John Wilfred Barter (6 October 1917 – 17 December 1983) was a British Conservative Party politician.
Barter was a company secretary. [1] He began his political career in 1949, when he was elected to the Middlesex County Council; he served as its final chairman, from 1964 until 1965, when the county was abolished. [1] He was the Member of Parliament for Ealing North from the 1955 general election until the 1964 general election when he was defeated. [1] He contested the seat unsuccessfully in the general elections of 1966 and 1970. [2] In 1975, he became chairman of the Ealing and Acton Building Society. [1]
Barter was married and a father of three. He died at Cromwell Hospital in London on 17 December 1983, at the age of 66. [3]
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