Rowland Barran
Sir Rowland Hirst Barran(7 August 1858 – 6 August 1949) was a BritishLiberal Partypolitician andMember of Parliament.
Biography[edit]
Rowland Barran was born in 1858, the youngest son ofSir John Barran,a pioneer in clothing manufacture andMember of ParliamentforLeedsandOtley.[1]
Following the death ofFrances Luptonin 1892, Rowland lived nearLeedsat Frances'sBeechwood Estatewhich had beenentailedto her eldest son and fellowLiberalpolitician,Francis Martineau Lupton.Barran remained at Beechwood until Francis Martineau's death in 1921. Lupton and his family also owned theNewton Park Estate(North Leeds), the constituency of which Barran was M.P. from 1902–1918.[2][3][4][5][6]
Barran bredShorthornlivestockduring his residency at Beechwood.[7]
Barran became chairman of the family firm in 1918, succeeding his brother, Charles, who had succeeded their father in this post in 1903.
He was a member of the Leeds City Council alongsideAldermanFrancis Martineau Lupton, and served on the Leeds School Board before his election to parliament.[8][4]
He was elected to the Parliament forLeeds Northin aby-electionon 29 July 1902 (caused by the elevation ofWilliam Jacksonto the peerage),[9]and served until theGeneral Electionof 14 December 1918.[1]He wasknightedin 1917.
During the course ofWorld War I,Barran indicated he would stand down at the next election, probably to concentrate more on his business interests. In 1918, he became chairman of the family firm of clothing manufacturers, taking over that position from his brother.[10]
Family[edit]
Barran married Rose Cardew Bradley. They had the following children:
- Rose Sylvia Barran
- Gwendoline Cardew Barran
- Captain Rowland Noel Barran (25 December 1887 – died 19 March 1919)
- Captain Hugh Bradley Barran (13 May 1889 – 19 May 1975)
References[edit]
- ^abD. T. Jenkins (2004)."Barran family (per. c.1842–1952)".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/52614.Retrieved23 October2021.
- ^Bebbington, D. (1 March 2000).Gladstone Centenary Essays.Oxford University Press.ISBN9781781386651.Retrieved30 October2018.
(Sir) Rowland Hirst Barran (1858–1949), of Beechwood, Roundhay, was sixth son of Sir John Barran, and MP, North Leeds (the Newton Park area), 1902–18; his was a famous victory attributed by Nonconformists and Passive Resisters to his.....
- ^"Commonwealth Shipping Committee - 1920".H.M. Stationery Office, 1920. 1920.Retrieved30 October2018.
Rowland Hirst Barran, of Beechwood, Roundhay,...
- ^abBradford, E."They Lived in Leeds - Francis Martineau Lupton (1848-1921)".The Thoresby Society, The Leeds Library, 2018.Retrieved30 October2018.
- ^de Vries, S. (October 2018).Royal Marriages: Diana, Camilla, Kate & Meghan and princesses who did not live happily ever after.Pirgos Press 2018.ISBN9781925283648.Retrieved30 October2018.
Francis Martineau Lupton was a wealthy mill owner and industrialist turned philanthropist who owned Potternewton Hall (Estate) in Leeds and later lived in Georgian splendour in a rural mansion known as Beechwood.
- ^"Births- Barran".30 September 1892 - Yorkshire Evening Post Yorkshire, England.Retrieved31 October2018.
BIRTHS. BARRAN.—September 19, 1892 at Beechwood, Roundhay, the wife of Rowland H. Barren, a daughter...
- ^"Coates's Herd Book".Shorthorn Society of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland., 1903. 1903.Retrieved30 October2018.
- ^"Election intelligence".The Times.No. 36833. London. 30 July 1902. p. 10.
- ^"No. 27460".The London Gazette.1 August 1902. p. 4962.
- ^The Times,30 November 1918, p. 9
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