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Anthony Barber, Baron Barber

The Right Honourable
The Lord Barber
TD PC DL
Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office
25 July 1970 – 4 March 1974
Prime Minister Edward Heath
Preceded by Iain Macleod
Succeeded by Denis Healey
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
In office
20 June 1970 – 25 July 1970
Prime Minister Edward Heath
Preceded by George Thomson
Succeeded by Geoffrey Rippon
Chairman of the Conservative Party
In office
10 January 1967 – 20 June 1970
Leader Edward Heath
Preceded by Edward du Cann
Succeeded by Peter Thomas
Minister of Health
In office
20 October 1963 – 16 October 1964
Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home
Preceded by Enoch Powell
Succeeded by Kenneth Robinson
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
In office
16 July 1962 – 20 October 1963
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan
Preceded by Edward Boyle
Succeeded by Alan Green
Economic Secretary to the Treasury
In office
22 October 1959 – 16 July 1962
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan
Preceded by Frederick Erroll
Succeeded by Edward du Cann
Member of Parliament
for Altrincham and Sale
In office
10 June 1965 – 10 October 1974
Preceded by Frederick Erroll
Succeeded by Fergus Montgomery
Member of Parliament
for Doncaster
In office
25 October 1951 – 15 October 1964
Preceded by Raymond Gunter
Succeeded by Harold Walker
Personal details
Born Anthony Perrinott Lysberg Barber
(1920-07-04)4 July 1920
Doncaster, England
Died 16 December 2005(2005-12-16) (aged 85)
Suffolk, England
Political party Conservative
Alma mater Oriel College, Oxford
Middle Temple
Occupation Politician
Military service
Service/branch British Army / Royal Air Force
Years of service 1939−1945
Rank Lieutenant / Pilot officer
Unit Royal Artillery / Photographic Reconnaissance Unit RAF
Battles/wars World War II, POW 1942-1945

Anthony Perrinott Lysberg Barber, Baron Barber of Wentbridge TD PC DL (4 July 1920 – 16 December 2005) was a British Conservative politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

He studied at Oxford and was elected as MP for Doncaster in 1950.

Barber held various posts in government under Harold Macmillan, including Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Minister of Health. After losing his seat in 1964, he won the 1965 by-election in Altrincham and Sale and returned to Parliament.

Barber was appointed as Chancellor by Edward Heath in 1970, and oversaw a major liberalisation of the banking system, replaced purchase tax and Selective Employment Tax with Value Added Tax, and also relaxed exchange controls. During his term the economy suffered due to stagflation and industrial unrest, including a miners strike which led to the Three-Day Week. In 1972 he delivered a budget which was designed to return the Conservatives to power in an election expected in 1974 or 1975. This budget led to a period known as "The Barber Boom". The measures in the budget led to high inflation and wage demands from public sector workers. He was forced to introduce anti-inflation measures, along with a Prices Commission and a Pay Board. After the Conservatives lost the first election in 1974, he did not stand in the second election of that year. Barber became Chairman of Standard Chartered Bank until 1987 and died in 2005.


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