{{Short description|President of Brown University}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Clarence Barbour | image = Clarence Barbour.jpg | caption = | order = 10th | office = President of Brown University | term_start = 1929 | term_end = 1937 | predecessor = William Faunce | successor = Henry Wriston | birth_date = {{birth date|1867|4|21}} | birth_place = Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1937|1|16|1867|4|21}} | death_place = Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. | resting_place = North Burial Ground<br>Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. | alma_mater = Brown University | profession = | spouse = Florence Newell | children = | website = | signature = | footnotes = }} '''Clarence Augustus Barbour''' (April 21, 1867 – January 16, 1937) was an American Baptist clergyman and educator most notable for having served as the president of Brown University.
==Biography==
===Early life=== He was born on April 21, 1867, in Hartford, Connecticut.<ref>{{Citation | publication-date = 1937-01-17 | title = DR. C. A. BARBOUR, EDUCATOR, IS DEAD | periodical =The New York Times | date = 17 January 1937 | pages = 47 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1937/01/17/archives/dr-c-a-barbour-educator-is-dead-brown-university-president-on-leave.html | issn = 0362-4331 | accessdate = 2009-10-05}}</ref> He graduated from Brown University in 1888.<ref>{{Citation | publication-date = 1928-10-11 | title = DR. BARBOUR CHOSEN BROWN PRESIDENT | periodical = The New York Times | date = 11 October 1928 | pages = 19 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1928/10/11/archives/dr-barbour-chosen-brown-president-head-of-rochester-theological.html | issn = 0362-4331 | accessdate = 2009-10-05}}</ref>
===Career=== He served as the president of his alma mater, Brown University, from 1929 to 1936.<ref>{{citation | last = Mitchell | first = Martha | title = Encyclopedia Brunoniana | url = https://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/ | contribution = Barbour, Clarence A. | contribution-url = https://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=B0050 | accessdate = 2009-10-05 | year = 1993 | publisher = Brown University Library | location = Providence, Rhode Island | oclc = 31085279 | page = 50}}</ref> He also served as president of the Rochester Theological Seminary for thirteen years.<ref>{{citation | author = Rochester Theological Seminary | title = General catalogue 1850 to 1920 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=bttJAAAAMAAJ | accessdate = 2009-10-05 | year = 1920 | publisher = E. R. Andrews Printing Co. | location = Rochester, New York | oclc = 7407942 | page = 27}}</ref> He was a member of the Laymen's Commission that produced "Re-Thinking Missions: A Laymen's Inquiry after One Hundred Years" (1932), which was a harsh critique of foreign missions.
His wife, Florence Newell Barbour, was a musician and composer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Barbour,_Florence_Newell|title=IMSLP page for Florence Newell Barbour, with link to Baker (1919), Musicsack, VIAF|accessdate=February 25, 2014}}</ref>
===Death=== He died on January 16, 1937, in Providence, Rhode Island, at the age of 69, two weeks before his planned retirement from Brown.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=1937-01-25 |title=Milestones, Jan. 25, 1937 |language=en-US |magazine=Time |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,770569,00.html |access-date=2023-02-16 |issn=0040-781X}}</ref>
==Selected works== *{{Citation | last = Barbour | first = Clarence A. | title = Fellowship Hymns | year = 1910 | publisher = YMCA Press | location = New York | oclc = 61651063}} *{{Citation | last = Barbour | first = Clarence A. | title = The Bible in the World of Today | year = 1911 | publisher = YMCA Press | location = New York | oclc = 5580727}} *{{Citation | last = Barbour | first = Clarence A. | title = Making Religion Efficient | year = 1912 | publisher = YMCA Press | location = New York | oclc = 5428960}} *{{Citation | last = Barbour | first = Clarence A. | title = The Service Song Book | year = 1917 | publisher = YMCA Press | location = New York | oclc = 12175612}} *Hocking, William Ernest, Re-Thinking Missions: A Laymen's Inquiry after One Hundred Years (1932) Harper & Brothers, New York City.
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==External links== {{Portal|Connecticut|Biography}} *{{Find a Grave|11662730|accessdate=August 28, 2010}}
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