Thomas Barker ( c. 1728 – 18 August 1785) was an English clergyman and Oxford academic.
9-1040: Thomas Barker may refer to: Thomas Barker (academic) , principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, 1777–1785 Thomas Barker (Australian politician) (1799–1875), Australian politician in New South Wales Thomas Barker (cricketer, born 1798) (1798–1877), English cricketer Thomas Barker (cricketer, born 1812) (1812–1873), English cricketer Thomas Barker (fishing guide) ( fl. 1591–1651), British author who wrote about fishing Thomas Barker (mathematician) (1838–1907), Scottish mathematician and professor of pure mathematics Thomas Barker (meteorologist) (1722–1809), weather observer Thomas Barker (painter) (1769–1847), British painter of landscape and rural life Thomas F. Barker (1828–1896), political figure in New Brunswick Thomas Henry Barker (1841–1917), secretary of
18-576: A private school at Twyford in Buckinghamshire , and his wife Martha Lettice Lushden. He was the elder brother of Euseby Cleaver , Archbishop of Dublin from 1809 to 1819. He was at Magdalen College, Oxford , and after taking his B.A. degree, in 1761, was a fellow of Brasenose College ; he became M.A. on 2 May 1764. In 1768 he was a candidate for the Bodleian librarianship. The votes between him and his competitor John Price were equal, and
27-578: A stray lodger who the bishop thought might be no better than a swindler. This suspicious personage was Thomas De Quincey , who mentioned the incident in his English Opium-eater . Cleaver died on 15 May 1815 in Bruton Street , London. He was interested in the higher education of women . Among his writings were De Rhythmo Graecorum , 1775, and Directions to the Clergy of the Diocese of Chester on
36-522: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article relating to the University of Oxford is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . William Cleaver William Cleaver (1742–1815) was an English churchman and academic, Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford , and bishop of three sees. He was the eldest son of the Rev. William Cleaver, who was the headmaster of
45-585: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Thomas Barker (academic) Barker was born in Lancashire and matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1745, at age 17. He graduated B.A. in 1749, M.A. in 1751, B.D. & D.D. in 1778. Becoming a Fellow of Brasenose in 1750, Barker was a member of the Red Herring dining club, which had Jacobite associations and ceased meeting in 1761, at
54-779: The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce Thomas Holliday Barker (1818–1889), English temperance advocate and vegetarian Thomas Jones Barker (1815–1882), English historical and portrait painter Thomas Richard Barker (1799–1870), English Independent minister and college tutor Thomas William Barker (1861–1912), Carmarthenshire solicitor Tom Barker (basketball) (born 1955), retired American basketball player Tom Barker (designer) (born 1966), British designer and academic Tom Barker (trade unionist) (1887–1970), New Zealand tram conductor, trade unionist and socialist Tom Barker (rugby union) (born 1956), Australian rugby union player [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
63-666: The end of its existence. Barker was elected Principal of Brasenose on 14 September 1777. He died in Manchester on 18 August 1785, and was buried there. He was succeeded after his death by William Cleaver . During Barker's time, Brasenose was the butt of satirical humour in Hannah Cowley 's 1779 play Who's the Dupe? , for pedantry, provincial manners and unfashionable dress, in the character Gradus. This biographical article about an English academic administrator
72-568: The latter was appointed on account of being a few months the senior. Cleaver became tutor to George Nugent-Temple-Grenville . He was successively made vicar of Northop in Flintshire , prebendary of Westminster (1784), Principal of Brasenose College (1785), bishop of Chester (1787), bishop of Bangor (1800), and bishop of St Asaph (1806). He retained the headship of Brasenose until 1809, and almost constantly lived there. At Bangor in 1802, he cautioned an old servant who let apartments against
81-407: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Barker&oldid=1224386411 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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