Harry Barron [SEP] date of death
Harry Barron
Major General Sir Harry Barron (11 August 1847 – 27 March 1921) was Governor of Tasmania from 1909 to 1913, and Governor of Western Australia from 1913 to 1917.
Life.
Barron was born in 1847 and he attended Stubbington House School and in 1877 he married Clara Emily, daughter of Major General T. Conyngham Kelly, C.B.; they had a daughter.
Barron was Governor of Tasmania from 1909 to 1913, and Governor of Western Australia from 1913 to 1917.
In 1920, he
, red-headed, blue-eyed, smiling giant." President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and President Harry S Truman both claimed Barron to be a great friend. Barron organized twelve birthday balls for President Roosevelt and worked on both Roosevelt's and Truman's inaugurations.
President Harry S Truman dedicated the Sesquicentennial Amphitheatre on August 4, 1950, but following Barron's death, he rededicated the amphitheatre the Carter T. Barron Amphitheater in an official ceremony on May 25, 1951. Many people considered Carter Barron the link between the performing