In 1796 it was the turn of Snowdon Barne, a barrister practising on the western circuit, to come in for Dunwich on the family interest. He wrote to Pitt, 5 June:
The ill state of my eldest brother’s health and your kindness to my next brother have been the occasion of my coming into Parliament, a situation to which my circumstances are hardly equal.
It is with extreme reluctance that I trouble you on such a subject, but if by any arrangement, you would be kind enough to consider me, you will confer the greatest obligation on ... your most faithful and obedient servant.
PRO 30/8/111.
Nothing then materialized and he gave a silent support to Pitt. On 19 Feb. 1801 he was one of the Members who joined opposition in voting for inquiry into the Ferrol expedition.
Listed an adherent of Pitt in September 1804 and after voting against the censure of Melville on 8 Apr. and sitting on the committee to investigate the 11th naval report in July 1805, Barne obtained his reward later that year when he obtained a place in the Exchequer worth £200 p.a.
Barne did not appear in support of Perceval in the House at the opening of the session of 1810 because of a difficulty about his re-election at Dunwich. He took steps to pacify the borough and meanwhile voted with ministers on 23 Feb., 5 and 30 Mar. on the Scheldt question. The Whigs listed him ‘against the Opposition’. He further voted against the discharge of Gale Jones the radical, 16 Apr., against sinecure reform, 17 May, and against parliamentary reform, 21 May. He voted with ministers on the Regency, 1 Jan. 1811. His only known votes in the session of 1812 were against the reversions bill and sinecure regulation, 7 Feb., 4 May. At the dissolution he went out with a customs place. A conscientious and respected member of the customs board, of which he became deputy chairman, he remained there until 1823. He died 3 July 1825. ‘Without possessing any very splendid talents or very extensive learning’, he was regarded as ‘an extremely sensible and right-minded man’.