Arthur Rees (Rhys) Barrand (b 1861)

The next child of Isaac Andrew Barrand and Mary Elizabeth Reece was Arthur Rees (or Rhys) Barrand, born on the 28^th October, 1861 Birth Ref: Hackney 1861 - 4th Qtr (1b - 330) and baptised on the 13^th September, 1863 in West Hackney No: 1093 on the Registers on the same day as his younger sister Beatrice Alice where their father, Isaac Andrew is noted as a commercial clerk and their address is Palatine Place, West Hackney

On the 1871 census, he is shown as 9 years old and a scholar, but now living at 18, Avenue Road. By 1881, Arthur Rhys is aged 19 and working as an Insurance clerk. On the 1^st December, 1889, he married Amy Brydon Schofield in Hackney, London. Marriage Ref: Hackney 1889 - 3^rd Qtr (1b - 961) and his address is shown as 36, Avenue Road, Lower Clapton. (Her family is detailed below) By 1881, he was aged 19 and had already joined the Prudential Assurance Co as a junior clerk and retired in 1923 as a Deputy Manager and by the time of the 1891 census it shows Arthur Rhys, Amy (his wife) and Walter Arthur Barrand, their son. Arthur is still an Insurance Clerk and living at 54, Narford Road in West Hackney. Arthur Rhys Barrand and Amy Brydon Schofield had 5 children – Walter Arthur, Alice Barbara, Herbert Joseph, Christina Amy and Ethel Mary.

Amy Brydon Schofield died on the 22^nd January, 1898, of cancer aged 36, at their home 11, St Andrews Road in Edmonton. Death Ref: Edmonton 1898 - 1st Qtr (3a - 304) The 1901 census has Arthur Rhys living in Enfield, North London and working as an Insurance Actuary.

He married his second wife, Emily Brydon Schofield, born in 1867 Birth Ref: Manchester 1867 - 2nd Qtr (8b - 261), the daughter of Henry Fletcher Schofield an Estate Agent, and the cousin of his first wife Amy, in St. Stephen’s Church, Chorlton-by-Medlock in Manchester on 7^th June, 1899. Marriage Ref: Chorlton 1899 - 2^nd Qtr (8c - 1211).

They had a son, Harold Schofield Barrand in 1900 in Edmonton. They were living in Enfield, but on the census for 1901 it shows that Emily (Arthur Rhys's wife) had gone back to Manchester with their son, Harold and was living back with her parents, and that left Arthur Rhys in Edmonton with his other 5 children. Arthur Rhys is shown as married, and living with him are his children, Walter Arthur, Alice Barbara, Herbert Joseph, Christina Amy and Ethel Mary.

In 1910, Arthur Rhys Barrand was elected as an Enfield Councillor and was then accepted to the Institute of Actuaries and on the Board as an examiner from 1911-1913, and in 1918, he successfully became the Liberal MP for Pudsey in West Leeds, a position he held for 4 years (14^th December, 1918 – 26^th October, 1922) when he was beaten in a 3-party fight. As a holder of the Coalition Coupon, he did not face a Conservative opponent in 1918, but after 4 years in the House of Commons he was defeated at the 1922 general election by the Conservative Frederick Fawkes. Arthur Rhys Barrand did not stand again. He re-joined the Prudential Assurance Co in 1932 and ended up as a Director. He travelled the world giving lectures on Insurance and Insurance matters. Arthur Rhys died on the 3^rd August, 1941, aged 79 of heart failure. His son, Herbert Joseph was present at Arthur’s death at his home in Bournemouth. Death Ref: Bournemouth 1941 - 3rd Qtr (2b - 1372)

He was mentioned in “Who was Who” for 1941, and the citation reads:-

“BARRAND Arthur Rhys: Interested in Insurance; b Stoke Newington 28.10.1861, m Emily Brydon, dau of Henry Fletcher Schofield, Manchester; Educated Birkbeck School, Kingsland; Finsbury Technical College. Actuary 1895 Bar Middle Temple; 1906 MP (CL) Pudsey & Otley Division of Yorks (Dec 1918-22) Joint Editor of Bunyan's Law of Life Assurance: Address - Trenance, Dunbar Road, BOURNMOUTH; Club - Nat Lib, d 3rd August, 1941”

Emily Brydon died on the 3^rd October, 1954, aged 87 of coronary thombosis. Ethel Mary Barrand, her step-daughter was present at the death, which suggests Ethel was never married. Death Ref: Bournemouth 1954 - 4th Qtr (6b - 84)

Elected.

BARRAND .......................502

GIBBERD ........................ 491

COLLINS .........................486

SYKES ............................. 463

Enfield Council elections THE MIDDLESEX GAZETTE, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1910.

Birth Certificate of Arthur Rees Barrand

Baptism Record for Arthur Rees Barrand

1871 census – Arthur Rees Barrand

1881 census – Arthur Rees Barrand

The story of Emily and Amy Brydon

On 27^th December, 1831c, Charles Schofield married Isabella Brydon in Manchester. They had 5 sons:-

Joseph (b 1832), Married Barbara Brydon

James Brydon (b 1834)

Charles John (b 1836), married Sarah Ann Charlton (b 1844), Manchester

Alfred (b 1838), married Elizabeth Redford (b 1840) in 1867, Manchester

Henry Fletcher (b 1840)

On 12^th June, 1823 Isabella Brydon's brother George Brydon (Tinplate worker) married Christiana Rodley and had 4 children 2 sons and in particular 2 daughters:-

Barbara (b 1830) & bapt 20th Nov. 1833- married Joseph Schofield (see below)

Christiana (b 1836) – also married Joseph Schofield (see below)

Henry Fletcher Schofield (Estate Agent) married Mary Alice Wood (b 1841) on the 23^rd April, 1863 and they had 3 daughters:-

Annie Elizabeth (b 1864) and she married Albert John Adams (Estate Agent) on 4th June, 1889.

Emily Brydon (b 24/04/1867) Manchester

Ada (b 1877) married Walter Leigh Akehurst (Warehouseman) on 14th August, 1902 (Emily Barrand witness)

Joseph Schofield (b 1832) son of Charles Schofield married Barbara Brydon (b 1830) (cousins) on 28th December, 1858 in Manchester Cathedral, and moved to Hackney in London, and they had 3 children:-

Amy Brydon (b 01/12/1861) Hackney married Arthur Rhys Barrand - died 1898

Alfred Ernest (b 1866) (Artist) Hackney married Rosa Shafe on 13th August, 1892 and then married Mercie Volk on 18th Nov. 1916

Frederick Brydon (b 1868) Dalston (Clerk) married Evaline Crook Camroux on the 8th September, 1897.

Barbara Brydon died in 1869/1870 and Joseph then married Christiana Brydon census 1871 (Barbara's sister, his Sister-in-Law and also his other cousin).

On the death of Christiana Brydon, he then married Mary Woolley Gadsdun in 1887 (Hackney)

Arthur Rhys Barrand married Amy Brydon Schofield (Daughter of Joseph Schofield and Barbara Brydon) in September 1889 and had 5 children:-

Walter Arthur (b 1890) Stoke Newington

Alice Barbara (b 1892) Stoke Newington

Herbert Joseph (b 1893) Stamford Hill

Christina Amy (b 1895) Stamford Hill

Ethel Mary (b 1897) Stamford Hill

Amy Brydon died in March of 1898.

Arthur Rhys then married Emily Brydon Schofield (Daughter of Henry Fletcher Schofield & Mary Wood) and was who also Amy's cousin on 07/06/1899, in Chorlton (Manchester) (IGI I 029589) and had 1 son:-

Harold Schofield (b 1900).

The census for 1901 shows that Emily (Arthur Rhys's wife) had gone back to Manchester with her son, Harold and was living back with her parents, and left Arthur Rhys in Edmonton with his other 5 children.

Parish Register of Amy Brydon Schofield’s baptism

Marriage Certificate of Arthur Rhys Barrand + Amy Brydon Schofield 1889

1891 census for Arthur Rees Barrand

Death Certificate of Amy Brydon Schofield 1898

Morning Post - Wednesday 26 January 1898 - death of Amy Brydon Schofield

Marriage Certificate of Arthur Rhys Barrand + Emily Brydon Schofield 1899

The banns for the marriage to Emily Brydon Schofield were read in Enfield Parish Church on the 14th, 21st and 28th May, 1899.

Parish register of Emily Brydon Schofield’s baptism

1901 census for Arthur Rees Barrand

1911 census for Arthur Rees Barrand

Death Certificate for Arthur Rhys Barrand 1941

Will of Arthur Rees Barrand

Death Certificate for Emily Brydon Barrand (nee Schofield)

Will of Emily Brydon Barrand

EXPLAINED AT CHASE SIDE SCHOOLS, ENFIELD,

London Gazette February 3, 1912

The large audience who attended the Chase Side Council School, Enfield, on Friday evening of last week, to hear an explanation of the Insurance Act given by Mr. A. R. Barrand, could not fail to have gone away considerably clearer in their views about this important Act, "and also to have been greatly impressed by the lucid and scholarly address on what has been universally acknowledged to be a very intricate "and difficult matter. Practically every point of interest in the measure; was dealt with at length by the speaker, and no pains were spared by that gentleman in putting forward the position of the average man and woman in relation to the Act. The chair was taken by Colonel H. F. Bowles, J.P (Chairman of the Middlesex Education Committee).

In opening the meeting, the Chairman said they were very much indebted to Mr. Barrand for undertaking to explain an intricate Act of Parliament.

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer 18 October 1920

Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Thursday 29 January 1914

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer 18 March 1932

Obituaries for Arthur Rees Barrand

Extract from Presidential address of Law Society:

"Barrand is remembered gratefully by many actuaries who owe their tuition to him, and he was held in affection and esteem by the men of his own generation and of the generation immediately following. His versatility was extraordinary. He was a qualified electrical engineer, an eminent actuary, a distinguished lawyer, a successful tutor, a local preacher and a politican. He was diligent and successful in business."

Arthur was appointed by the Treasury as a Public Valuer for Great Britain in 1923, his address given as "Oak Lodge", Bycullah Road, ENFIELD

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer 6^th August 1941

ARTHUR RHYS BARRAND

THE death on 3 August 1941 of Arthur, Rhys Barrand deprived the Institute of one of its most scholarly members, who will long be re-membered, even by those not of his intimate acquaintance, for his courtesy, simplicity of manner, distinguished appearance and astonishing memory.

Barrand was born in London on 28 October 1861, and commenced his business career as a junior clerk in a solicitor's office. At the age of 15 he entered the service of the Prudential Assurance Company, and after a brilliant career with that Company retired in 1923 with the rank of Deputy General Manager. Nine years later he was elected a Director, relinquishing this position only in March 1941.

In the negotiations connected with the introduction of the scheme of National Health Insurance he took a prominent part and was in turn Secretary, Deputy Chairman and Chairman of the Prudential Approved Societies.

His professional attainments were equally remarkable. As a young man he qualified as an electrical engineer, passing his examinations with distinction. Turning his attention to actuarial studies, he became a Fellow of the Institute in 1895 and rendered valuable service as a member of the Council from 1910 to 1913 and again from 1920 to 1924. He also acted as an examiner for five years.

It was soon apparent, however, that it was the study of the legal aspects of life assurance which especially attracted Barrand and he read for the Bar, being 'called' by the Middle Temple in 1906 after gaining a Certificate of Honour and the Barstow Law Scholarship. Barrand's legal erudition was readily placed at the disposal of the actuarial profession in a series of papers submitted at sessional meetings of the Institute. Among these may be mentioned:

On some legal points arising in life assurance practice, J.I.A. Vol. XXXIII, p. 205.

Debentures of trading companies as investments for life assurance funds, considered in their legal and financial aspects, J.I.A. Vol.XXXIV, p. 421.

Further notes on some legal aspects of life assurance practice, J.I.A. Vol. XLI, p. 109.

The Assurance Companies Act, 1909. Some explanatory notes on such portions of the Act as relate to the business of Life Assurance,J.I.A. Vol. XLV, p. 257.

He was joint editor of the 5th edition of Bunyon's Law of Life Assurance as well as contributing to the Journal over a period of years Legal Obituary 335

Notes on cases of interest to the insurance world. He also attended the International Congresses in London, Paris, New York, Berlin, Vienna and Amsterdam, contributing papers dealing with legal and actuarial subjects. Barrand always took a keen interest in politics and in 1918 became Coalition Liberal Member of Parliament for the newly created constituency of Pudsey and Otley, holding this seat until the election of 1922, when he was defeated in a three-cornered contest.

That a man of so versatile a nature should have still another major interest in his life will cause no surprise to those with whom he came in contact. Religious and social work appealed to him strongly, and whether acting in connexion with such bodies as the Ragged School Union or the Band of Hope, as a local preacher or a councillor, he gave unstintingly of his best. A long life, sincerely devoted to high ideals, has ended, leaving a record of service as an inspiration to those who follow after.

J. B.

Obituary from Prudential Assurance Co – Printed in their magazine

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer 15 November 1941

The Children of Arthur Rees Barrand and both Amy Brydon (nee Schofield) and Emily Brydon

(A) Walter Arthur, born on 25^th July, 1890 (Birth Ref: Hackney 1890 - 3rd Qtr (1b - 460) and is first shown on the 1891 census, living with Arthur Rees and Amy. He was aged 10 on the 1901 census but his mother, Amy had already died by then. By 1911, he was an Insurance clerk but still living with his father and step-mother, Emily. He married Mabel Victoria Barnes on the 14^th May, 1926 in Horsforth, Leeds. Marriage Ref: North Bierley 1926 - 1st Qtr (9b - 30) and by this time Walter Arthur was employed as a Solicitor. Mabel Victoria Barnes was a daughter of Joseph Robert Barnes and Elizabeth Lane who were married on the 13^th April, 1881. He was an oil manufacturer from Calverley Nr. Leeds and had 12 children, 11 surviving and 1 that died. Walter Arthur died just 3 years after his marriage on the 24^th March, 1929 at the age of 38 in his home in Horsforth, Leeds of cardiac failure and pneumonia. Death Ref: Leeds 1929 - 1st Qtr (9b - 852). There were no children, and Mabel re-married in 1976 to a Donald Pilley. Marriage Ref: Bradford 1976 4^th Qtr (4 - 0254)

Donald Pilley died in 1987 in Bradford at the age of 85 and Mabel Victoria died in 1989 in York at the age of 88, her date of birth is shown as the 22^nd January, 1901.

Birth Certificate Walter Arthur Barrand

The annual, sports in connection with Enfield’s: ancient Grammar School have taken place under greatly varying climatic conditions, but on Saturday last the thirteenth annual competition was brought off in very pleasant weather. One result was that a large number of spectators were attracted to the sports ground in Cherry Orchard Lane, where they witnessed several keenly contested events. Of several events concerning the old boys, 100 yards necessitating two heats. The first was well won by Barrand, while Hollington as generally expected, led the second and got home and final, with Barrand second. As Hollington, had previously won this event, the prize went to Barrand. First W. A. Barrand : 2, Bellamy : Second heat: 1, V. Hollington- 2, W . A. Barrand.

THE MIDDLESEX GAZETTE, SATURDAY, 27, JUNE 1908

Shipley Times and Express 21 May 1926

Leeds Mercury 26 March 1929

Yorkshire Post Thursday 28^th March, 1929

Marriage certificate of Walter Arthur Barrand and Mabel Barnes

Death Certificate of Walter Arthur Barrand 1929

Will of Walter Arthur Barrand

(B) Alice Barbara Barrand was born 21^st December, 1891 at 56 Narford Road, West Hackney. Birth Ref: Hackney 1892 - 1st Qtr (1b - 477) and is first shown on the 1901 census, aged 9. By 1911, she is shown as a student and aged 19. Alice married Clarence Neale, (born in 1873 in Mansfield and a son of James Neale and Frances Clay) in Bournemouth on the 28^th July, 1936. Marriage Ref: Bournemouth 1936 - 3rd Qtr (2b - 2125) At the time of the marriage Arthur Rhys is noted as a barrister and Alice Barbara aged 44, was living with him at their home in Bournemouth. Clarence Neale was a prominent member of the Mount Taber Church in Derby and presided over the opening of the 2-day bazaar in 1924. He also was a respected conductor of the choir of the United Methodist Church. Clarence Neale was aged 63, a retired hosiery manufacturer and already a widower, his first wife was Lydia Annie Hawley from Mansfield and she was born in 1875 and died in 1923 and was buried at the United Methodist Church. Alice Barbara died in 1980 Death Ref: Bournemouth 1980 (Volume: 23 Page: 0300), aged 89 and her husband Clarence Neale died on 3^rd May, 1940. I do not think they had any children.

Birth Certificate of Alice Barbara Barrand

Honours ; -, Third -Class- Honours. Pass:, Alice Barrand, - Mathematics "Alice Barrand

London Middlesex Gazette December 5, 1908 (Enfield)

Derby Daily Telegraph - Friday 03 May 1940

Nottingham Journal 09 July 1940

Marriage Certificate of Alice Barbara Barrand and Clarence Neale

Clarence Neale died 3rd May, 1940 in Bournemouth and left an estate of £40,968 to be administered by Arthur Clay Neale (Manufacturer) and William Henry King (Company Secretary)

(C) Herbert Joseph Barrand was born on the 30th May, 1893 in Stamford Hill, Hackney: Birth Ref: Hackney 1893 - 2nd Qtr (1b - 467) and was a scholar on the 1901 census. In 1911, he was aged 17 and was employed as an insurance clerk and living with his father, Arthur Rees Barrand. Served in the Great War, became a 2nd Lieutenant in the Cheshire Regiment, 1914 – 1918. He lived in Leeds with his father (prospective Parliamentary Candidate) On leaving the army, he trained as a dentist and qualified LDS RCS by 1920. In 1921 he lived at 67, High Street, Safron Waldon. He married Gwendoline Beatrice Rolfe, (b 13^th June, 1900) on the 4^th June, 1925. Marriage Ref: Safron Walden 1925 - 2nd Qtr (4a - 1913) and they had just 1 daughter, Joan R. born in 1931, and she married Christopher F. Whitehorn in Westminster in 1963. I think they had 2 children – James Barrand Whitehorn and Harriet Barrand Whitehorn. Grendoline Rolfe was the daughter of Charles Wilford Rolfe and Beatrice Maria Burton. Charles Rolfe was a Justice of the Peace, in Safron Walden.

James Barrand Whitehorn was born on 29^th May, 1964 and died in 2006.

Harriet Barrand Whitehorn was born in 1968 and she married William R. Flatan in 1996.

Herbert Joseph died in the New Forest in 1969 - aged 76, Death Ref: New Forest 1969 - 2nd Qtr (6b - 1003) and Gwendoline died in 1978, aged 78. Death Ref: Southampton 1978 - 4th Qtr (20 - 1293)

Birth Certificate of Herbert Joseph Barrand 1893

Joining the army 1913

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer 14 April 1916

Northampton Mercury 24 February 1922

Marriage Certificate of Herbert Joseph Barrand and Gwendoline Rolfe

1939 Census

(D) Christina Amy, was born on the 9^th April, 1895 in Stamford Hill, Hackney. Birth Ref: Hackney 1895 - 2nd Qtr (1b - 455) and died unmarried on the 19^th January, 1974 at the age 81 of pneumonia and thrombosis at the Becton House Nursing Home. Death Ref: New Forest 1974 - 1st Qtr (6b - 1176) She was employed as a hospital supply agent in 1939. Her address is shown as 1, Orchard Court, Herbert Road, New Milton. Her sister, Ethel Mary Barrand is shown on the death certificate as the informant.

Birth Certificate of Christina Amy Barrand 1895

Death Certificate of Christina Amy Barrand 1974

(E) Ethel Mary was born on the 8^th January, 1897 at St. Andrews Road in Enfield. Birth Ref: Edmonton 1897 - 1st Qtr (3a - 493), and she may have possibly married, as she is shown on the records as travelling to Canada on the Queen Mary in 1947. Noted as "Housewife", but I cannot find any records of a marriage. She was employed as a gardener and chaffeur at a hospital supply unit in 1939. It is mentioned in the probate records of Harold Schofield Barrand however that she was a spinster. Certainly she died in 1985, aged 88 of cardiac failure and senility at Newtown House, Bournemouth.

Death Ref: Bournemouth 1985 - Apr: (23 - 359) DOB Shown as 08/01/1897

Birth Certificate of Ethel Mary Barrand 1897

Death Certificate of Ethel Mary Barrand 1985

(F) Harold Schofield Barrand was the only child of Arthur Rees’s second wife, Emily Brydon Schofield and he was born on the 6^th July, 1900 at the family home of St. Andrews Road, Enfield. Birth Ref: 1900 Edmonton - 3rd Qtr (3a - 571). He married Rose Maise Barrand (nee Burton or Landau), born in 1896, the divorced wife of Barnett Jackson (Jacobs) in Bournemouth on the 28^th September, 1948. Marriage Ref: Marylebone 1948 - 3rd Qtr (5d - 994). Rose had changed her name by deed poll to Barrand, but her original name was Landau.

Rose’s father was Mark Landau, a jewish gents’ tailor from Austria, born in 1868, and he married Miriam Nathan in London in 1890. They had 5 children, all living by the 1911 census: Henrietta, Joshua, Kate, Rose and Aaron, and they were all tailors or tailoresses.

It has taken some unravelling, but it appears that Rose’s 1^st marriage (when her name was Landau) was in 1918 to (?) Burton. There are records of a Rose Landau marrying a Mark Berliner in December, 1915 in Mile End, London Rose then married for a 2^nd time to Barnett Jacobs (or Jackson) in 1936, (Jacobs 1936 Marylebone 2^nd Qtr 1a-1620) but divorced some time later. Rose Landau and (?) Burton had a daughter, Marjorie Joan Burton, born in Wandsworth in 1920. (Birth Ref: 1920 Wandsworth 1^st Qtr (1d-1560) Marjorie married an “Alfred A.H. Pike” in Poole in September 1951, but Marjorie’s surname is recorded as “Peterson or Joseph or Burton” (There are records of Marjorie marrying a Leslie Joseph in 1938, and then a Jack Peterson in 1943)

In 1937, Harold joined the Royal Navy Reserves and during the 2^nd world war, Harold served in the Royal Navy, and was registered as a Lieutenant in the reserves after the war. National Archives have records of numerous trips abroad by Harold S. Barrand (b 1900) and Rose M. Barrand (b 1896). Eg: travelling on a cruise on the French ship SS Flandree and arriving in Portsmouth on 7th March, 1958. Harold Barrand is noted as a "Hotelier" at the Balmer Lawn Hotel, in Brockenhurst (Hampshire). Harold died on the 21^st August, 1960 in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Boscombe of a stroke and disease of the liver. Death Ref: Bournemouth 1960 3^rd Qtr (6b - 119) A Mr. Pike, mentioned as “Son-In-Law” recorded the death and probate was granted to Harold’s wife, and his sisters Christiana and Ethel, both of whom are mentioned as spinsters. I presume the Mr. Pike was the A. H. Pike, the husband of his step-daughter, Marjorie. The probate record mentions Marjory’s husband was James Horace Pike.

Following the death of Harold, Rose Maise Barrand (nee Burton) re-married in 1961 to Frederick George Wallis, a widower and an Insurance Broker in Bournemouth. Marriage Ref: Bournemouth 1961 - 2nd Qtr (6b - 363) Rose Maise Barrand however, died on 11^th April, 1962, the following year in Bournemouth aged 65. Frederick George Wallis died in 1983, aged 85.

1939 census Marjorie shown as Joseph/Peterson & Pike The other person mentioned is Alexander Joseph.

Birth Certificate Harold Schofield Barrand 1900

On the approach to Brockenhurst from Lyndhurst a large expanse of ground with a large house behind a cricket pitch can be seen, this is Balmer Lawn Hotel, originally constructed in the middle of the 19th century as a hunting lodge. It was once a part of the No1 (Gen) NZ Hospital during WWI and Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery took over the Balmer Lawn hotel as their operations headquarters for the invasion of Europe in 1944.

Birmingham Daily Post 27 June 1914

Balmer Lawn Hotel 1960, Brockenhurst

Advert in the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer 05 December 1953

Harold Schofield Barrand 1914 Harold Schofield Barrand 1938 Lieutenant in 1941

1901 census – aged 1

1911 Census

Marriage Certificate Harold Schofield Barrand and Rose Maise Barrand

Death Certificate of Harold Schofield Barrand 1960

Will of Harold Schofield Barrand

Marriage Certificate of Rose Maise Barrand and Frederick George Wallis 1961.