Warren Delabere Barnes

Warren Delabere Barnes (; 22 September 1865 and was Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong during five months in 1911, until his sudden death.

Biography Warren Barnes attended King's College School and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1887.

Malay Peninsula He was appointed to the Straits Settlements Civil Service as a Cadet by the Secretary of State in 1888, and was sent a year later to study the Teochew dialect in Shantou. He returned to Singapore in 1890 In January 1910, he returned to Pahang as British Resident. By 1913, Elytranthe barnesii Gamble of the family Loranthaceae, a plant that he had collected, had been named after him. The plant has been described as a parasite of Durio zibethinus (durian).

Hong Kong Barnes was appointed Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong on 7 June 1911, taking up the office vacated on 21 January by Sir Francis Henry May, who had been appointed Governor of Fiji. Barnes became an ex officio member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong on 8 June 1911. On 4 October 1911, he represented the British Government, together with J. W. Jamieson, HBM Consul-General at Canton, at the opening of the Chinese Section from Shenzhen to Guangzhou of the Kowloon–Canton Railway.

Death Barnes died on Saturday 28 October 1911, at age 46, of heart failure while playing polo in Happy Valley, Hong Kong. Arthur Winbolt Brewin, CMG, was appointed acting Colonial Secretary on 30 October 1911 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. He was elected a fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1902 He was elected a fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute in 1911

Works Several of his papers were published in the Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society:

(The list of species by Henry Nicholas Ridley is at pp. 10–18)