BARKER, Joseph. b. Bramley near Leeds 11 May 1806; a travelling preacher of Methodist new connexion at Hanley 1829; stationed on Sheffield and Mossley circuits successively; edited Evangelical Reformer a weekly periodical 1837–40; expelled from the above Society 1841 on ground that he had denied divine appointment of baptism; pastor of a congregation of Barkerites at Newcastle; edited The Christian Investigator 2 vols. 1842–43; became a Unitarian 1845; presented with a steam press at Wortley, Leeds 6 July 1846; issued a library of 300 volumes being cheapest books then ever issued; edited The People 1846, 20,000 copies of which were sold weekly; a town councillor at Leeds 1848; tried as a Chartist but acquitted 1848; emigrated to Central Ohio 1851; a leading abolitionist; lectured in United States 1857–59; sailed for England 11 Jany. 1860; edited Barker’s Review 3 vols. 1862–63; joined the Primitive Methodists at Tunstall; a local preacher to 1868 when he went to America; author of many books. d. Omaha, Nebraska 15 Sep. 1875. Life of Joseph Barker 1880, portrait; Methodist new connexion mag. July 1842, Sep. 1843 and Dec. 1875.
BARKER, Peter. b. 10 July 1808; lost his sight 1812; a skilful performer on the violin; a carpenter at Hampsthwaite, Yorkshire; sang in the church choir; one of the bell ringers, curfew bell is rung at Hampsthwaite at 8 every evening. d. in his cottage near churchyard gate, Hampsthwaite 18 Feb. 1873. Life of Peter Barker, Pately Bridge 1873; S. Baring-Gould’s Yorkshire Oddities i, 177–82 (1874).
BARKER, Rev. Ralph. Ed. at St. Peter’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1821; V. of Pagham near Chichester 1850 to death; rural dean of Chichester 1858 to death; co-editor of The Protestant Guardian 1827–29, and of The Quarterly educational magazine 2 vols. 1847–49; author of sermons, pamphlets and reviews. d. 1871.
BARKER, Thomas. b. Carlton near Nottingham 15 Nov. 1798; a lace maker there; professional cricketer at Cambridge 1822 and 1841–45; a practice bowler at Lord’s cricket ground, London about 1835–41; an umpire at Cambridge 1846 and in London 1856. d. Nottingham 2 March 1877.
BARKER, Thomas Herbert. b. Dunstable 31 Oct. 1814; studied at Univ. coll. London 1834–35; L.S.A. 1837, M.R.C.S. 1842, F.R.C.S. 1851; M.B. London 1845, M.D. 1847; practised at Bedford; one of the very best general practitioners in England; recorded for many years a series of meteorological observations which were incorporated in reports of the Registrar General; F.R.S. Edin.; author of Practical observations on the diet of infancy and childhood 1850; On the hygienic management of infants and children 1859. d. Harpur place, Bedford 24 Oct. 1865. Photographs of eminent medical men i, 117–23 (1866), portrait; British Medical Journal ii, 481–84 (1865).
BARKER, Thomas Jones (eld. son of Thomas Barker of Bath, painter 1769–1847). b. Bath 1815; pupil of Horace Vernet in Paris; exhibited many pictures at the Salon where he gained 3 gold medals; painted several pictures for Louis Philippe; returned to England 1845; gained appellation of the ‘English Horace Vernet’; exhibited 29 pictures at the R.A., 34 at British Institution and 15 at Suffolk st. gallery 1844–76; painted many pictures in France during the German war 1870. d. Avon house, Steele’s road, Haverstock hill, London 27 March 1882. Times 29 March 1882, p. 10, col. 1.
BARKER, Thomas Rawson. b. Bakewell, Derbyshire 9 April 1812; a lead merchant at Sheffield; mayor of Sheffield 1848; played in many great cricket matches; a right-handed batsman but a left round-armed bowler. d. The Edge, Sheffield 26 April 1873.
BARKER, Thomas Richard. b. London 30 Nov. 1799; ed. at Christ’s Hospital 1807–16; entered Homerton old college 1821; independent minister at Alresford Hants 1822, at Harpenden Herts 1824 and at Uxbridge 1833–38; tutor in classics at Spring Hill college Birmingham 1838 to death. d. near the College 12 Nov. 1870. Congregational year book 1871 pp. 302–304.
BARKER, William (only son of Francis Barker, M.D., professor of chemistry in Univ. of Dublin). Assistant to his father many years; prof. of natural philosophy to Royal Society of Dublin 1848; prof. of chemistry R.C.S. Ireland 1850 to death; edited Parkes’s Chemical Catechism 1837 and 1854; M.R.I.A. 25 Jany. 1836. d. Hatch st. Dublin 11 Sep. 1873 aged 63.
BARKER, William Burckhardt (son of John Barker 1771–1849, British consul general in Egypt). b. Aleppo about 1810; taken to England 1819; resided at Tarsus in an official capacity many years; professor of the Arabic Turkish, Persian and Hindustani languages at Eton; chief superintendent of British land transport depot at Sinope 1855 to death; author of Lares and Penates or Cilicia and its governors 1853; Odessa and its inhabitants 1855; A short historical account of the Crimea 1855. d. Sinope 28 Jany. 1856 aged 45. E. B. Barker’s Syria and Egypt 2 vols. 1876.