Sir John Milne Barbour, 1st Baronet, JP, DL (1868 – 3 October 1951) was a Northern Irish politician and baronet. As a member of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland he was styled The Right Honourable Sir Milne Barbour.
Born in Lisburn, County Antrim, Barbour was educated at Elstree School, Harrow School, Brasenose College, Oxford, and Darmstadt, Germany. In politics, he served as a Member of Parliament for County Antrim from 1921-1929 and then f...
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Sir John Milne Barbour, 1st Baronet, JP, DL (1868 – 3 October 1951) was a Northern Irish politician and baronet. As a member of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland he was styled The Right Honourable Sir Milne Barbour.
Born in Lisburn, County Antrim, Barbour was educated at Elstree School, Harrow School, Brasenose College, Oxford, and Darmstadt, Germany. In politics, he served as a Member of Parliament for County Antrim from 1921-1929 and then for South Antrim from 1929 until his death in 1951. In 1921, he was appointed Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Ministry of Finance, and then entered Craigavon's Cabinet as Minister of Commerce in 1937 (where he was perceived as "wrong, inept and palsied") and was promoted, aged 72, to Minister of Finance.
He also acted as High Sheriff of County Armagh, in 1905, and County Down in 1907. He was created a baronet, of Hilden, County Antrim, in 1943. He also served as President of the Belfast Chamber of Commerce in 1911, as a member of...
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