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SIR GILBERT BARLING, BART., died suddenly of heart failure at his home in Edgbaston on April 27, within three days of his eighty-fifth birthday. Sir Gilbert was the second vice-chancellor (afterwards pro-chancellor) of the University of Birmingham which he served for twenty years, having succeeded Charles Gabriel Beale in that office in 1913. From 1913 until 1933 he gave invaluable service to the University, which derived great benefit from his forceful personality and his unremitting personal devotion to its interests. Himself actively interested in outdoor sports, he did much to encourage the athletic side of university education. At the annual meeting of the Birmingham United Hospital, only a week before his death, Sir Gilbert was presented with an address of congratulation on completing sixty years of strenuous service to the hospitals of Birmingham.
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Sir Gilbert Barling, Bart. Nature 145, 735 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145735b0
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