Ernest Barker
{{Short description|British political scientist (1874–1960)}}
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| birth_date = 23 September 1874
| birth_place = Woodley, Cheshire, England
| death_date = 17 February 1960 (age 85)
| death_place = Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
| burial_place = St Botolph's Church, Cambridge
| nationality = English
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| alma_mater = Balliol College, Oxford
| occupation = Principal of King's College London
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| spouse = {{Nowrap|Emily Isabel Salkeld (1900–1924)
Olivia Stuart Horner (1927–1960)}}
| children = 5
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Sir Ernest Barker {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FBA}} (23 September 1874 – 17 February 1960){{Cite ODNB|title=Barker, Sir Ernest (1874–1960), political theorist|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-30588|access-date=2020-10-29|year=2004|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/30588}} was an English political scientist who served as Principal of King's College London from 1920 to 1927.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}}
Life and career
Ernest Barker was born in Woodley, Cheshire, and educated at Manchester Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford."Sir Ernest Barker" The Times (London, England), Friday, Feb 19, 1960; pg. 13; Issue 54699 Barker was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, from 1898 to 1905, St John's College, Oxford, from 1909 to 1913, and New College, Oxford, from 1913 to 1920.{{cite book|editor1-last=Levens|editor1-first=R.G.C.|title=Merton College Register 1900–1964|date=1964|publisher=Basil Blackwell|location=Oxford|page=4}} He spent a brief time at the London School of Economics.{{Cite web|title=Sir Ernest Barker Prize Winners|url=https://www.psa.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Sir%20Ernest%20Barker%20Prize%20Winners_1.pdf|website=www.psa.ac.uk}} He was Principal of King's College London from 1920 to 1927,{{Cite web|title=1938 Four by Sir Ernest Barker, Used - AbeBooks|url=https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/1938-four/author/sir-ernest-barker/used/|access-date=2020-10-29|website=www.abebooks.com|language=en}} and subsequently became Professor of Political Science in the University of Cambridge in 1928,{{Cite journal|date=June 1956|title=Britain and the British People. By Sir Ernest Barker. (London, New York, and Toronto: Oxford University Press. 1955. Pp. xii, 186. $2.00.)|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/britain-and-the-british-people-by-sir-ernest-barker-london-new-york-and-toronto-oxford-university-press-1955-pp-xii-186-200/8D04668B3C4250A4C6AA0A40C3A2DA27|journal=American Political Science Review|language=en|volume=50|issue=2|pages=579|doi=10.1017/S0003055400229997|issn=1537-5943|url-access=subscription}} being the first holder of the chair endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation.{{Cite web|title=1938 SIR ERNEST BARKER Four Page HANDWRITTEN LETTER by SIR ERNEST BARKER: (1938) 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s) Manuscript / Paper Collectible {{!}} Blank Verso Books|url=https://www.abebooks.com/paper-collectibles/1938-SIR-ERNEST-BARKER-Four-Page/22487916151/bd|access-date=2020-10-29|website=www.abebooks.com|language=en}}
In June 1936 he was elected to serve on the Liberal Party Council.The Liberal Magazine, 1936 He was knighted in 1944. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1958.{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=17 May 2011}}
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, Nicolas Barker,{{cite book |title=Who's Who 1998 |publisher=A & C Black |page=103}} and a daughter.
Barker died on 17 February 1960. There is a memorial stone to him in St Botolph's Church, Cambridge.
Works
- [https://archive.org/details/politicalthought00bark The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle] (1906){{cite journal|title=Review of The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle by E. Barker|journal=The Athenaeum|issue=4159|date=July 13, 1907|page=37|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=__I_PcOFSw8C&pg=PA37}}
- [https://archive.org/details/republicplato00barkgoog The Republic of Plato] (1906)
- {{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Author:Ernest Barker |volume= |date=1911 |short= 1}}
- 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)
- [https://archive.org/details/politicalthought00barkuoft Political Thought in England from Herbert Spencer to the present day: 1848-1914] (1915)
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=KL8LAQAAIAAJ Greek Political Theory: Plato and his Predecessors] (1918)
- [https://archive.org/details/irelandinlastfif00bark 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). [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000630938/Home The Crusades]. London: Oxford University Press, H. Milford.
- {{cite book |title=Church, State and Studies: Essays |publisher= Methuen & Co., Ltd. |place=London |year= 1930 |url=https://archive.org/details/churchstatestudy0000bark_j6g6 |url-access= registration}}
- Translator's Introduction (1934) to Otto von Gierke, 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)In Europe in the Eighteenth Century 1713-1783 by M S Anderson
- The Politics of Aristotle (1946)
- Character of England edited (1947)
- Traditions of Civility (1948)
- Principles of Social and Political Theory (1951)
- 1951: [https://archive.org/details/essaysongovernme010369mbp Essays On Government]
- 1954: (as editor with George Clark & Paul Vaucher) [https://archive.org/details/europeaninherita0001bark/page/n5/mode/2up The European Inheritance] (3 volumes)
- Age and Youth: Memories of Three Universities and the Father of Man (1953)
- Social Contract: Essays by Locke, Hume, and Rousseau (1956)
References
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Further reading
- [http://www.authorandbookinfo.com/cgi-bin/auth.pl?B001281 Author and Book Info.com]
- Arthur Aughey (2007) The Politics of Englishness; Manchester University Press
- Andrzej Olechnowicz, 'Liberal anti-fascism in the 1930s: The case of Sir Ernest Barker', Albion 36, 2005, pp. 636–660
- Julia Stapleton (1994), Englishness and the Study of Politics: The Social and Political Thought of Ernest Barker
- Julia Stapleton (2007), Ernest Barker in Brack & Randall (eds.), The Dictionary of Liberal Thought, Politico's Publishing
- Julia Stapleton (editor) Polis, vol. 23:2 (2006), Ernest Barker: A Centenary Tribute
External links
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060925034350/http://www.psa.ac.uk/about/brochure/PSA%20Brochure_14-17.pdf Political Studies Association Hall of Fame]
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