Robert Barbour (Victorian politician)

This article is about the Victorian colonial politician. For the NSW colonial politician, see Robert Barbour (New South Wales politician).
For other people with similar names, see Robert Barbour (disambiguation).

Robert Barbour
30th & 49th Mayor of Hawthorn
In office
1894–1895
Preceded byPercy Joseph Russell
Succeeded byJames Riddell
In office
1913–1914
Preceded byJohn V. M. Wood
Succeeded byEdward Rigby
Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Hawthorn
In office
1 November 1900 – 1 September 1902
Preceded byRobert Murray Smith
Succeeded byGeorge Swinburne
Personal details
Born4 March 1845
Glasgow, Scotland
Died14 November 1914(1914-11-14) (aged 69)
Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia

Robert Thomson Barbour (4 March 1845 – 29 November 1914) was an Australian politician.

Born in Glasgow to stonemason John Humphrey Barbour and Sarah Thomson, he arrived in Victoria in 1856 and became a clerk with the Public Works Department. He eventually became a quantity surveyor and a member of the Melbourne Tramways Trust, as well as a Hawthorn City Councillor (1891–1914, mayor 1894–95, 1913–14). On 4 March 1872 he married Agnes Crocket, with whom he had six children. In 1900 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Hawthorn, serving until his defeat in 1902. Barbour died at Hawthorn in 1914.[1]

  1. ^ "Barbour, Robert Thomson". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 5 May 2019.