Harry Barron

Major General Sir Harry Barron KCMG, CVO (11 August 1847 – 27 March 1921) was Governor of Tasmania from 1909 to 1913, and Governor of Western Australia from 1913 to 1917.

He attended Stubbington House School and in 1877 married Clara Emily, daughter of Major General T. Conyngham Kelly, C.B.; they had a daughter. In 1920, he was made colonel commandant of the Royal Artillery.

General references

 * A. B. Keith, Responsible Government in the Dominions, vol 1 (Oxford, 1928); Mercury (Hobart), 28 Dec 1912; West Australian (Perth), 13 Mar 1913, 3-8, 26, 27 Feb 1917.