Thomas Barker (academic)
Thomas Barker, D.D. (c.1728–1785) was an Oxford college head in the 18th-century.[1]
Barker was born in Lancashire and matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1745, at age 17. He graduated B.A. in 1749 and M.A. in 1751.[2]
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 the end of its existence.[3][4] He was Principal of Brasenose[5] from 1777 until 1785. He was succeeded after his death by William Cleaver.[6]
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.[7]
Notes
- "The History and Antiquities of the Colleges and Halls in the University of Oxford":, Vol 3 p365 à Wood, A: Oxford; Clarendon; 1786
- Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- Oxford Historical Society (1909). Brasenose College quatercentenary monographs. Oxford : Printed for the Oxford Historical Society at the Clarendon Press. p. Monograph XIII, 29.
- Sack, James J. (1993). From Jacobite to Conservative. Cambridge University Press. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-521-43266-5.
- BNC web-site
- Oxford Historical Society (1909). Brasenose College quatercentenary monographs. Oxford : Printed for the Oxford Historical Society at the Clarendon Press. p. Monograph XIII, 32.
- Crook, Joseph Mordaunt (2008). Brasenose: The Biography of an Oxford College. Oxford University Press. p. 102.
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