Anderson Montague-Barlow

Montague-Barlow was born Clement Anderson Barlow at St Bartholomew's Vicarage, Clifton, Gloucestershire, and preferred to be known under his second name, Anderson, rather than his first, Clement. He received a Master's degree and an LL.D. from the University of Cambridge and practised at the bar. Between 1910 and 1923 he represented Salford South in the House of Commons. In 1922 he was admitted to the Privy Council upon becoming Minister of Labour, a position he served in until 1924. He was made a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1918 and in 1924 he was created a baronet, of Westminster in the County of London.

In 1937, Neville Chamberlain's government asked Barlow to chair a royal commission into the urban concentration of population and industry, "The Royal Commission on the Distribution of the Industrial Population", which became known as the Barlow Commission.[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C8722 The National Archives: Royal Commission on the Distribution of the Industrial Population (Barlow Commission): Minutes and Papers] Linked 2015-05-30 Its report, published in 1940, raised the problem of large towns as a public issue for the first time, and concluded that "planned decentralisation" was favourable. The report was largely ignored at the time, as it came shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, but its conclusions were a major factor behind the new towns movement after the war, which led to the creation of 27 new towns.

In 1946 Barlow changed his last name to Montague-Barlow.[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/mr-anderson-barlow/index.html Hansard 1803–2005, Mr Anderson Barlow. Alternative names: Anderson Montague-Barlow 1946 – 1951] Linked 2015-05-30{{cite book|author1=Cameron Hazlehurst|author2=Sally Whitehead|author3=Christine Woodland|title=A Guide to the Papers of British Cabinet Ministers 1900–1964|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_GS4_uG484cC&pg=PA45|year=1996|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-58743-3|page=45}}

Montague-Barlow died in May 1951, aged 83, when the baronetcy became extinct.

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Category:1868 births

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Montague-Barlow, Clement Anderson, 1st Baronet

Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire

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