BARHAM, Rev. Charles Henry (youngest son of Joseph Foster Barham, M.P.) b. London 1808; ed. at Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; M.P. for Appleby 24 May 1832 to 3 Dec. 1832; R. of Barming, Kent about 1838–47; R. of Kirkby Thore, Westmoreland 1847–52. d. Trecwn, Pembrokeshire 15 Aug. 1878.
BARHAM, Francis Foster (5 son of Thomas Foster Barham, of Penzance). b. Leskinnick, Penzance 31 May 1808; solicitor in London 1831; joint proprietor and editor with J. A. Heraud of The new monthly Magazine and humorist 1 July 1839 to 26 May 1840; lived at Clifton 1844–54, and at Bath 1854 to death; member of Anglo Biblical Instit. 1852; a vegetarian many years; author of The Adamus Exul of Grotius or the prototype of Paradise lost, now first translated from the Latin 1839; The ecclesiastical history of Great Britain by Jeremy Collier, new ed. with a life of the author 9 vols. 1840; The Alist or divine, a message to our times 1840; The political works of Cicero translated 2 vols. 1841–42; Socrates, a tragedy in 5 acts 1842; The life and times of John Reuchlin or Capnion 1843; The new Bristol guide, a poem 1850 and many other books. d. 8 St. Mark’s place, Bath 9 Feb. 1871. A memorial of Francis Barham, edited by Isaac Pitman 1873 pp. lv. and 495 printed in the phonetic character; Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 11, iii, 1048.
Note.—He advocated at one period the formation of a religious association to be called Alists or Godists, some of his works on this subject have A. F. Barham or Alist Francis Barham on the title page.
BARHAM, Thomas Foster (eld. son of Thomas Foster Barham of Penzance). b. Hendon, Middlesex 10 Sep. 1794; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., M.B. 1820; phys. at Penzance 1820 and at Exeter about 1830–49; lived at Newton Abbot, Devon 1849 to death; author of Introduction to Greek grammar 1829; Greek roots in English rhymes 1837; Philadelphia or claims of humanity 1858; contributed to transactions of Cornish scientific societies. d. Castle Dyke, Highweek, Newton Abbot 3 March 1869. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 13, iii, 1050.
BARING, Right Rev. Charles Thomas (youngest son of Sir Thomas Baring, 2 Baronet 1772–1848). b. 11 Jany. 1807; ed. privately and at Ch. Ch. Ox.; double first class 1829, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; student of his college; C. of St. Ebbe Ox. 1830–44; select preacher before Univ. of Ox. 1846 and 1855; R. of All Souls Marylebone 28 Sep. 1847; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 7 Feb. 1851; R. of Lympsfield Surrey 1855–56; Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol July 1856, consecrated at Lambeth 10 Aug. 1856, translated to Durham 6 Nov. 1861, resigned 2 Feb. 1879; 102 new parishes were formed and 119 new churches built in diocese of Durham 1861–78. d. Cecil house, Wimbledon 14 Sep. 1879. Durham Diocesan calendar 1880 pp. 184–89.
BARING, Henry Bingham. b. York place, London 4 March 1804; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1825; M.P. for Callington 31 July 1830 to 3 Dec. 1832, and for Marlborough 11 Dec. 1832 to 11 Nov. 1868; a lord of the treasury 6 Sep. 1841 to 6 July 1846. d. Nice 25 April 1869.
BARING, Thomas (2 son of Sir Thomas Baring 2 Baronet 1772–1848). b. 7 Sep. 1800; ed. at Winchester; joined banking house of Hope and Co. at Amsterdam; entered house of Baring Brothers and Co. merchants 8 Bishopgate st. London 1828, head of the firm to 1871; chairman of Lloyds 1830 to March 1868; pres. of London institution 1835 to death; M.P. for great Yarmouth 1835–37 and for Huntingdon 1844 to death; a director of Bank of England 1848–67; declined Chancellorship of the Exchequer offered him by Earl of Derby 1852 and 1858; one of the 5 comrs. of Great Exhibition 1862. d. Fontmell lodge, Bournemouth 18 Nov. 1873, personalty sworn under £1,500,000 Dec. 1873. I.L.N. iii, 265 (1843), portrait, xl, 215 (1862), portrait, lxiii, 501, 639 (1873); Waagen’s Treasures of art ii, 174–92, iv, 93–100.
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.
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;