Robert Hewitt Barker (1887 – 14 February 1961) was a British

textile mill Textile manufacturing or textile engineering is a major industry. It is largely based on the conversion of fibre into yarn, then yarn into fabric. These are then dyed or printed, fabricated into cloth which is then converted into useful good ...

owner. He was the independent Member of Parliament for Sowerby, 1918–1922, with the support of the

National Association of Discharged Sailors and Soldiers The National Association of Discharged Sailors and Soldiers (NADSS) was a British veterans' organisation. The group was founded in early 1917 at a conference in Blackburn, drawing together various local groups representing working men who had ser ...

. He became joint owner of the firm of Luke Barker and Sons, cotton spinners in

Todmorden Todmorden ( ; ) is a market town and civil parish in the Upper Calder Valley in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. It is north-east of Manchester, south-east of Burnley and west of Halifax, West Yorkshire, Halifax. In 2011, it had a popul ...

. He was in the

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, rising to the rank of Major. He stood for Parliament in 1918, but did not stand again in 1922.

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*http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/robert_barker/sowerby UK MPs 1918–1922 Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies People from Todmorden 1887 births 1961 deaths Independent members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom British Army personnel of World War I Lancashire Fusiliers officers {{UK-business-bio-1880s-stub