Barlow, Alan, Sir, 1881-1968

LC control no.	no2008110317
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Barlow, Alan, Sir, 1881-1968 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Barlow, James Alan Noel, Sir, 1881-1968
Birth date	18811225
Death date	19680228
Place of birth	London (England)
Place of death	Wendover (England)
Field of activity	Ceramic sculpture, Chinese Islamic pottery
Profession or occupation	Great Britain--Officials and employees.
Found in	Sharp, Evelyn A. Sir Alan Barlow Bt. GCB KCB MA LL.D 25th December 1881-28th February 1968, 1968 OCLC, June 23, 2008 (hdg.: Barlow, James Alan Noel, Sir, 1881-; usage: Sir Alan Barlow) The Peerage, WWW, June 23, 2008 (Sir James Alan Noel Barlow, 1881-1968, "usually went by his middle name of Alan") Wikipedia, June 23, 2008 (Sir James Alan Noel Barlow, 2nd Baronet, GCB, Dec. 25, 1881-28 Feb. 1968) Chinese ceramics, bronzes and jades in the collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow, 1963 Islamic pottery: a comprehensive study based on the Barlow Collection, 1973: page 13 (Sir Alan Barlow) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, via WWW, March 2, 2015 (Barlow, Sir (James) Alan Noel, second baronet (1881-1968); civil servant; born in London on 25 December 1881, the eldest of the five children of Sir Thomas Barlow (1845-1945), who was created baronet in 1901, physician to the royal family, and his wife, Ada Helen (1843-1928); he was educated at Marlborough College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, of which he was a scholar and later an honorary fellow, and took a first in literae humaniores in 1904; in 1906 Barlow was appointed to a clerkship in the House of Commons but a year later Sir Robert Morant selected him as a junior examiner in the Board of Education where he rose to be private secretary to the parliamentary secretary in 1914; he married, on 6 April 1911, Emma Nora (d. 1989), the granddaughter of Charles Darwin, whose Beagle diaries and autobiography she edited in 1933 and 1958; in 1915 Barlow was transferred to the Ministry of Munitions as private secretary to Christopher Addison; in 1917 Barlow was promoted to deputy controller of labour supply and a year later to controller of the labour department; after the war he joined the newly founded Ministry of Labour, where he was initially responsible for demobilization and training before securing in 1924 a major promotion to principal assistant secretary in charge of the industrial relations department; after 1929 Barlow's main responsibility reverted to training; in 1933 Barlow was selected to be principal private secretary to the prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald; Barlow was transferred in 1934 to the Treasury as under-secretary in charge of the supply divisions and thus public expenditure, a responsibility he retained when promoted to third secretary in 1939 and second secretary in 1942; he was appointed CBE (1918), CB (1928), KBE (1938), KCB (1942), GCB (1947), and succeeded his father as second baronet in 1945; Barlow retired from the Treasury in 1948; his artistic interests were recognized by his appointment between 1948 and 1955 as a trustee of the National Gallery (where he served as chairman from 1949 to 1951) and as president of the Oriental Ceramic Society; he had an exceptional collection of Islamic pottery and Chinese ceramics, from which he made many donations to the Ashmolean, Fitzwilliam, Victoria and Albert, and British museums as well as to the University of Sussex; together with his love of old books and modern printing he also became interested in archaeology, particularly in his home county of Buckinghamshire; he died on 28 February 1968 at his farm, Boswells, in Wendover, Buckinghamshire)
Associated language	eng