George E. Barker

{{short description|British philatelist}}

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George Ernest Barker (1930 – 16 March 2014){{cite web |url=http://www.abps.org.uk/News/Magazines/ABPS_News_2014-2.6.pdf |title=Three Notable and Active Philatelists - RIP |access-date=11 January 2015 |archive-date=15 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150115060749/http://www.abps.org.uk/News/Magazines/ABPS_News_2014-2.6.pdf |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.aephil.com/pdf/TdU_2014-2.pdf |title=In Memoriam George Ernest Barker 1930-2014}} was a British philatelist who in 2009 signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists. From 1983 to 2001 he was Editor of The London Philatelist. He was a specialist in the stamps of France and its colonies."Roll of Distinguished Philatelists 2009" in The London Philatelist, Vol. 118, No. 1365, May 2009, p. 146.

Barker was one of the main organisers of the 56th Philatelic Congress of Great Britain held in 1974 at Enghien-les-Bains, Paris.