Education
Born on 1 May 1929, to John and Maliza Barlow, Henry Barlow attended King"s College Budo (1936-1948), where he excelled in cricket and lawn tennis.
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lieutenant was at Budo that Barlow discovered poetry. He joined Makerere University College (1949-1953), graduating with a Bachelor degree (London). He was among the 13 pioneer graduates to be awarded degrees.
Before, the university used to award only diplomas.
He later did a diploma in Agricultural Economics at Balliol College, Oxford University (1959-1960). Starting out as a co-operative officer in 1954, Barlow rapidly rose through the civil service ranks to become Permanent Secretary in 1963, a year after independence.
After working in several government ministries, he was seconded to the Lint Marketing Board as chairman and managing director That was in January 1971, the same month Idi Amin took over power.
In 1976 Barlow resigned from the civil service and eventually moved to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to become secretary general of the African Association for Public Administration and Management.
He returned to Uganda in 1981, to rejoin the civil service as permanent secretary in the president"s office and head of the civil service. Barlow retired from the in 1987. He also kept busy doing consultancy and charitable work, while at the same time pursuing his life passion, poetry.
He kept out of politics, apart from 1994, when he stood for Constituent Assembly in Makindye East.
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Membership
After his retirement, he served as a member of the Zimbabwe Public Service Review Commission (1987-1989).
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