Barber, Anthony Perrinott Lysberg (1920–2005)

British Conservative politician. He was chair of the Conservative Party 1967–70 and in 1970 was appointed chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in Edward Heath's new cabinet. Shortly afterwards he became chancellor of the Exchequer on the death of Iain Macleod, a post he held until the Conservative defeat in February 1974. In October 1974 he retired from Parliament and was made a life peer in December 1974.

He was educated at Retford Grammar School and Oriel College, Oxford. After war service, during which he took a law degree while prisoner of war, he became a barrister and was elected Conservative MP for Doncaster in 1951. Between 1955 and 1964 he was successively a government whip, parliamentary private secretary to the prime minister, Harold Macmillan, economic secretary to the Treasury, and financial secretary to the Treasury, entering the cabinet in 1963 as minister of health. After his retirement from government in 1974 he became chairman of the Standard Chartered Bank, a position which he held until 1987.