Background
He was born in Brighton on 12 December 1898, the son of Richard Fiennes Barrett-Lennard, 4th Baronet. He inherited the baronetcy on the death of his father at Horsford manor in September, 1934.
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Richard Baronet
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Clare College.
Career
He entered Clare College, Cambridge in 1919, obtaining a Bachelor degree. He worked in the financial services industry, being vice-chairman of Norwich Union, Chairman of the East Anglian Trustee Savings Bank. and a director of other insurance companies In 1950, he was chairman of the appeal committee that raised £35,000 for repairs to Norwich Cathedral. Barrett-Lennard owned a number of family pictures which he loaned to various exhibitions, including Fine Paintings from East Anglia and 18th Century Italy and the Grand Tour.
His paintings were photographed and a list published by the Courtauld Institute of Artist
In 1974 he donated many of these family pictures to Essex County Council, although they remained with the family until 2009. The collection included around 40 family portraits, some topographical paintings of Belhus and a few other works.
A few paintings from the collection are on display in the search room at the Essex Record Office, including a portrait of the 5th Baronet. In 1922, the collection included portraits of Charles I and Catherine Mildmay, both by Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen, but these are not included in the Essex Record Offic List.
The Batoni portrait and many other works in the collection were discussed in a privately published family history.
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (1950).
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British