Hugh Shakespear Barnes

Hugh Shakespear Barnes (* 1853 in Shahjahanpur , † February 15, 1940 in London ) was a British administrator.

Life

Barnes was a son of James Ralph Barnes, a civil servant in the British Government's Indian Service. One of his uncle, his mother's brother, was Rivers Thompson (1827–1890), who temporarily served as governor of Bengal . After graduating from Malvern College , Barnes joined the British Government in India in 1874 .

In 1876 Barnes became private secretary to John Strachey , the British Government's Treasury Secretary for India. In 1879 he was entrusted with special duties in the Government's Foreign Department for India. During the Afghan war of 1881 he was used as a political officer. From 1881 to 1883 he was used as assistant to the representative of the Governor General of India in Balochistan. This was followed by duties as a political agent in Quetta and Pishin (1883). In 1884 he headed the Afghan Boundary Commission for Supplies. Then he was entrusted with financial affairs (Revenue Commissioner) in Balochistan.

In 1891 Barnes was appointed chief commissioner, d. H. appointed local administrator, the province of Balochistan in the former British crown colony of India (now part of Parkistan). He held this post again from 1896 to 1899 and from 1899 to 1900. In between, he was the representative of the British government in Kashmir in 1894 .

From 1900 to 1903 Barnes was a member of the British Government for India as Foreign Secretary.

From 1903 to 1905 Barnes then served as British Lieutenant Governor of Burma . He then became a member of the Indian Board of Directors of the British Government (Council of India), of which he was a member until 1913.

In the years that followed, Barnes served as director of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and the Imperial Bank of Persia.

At the end of the 1930s, the National Socialist police authorities classified Barnes as an important target: in the spring of 1940, the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people who the Nazi surveillance apparatus considered particularly dangerous or important, which is why they should be in the case A successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht should be located and arrested by the occupying troops following special SS commandos with special priority.

family

In 1888 Barnes married Winifred Strachery († 1892) for the first time. In 1894 he married Edith Helen Barnes in his second marriage. From the first marriage the son James Strachey Barnes , who became known as a supporter of Italian fascism , and the daughter Mary, married. Hutchinson.

literature

• Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage , 1931, p. 904.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry about Barnes on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London) .