Warren Delabere Barnes (Chinese: 班士; pinyin: bān shì; Jyutping: baan1 si6; 22 September 1865[1] – 28 October 1911) was a British colonial administrator.
He was then appointed 3rd Magistrate in Penang, 1893; acting Protector of Chinese in Perak later in the same year; Warden of Mines, senior magistrate, and Protector of Chinese in Pahang, January 1899; Assistant Protector of Chinese, Penang, 1901; acting Commissioner of Lands and Mines, Federated Malay States, August 1903; acting British Resident, Pahang, November 1903; acting Protector of Chinese Straits Settlements, 1904.[4]
In May 1904, he was appointed Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States.[1][4] In February 1909, he attended the International Opium Commission in Shanghai.[9] In January 1910, he returned to Pahang as British Resident.[8]
Elytranthe barnesii Gamble
In 1900, Barnes conducted an expedition to Gunung Benom in Pahang,[2] with the main purpose of erecting a trigonometrical beacon on the mountain. Leaving Raub on 31 August, he reached a subsidiary summit of Gunung Benom, which he supposed to be Gunung Kluang Terbang. He was back at Raub on 21 September. During the expedition, he collected plants, of which 122 species collected at an altitude of 5,000 feet (1,525 m) were listed by Henry Nicholas Ridley.[10] By 1913, Elytranthe barnesiiGamble of the family Loranthaceae, a plant that he had collected, had been named after him.[11][12] The plant has been described as a parasite of Durio zibethinus (durian).[13]
Barnes died on Saturday 28 October 1911, at age 46, of heart failure while playing polo in Happy Valley, Hong Kong.[8][20] Arthur Winbolt Brewin, CMG, was appointed acting Colonial Secretary on 30 October 1911[21] and remained in this position until 28 November 1911. Cecil Clementi acted as Colonial Secretary from 22 January to 6 June and from 29 November 1911. Claud Severn of the Federated Malay States Service was appointed as the next Colonial Secretary and took office in 1912.[16]
Barnes, W. D. (December 1911). "Singapore Old Straits and New Harbour". Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. No. 60. Singapore. pp. 25–34.
^ abSeidenfaden, Gunnar; Wood, Jeffrey J.; Holttum, Richard Eric (1992). The Orchids of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore. Olsen & Olsen. p. 707. ISBN9788785215246.
^Venn, John, ed. (2011). Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Vol. 2. Cambridge University Press. p. 163. ISBN9781108036115.
^"Appointment"(PDF). The London Gazette. 18 April 1911. Retrieved 4 October 2014. Downing Street, 18th April, 1911. The KING has been pleased to give directions for the appointment of Warren Delabere Barnes, Esq. (British Resident, Pahang), to be Colonial Secretary of the Colony of Hong Kong.
Backer, Cornelis Andries (1936). Verklaerend woordenboek der wetenschappelijke namen van de in Nederland en Nederlandsch-Indië in het wild groeiende en in tuinen en parken gekweekte varens en hoogere planten. Groningen: P. Noordhoff. p. 56. OCLC685221878.
