Miles Barron

Personal life Miles Barron was born in 1871 in Waterhouses, a borough located to the west of the city of Durham. The exact date of birth is not known, but he was registered in the civil registry of Durham between July and September of that year.

As a young man, Barron was an employee of Pease and Partners Ltd, the same company for which his father worked. Most notable of these European trips was with West Auckland Football Club, an amateur team made up of coalminers from County Durham, who defeated Swiss opposition FC Winterthur in 1909 to claim the inaugural Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy. These events were later dramatized in the 1982 television movie, The World Cup: A Captain's Tale, with Barron being portrayed by Richard Griffiths. he is listed as the club's second official coach, after Billy Lambe, who had served as player-manager earlier in 1912, although Barren was the first one to be specifically contracted by Barça as a full-time manager.

Later life and death Barron would not remain in football, and with the onset of the First World War in 1914, he and his son Percy were commissioned into the Royal Engineers, serving in the Salonika campaign, where he contracted malaria. The disease affected most of his later life, and he eventually succumbed to it, dying on 9 September 1924, at the age of 52.