Major Henry Gorell Barnes, 2nd Baron Gorell DSO

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 (1882-16 January 1917) was a British Army

British Army

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 officer.
He was born in 1882, the eldest son of John Barnes, 1st Baron Gorell

John Barnes, 1st Baron Gorell

John Gorell Barnes, 1st Baron Gorell PC QC , was a British lawyer and judge.-Biography:Gorell was the eldest son of Henry Barnes, a shipowner of Liverpool, and was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He began work as a solicitor, but was called to the Bar in 1876 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1888...

. After an education at Winchester

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, Trinity College, Oxford

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, and Harvard

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, he was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple

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 in 1906. He worked as a secretary to his father when he was on the Bench, and later as secretary of the Royal Commission on Divorce. He succeeded his father to the peerage in 1913.

During the First World War, he joined the Royal Field Artillery

Royal Field Artillery

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; he was killed in action on January 16, 1917, after one year and ten month's continuous service abroad. He was succeeded in the peerage by his younger brother, Ronald

Ronald Gorell Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell

Ronald Gorell Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell was a British peer, Liberal politician, poet, author and newspaper editor....

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