George Lennox Barrow (1921–1989) was a colonial administrator, Irish historian, philosopher, geographer, archaeologist, economist and writer.
His grandfather, Sir Edmund Barrow was commander of the British section of the expedition force which occupied Peking in 1900.
His mother, Cecily Woolsey-Butler was the inheritor of Milestown House,[1] Castlebellingham, Co. Louth, which, through her marriage, the Barrow family inherited.
As Nigeria prepared for independence (which was to come in 1960), Lennox and his second wife Viola Molteno, left, returned to Ireland and bought a residence in Sutton Cross, Co. Dublin for £9,000, where they settled for the rest of their lives.
Lennox had previously married Margaret Stevenson, already a widow with two children, Vicky and Derek, who had been recently bereaved.
Lennox Barrow has left a huge legacy as an Irish historian, geographer, archaeologist, economist and writer.