The Rev. William Gibbs Barker (1811 – 14 November 1897) was an English clergyman and

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. Barker became incumbent of St Paul's, Walsall, in 1839 after he became head master of the Free Grammar School there to which the incumbency of that church was attached. In 1844 he was appointed minister of

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, Derbyshire.''Derbyshire Courier''
11 September 1847. British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 10 January 2016. Barker was the first incumbent of

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when that parish was formed in 1865 but became blind in 1867 and resigned at that time. Barker died 14 November 1897 at

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.''The Morning Post''
18 November 1897, British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 10 January 2016.

Selected publications

*''The Doctrine and Practice of the Church of Rome, in the Dispensation of Indulgences; a Sermon ... Being the Eleventh of a Course of Sermons “on the Errors of the Church of Rome” &c''. T. Simpson, 1840. *''Friendly strictures upon certain portions of the Rev. E. B. Elliott's Horae Apocalypticae''. London, J. Nisbet & Co., 1847. *''The pedigree of the family of Barker of Salop &c''. London, 1877.

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*http://www.tolliss.com/webtrees/individual.php?pid=I4709&ged=Tolliss *http://db.theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/persons/DisplayCcePerson.jsp?PersonID=41807 19th-century English Anglican priests New Barnet 1811 births 1897 deaths {{England-reli-bio-stub