Rowland Barran

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Sir Rowland Hirst Barran (7 August 1858 – 6 August 1949) was a British Liberal Party politician and Member of Parliament.

Biography

Rowland Barran was born in 1858, the youngest son of Sir John Barran, a pioneer in clothing manufacture and Member of Parliament for Leeds and Otley.{{cite encyclopedia | encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | author=D. T. Jenkins | title=Barran family (per. c.1842–1952) |publisher=Oxford University Press | year=2004 | doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/52614 | url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/52614 | accessdate=23 October 2021| url-access=subscription }}

Following the death of Frances Lupton in 1892, Rowland lived near Leeds at Frances's Beechwood Estate which had been entailed to her eldest son and fellow Liberal politician, Francis Martineau Lupton. Barran remained at Beechwood until Francis Martineau's death in 1921. Lupton and his family also owned the Newton Park Estate (North Leeds), the constituency of which Barran was M.P. from 1902–1918.{{cite book |last1=Bebbington |first1=D. |title=Gladstone Centenary Essays |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RrmkDAAAQBAJ&q=rowland++barran+++beechwood&pg=PA160 |publisher=Oxford University Press|date=1 March 2000 |isbn=9781781386651 |accessdate=30 October 2018 |quote=(Sir) Rowland Hirst Barran (1858–1949), of Beechwood, Roundhay, was sixth son of Sir John Barran, and MP, North Leeds (the Newton Park area), 1902–18; his was a famous victory attributed by Nonconformists and Passive Resisters to his .....}}{{cite web |title=Commonwealth Shipping Committee - 1920 |year = 1920|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DkIyAQAAMAAJ&q=rowland++barran+++beechwood |publisher=H.M. Stationery Office, 1920 |accessdate=30 October 2018 |quote=Rowland Hirst Barran, of Beechwood, Roundhay, ...}}{{cite web |last1=Bradford |first1=E. |title=They Lived in Leeds - Francis Martineau Lupton (1848-1921) |url=http://www.thoresby.org.uk/content/people/lupton.php |publisher=The Thoresby Society, The Leeds Library, 2018 |accessdate=30 October 2018}}{{cite book |last1=de Vries |first1=S. |title=Royal Marriages: Diana, Camilla, Kate & Meghan and princesses who did not live happily ever after |date=October 2018 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pZlxDwAAQBAJ&q=beechwood+potternewton+hall+lupton&pg=PT460 |publisher=Pirgos Press 2018 |isbn=9781925283648 |accessdate=30 October 2018 |quote=Francis Martineau Lupton was a wealthy mill owner and industrialist turned philanthropist who owned Potternewton Hall (Estate) in Leeds and later lived in Georgian splendour in a rural mansion known as Beechwood.}}{{cite web |title=Births- Barran |url=https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=beechwood%20lupton%20%20roundhay&county=yorkshire%2c%20england&from=1892&to=1902 |publisher=30 September 1892 - Yorkshire Evening Post Yorkshire, England |accessdate=31 October 2018 |quote=BIRTHS. BARRAN.—September 19, 1892 at Beechwood, Roundhay, the wife of Rowland H. Barren, a daughter...}}

Barran bred Shorthorn livestock during his residency at Beechwood.{{cite web |title=Coates's Herd Book |year = 1903|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qp5OAAAAYAAJ&q=Rowland+Barran++Beechwood+Herds |publisher=Shorthorn Society of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland., 1903 |accessdate=30 October 2018}}

Barran became chairman of the family firm in 1918, succeeding his brother, Charles, who had succeeded their father in this post in 1903.

He was a member of the Leeds City Council alongside Alderman Francis Martineau Lupton, and served on the Leeds School Board before his election to parliament.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Election intelligence |date=30 July 1902 |page=10 |issue=36833}}

He was elected to the Parliament for Leeds North in a by-election on 29 July 1902 (caused by the elevation of William Jackson to the peerage),{{London Gazette|issue=27460|page=4962|date=1 August 1902}} and served until the General Election of 14 December 1918. He was knighted in 1917.

During the course of World War I, Barran indicated he would stand down at the next election, probably to concentrate more on his business interests. In 1918, he became chairman of the family firm of clothing manufacturers, taking over that position from his brother.The Times, 30 November 1918, p. 9