Barstow, George Lewis, Sir, 1874-1966, Knight, administrator and business executive

1896-1927 Home civil service; 1896-1898 Local Government Board; 1898 transferred to the Treasury; 1909 principal clerk, the Treasury; 1913 CB; 1919-1927 assistant secretary of suppy services, the Treasury; 1920 KCB; 1927-1946 government director, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company; 1928-1935 director, the Prudential Assurance Company; 1929-1955 president, the University College, Swansea; 1935-1941 deputy-chairman, the Prudential Assurance Company; 1937 University of Wales LL.D; 1941-1953 chairman, the Prudential Assurance Company.

Epithet: administrator and business executive

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