Harry Barron

Sir Harry Barron
10th Governor of Tasmania
In office September 1909 – March 1913
Preceded by	Gerald Strickland
Succeeded by	William Ellison-Macartney
16th Governor of Western Australia
In office 17 March 1913 – 8 April 1917
Premier	John Scaddan (1913–16) Frank Wilson (1916–17)
Preceded by	Gerald Strickland
Succeeded by	William Ellison-Macartney
Personal details
Born	11 August 1847 Denmark Hill, Surrey, England
Died	27 March 1921 (aged 73) Weybridge, Surrey, England
Spouse(s)	Clara Emily Kelly

Major General Sir Harry Barron KCMG CVO (11 August 1847 – 27 March 1921) was Governor of Tasmania from 1909 to 1913, and Governor of Western Australia from 1913 to 1917.^[1]

Life

Barron was born in 1847 and he attended Stubbington House School^[2] and in 1877 he married Clara Emily, daughter of Major General T. Conyngham Kelly, C.B.; they had a daughter.

Barron was Governors of Tasmania from 1909 to 1913, and Governor of Western Australia from 1913 to 1917.

In 1920, he was made colonel commandant of the Royal Artillery.^[1]

References

Notes

1. Bolton, G. C. (1979). "Barron, Sir Harry (1847 - 1921)". Melbourne University Publishing. pp. 190–191. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
2. "BARRON, Maj.-Gen. Sir Harry". Who Was Who. -A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press. December 2007. Retrieved 1 December 2012.(subscription required)

General references

• A. B. Keith, Responsible Government in the Dominions, vol 1 (Oxford, 1928); Mercury (Hobart), 28 Dec 1912; West Australian (Perth), 13 Mar 1913, 3-8, 26, 27 Feb 1917.