11 Facts About Alan Barlow

Alan Barlow attended Marlborough College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, graduating with a first class degree in literae humaniores in 1904.

Alan Barlow was a member of the Savile and Athenaeum clubs in London where he was able to meet political contacts during his career.

Alan Barlow started collecting Islamic pottery and Chinese ceramics as a child and later donated pieces to museums and the University of Sussex.

Alan Barlow began a career as a civil servant as a clerk in the House of Commons in 1906.

Alan Barlow was then chosen as a junior examiner in the Board of Education and in 1914 became private secretary to the parliamentary secretary.

Alan Barlow's role focused on training after 1929 and the establishment of government training centres, although there remained a lack of training by industry.

However, the two men were not suited to each other and in 1934 Alan Barlow was transferred to the Treasury where he remained, rising to a senior position and being a member of several committees that together were concerned with the machinery of government.

Alan Barlow was in favour of education expenditure, especially in technical and scientific areas.

Alan Barlow chaired a committee in 1945 - 1946 that recommended foundation of a new technological university and increasing the number of science graduates, but it was not implemented.

Alan Barlow retired in 1948 but continued to be a member of the Advisory Council on Scientific Policy.

Alan Barlow was a knight three times over; a baronet and a knight of both the Order of the Bath and the Order of the British Empire:.