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.