Robert Barton
Robert Barton | |
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Minister for Economic Affairs | |
In office 26 August 1921 – 9 January 1922 | |
Preceded by | New office |
Succeeded by | Kevin O'Higgins |
Director of Agriculture | |
In office 2 April 1919 – 26 August 1921 | |
Preceded by | New office |
Succeeded by | Art O'Connor |
Teachta Dála | |
In office May 1921 – June 1923 | |
Constituency | Kildare–Wicklow |
In office December 1918 – May 1921 | |
Constituency | Wicklow West |
Personal details | |
Born | Robert Childers Barton 14 March 1881 Annamoe, County Wicklow, Ireland |
Died | 10 August 1975 Annamoe, County Wicklow, Ireland | (aged 94)
Political party | Sinn Féin |
Spouse |
Rachel Warren
(m. 1951; died 1972) |
Relatives | Erskine Childers (cousin) |
Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
Occupation | Landowner |
Robert Childers Barton (14 March 1881 – 10 August 1975)
Early life
He was born in
Family
Charles William Barton (father) was born on 13 July 1836. He married Agnes Alexandra Frances Childers, daughter of Rev. Canon Charles Childers, on 26 October 1876. He died on 3 October 1890 at age 54. Robert's two younger brothers, Erskine and Thomas, died in the British Army during World War I.[7]
Politics
At the
In May of that year, prior to his release, he was elected as a Sinn Féin member for
Barton was one of the Irish plenipotentiaries to travel to London for the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations.[12][13] His cousin was a secretary to the delegation. 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".
Although he had signed the Treaty and voted for it in the Dáil, he stood for election in June 1922 for Anti-Treaty Sinn Féin, the only TD who had voted for the Treaty to do so, and won a seat in the Third Dáil. In common with other Anti-Treaty TDs, he did not take his seat. In October 1922 he was appointed Minister for Economic Affairs in de Valera's "Emergency Government", a shadow government in opposition to the Provisional Government and the later the Executive Council of the Irish Free State. Barton's memoir of this period was completed in 1954, and can be seen on the Bureau of Military History website. He was arrested and interned for most of the war at the Curragh Camp.[14]
He was defeated at the
Interview
In 1969, RTÉ Television interviewed Barton, alongside Ernest Blythe and James Ryan about the 1918 general election.[16][17]
Glendalough House
Glendalough House, run by Barton for over 70 years right up until his death, is still considered one of
Barton’s grandfather Thomas Johnston Barton, who acquired Glendalough House in 1838, was a younger son of Hugh Barton, owner of the
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