Education
Barber was educated at the Royal Agricultural College and served in the Second World War.
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He worked as a farmer in Gloucestershire before serving in various posts at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 1946-1972. Since then he has taken various advisory roles on countryside and agricultural matters, including to the government and British Broadcasting Corporation. He has served as Chairman and later President of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. President of the Gloucestershire Naturalists" Society.
President of the Royal Agricultural Society of England.
President of the British Pig Association. And a Vice-President of the Nature in Art Trust.
Barber was knighted in 1984 and created a life peer as Baron Barber of Tewkesbury, of Gotherington in the County of Gloucestershire, on 12 August 1992. He sat as a crossbencher until taking a leave of absence from the House of Lords in 2011.
Should he returm, he would be the oldest sitting member, being a year older than Lord Carrington, the current holder of that distinction.
