Patrick Barbour

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Barbour Index promotional picture from 1967[1]

Patrick Barbour is a trustee of Civitas, and was one of the three founders of Reform. He is also the author of the position paper for the Taxpayers Alliance's 'Better Government Campaign'.[2] Barbour has also made donations to the Stockholm Network[3][4] and is a business supporter of Global Vision.[5] He is a trustee of the Politics and Economics Research Trust which is the research wing of the Taxpayers' Alliance.[6]


According to his profile on the Young Britons' Foundation website Barbour spent 40 years building the companies Barbour Index Plc and Microgen Plc.[7] He is also a founding director of Barbour Logic.[8] He sold Barbour Index for £22 million in 1999.[9]

Affiliations

Civitas | Stockholm Network | Global Vision | Reform | Politics and Economics Research Trust | Taxpayers' Alliance | Young Britons' Foundation

Notes

  1. Lucy Granville, Mini’s and mini skirts: Barbour Index was a job for an independent woman in the 1960′s], LucyGranville.com, 8-September-2010, Accessed 13-April-2011
  2. Patrick Barbour, Patrick Barbour: Political management has failed the victims of C-Diff, Conservative Home, 18-October-2007
  3. Stockholm Network, Annual Report 2006-07, ISSU, Accessed 20-April-2010
  4. Stockholm Network, Annual Report 2007-08, ISSU, Accessed 20-April-2010
  5. Global Vision Support from Business, accessed 18 November 2010
  6. Politics & Economics Research Trust, Charity Commission Report, Charity Commission, Accessed 13-April-2011
  7. Patrick Barbour, YBF7 Speaker: Patrick Barbour, Young Britons' Foundation, Accessed 13-April-2011
  8. Barbour Logic, Founding Directors, Barbour Logic, Accessed 13-April-2011
  9. The Independent, Barbour Index founder's pounds 22m, the Independent, 13-March-1999