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. 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.