloyd George government , Anderson Barlow took over the post of Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labor on April 20, 1920, and held this post until October 23, 1922. In the subsequent Bonar Law cabinet , he was appointed on 23 October 1923 Minister of Labor (Minister of Labor) and remained in this position from May 22, 1923 to January 23, 1924 in the first Baldwin government . At the same time he was on November 2, 1922 Member of the Secret Privy Council ( Privy Council ) . After leaving the House of Commons, he was promoted to 1st Baronet Montague-Barlow , of Westminster, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on May 24, 1924 . In the following years he and his wife made numerous trips abroad, for example to India , Iraq , Palestine , Turkey and Greece (December 1924 to April 1925), Malaya , Ceylon , India, Egypt (September 1925 to March 1926) and East Africa ( January to April 1927), Kenya , Tanganyika (December 1927 to March 1928) and South Africa (August to November 1932).

On July 8, 1937, Anderson Barlow was appointed chairman of the Royal Commission on the Distribution of the Industrial Population , which was also named after him the Barlow Commission . This should examine the causes of the existing distribution of the industrial population, future trends and the social, economic and strategic disadvantages of concentration and propose remedial measures. The 1940 report submitted to the Commission recommended the decentralization of industry from congested areas, and pointed out that the problems of national emergency were, and suggested a central national authority, an authority on industrial sites that the Department of Commerce ( Board of Trade ) is assumed . The commission secretary was an official from the Treasury Department while the assistant secretary was from the Ministry of Health. The Ministry of Health was initially given responsibility for reviewing and implementing the report. In May 1940 responsibility for the report was transferred to the Department of Commerce, but wartime conditions prevented its implementation.

In 1946 he changed his family name by a unilateral declaration ( Deed Poll ) in Montague-Barlow. Since he died without male descendants, the title of baronet expired with his title.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES in Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
  2. ↑ GOVERNMENT BONAR LAW
  3. ↑ GOVERNMENT BALDWIN
  4. ↑ PRIVY COUNSELLORS 1915--1968 in Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
  5. ↑ BARONETAGE in Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
  6. ^ Royal Commission on the Distribution of the Industrial Population (Barlow Commission) on the homepage of The National Archives
personal data
SURNAME Montague-Barlow, Anderson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Montague-Barlow, Clement Anderson, 1st Baronet Montague-Barlow, of Westminster (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, MP and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1868
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1951