Background
Barne was the eldest son of Frederick Barne of Sotterley HalI, near Wangford, Suffolk and his wife Mary Anne Elizabeth Honywood, eldest daughter of Sir John Edward Courtenay Honywood, 6th Baronet.
Barne was the eldest son of Frederick Barne of Sotterley HalI, near Wangford, Suffolk and his wife Mary Anne Elizabeth Honywood, eldest daughter of Sir John Edward Courtenay Honywood, 6th Baronet.
His father had been Member of Parliament He joined the Scots Fusilier Guards in 1859 and retired as captain and lieutenant-colonel in 1872. Barne married Lady Constance Adelaide Seymour, daughter of Francis Seymour, 5th Marquess of Hertford in 1871. They lived at Sotterley Hall.
Their son Michael Barne was the last surviving officer of the 1901-1904 Discovery Expedition.
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for the rotten borough of Dunwich in succession to earlier members of the Barne family. Barne was elected at a by-election in 1876 as one of the two Members of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for East Suffolk, and held the seat until the 1885 general election, when constituency was divided under the Redistribution of Seats Acting 1885.