George Barstow

Sir George Lewis Barstow KCB (20 May 1874 – 29 January 1966) was a British civil servant and businessman.

For the American land developer and politician, see George E. Barstow.

Barstow was born in York and was educated at Clifton College[1] and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[2] He then entered the Civil Service. In 1909, he was appointed a principal clerk in HM Treasury and shortly afterwards became an assistant secretary. He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1913 New Year Honours.[3]

In 1918, he remarked that the planned provision of starting capital by the Ministry of Munitions for the development of electricity generating plants in the Midlands amounted to a form of state capitalism whereby businessmen who had gained a footing in the Ministry of Munitions intended to modernise the British economy at the risk of the taxpayer.[4]

In 1919, he was appointed Controller of Supply Services at the Treasury, serving in the post until 1927. He was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1920 New Year Honours.[5]

In 1927, he became government director of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (later the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company), holding the post until 1946. He also joined the board of the Prudential Assurance Company, becoming deputy chairman and then being elected chairman in 1941. He was chairman until 1953.

Footnotes
  1. "Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. pp128/9: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948
  2. "Barstow, George Lewis (BRSW892GL)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. "No. 28677". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1913. p. 1.
  4. Cerretano, Valerio (2007). The Treasury, Britain’s post-war reconstruction and the industrial intervention of the Bank of England, 1921-1929. Paris: PARIS-JOURDAN SCIENCES ECONOMIQUES.
  5. "No. 31712". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1919. p. 3.

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