British political scientist (1874–1960)
Sir Ernest Barker FBA political scientist who served asPrincipal ofKing's College London from 1920 to 1927.[ 1]
Ernest Barker was born inWoodley, Cheshire , and educated atManchester Grammar School andBalliol College, Oxford .[ 2] Merton College, Oxford , from 1898 to 1905,St John's College, Oxford , from 1909 to 1913, andNew College, Oxford , from 1913 to 1920.[ 3] London School of Economics .[ 4] King's College London from 1920 to 1927,[ 5] University of Cambridge in 1928,[ 6] Rockefeller Foundation .[ 7]
In June 1936 he was elected to serve on the Liberal Party Council.[ 8] American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1958.[ 9]
Barker was married twice, firstly in 1900 to Emily Isabel Salkeld, with whom he had a son and two daughters; she died in 1924. In 1927 he married Olivia Stuart Horner; they had a son,Nicolas Barker ,[ 10] [ 3]
Barker died on 17 February 1960.[ 2] [ 3] St Botolph's Church, Cambridge .
Barker's birthplace in Woodley, Cheshire The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle [ 11] The Republic of Plato "Author:Ernest Barker" Encyclopædia Britannica Ernest Barker,H. W. Carless Davis ,C. R. L. Fletcher , Arthur Hassall,L. G. Wickham Legg , F. Morgan,Why We Are at War: Great Britain's Case, by Members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern History (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914) Political Thought in England from Herbert Spencer to the present day: 1848-1914 Greek Political Theory: Plato and his Predecessors Ireland in the last Fifty Years: 1866-1918 The Crusades (1923). A later edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica article, edited with additional notes.[ 12] Church, State and Studies: Essays Translator's Introduction (1934) toOtto von Gierke ,Natural Law and the Theory of Society (1934)Oliver Cromwell and the English People (1937)Britain and the British People (1942)Reflections on Government (1942)"The Development of Public Services in Western Europe 1660-1930" (1944)[ 13] The Politics of Aristotle (1946)Character of England edited (1947)Traditions of Civility (1948)Principles of Social and Political Theory (1951)Essays On Government (introduction to:)Golden Ages of the Great Cities (1952) (as editor withGeorge Clark & Paul Vaucher)The European Inheritance Age and Youth: Memories of Three Universities and the Father of Man (1953)Social Contract: Essays by Locke, Hume, and Rousseau (1956)^ "Barker, Sir Ernest (1874–1960), political theorist" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/30588 . Retrieved29 October 2020 .(Subscription,Wikipedia Library access orUK public library membership required.) ^a b "Sir Ernest Barker"The Times (London, England), Friday, Feb 19, 1960; pg. 13; Issue 54699 ^a b c Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964).Merton College Register 1900–1964 . Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 4. ^ "Sir Ernest Barker Prize Winners" (PDF) .www.psa.ac.uk .^ "1938 Four by Sir Ernest Barker, Used - AbeBooks" .www.abebooks.com . Retrieved29 October 2020 .^ "Britain and the British People. By Sir Ernest Barker. (London, New York, and Toronto: Oxford University Press. 1955. Pp. xii, 186. $2.00.)" American Political Science Review .50 (2): 579. June 1956.doi :10.1017/S0003055400229997 .ISSN 1537-5943 .^ "1938 SIR ERNEST BARKER Four Page HANDWRITTEN LETTER by SIR ERNEST BARKER: (1938) 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s) Manuscript / Paper Collectible | Blank Verso Books" .www.abebooks.com . Retrieved29 October 2020 .^ The Liberal Magazine, 1936 ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B" (PDF) . American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved17 May 2011 .^ Who's Who 1998 . A & C Black. p. 103.^ "Review ofThe Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle by E. Barker" .The Athenaeum (4159): 37. 13 July 1907.^ Barker, E. (1923).The Crusades . London: Oxford University Press, H. Milford. ^ In Europe in the Eighteenth Century 1713-1783 by M S Anderson Author and Book Info.com Arthur Aughey (2007)The Politics of Englishness ; Manchester University Press Andrzej Olechnowicz, 'Liberal anti-fascism in the 1930s: The case of Sir Ernest Barker',Albion 36, 2005, pp. 636–660 Julia Stapleton (1994),Englishness and the Study of Politics: The Social and Political Thought of Ernest Barker Julia Stapleton (2007),Ernest Barker in Brack & Randall (eds.),The Dictionary of Liberal Thought , Politico's Publishing Julia Stapleton (editor)Polis , vol. 23:2 (2006),Ernest Barker: A Centenary Tribute Ernest Barker atWikisource
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