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Barnes Davison Thomas is a British entrepreneur, a specialist in modern British art as well as a collector of the modern British art.

Career
Educated in Cornwall Barnes founded one of the county's mainstream auction houses in 2006. In 2007, the company sold £1.3 million of pantings sculptures. The auction house currently holds 4 auctions a year specialising in estate sales. Barnes also founded Barnes Thomas County Auctioneers in 2006 and cofounded County Equine in 2014.

In 2009, Barnes formed G & T London, an art dealing partnership with leading fiction publisher Yvette Goulden.

In 2011, it was reported that Barnes was given 500,000 to purchase a work by Barbara Hepworth.

In October 2017, Barnes took part in the television program The Island with Bear Grylls with Channel 4.

Barnes was engaged to lady Rose Cecil until coming out as gay in 2017.