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Glyn Barker

British businessman

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ47457033 ↗
Source-derived summary

Glyn Anthony Barker (born September 1953) is a British businessman who is chairman of Interserve (since September 2017), the law firm Irwin Mitchell and Berkeley Group Holdings (from 2020 for up to two years until a permanent replacement is identified).

Barker is a non-executive director of Aviva since February 2012 and Transocean Limited. Barker is an adviser for Novalpina Capital, a private equity firm.

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“Glyn Barker” enters the record as british businessman. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Glyn, Barker and British can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1953, 2017, 2020, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1953. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Glyn, Barker and British.
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This entry incorporates text from “Glyn Barker” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.