BARKER, Alexander. Lived at 103 Piccadilly, London; made a fine collection of pictures chiefly by great painters of 15th century which was sold at Christie’s 6 June 1874 for sum of £38,591, his library was sold 24–25 June 1874 for £4,019. d. Hatfield near Doncaster 24 Oct. 1873. Waagen’s Treasures of art ii, 125–29, iv, 71–79.
BARKER, Bernard. Editor of literary portion of The Bazaar; author of a novel called Elliot the younger 3 vols. 1878. d. 13 Sep. 1882.
BARKER, Francis. b. Waterford; ed. at Univs. of Dublin and Edinburgh, B.A. Dublin 1793, M.B. and M.D. 1810; practised at Waterford 5 years, where he opened the first fever hospital in Ireland; professor of chemistry Univ. of Dublin 1808; started first medical paper in Ireland with Dr. Todd; sec. of Irish board of health 1820–52; published with Dr. Cheyne a treatise on Epidemic fevers in Ireland 2 vols. 1821; edited the Dublin Pharmacopœia 1826. d. Wellington road, Dublin 8 Oct. 1859 aged 86.
BARKER, Right Rev. Frederic (5 son of Rev. John Barker, V. of Baslow, Derbyshire who d. 6 June 1824). b. Baslow 17 March 1808; ed. at Grantham and Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1839, D.D. 1854; P.C. of Upton, Cheshire 24 April 1831 to 28 Sep. 1834; P.C. of St. Mary’s Edge hill, Liverpool 1835–54; V. of Baslow Jany. 1854; bishop of Sydney Aug. 1854 to death; created Metropolitan of Australia 19 Oct. 1854, consecrated at Lambeth 30 Nov. 1854, arrived in Sydney May 1855; pres. of the Synod of the diocese of Sydney which first met 5 Dec. 1866; author of Thirty-six psalms with commentary 1854. d. San Remo, Italy 6 April 1882. bur. Baslow 18 April. I.L.N. lxxx, 452, (1882), portrait; Graphic xxv, 448 (1882), portrait.
BARKER, George. Entered navy 1 June 1771; captain 8 June 1799; admiral on h.p. 27 Dec. 1847. d. Spring Vale, Isle of Wight 25 Dec. 1851 in 92 year.
BARKER, George Arthur. b. 1812; Tenor singer and vocal composer; his song “The White Squall” 1835 has passed through many editions and is still frequently sung. d. Aylestone near Leicester 2 March 1876.
BARKER, Sir George Robert (youngest son of John Barker, deputy storekeeper general). b. London 1817; ed. at Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 21 June 1834; lieut. col. 1 June 1855 to death; served in Crimean war and Indian mutiny; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 16 May 1859 for capturing stronghold of Birwah. d. Simla, India 27 July 1861.
BARKER, Henry Aston (younger son of Robert Barker of Leicester square, London, reputed inventor of panoramas 1739–1806). b. Glasgow 1774; pupil at Royal Academy; assisted his father in his panoramas 1789–1806; carried on the business in Leicester square 1806–20; opened a building occupying site of present Strand theatre as Reinagle and Barker’s New Panorama 1820; exhibited a series of panoramas here with his pupil John Burford to 1826; realised £10,000 by his panorama of battle of Waterloo 1842. (m. 1802 Harriet Maria eld. dau. of Wm. Bligh, admiral R.N., she d. 26 Feb. 1856). d. Bitton near Bristol 19 July 1856. G.M. i, 515–18 (1856); Art Journal ix, 47 (1857).
BARKER, John. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, M.B. 1846, M.D. 1863; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1846, M.R.C.S. 1863; demonstrator of anatomy Univ. of Dublin; curator of museum of Royal college of surgeons Dublin; M.R.I.A. and F.R.S. Dublin; author of Cryptogamic part of Steele’s Handbook of field botany 1847. d. 83 Waterloo road, Dublin 2 Feb. 1879 aged 63.
BARKER, John Henry. b. Ashford hall, Derbyshire 1806; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1834; barrister L.I. 3 May 1836; magistrate at Worship st. police court, London July 1860 and at Clerkenwell police court Jany. 1863 to 3 Aug. 1874. d. East lodge, Bakewell Derbyshire 28 Jany. 1876.