Robert Thomson Barbour (4 March 1845 – 29 November 1914) was an Australian politician. Born in

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to stonemason John Humphrey Barbour and Sarah Thomson, he arrived in

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in 1856 and became a clerk with the Public Works Department. He eventually became a quantity surveyor and a member of the Melbourne Tramways Trust, as well as a Hawthorn City Councillor (1891–1914, mayor 1894–95, 1913–14). On 4 March 1872, he married Agnes Crocket, with whom he had six children. In 1900 he was elected to the

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as the member for Hawthorn, serving until his defeat in 1902. Barbour died at Hawthorn in 1914.

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