Sir John Barlow, 1st Baronet

Who was Sir John Barlow, 1st Baronet?

Sir John Emmott Barlow, 1st Baronet was a British businessman and Liberal Party politician.

Barlow was the son of Thomas Barlow and his wife Mary Ann. He was educated at Grove House School Tottenham. He was a senior partner in the family firms of Thomas Barlow & Brothers, of Manchester and London, and Barlow and Company, of Calcutta, Shanghai, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur which traded in tea, coffee, rubber and such. He sat in the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Frome in Somerset from 1892 to 1895 and from 1896 to 1918, and was a Justice of the Peace for Cheshire and Somerset and a County Alderman for Cheshire. In 1907 he was created a baronet, of Bradwall Hall in Sandbach in the County of Chester.

Barlow married the Hon. Anna Maria, daughter of Richard Denman and Helen Mary McMicking, on 13 July 1895. They had two sons and two daughters. He died in September 1932, aged 75, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son John, who was a Conservative MP. Lady Barlow died in 1965.