Sir Ernest Barker (23 September 1874 – 17 February 1960) was an English

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who served as Principal of

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from 1920 to 1927.

Life and career

Ernest Barker was born in Woodley, Cheshire, and educated at

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and

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."Sir Ernest Barker"

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(London, England), Friday, Feb 19, 1960; pg. 13; Issue 54699 Barker was a Fellow of

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, from 1898 to 1905,

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, from 1909 to 1913, and

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, from 1913 to 1920. He spent a brief time at the

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. He was Principal of

from 1920 to 1927, and subsequently became Professor of Political Science in the

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in 1928, being the first holder of the chair endowed by the

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. In June 1936 he was elected to serve on the Liberal Party Council. He was knighted in 1944. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the

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in 1958. 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,

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, and a daughter. Barker died on 17 February 1960. There is a memorial stone to him in St Botolph's Church, Cambridge.

Works

''The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle''
(1906)
''The Republic of Plato''
(1906)
Articles
for the

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(1911) *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''
(1915)
''Greek Political Theory: Plato and his Predecessors''
(1918)
''Ireland in the last Fifty Years: 1866-1918''
(1919) *''The Crusades'' (1923). A later edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica article, edited with additional notes.Barker, E. (1923)
The Crusades
London: Oxford University Press, H. Milford. * ''Translator's Introduction'' (1934) to

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, ''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) * ''The Politics of Aristotle'' (1946) * ''Character of England'' edited (1947) * ''Traditions of Civility'' (1948) * ''Principles of Social and Political Theory'' (1951) * ''Essays on Government''Essays On Government by Ernest Barker
/ref> (1951) * ''The European Inheritance,'' edited with Sir George Clark and Professor P. Vaucher (3 volumes, 1954) * ''Age and Youth: Memories of Three Universities and the Father of Man'' (1953) * ''Social Contract: Essays by Locke, Hume, and Rousseau'' (1956)

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Political Studies Association Hall of Fame
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Barker, Ernest Academics of the University of Cambridge Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford British political scientists Converts to Anglicanism from Congregationalism English Anglicans Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Knights Bachelor People from Cheshire People educated at Manchester Grammar School Principals of King's College London Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Officiers of the Légion d'honneur 1874 births 1960 deaths Fellows of Merton College, Oxford

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