Christopher Bayldon Barber (19 March 1921 – 8 July 2012) was a British Quaker businessman and was the Chairman of Oxfam from 1983 to 1989.
[1][2] Barber was son of Quaker parents William Bayldon Barber (1874-1939), a director of the Friends' Provident Life Office founded by his grandfather, and Gladys Mary, née Jacob, whose family owned Jacob's Biscuits.
[5] As a Quaker, 18-year-old Barber was opposed to war and chose to join the Friends Ambulance Unit before he was called up.
He faced a Conscientious Objector Tribunal, refusing to seek favourable treatment by declaring himself a Quaker.
By innovations, mergers and acquisitions, the firm grew to become Huntley & Palmer then Associated Biscuits and he rose to be Finance Director.
He travelled to South America, India and Sudan and sorted out a diplomatic disaster in Cambodia.