Patrick Barbour

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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'.[1] Barbour has also made donations to the Stockholm Network and is a business supporter of Global Vision.[2] He is a trustee of the Politics and Economics Research Trust which is the research wing of the Taxpayers' Alliance.[3]

According to his profile on the Young Britons' Foundation website Barbour spent 40 years building the companies Barbour Index Plc and Microgen Plc.[4] He is also a foundaing director of Barbour Logic.[5] He sold Barbour Index for £22 million in 1999.[6]

Barbour Index promotional picture from 1967[7]

Affiliations

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

Notes

  1. Patrick Barbour, Patrick Barbour: Political management has failed the victims of C-Diff, Conservative Home, 18-October-2007
  2. Global Vision Support from Business, accessed 18 November 2010
  3. Politics & Economics Research Trust, Charity Commission Report, Charity Commission, Accessed 13-April-2011
  4. Patrick Barbour, YBF7 Speaker: Patrick Barbour, Young Britons' Foundation, Accessed 13-April-2011
  5. Barbour Logic, Founding Directors, Barbour Logic, Accessed 13-April-2011
  6. The Independent, Barbour Index founder's pounds 22m, the Independent, 13-March-1999
  7. 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