Sir Thomas Richard Fiennes Barrett-Lennard, 5th Baronet, (12 December 1898 – 28 December 1977) was a British banker who had served as vice-chairman of

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and Chairman of the East Anglian Trustee Savings Bank.

Life and family

He was born in

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on 12 December 1898, the son of Richard Fiennes Barrett-Lennard, 4th Baronet. He entered

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in 1919, obtaining a BA degree. He married Miss Una Kathleen Finora Fitzgerald at Aveley in July, 1922 He was appointed as a Justice of the Peace for Essex in October, 1926. He inherited the baronetcy on the death of his father at

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manor in September, 1934. He worked in the financial services industry, being vice-chairman of Norwich Union, Chairman of the East Anglian Trustee Savings Bank. and a director of other insurance companies In 1950, he was chairman of the appeal committee that raised £35,000 for repairs to Norwich Cathedral. He died on 28 Dec. 1977 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his distant cousin, Sir Hugh Barrett-Lennard, 6th Baronet, who was descended from the second son of the first baronet.

Family pictures

Barrett-Lennard owned a number of family pictures which he loaned to various exhibitions, including ''Fine Paintings from East Anglia'' and ''18th Century Italy and the Grand Tour''. His paintings were photographed and a list published by the

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. In 1974 he donated many of these family pictures to Essex County Council, although they remained with the family until 2009. The collection included around 40 family portraits, including the donor, painted by Armin Horowitz in 1938. There were also some topographical paintings of Belhus and a few other works. A few paintings from the collection are on display in the search room at the Essex Record Office, including a portrait of the 5th Baronet. In 1922, the collection included portraits of Charles I and Catherine Mildmay, both by

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, but these are not included in the Essex Record Offic List. The most valuable item in the collection was a portrait of Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 17th Lord Dacre, with his wife and daughter by

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which was valued at £2.5m. The Batoni portrait and many other works in the collection were discussed in a privately published family history.

Honours

* Officer of the

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(1950) * Commander of the

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(1955)London Gazette
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References

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