1. Robert Childers Barton was an Anglo-Irish politician, Irish nationalist and farmer who participated in the negotiations leading up to the signature of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
15 Facts About Robert Barton
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Robert Barton's father was Charles William Barton and his mother was Agnes Alexandra Frances Childers.
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Robert Barton's wife was Rachel Warren of Boston, daughter of Fiske Warren.
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Robert Barton was born in County Wicklow into a wealthy Irish Protestant land-owning family; namely of Glendalough House.
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Robert Barton married Agnes Alexandra Frances Childers, daughter of Rev Canon Charles Childers, on 26 October 1876.
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At the 1918 general election to the British House of Commons Robert Barton was elected as the Sinn Fein member for Wicklow West.
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Robert Barton was appointed as Director of Agriculture in the Dail Ministry in April 1919.
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Robert Barton was recaptured in January 1920 and sentenced to three years' imprisonment, but was released under the general amnesty of July 1921.
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Robert Barton was one of the Irish plenipotentiaries to travel to London for the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations.
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Robert Barton reluctantly signed the Treaty on 6 December 1921, defending it "as the lesser of two outrages forced upon me and between which I had to choose".
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Robert Barton was arrested and interned for most of the war at the Curragh Camp.
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Robert Barton was defeated at the 1923 general election, and retired from politics in favour of the law.
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Robert Barton practiced as a barrister, and later became a judge.
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Robert Barton was chairman of the Agricultural Credit Corporation from 1934 to 1954.
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Robert Barton died at home in County Wicklow on 10 August 1975, at the age of 94, the last surviving signatory of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.