Sir Anderson Montague-Barlow Bt KBE
Member of Parliament for Salford South
In office 1910–1923
Preceded by	Hilaire Belloc
Succeeded by	Joseph Toole
Minister of Labour of the United Kingdom
In office 1922–1924
Preceded by	Thomas Macnamara
Succeeded by	Tom Shaw
Baronet of Westminster
In office 1924–1951
Preceded by	New position
Succeeded by	Position dissolved
Personal details
Born	28 February 1868 St Bartholomew's Vicarage, Clifton, Gloucestershire, England
Died	31 May 1951 (aged 83)

Sir Clement Anderson Montague-Barlow, 1st Baronet, KBE (28 February 1868 – 31 May 1951) was an English barrister and Conservative Party politician.

Montague-Barlow was born Clement Anderson Barlow at St Bartholomew's Vicarage, Clifton, Gloucestershire, and preferred to be known under his second name, Anderson, rather than his first, Clement. He received a Master's degree and an LL.D. from the University of Cambridge and practised at the bar. Between 1910 and 1923 he represented Salford South in the House of Commons. In 1922 he was admitted to the Privy Council upon becoming Minister of Labour, a position he served in until 1924. He was made a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1918 and in 1924 he was created a baronet, of Westminster in the County of London.

In 1937, Neville Chamberlain's government asked Barlow to chair a royal commission into the urban concentration of population and industry, "The Royal Commission on the Distribution of the Industrial Population", which became known as the Barlow Commission.^[1] Its report, published in 1940, raised the problem of large towns as a public issue for the first time, and concluded that "planned decentralisation" was favourable. The report was largely ignored at the time, as it came shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, but its conclusions were a major factor behind the new towns movement after the war, which led to the creation of 27 new towns.

In 1946 Barlow changed his last name to Montague-Barlow.^[2][3]

Montague-Barlow died in May 1951, aged 83, when the baronetcy became extinct.

• Patrick Abercrombie

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Mr Anderson Barlow
• Royal Commission on the Distribution of the Industrial Population (Barlow Commission).
• Leigh Rayment's list of baronets
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

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