John Vane, 11th Baron Barnard

Technopedia Center

Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
S1 Informatics S1 Information Systems S1 Information Technology S1 Computer Engineering S1 Electrical Engineering S1 Civil Engineering

faculty of Economics and Business
S1 Management S1 Accountancy

Faculty of Letters and Educational Sciences
S1 English literature S1 English language education S1 Mathematics education S1 Sports Education

John Vane, 11th Baron Barnard - Wikipedia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Right Honourable The Lord Barnard TD JP DL

Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer 19 October 1964 – 11 November 1999
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Preceded by	The 10th Baron Barnard
Succeeded by	Seat abolished ^[a]
Lord Lieutenant of Durham
In office 1 October 1970 – 21 April 1988
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Preceded by	Sir James Fitzjames Duff
Succeeded by	David James Grant

Personal details
Born	Harry John Neville Vane (1923-09-21)21 September 1923 Raby Castle, County Durham
Died	3 April 2016(2016-04-03) (aged 92) Raby Castle, County Durham

Military career
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service / branch	Royal Air Force (1945–1948) British Army (1948–1966)
Years of service	1945–1966
Rank	Lieutenant Colonel
Unit	Northumberland Hussars
Commands	Northumberland Hussars
Awards	Efficiency Decoration

Harry John Neville Vane, 11th Baron Barnard, TD, JP, DL (21 September 1923 – 3 April 2016), was an English peer and landowner in Northumbria and County Durham.

Life

Born at Raby Castle in County Durham, the son of Christopher Vane, 10th Baron Barnard, the young Vane was educated at Eton College.^[1] On leaving school in 1942 he joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, training in South Africa, although he would never see combat.^[1] In the aftermath of the war he was commissioned into the Northumberland Hussars. From 1952 to 1961, as John Vane, he was a county councillor for County Durham and also, from 1956 to 1970, a Deputy Lieutenant of Durham.^[2]

In 1960, Vane was awarded the Territorial Decoration, and in 1961 he became a Justice of the Peace for County Durham.^[2]

In 1964, on his father's death, he succeeded him as Baron Barnard, with a seat in the House of Lords, and inherited an estate of some 60,000 acres.^[3]

He was Lieutenant Colonel of the Northumberland Hussars between 1964 and 1966, Lord Lieutenant of Durham between 1970 and 1988, and Honorary Colonel of the 7th (Durham) Battalion, Light Infantry, between 1979 and 1989.^[2]

At the age of 63, Lord Barnard, who had missed his university years in his youth because of the war, surprised friends by enrolling at Durham University Business School and taking an MSc in Management Studies.^[1]

He was initiated into freemasonry in Agricola Lodge No. 7741 in 1961. He served as Provincial Grand Master of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Durham from December 1969 until January 1998, and served as Senior Grand Warden of the United Grand Lodge of England in 1970–1971.

On his death in 2016, he left an estate valued at £94 million (equivalent to £129,378,320 in 2023^[4]).^[3]

Family

He married Lady Davina Mary Cecil (1931–2018),^[5] daughter of David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter, on 8 October 1952 at St Margaret's, Westminster. They were divorced in 1992.^[2] They had five children; Henry, who succeeded as the 12th Baron, and four daughters.^[1]

Lady Barnard retired to Barningham, where she died in 2018.^[6]

Notes

^ Under the House of Lords Act 1999.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Lord Barnard – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 4 May 2016. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Lord Barnard dies aged 92". Sunderland Echo. 4 April 2016. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
^ ^a ^b Cahal Milmo, "Britain's 600 aristocratic families have doubled their wealth in the last decade and are as 'wealthy as at the height of Empire'", i (newspaper), 19 July 2019, accessed 19 February 2023.
^ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
^ "Tributes paid to Lady Davina Barnard, who died aged 87". The Northern Echo. 19 September 2018. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
^ Oxley, Lyndsay (21 September 2018). "Tributes paid to Lady Barnard – 'she was a very kind, caring and gentle person'". Teesdale Mercury. Retrieved 16 August 2021.

Honorary titles
Preceded by Sir James Fitzjames Duff	Lord Lieutenant of Durham 1970–1988	Succeeded by David James Grant
Peerage of England
Preceded by Christopher Vane	Baron Barnard 1964–2016 Member of the House of Lords (1964–1999)	Succeeded by Henry Vane

This biography of a baron or baroness in the Peerage of England is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Authority control databases
International	VIAF
National	Germany
People	UK Parliament