Harry Barker (other)
Harry Barker may refer to: *Harry Barker Reserve, a cricket ground near Gisborne, New Zealand, named after a former mayor *Harry Barker (mayor) Sir Harry Heaton Barker (18 July 1898 – 18 May 1994) was a New Zealand newspaper journalist and editor, and local politician. He was mayor of Gisborne for 27 years. Early life and family Barker was born in Nelson, New Zealand on 18 July ... (1898–1994), mayor of Gisborne, New Zealand * Harry Barker (business) See also * Harold Barker (other) * Henry Barker (other) {{hndis, Barker, Harry ...
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Harry Barker Reserve
Harry Barker Reserve is a cricket and hockey ground in Te Hapara, Gisborne, New Zealand. Establishment The Gisborne City Council purchased the Turanganui Golf Course in 1962, and developed it into a housing estate on the Pacific Coast Highway. The houses surround a substantial recreational area, which the council named the Harry Barker Reserve after a former mayor of Gisborne. Cricket The ground held its first first-class match when Northern Districts played Otago in the 1974-75 Plunket Shield. As of late 2021 the ground has held 28 first-class matches, the most recent in January 2014. The first List A match there was in the 1981-82 Shell Cup when Northern Districts played Wellington. As of late 2021 the ground has held 11 List A matches, the most recent in January 2015. A three-day tour match between a New Zealand XI and a Zimbabwean team was played at the ground in January 2012. As well as the main cricket ground there are several other pitches spread out across the reser ...
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Harry Barker (mayor)
Sir Harry Heaton Barker (18 July 1898 – 18 May 1994) was a New Zealand newspaper journalist and editor, and local politician. He was mayor of Gisborne for 27 years. Early life and family Barker was born in Nelson, New Zealand on 18 July 1898. His father, John Heaton Barker, was the founder of the Four Square supermarket chain. The family moved to Wellington in 1902 and Auckland in 1912. Barker spent his final school year at New Plymouth Boys' High School as a boarder. Barker enlisted for military service during World War I, initially falsifying his age until he was found out. He fell ill in the 1918 influenza pandemic. He came to Gisborne in 1920 to work as a reporter for '' The Gisborne Times'' (which, after a couple of mergers, became ''The Gisborne Herald'' in 1939). He moved to Auckland in 1923 on his father's request, but soon returned to Gisborne, this time for the rest of his life. In Gisborne on 18 February 1926, Barker married Anita Pearle Greaves; there were n ...
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Harry Barker (business)
Carol Perkins (born December 29, 1957) is an American business owner, fashion model and pet product designer who started her own company, Harry Barker, Inc., in 1997. The success of Harry Barker (company sales doubled between 2006 and 2009) has garnered Perkins national media coverage from CNBC business shows and USA Today to Ladies' Home Journal and O magazines. Perkins had been a Ford Model in the 1980s who went on to star with Penn & Teller in their 1990-91 Broadway hit, “Penn & Teller’s Refrigerator Tour.” An ordeal with a brain tumor and Cushing's Disease forced her to change direction. Perkins recovered and moved south to start her own pet products company, Harry Barker, named for her Shetland Sheepdog. Perkins is still represented by the Eileen Ford Modeling Agency, but spends most of her time running her multi-million pet products company in Charleston, South Carolina Biography Early life, Ford Model Perkins was born and raised in Sarasota, Florida, where ...
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Harold Barker (other)
Harold Barker may refer to: *Harold Barker (rower) (1886–1937), British rower * Harold H. Barker (1889–1949), American politician * Gregg Barton (1912–2000), real name Harold Barker, American actor See also *Harry Barker (other) Harry Barker may refer to: *Harry Barker Reserve, a cricket ground near Gisborne, New Zealand, named after a former mayor *Harry Barker (mayor) Sir Harry Heaton Barker (18 July 1898 – 18 May 1994) was a New Zealand newspaper journalist an ...