Personal Life
Barnato was married three times:
- Dorothy Maitland Falk: 1915–1933, two daughters Virginia and Diana
- Jacqueline Claridge Quealy: 1933–1947. The daughter of a wealthy American colliery owner, the couple had two sons Michael Jay, and Peter Woolf (1934–1959; died of cancer February 1959, San Francisco)
- Joan Isachsen: December 1947-his death. Norwegian heiress
Barnato's daughter Diana Barnato Walker MBE learned to fly at the Brooklands Flying Club in 1938 at age 20. She went on to ferry Spitfires, Hurricanes and Wellingtons with the Air Transport Auxiliary during World War II.
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