3-078-312 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

New Year's Honours: Sir John Barran, Bart., M.P., 1895. Photo by Russell and Sons. 'Sir John Barran has received his baronetcy late in life, for he is seventy-four years of age. He is a manufacturing clothier at Leeds, and has represented Leeds and Otley in Parliament since 1876. His factories at Leeds are evidence of a commercial enterprise which has few, if any, superiors in this business, and which sprang from very small beginnings. They supply not only our own Government, but also several foreign Governments with clothing, which is produced on the scale of several thousand suits a day. Sir John Barran has been Mayor of Leeds and President of the local Chamber of Commerce, and he has the reputation of being one of the shrewdest of Yorkshiremen. Throughout his political life he has been the devoted follower of Mr. Gladstone'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.