Hugh Barker (died 1632) was an English lawyer. He was educated at

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. He was master of the free grammar school at

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, when it was attended by

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, who received from him his instruction in 'grammar learning.' On 17 June 1605 he graduated D.L. at Oxford, being about this time chancellor of the diocese. He was admitted to

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on 9 June 1607, and for several years before his death, in 1632, he was dean of

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. He was buried in the upper end of the New College chapel,

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, where his virtues are commemorated in a Latin epitaph and where an "elaborate monument" made by

Nicholas Stone Nicholas Stone (1586/87 – 24 August 1647) was an English sculptor and architect. In 1619 he was appointed master-mason to James I, and in 1626 to Charles I. During his career he was the mason responsible for not only the building of ...

honors him.

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* 1632 deaths English lawyers Alumni of New College, Oxford Members of Doctors' Commons Year of birth unknown {{England-law-bio-stub