W. G. Barlow

File:W.G. Barlow in a Bentley at Brooklands August 1922.jpg

Lieutenant William Geoffrey Barlow (28 December 1891{{cite news |title=Births |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000206/18920102/193/0016 |access-date=26 May 2023 |work=Manchester Courier |date=2 January 1892 |page=16 |url-access=subscription}}Great Britain, Royal Aero Club Aviators' Certificates, 1910–1950 – 19 January 1975) was a Royal Flying Corps pilot during the First World War, a racing driver in the 1920s, and a fascist before and after the Second World War. He was detained by the British government under Defence Regulation 18B during the Second World War.

Family and personal life

Barlow was born at Ashford, Wilmslow, Cheshire, the son of barrister William Wycliffe Barlow and Emily Jardine Barlow.{{cite wikisource|chapter=Barlow, William Wycliffe|wslink=Men-at-the-Bar|plaintitle=Men-at-the-Bar|last=|first=|year=|publisher=|page=|wspage=|scan=}}1901 England Census The family home was Pitt Manor in Winchester. In 1925, he married Dora Naomi Elizabeth Bayford.{{cite web |title=Pitt Manor (Pittfield) |url=http://research.hgt.org.uk/item/pitt-manor/ |publisher=Hampshire Gardens Trust |access-date=26 May 2023}}{{cite news |title=Burlsedon – Fashionable Wedding |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001973/19250227/046/0004 |access-date=26 May 2023 |work=Hampshire Telegraph |date=27 February 1925 |page=4 |url-access=subscription}}

He died 19 January 1975 at Bridport, Dorset.England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916–2007England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995

First World War

During the First World War, Barlow served as a Second Lieutenant with the 28th London RegimentUK, British Army World War I Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920 and as a pilot with the Royal Flying Corps as a Lieutenant.{{cite book|author=Hamm, Jeffrey|title=Mosley's Blackshirts: The inside story of the British Union of Fascists 1932-1940|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yvOECAAAQBAJ&pg=PA90|year=2012|publisher=Black House Publishing|location=London|isbn=978-1-908476-40-1|page=90}}

Motor racing

In the early 1920s, Barlow was a regular competitor at the Brooklands motor racing circuit. In 1920, he drove an ex-Tuck Humber in the August bank holiday event. In August 1922, he was pictured in a Bentley. In 1923, he competed in a Halford Special at least three times. He also raced an Aston Martin.{{cite book|author=Demaus, A.B.|title=The vintage years of motoring 1920s & 1930s|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HVKIAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT82|year=2013|publisher=Amberley Publishing|location=Stroud|isbn=978-1-4456-2601-7|page=82}}

Fascism

Barlow joined Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists (BUF) sometime before the Second World War. During the war, he was one of those detained by the British government under the newly introduced Defence Regulation 18B.Warburton, John & Jeffrey Wallder. (2008) [http://www.oswaldmosley.com/downloads/18b%20Detainees%20List.pdf The Defence Regulation 18B British Union Detainees List]. Revised edition. Friends of Oswald Mosley. p. 7.

After the end of the war, Barlow was a worshipper and the financial backer of the religious community known as Kingdom House, at River, West Sussex, where they worshiped Adolf Hitler as Christ returned. According to information given to Brian Simpson by Robert Row, the worshipers also included James Larratt Battersby, Captain Thomas Baker MC, and A.J. Schneider.{{cite book|author=Simpson, A.W. Brian|title=In the highest degree odious: Detention without trial in wartime Britain|url=|date=1992|place=Oxford|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=0198257759|pages=250–251}}