Robert Thomson Barbour was an Australian politician.

Born in Glasgow

Glasgow

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 to stonemason John Humphrey Barbour and Sarah Thomson, he arrived in Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

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 in 1856 and became a clerk with the Public Works Department. He eventually became a quantity surveyor and a member of the Melbourne Tramways Trust, as well as a Hawthorn City Councillor

City of Hawthorn

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 (1891–1914, mayor 1894–95, 1913–14). On 4 March 1872 he married Agnes Crocket, with whom he had six children. In 1900 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly

Victorian Legislative Assembly

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 as the member for Hawthorn

Electoral district of Hawthorn

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, serving until his defeat in 1902. Barbour died at Hawthorn

Hawthorn, Victoria

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in 1914.