Harry John Neville Vane, 11th Baron Barnard (21 September 1923 – 3 April 2016), was an English peer and landowner in Northumbria and County Durham.
[1] On leaving school in 1942 he joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, training in South Africa, although he would never see combat.
[2] In 1960, Vane was awarded the Territorial Decoration, and in 1961 he became a Justice of the Peace for County Durham.
[2] In 1964, on his father's death, he succeeded him as Baron Barnard, with a seat in the House of Lords, and inherited an estate of some 60,000 acres.
[2] At the age of 63, Lord Barnard, who had missed his university years in his youth because of the war, surprised friends by enrolling at Durham University Business School and taking an MSc in Management Studies.