Lord Barber, PC, TD, DL

The Baron Barber, PC, TD, DL, who died in hospital in Suffolk, 16 December, 2005, aged 85, was a former Chancellor of the Exchequer, serving in the administration of (Sir) Edward Heath between 1970 and 1974. He was later Chairman of Standard Chartered Bank, plc, 1974-87.
He was born Anthony Perrinott Lysberg Barber, at Doncaster, 4 July, 1920, the son of John Barber, CBE, and was educated at Retford Grammar School, Nottinghamshire; Oriel College, Oxford (PPE, MA) (Hon. Fellow, 1971).
Career:-->served in World War II, 1939-45: Dunkirk; seconded to the RAF as a pilot, 1940-45 (was mentioned in despatches; was a Prisoner of War 1942-45); took Law Degree with 1st Class Hons. while a POW, escaped from Poland, prisoner of the Russians; Called to the Bar at the Inner Temple, 1948 (Inner Temple Scholarship); Conservative MP for Doncaster, 1951-64; Conservative MP for Altrincham & Sale, Feb. 1965-September, 1964; Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Under Secretary of State for Air, 1952-55; Assistant Whip, 1955-57; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, 1957-58; Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister (Harold Macmillan) 1958-59; Economic Secretary to HM Treasury, 1959-62; Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1962-63; Minister of Health and member of the Cabinet, 1963-64; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, June-July, 1970; appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1970 following the sudden death in office of Iain Macleod; Chancellor of the Exchequer 1970-Feb 74; Chairman of the Conservative Party Oganisation, 1967-70; President of the National Union of Conservative & Unionist Associations, 1973; Director of BP, 1979-88; Member of the Falkland Islands Inquiry (Franks Committee), 1982; British Member, Eminent Persons Group on South Africa, 1986; Vice-Chairman, Council of Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, 1984-96 (Chairman, Council of Westminster Medical School, 1975-84); Chairman, RAF Benevolent Fund, 1991-95.
Barber was raised to the peerage as a life baron in 1974 as Baron Barber, of Wentbridge.
He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1963. Barber was appointed a deputy lieutenant for the county of West Yorkshire in 1987.
He married 1stly, in 1950, Jean Patricia (who died 1983), daughter of Milton Asquith, of Wentbridge, and secondly, in 1989, Mrs Rosemary Surgenor (nee Youens).
He leaves 2 daughters from his first marriage.


Source: The Daily Telegraph 19 Dec, 2005