Edward Barber (born Brighouse, 19 September 1841 – died Chester, 23 July 1914) was

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from 1886 until his death. Born into an ecclesiastical family,His father was the ''Rev. Thomas Evetts'', sometime

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> ‘BARBER, Ven. Edward’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 200
accessed 25 March 2013
/ref> Barber was educated at

St Peter's School, York St Peter's School is a co-educational independent boarding and day school (also referred to as a public school), in the English City of York, with extensive grounds on the banks of the River Ouse. Founded by St Paulinus of York in AD 627, ...

, and

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in 1865, he was an Assistant Master at St Peter's College, Radley, then an Inspector of Schools in the Diocese of Oxford from 1872 and 1983;

of Chalfont St Giles from 1883 to 1986; and a

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Chester Cathedral Chester Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral and the mother church of the Diocese of Chester. It is located in the city of Chester, Cheshire, England. The cathedral, formerly the abbey church of a Benedictine monastery dedicated to Sain ...

from then on.

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1841 births People from Brighouse People educated at St Peter's School, York Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Archdeacons of Chester 1914 deaths {{York-archdeacon-stub