Eric Barbour

Eric Pitty Barbour (27 January 1891 – 7 December 1934) was an Australian cricket player, physician and author.

[1] He was educated at Sydney Grammar School, where he was a prolific run scorer in the cricket team.

He was selected to go to South Africa in 1914 but the tour was cancelled due to World War I.

He served in the Australian Imperial Force in Egypt, England and France and was demobilized in 1919.

Eric's brother Robert Roy Pitty Barbour (born 1899) was warden of Melbourne University Union from 1940 to 1954 and senior lecturer in classics from 1954 to 1967, and his youngest son Peter was director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation from 1970 to 1975.