Robert Barbour (Victorian politician)

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

Robert Barbour
30th & 49th Mayor of Hawthorn
In office 1894–1895
Preceded by	Percy Joseph Russell
Succeeded by	James Riddell
In office 1913–1914
Preceded by	John V. M. Wood
Succeeded by	Edward Rigby
Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Hawthorn
In office 1 November 1900 – 1 September 1902
Preceded by	Robert Murray Smith
Succeeded by	George Swinburne
Personal details
Born	4 March 1845 Glasgow, Scotland
Died	14 November 1914(1914-11-14) (aged 69) Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia

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]