Alan Barlow
Sir James Alan Noel Barlow, 2nd Baronet was a British civil servant and collector of Persian and Chinese art.Biography
Barlow was born in London, the eldest son of Sir Thomas Barlow, 1st Baronet, Royal physician, and his wife Ada Dalmahoy. He was Principal Private Secretary to Ramsay MacDonald, 1933-1934, and later Under-secretary at HM Treasury.
Barlow was a knight three times over; a baronet and a knight of both the Order of the Bath and the Order of the British Empire; CBE 1918, CB 1928, KBE 1938, KCB 1942, GCB 1947.
Barlow married Nora Darwin, the daughter of Horace Darwin, son of Charles Darwin. They had six children:
