Sir Thomas Dalmahoy Barlow, (23 February 1883 – 22 November 1964) was a British businessman, banker, and art collector and historian. Barlow was the second son of the royal physician

Sir Thomas Barlow, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Barlow, 1st Baronet, (4 November 1845 – 12 January 1945) was a British royal physician, known for his research on infantile scurvy. Life Barlow was the son of a Lancashire cotton manufacturer and Mayor of Bolton, James Barlow (1 ...

, and his wife Ada Dalmahoy. His brother was

Alan Barlow Sir James Alan Noel Barlow, 2nd Baronet (25 December 1881 – 28 February 1968) was a British civil servant and collector of Islamic and Chinese art. He was Principal Private Secretary to Ramsay MacDonald, 1933–1934, and later Under-secre ...

, 2nd Bt. He was educated at

Marlborough College Marlborough College is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school (English Independent school (United Kingdom), independent boarding school) for pupils aged 13 to 18 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. Founded in 1843 for the sons of Church ...

and

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge ...

. He married Esther Sophia Gaselee on 15 February 1911, and they had three children: * Theodora Gertrude Barlow (born 21 February 1912) * Penelope Sophia Barlow (10 April 1914 − 1995) * Basil Stephen Barlow (15 February 1918 – 15 October 1991) He was made

Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established ...

in 1934 and promoted to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1946.

References

* ‘BARLOW, Sir Thomas Dalmahoy’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 200
accessed 7 March 2013
* Gordon Russell, ‘Barlow, Sir Thomas Dalmahoy (1883–1964)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200
accessed 7 March 2013
1883 births 1964 deaths Younger sons of baronets People educated at Marlborough College Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge English bankers English art historians English art collectors People from Blackburn 20th-century English businesspeople {{UK-business-bio-1880s-stub