Sir Alan Barlow, 2nd Baronet

Sir James Alan Noel Barlow, 2nd Baronet, GCB, KBE ( 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, president of the Royal College of Physicians. Barlow studied at the University of Marlborough and at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, where he graduated with a Master of Arts, and joined as a civil servant in the government service. In 1906 he was secretary of the House of Commons. Barlow belonged from 1907 to 1915 the Board of Education and from 1915 to 1919 the Ministry of Munitions to. From 1919 to 1932 worked Alan Barlow at the Ministry of Labour. Barlow was in particular an for the financing of cultural projects and educational institutions. From 1932/1933 bis 1934, he worked as private secretary ( Principal Private Secretary ) for the then Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald. From 1934 to 1939 he served as Under Secretary of State ( Under Secretary ) in the British Treasury. In 1939, he was Third Secretary. In 1942 he became Second Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Finance. In 1948 he retired from the civil service.

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

Alan Barlow married on April 6, 1911 Emma Nora, nee Darwin. She was the daughter of Sir Horace Darwin. On 12 January 1945 the hereditary barony passed from his father to him about. He no longer wore the official title of Baronet Barlow, of Wimpole Street, London. Barlow had six children, including a son named Thomas Erasmus Barlow ( 1914-2003 ).

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