George Barnes (priest)

{{Short description|English churchman}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2018}}

{{Infobox person

| name = George Barnes

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1782|12|11|df=yes}}

| birth_place =

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1847|06|29|1782|12|11|df=yes}}

| death_place = The Rectory, Sowton, Devon, England

| nationality = British

| occupation = Archdeacon of Barnstaple

}}

George Barnes, D.D. (11 December 1782 – 29 June 1847) was an English churchman, the Archdeacon of Barnstaple{{cite book |title=Memorials of Barnstaple; being an attempt to supply the want of a history of that ancient borough. |last=Gribble |first=Joseph Besly |location=Barnstaple |publisher=J. Avery |year=1830 |url=https://archive.org/details/memorialsbarnst00gribgoog |page=[https://archive.org/details/memorialsbarnst00gribgoog/page/n508 486] |access-date=8 December 2018}} from 1830 to 1847.{{cite news |title=Preferments |newspaper=Jackson's Oxford Journal |location=Oxford, England |date=31 July 1847 |page=3 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000073/18470731/013/0003 |access-date=8 December 2018 |url-access=subscription }}

Barnes first enrolled in Exeter College, Oxford on 30 October 1799. He graduated from the college in 1814.{{alox2|title=Barnes, George (2)}} He also served as the inaugural Archdeacon of Bombay{{cite book |title=Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity |last=Richardson |first=Edmund |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-107-02677-3 |page=191 |location=Cambridge |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ElcgAwAAQBAJ&q=archdeacon%20of%20bombay |access-date=8 December 2018}} but declined the Bishopric of Calcutta.{{cite news |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/london-times-dec-05-1826-p-2/ |title=Sheffield Mercury |date=5 December 1826 |newspaper=The Times |location=London, England |page=2 |issue=13141 |access-date=8 December 2018}} His father was Archdeacon of Totnes from 1775 to 1820.{{cite web |url=https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=aet-t&id=I84199 |title=Celtic Royal Genealogy |access-date=8 December 2018 |publisher=RootsWeb}}

In 1815, Barnes founded the Bombay Education Society, which established the Christ Church School and Barnes School in India.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sXVdAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA144|title=Annual Register|date=29 June 1883|publisher=J. Dodsley.|via=Google Books}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.christchurchschoolmumbai.org/history|title=History & Heritage|Christ Church School|Christian School|Legacy|website=www.christchurchschoolmumbai.org}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.mid-day.com/articles/byculla-schools-management-the-bombay-education-society-turns-200/16582173|title=Byculla school's management, the Bombay Education Society turns 200|date=4 October 2015|website=mid-day}}

His eldest son George Carnac Barnes (1818–1861) was an administrator in India, and his son Herbert Barnes was also Archdeacon of Barnstaple.