Nicolas Guy Barnett (23 August 1928 – 24 December 1986) was a British Labour Party politician.
[1][2] He was educated at Highgate School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he read politics, philosophy and economics.
[1] After unsuccessfully contesting Scarborough and Whitby in 1959, Barnett was elected as the MP for South Dorset at a by-election in November 1962 [3] after the sitting Conservative MP Victor Montagu succeeded to the peerage as the Earl of Sandwich.
[1] He was returned to Parliament as the MP for Greenwich at a by-election in July 1971, upon the resignation of the sitting Labour MP Richard Marsh to become chairman of British Rail, and held the seat until his death on Christmas Eve 1986.
[1] He was a Member of the General Advisory Council of BBC from 1973 to 1976, served on the board of Christian Aid from 1984 to 1986, a Governor of the Institute of Development Studies from 1984 to 1986 and a Trustee of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich from 1974 to 1976.