APPEAL FOR BARONET

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 February 1931, Page 9

APPEAL FOR BARONET

MISSING EIGHTEEN YEARS. LONDON, January 14. When a man wants to get out of his usual surroundings, does he go as far away as he can or do'es he stay so near his old haunts that no one looks for him there? If the former idea took him, Sir Francis Barrow, who disappeared from his home and family surroundings in 1912, may have gone as far as he can —and New Zealand is at the Antipodes. Has he? >ln the meantime, his daughter-in-law and family broadcast an appeal recently from the 8.8. C. studio at. Savoy Hill.

The broadcast message was: —

“Will Sir Francis Barrow, Bart., who was last heard of 18 years ago, and whose present whereabouts are unknown, go at once to Cromer House, Hampton Road, Teddington. where his son, Wilfred J. W. C. Barrow, is dangerously ill.” Sir Francis Laurence John Bar row, the fourth baronet, was born in August, 1862. He succeeded his father, Sir John Croker, in 1900.

Ten years before he had married Wini fred Sarah, daughter of the late Mr. W. C. Steward, of Cargate, Whitehaven.

He has a daughter and three sons, of whom the eldest is Wilfrid John Wilson Croker Barrow, on whoste behalf Iho wireless appeal was broadcast. Mr. Wilfrid-Barrow, who is 33 years old, was formerly a captain in the Royal Fusiliers. He married, in 1926, Patricia, daughter of Richard Gordon Fitz Gerald Uniackc, and has two daughters. The missing baronet’s daughter, Mildred Mary Winifrid Barrow is now Mrs. Stanhope Rowe, and is living in Jamaica. The other two sons are Albert Francis, aged 26, and Edward Barrow, aged 18. One of Sir Francis’ sisters, Mary Mercy Barrow, is t: Franciscan nun. The first baronet, Sir John Barrow, was for many, years Secretary to the Admiralty and founder of the Royal Geographical Society. He was a great traveller and author and a. tower a hundred feet high is erected to his memory at Hoad Hill, Ulverston, his birthplace. The second baronet was chief clerk at the Colonial Office. Mrs. Wilfrid Barrow said that she supplied the information to the 8.8. C. herself in the hope that it would lead to the tracing of her husband’s father, but. she did not. want to say any thingmore.