• DBHB's grandfather.
• Born 10 January 1901, middle son of Rev. Cecil Barton (1870-1909) and Esther Broadbent (1873-1959).
• Full name 'Ronald Cecil Nicholson Barton'.
• Contemporary of Clark Gable (1901-1960) and Louis Armstrong (1901-1971).
• Married (on 7 June 1930 in Camberwell, London) Mary Carty Farrell (1907-1999).
• In the 1920s he was an actor, mostly at the Old Vic (using stage name of 'Ronald Nicholson'). He once worked with Laurence Olivier.
• Became a copy-writer at advertising firm S. H. Benson Ltd, and worked on famous Guinness adverts (see here and here).
• His war-time diary covering eight months in 1941 is reproduced here.
• After the war he wrote a radio adaptation of G. K. Chesterton's "The Man Who Was Thursday" for the BBC which was (re-?)broadcast in 1953 and 1975.
• Father of Nicholas J. Barton.
• Died 1986.

Left to right: Ronald, Douglas, Esther, Ted and Dora, in ~1918.



Douglas, Molly Bushby, Ted, Dora and Ronald, possibly at Ted & Molly's wedding on 17 September 1924 at Chester Cathedral.



Ronald (probably in the 1950s).




Latterly lived at Wylde Green, Jackman's Lane, Woking