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Harry Barron

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384:. He died on 27 March 1921. After he died, his wife continued to live in their Surrey Residence Swiss Cottage, however, there was a large mortgage on the property, and it was found that Barron had very little money as he had spent a large amount of his fortune while working as a governor, and he lost money on failed Russian investments. His wife Clara had to sell her furniture and possessions, and seek financial assistance from her friends and charities. After she sustained a spinal cord injury in 1930, and with her mortgage debt exceeding the value of her property she was unable to afford the daily assistance she required for her disability. She made failed applications to increase her pension from the war office, and get a pension for the governorships. 1075: 764: 364:
Barron was commissioned as lieutenant in 1867 at the Royal Artillery, and in 1879 he was promoted to captain. He worked at the School of Gunnery in Shoeburyness in 1897 before becoming the commander of the Thames district Royal Artillery from 1900 until 1904. At this time he was promoted to major
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T. Conyngham Kelly; they had one daughter Lilian Vaughan Barron, and a son Harry Montague Vaughan Barron who died in February 1909, aged 27, while a member of the Queen's Cameron Highlanders.
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general, and he became the commander of the Royal Artillery in Malta until 1908. He was made a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1907. As part of the
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Barron was born on 11 August 1847 to Elizabeth Pigeon, and Charles Barron of Denmark Hill in Surrey, England. He attended attended
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Governor of Tasmania from 1909 to 1913, and Governor of Western Australia from 1913 to 1917
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He retired to Weybridge Surrey, and in 1920, he was made colonel commandant of the
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Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
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Index

KCMG
CVO

Governor of Tasmania
Edward VII
George V
Sir Gerald Strickland
Sir William Ellison-Macartney
Governor of Western Australia
John Scaddan
Frank Wilson
Sir Gerald Strickland
Sir William Ellison-Macartney
Denmark Hill
Surrey
Weybridge
Surrey
British Army
Major General
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
Major General
KCMG
CVO
British Army
Governor of Tasmania
Governor of Western Australia
Stubbington House School
Clara Emily
Major General

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