[10] In the early 1920s, Barlow was a regular competitor at the Brooklands motor racing circuit.
[11] Barlow joined Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists (BUF) sometime before the Second World War.
During the war, he was one of those detained by the British government under the newly introduced Defence Regulation 18B.
[12] After the end of the war, Barlow was a worshipper and the financial backer of the religious community known as Kingdom House, at River, West Sussex, where they worshiped Adolf Hitler as Christ returned.
According to information given to Brian Simpson by Robert Row, the worshipers also included James Larratt Battersby, Captain Thomas Baker MC, and A.J.