John Dougherty Barbour

John Dougherty Barbour JP DL (3 March 1824 – 1901) was an Irish industrialist and politician. His middle name is sometimes written as "Doherty."

Born in Castle Street, Lisburn, County Antrim, the son of William Barbour, he entered the linen business (William Barbour & Sons) established by his grandfather in Lisburn. His brother, Thomas Barbour, opened a branch of the firm in America. Amongst Barbour's children were Sir Milne Barbour, Bt. and Helen Reilly Barbour, who married Thomas Andrews, designer of the RMS Titanic

Election controversy

In 1863, Barbour was elected Member of Parliament for Lisburn, prior to this he had moved to his father's home, Hilden House, which he established as a place for entertainment. In the 1863 election, 263 votes were placed in the Lisburn constituency. A Petition was presented against Barbour and, by June, he had been unseated as MP.

In 1864 he married the daughter of John Milne of Edinburgh. Barbour later lived in Leamington Spa, where he was elected mayor in 1891, and at Hilden House.

gollark: Well, yes, but people really like blindly unverifiably trusting if it's convenient.

gollark: Or you can actually offer something much nicer and better in some way, a "killer app" for decentralized stuff, but if you do that and it's not intrinsically tied to the decentralized thing the big platforms will just copy it.

gollark: Yes, users are bad and won't care unless something directly affects them.

gollark: Also, in my experience the more privacy-friendly stuff also is more lightweight due to being designed with a mindset of doing it well and not adding excessive features, versus Facebook and whoever just using whatever allows them to get better time to market and shove in 2000 different weird features ~~stolen from~~ inspired by other platforms.

gollark: Social networks without E2E don't say "yes, we're not very secure, but [list of features that that allows us to provide we couldn't otherwise]".

References

http://www.lisburn.com/books/historical_society/volume5/volume5-6.html

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Jonathan Richardson	Member of Parliament for Lisburn February 1863 – June 1863	Succeeded by Edward Wingfield Verner

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