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Sir Thomas Erasmus Barlow, 3rd Baronet (23 January 1914 – 12 October 2003) was an officer in the

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Biography

Barlow was the eldest son of the Sir

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, and his wife

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. His younger brother was the visual neuroscientist

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. His maternal grandfather was

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, and amongst his great-grandfathers were the naturalist

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, the statistician and civil servant

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, and the royal physician Sir Thomas Barlow. After being educated at

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, Barlow entered the

in 1932 as a Cadet. He qualified on submarines in 1937 and during the

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served aboard submarines in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and Far East. His commands were: * (13 Aug 1941 – 10 Jan 1942) * (11 Jan 1942 – 7 Dec 1942) * (20 Aug 1943 – 30 Nov 1943) * (15 Mar 1944 – Oct 1945) In 1945 he was awarded the

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. He was promoted to

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in 1950 and captain in 1954, and was

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between 1962 and his retirement in 1964. He married Isabel Body (1915–2005), daughter of the medical doctor Thomas Munn Body, on 9 July 1955 and they had four children: * Sir James Alan Barlow, 4th Baronet (born 10 July 1956) * Dr. Monica Anne Barlow (born 7 March 1958) * Philip Thomas Barlow (born 31 December 1960) * Teresa Mary Barlow (born 6 October 1963) Barlow succeeded to the title of 3rd

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Barlow, of Wimpole Street, London on 28 February 1968, after the death of his father. He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of

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in 1976. Barlow was also a conservationist and was a trustee of the

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. Barlow was also a trustee for over 20 years of the Barlow Collection of Oriental art collected by his father. In 1997 Sir Thomas, along with his brother Erasmus Barlow were both awarded honorary Doctors of Letters degrees by the

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, who were bequeathed the Barlow Collection in 1968 on the death of Sir Alan

Ancestry

References

External links

* http://www.sussex.ac.uk/press_office/bulletin/28nov03/article20.shtml * http://groups.google.com/group/alt.obituaries/browse_frm/thread/264b3eeecfa2b359/718ea727ce367891?lnk=st * BARLOW, Sir Thomas (Erasmus)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 200
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